- Grade Levels:
- 7-12
- Length:
- 60 minutes
- Taping Rights:
- Unlimited
- MARC Record:
- Downloadable
- Web Site:
- KET Online
- Teaching Materials:
- See Below
- Program Schedule and Streaming Links:
- See Below
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Where the River Bends: A History of Northern Kentucky, KET’s three-hour documentary history of Boone, Kenton, and Campbell counties, traces the rich history of the northernmost tip of Kentucky, exploring such broad themes as the region’s evolving ethnic mix, its complex relationships with the rest of Kentucky and with Cincinnati across the river, and how both natural forces and human engineering have continually reshaped its economy and culture.
Students will hear the stories of the people who helped define the Northern Kentucky we know today—the explorers and entrepreneurs, slaves and abolitionists, Natives and immigrants, and gangsters and reformers.
The timeline for Where the River Bends begins some 10,000 years ago, when Paleo-Indian settlements developed along the receding southern edge of the glacier that then covered much of North America. The programs then follow Northern Kentucky’s fortunes through the early settlement period and the Indian wars, waves of immigration and backlash against immigrants, the slavery era and the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution, two world wars, flood and Depression, Newport’s “Sin City” era, and the riverfront revitalization projects of the late 20th century.
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