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Marion B. Lucas, Professor Emeritus
Professor of History and
University Distinguished Professor
Department of History
Western Kentucky University
1906 College Heights Blvd. #21086
Bowling Green, KY 42101-1086
Office Phone: (270) 745-5736
Office Fax: (270) 745-2950
email: marion.lucas@wku.edu
Web Page: http://www.wku.edu/~marion.lucas/
Home Phone: (270) 843-8580

Education

Ph.D. University of South Carolina, 1965.
M.A. University of South Carolina, 1962.
B.A. University of South Carolina, 1959.

Honor Societies

Phi Kappa Phi.
Phi Alpha Theta.

Teaching Experience

Western Kentucky University, 1966-present.
Morehead State University, 1964-1966.

Publications

Books:

+A History of Blacks in Kentucky.Volume I: From Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891. Frankfort,
Kentucky: The Kentucky Historical Society, 1992. CLICK HERE FOR A REVIEW.

+Second printing, Paperback, 2003.

*Sherman and the Burning of Columbia. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1976.
CLICK HERE FOR A REVIEW.

*Second printing, Paperback, 1988.

*Third printing, Sherman and the Burning of Columbia, Paperback, University of South Carolina Press,
2000.

Articles:

"Foreword," in John Mark Sibley-Jones's, By the Red Glare: A Novel. Columbia, S. C. University of South Carolina Press, 2014.
"Freedom Is Better Than Slavery: Black Families and Soldiers in Civil War Kentucky and Tennessee." In Sister States Enemy States: The
       Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee, edited bu Kent T. Dollar, Larry H. Whiteaker, and W. Calvin Dickinson188-216. Lexington,
       Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
"Dear Pa is in a worry": The Life and Death of Burritt Hamilton Fee." The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 105 (2007): 617-656.
"Life on the Kentucky Frontier: A Roundtable Discussion." The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 102 (2005): 461-487.
        Fay A. Yarbrough, Moderator, edited by Kenneth H. Williams.
"History and Memory in Late Twentieth Century Civil War Literature: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." The Kentucky
        Review 15 (Fall 2003): 41-56.
"John G. Fee, the Berea Exiles, and the 1862 Confederate Invasion of Kentucky." The Filson Historical Quarterly 75
        (Spring 2001): 155-180.
"Berea College in the 1870s and 1880s: Student Life at a Racially Integrated Kentucky College." The
        Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 98 (Winter 2000): 1-22.
"William Tecumseh Sherman v. the Historians." Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 17 (Fall 2000): 15-21.
"African Americans on the Kentucky Frontier." The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
        95 (Spring 1997): 121-134.
+"Kentucky Blacks: The Transition from Slavery to Freedom." The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 91
        (Autumn 1993): 403-19.
*"Camp Nelson, Kentucky, During the Civil War: Cradle of Liberty or Refugee Death Camp?" The Filson Club History
        Quarterly 63 (October 1989): 439-52.
"The Civil War Career of Colonel George Washington Scott," Florida Historical Quarterly 58 (October 1979): 129-49.
"European Search for Security in the Nuclear Age," pp. 177-95 in European Traditions in the Twentieth Century, edited
        by W.W. MacDonald and J. M. Carroll. St. Louis: Forum Press, 1979.
"Emergence of the New South," pp. 69-80 in America's Heritage in the Twentieth Century, edited by J.M. Carroll and
        others. St. Louis: Forum Press, 1978.
*Winner of the Otto A. Rothert Award for the best article in The Filson Club History Quarterly for 1989.
*Reprinted in an anthology entitled The Day of the Jubilee: The Civil War Experience of Black Southerners, edited by
        Donald G. Nieman. New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995.
+Winner of the Richard H. Collins Award for the best article in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society for
        1993.

Short articles and biographies in:

Kentucke: A Magazine of Bluegrass Heritage.

"John G. Fee, John Brown, and the Berea Abolitionists." (forthcoming)

Civil Rights in the United States, ed. by Waldo E. Martin, Jr., and Patricia Sullivan. New York: Macmillan Reference,
2000.

"Civil Rights in Kentucky," pp. 405-407.

American National Biography, Garraty, John A. and Mark C. Carnes, eds. 24 vols. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1998.

"John G. Fee," vol. 7, 786-787.

Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, ed. by Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West. 5
vols. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.

"Kentucky," pp. 1533-1537.
"Louisville," pp. 1659-1661.

Biographical Dictionary of the Union: Northern Leaders of the Civil War, ed. by John T. Hubbell and James W. Geary.
Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 1995.

