Talk:History of Kentucky/to do


 * 18th century
 * Inclusion of interesting details about early settlement other than the Daniel Boonie stuff


 * 19th century
 * Kentucky was a notable and complex part of the Western Theater of the American Civil War and a Border state. This article should better feature highlights: (NOTE: Comprehensive coverage of Kentucky in the Civil War is in a separate article.)
 * Russellville Convention
 * The Great Hog Swindle
 * Men who claimed to be the Confederate Governor of Kentucky
 * Synoptic coverage of key battles, esp. Battle of Belmont (across from Columbus, Kentucky), the Battle of Perryville, Forts Henry and Donelson (just south of Kentucky line)
 * Governor and legislature conducting business in Louisville for about a month in 1862 while Confederates held Frankfort
 * Military siege and martial law from 1864-1865 (Stephen G. Burbridge's reign of terror)
 * Post-war sympathy with the Confederates
 * More fully cover the Reconstruction period
 * Cover James "Honest Dick" Tate absconding with Treasury funds and the subsequent constitutional imposition of one-term term limits.


 * 20th century
 * More fully cover the 20th century
 * Cover 1992 constitutional changes, mainly the allowing of officeholders to have two consecutive terms.


 * General
 * Cover discovery and exploition of coal deposits in Eastern and Western Kentucky.
 * Cover history of bourbon whiskey
 * Cover agricultural history
 * Tobacco farming and the "Tobacco wars" (Nightriders)
 * Hemp used to be a major crop in Kentucky
 * Marijuana is its largest cash crop (an extension of bootlegging culture)
 * Political, economic and social development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (Development of railroads, highways, communications etc.)
 * Natural disasters such as the effects of the New Madrid Seismic Zone (1811 and 1812) and the Floods of 1913 and 1937 and others (what Kentucky cities were effected?). (New article &mdash; Ohio River flood of 1937 &mdash; mostly a Kentucky article but the other side of the river (Ohio, Indiana and Illinois should be covered, along with Upper Ohio and Lower Mississippi river regions also effected by this notable flood.)
 * Education:
 * Moonlight schools.
 * Berea College (first integrated college if I'm not mistaken).
 * Kentucky Education Reform Act.
 * Add ISBNs to references, where appropriate.