Kentucky Junior Historical Society: Discovering history close to home
The Kentucky Junior Historical Society, as a program of the Kentucky Historical Society, has been serving Kentucky’s students and teachers since the 1960s.
Registration open for Kentucky Junior Historical Society conference
Registration is open for the Kentucky Junior Historical Society (KJHS) Conference Nov. 9-10 at the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History and the Old State Capitol in Frankfort.
Kentucky Junior Historical Society welcoming new chapters
Registration is open for new chapters of the Kentucky Junior Historical Society (KJHS), a club-like program that can help teachers engage their students with Kentucky history. The KJHS program focuses on Kentucky history and offers a flexible format – after-school or curriculum-based – that can be tailored to the needs of schools and teachers. Teachers receive a handbook with activities [...]
Students can prepare projects for National History Day in Kentucky
National History Day in Kentucky (NHDKy), the state affiliate of National History Day, gives students the opportunity to explore the past in a creative, hands-on way. NHDKy challenges students in grades 4-12 to think like historians. Students choose their own topics and conduct their own research to produce a documentary, exhibit, paper, performance or website, becoming experts on a topic [...]