George H. Yater’s classic history traces two centuries of Louisville and Jefferson County, from George Rogers Clark’s Revolutionary War campaigns against the British in the Falls of the Ohio region through the city’s settlement, growth, and 20th-century development.
Yater covers the area’s industrialization, its waves of immigrants, including Jewish refugees who fled 1930s Europe, and the long, difficult reckoning with racial segregation that shaped the city.
Long considered the standard reference on Louisville’s early history, this second edition remains a starting point for anyone tracing the city’s roots or their own family’s.
Published 1987
261 pages