University Press of Kentucky

The University Press of Kentucky (UPK) is the scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and was organized in 1969 as successor to the University of Kentucky Press. The university had sponsored scholarly publication since 1943. In 1949, the press was established as a separate academic agency under the university president, and the following year Bruce F. Denbo, then of Louisiana State University Press, was appointed as the first full-time professional director. Denbo served as director of UPK until his retirement in 1978, building a small but distinguished list of scholarly books w…

Books from University Press of Kentucky

• Ghosts of My Old Dominion Memory and History from the New South by Greg Bottoms
• Transylvania Tutor to the West by John D. Wright Jr.
• Toward Just Transitions Visions for Regenerative Communities in Appalachia by Shaunna L. Scott, Kathryn Engle
• Zimmer by Alyssa S. McClanahan
• Ginseng Diggers A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia by Luke Manget
• Black Freedom Struggle in Urban Appalachia by J. Z. Bennett, Christy L. McGuire, Lori Delale-O’Connor, T. Elon Dancy II and Sabina Vaught
• The Warner Brothers by Chris Yogerst
• Politics of Downtown Development: Dynamic Political Cultures in San Francisco and Washington, D. C. by Stephen J. McGovern
• Just Follow Me James Owens and the Integration of Southeastern Conference Football by Thomas Gossom, Jr., Sam Heys
• Drinking from Graveyard Wells Stories by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
• Colorization One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World by Wil Haygood
• Lucas by Richard Ravalli
• They Call Me Goose by Jack Givens
• The Evolution of the Gospelettes A Novel by Tammy Oberhausen
• Dream Derby by Avalyn Hunter
• A Is for Affrilachia by Frank X Walker
• Jean Gabin by Joseph Harriss
• Jessica Lange An Adventurer's Heart by Anthony Uzarowski
• Yanks in Blue Berets American UN Peacekeepers in the Middle East by L. Scott Lingamfelter
• A Strange Whim of the Sea The Wreck of the USS Macaw by Tim Loughman
• Engaging Appalachia A Guidebook for Building Capacity and Sustainability by Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, Rebecca-Eli Long, William R. Schumann
• Slavery and Freedom in the Bluegrass State Revisiting My Old Kentucky Home by Gerald L. Smith
• Phyllis George by Paul Volponi; Lenny Shulman
• The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley by R. Alton Lee
• #MeToo and Beyond by M. Cristina Alcalde, Paula-Irene Villa
• Marrow by darlene anita scott
• Riding to Arms by Charles Caramello
• The Turkish Arms Embargo Drugs, Ethnic Lobbies, and US Domestic Politics by James F. Goode
• Buffalo Dance The Journey of York by Frank X. Walker
• War of Supply World War II Allied Logistics in the Mediterranean by David D. Dworak
• Met Her on the Mountain The Murder of Nancy Morgan by Mark I. Pinsky
• Indigenous Public Health Improvement Through Community-Engaged Interventions by Linda Burhansstipanov, Kathryn L. Braun
• The Perilous Hunt by Edith Randam Rogers
• Perspectives on Max Frisch by Gerhard F. Probst, Jay F. Bodine
• The History of Southern Drama by Charles S. Watson
• The Lion and the Star by Jonathan Friedman
• The Lynching of Cleo Wright by Dominic J. Capeci Jr.
• Beckett's Critical Complicity by Sylvie Debevic Henning
• Monterrey Is Ours! by Napoleon Tecumseh Dana
• Royce's Voyage Down Under by Frank M. Oppenheim