James Duane Bolin

"Home and Away' A Professor's Journal"

Education

• Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1988
• M.A., University of Kentucky, 1982
• B.A., Belmont University 1978

Publications

• Bosses of the Bluegrass: Political Bosses and Their Machines in Kentucky History (under contract and forthcoming with the University Press of Kentucky)
• The Belmont Story, 1851-1951: Women’s Education in the South (under review at the University of Tennessee Press)
• Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Big-Time College Basketball in America (under contract and forthcoming in 2016)
• Home and Away: A Professor's Journal. Sikeston, Missouri: Acclaim Press, 2016)
• “The Woman Who Helps Blind Children See: Linda Neville and the Crusade to End Blindness in Kentucky.” Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times. Ed., Melissa McEuen and Thomas H. Appleton, Jr. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2015.
• “In Search of the Humanities,” Regular Column in Kentucky Humanities Magazine (Spring, 2014-present)
• The Banner Years: Murray State Basketball, 1925-2012. Sikeston, Missori: Acclaim Press, 2013.
• Bossism and Reform in a Southern City: Lexington, Kentucky, 1880-1940 .Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. (Finalist for the Kentucky Historical Society’s Governor’s Award)
• Kentucky Baptists, 1925-2000: A Story of Cooperation. Brentwood and Nashville, Tennessee: Southern Baptist Historical Society and Fields Publishing Incorporated, 2000. (Winner of Award of Merit from the Kentucky Historical Society and the Historic Confederation of Kentucky)
• “Home and Away,” Weekly newspaper column for the Murray Ledger & Times (2005- present), the Providence Journal-Enterprise (2008-present), the Advocate-Messenger (2012-present), the Winchester Sun (2012-present), the Sebree Banner (2013-present)
• "`An Air of Tenseness’: Labor Strife and Tragedy in Kentucky's Western Coal Field," The Filson Club History Quarterly. January, 1999: 3-33.
• "The Sins of the Fathers: Clifton Rodes Breckinridge Remembers the Civil War," Civil War History. March, 1998: 35-51.
• "Clifton Rodes Breckinridge: ‘The Little Arkansas Giant,’" Arkansas Historical Quarterly. Winter, 1994: 407-427.
• "The Human Side: Politics, the Great Depression, and the New Deal in Lexington, Kentucky, 1929-1935." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Summer, 1992: 256-283.
• "From Mules to Motors: The Street Railway System in Lexington, Kentucky, 1882-1938." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Spring, 1989: 118-143.
• An Abiding Faith: A Sesquicentennial History of Providence, Kentucky, 1840-1990. Providence, Kentucky: Chamber of Commerce, 1990.

Courses Taught

• History Transitions
• American Experience Before 1865
• American Experience Since 1865
• Sports in America
• Professional Engagement Senior Seminar
• Transformation of America 1877-1929
• History of Kentucky

Research Interests

• Sports History, especially Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Big-Time College Basketball;
• The Religious Faith of James Madison;
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, specifically his tour of the American South in 1930 and 1931;
• The History of Higher Education in America, particularly the American South