        "Garrett Davis (1801-1872)," p. 131.
        "Lazarus Whitehead Powell (1812-1867)," p. 414-15.
        "George Washington Dunlap (1813-1880)," p. 155.
        "Samuel Lewis Casey (1821-1902)," p. 88.

The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. by John E. Kleber. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1992.

        "Henry Adams," pp. 2-3.
        "Peter Bruner," p. 133.
        "Gabriel Burdett," p. 142.
        "London Ferrill," pp. 314-15.
        "William H. Gibson, Sr.," pp. 373-74.
        "Belle (Mitchell) Jackson," p. 459.
        "Elijah P. Marrs," p. 609.
        "Horace Morris," p. 654.
        "Isaac Burns Murphy," p. 663.
        "Slave Nonimportation Law [1833]," pp. 826-27.
        "Underground Railroad," p. 905.

Dictionary of Afro-American History, ed. by Randall M. Miller and John David Smith. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
1988.

"Slavery in Kentucky," 383-390.

Bowling Green Magazine

"Early Black Education in Warren County," Fall-Winter, 1985.

Louisville Defender

        "Louisville's Falls City Baseball Team in the 1880s," in Black History Month Special, February 1984.
        "Slave Recreation" in Black History Month Special, February 1984.
        "Black Education in Frankfort," in Black History Month Special, February 1983.
        "From Slavery to Educator: Shelby County's Elijah P. Marrs," in Black History Month Special, February 1983.
        "Gabriel Burdett: A Slave Turned Into A Leader," in Black History Month Special, February 1983.
        "Belle Mitchell and Camp Nelson in 1865," in Black History Month Special, February 1982.

Dictionary of American Military Biography, ed. by Roger Spiller and Joseph Dawson. 3 vols., Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 1984.

"Robert Patterson (1792-1881)," vol. 2, 829-32.

Encyclopedia of Southern History, ed. by David C. Roller and Robert W. Twyman. Baton Rouge, La., and London:
Louisiana State University Press, 1979.

"[Sherman's] Bummers," p. 161.
"Lafayette McLaws (1821-1897)," p. 770.

Papers Read and Conference Participation

Read, "Freedom is Better Than Slavery: Kentucky Black Soldiers and Families in the Civil War," Pathways to Freedom: Kentucky
         and the Civil War Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky., March 11, 2011.
Read, "'Dear Pa is in a worry': The Life and Death of Burritt H. Fee," The Ohio Valley History Conference, Eastern Kentucky
        University, Richmond, Ky., October 24, 2003.
Chaired Session and Discussant, "Aspects of Liberal Education in Antebellum America," The Ohio Valley History Conference,
        Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tenn., October 25, 2002.
Read, "Africa to America to Kentucky," part of a four-paper panel and discussion on African American History in Kentucky,
        Kentucky History Education Conference on African American History, Kentucky History Center, Frankfort, Ky., July 1,
        2002.
Discussant, "Unionism and Secession in the Deep South on the Eve of the Civil War," The Ohio Valley History Conference,
        Murray State University, Murray, Ky., October 21, 2000.
Read "William T. Sherman v. The Historians," The Ohio Valley History Conference, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond,
        Ky., October 24, 1998.
Chaired Session, The Ohio Valley History Conference, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tenn., October 16, 1997.
Read "Berea College in the 1870s-1880s: College Life at an Integrated Kentucky College," The Ohio Valley History
        Conference, Murray State University, Murray, Ky., October 21, 1996.
Read "African American Churches in Antebellum Kentucky," The Kentucky Association of Teachers of History," Carnahan
        House, Lexington, Ky., September 16, 1995.
Read "The Berea Exiles and the Confederate Invasion of 1862," The Ohio Valley History Conference, Eastern Kentucky
        University, Richmond, Ky., October 21, 1994.
Read "Slave Regulation and Treatment: The Kentucky Case," The Mid-American Conference on History, University of
        Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark., September 21, 1990.
Read "Slavery and Family Life in Kentucky," Middle Tennessee State University Black History Month Celebration,
        Murfreesboro, Tenn., February 2, 1989.
Read "The Slave Family in Kentucky," The Ohio Valley History Conference, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Ky.,
        October 28, 1988.
Discussant, The Ohio Valley History Conference, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, October 3, 1987.
        Read "Refugees at Camp Nelson, Kentucky," The Ohio Valley History Conference, Murray State University, Murray,
        Ky., October 3, 1986.
Chaired Session and Discussant, The Ohio Valley History Conference, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Ky.,
        October 4, 1985.
Read "The Black Family," to Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society, Western Kentucky University, January 23, 1984.
Read "The Burning of Columbia," The Madison County, Kentucky, Civil War Round Table, Berea, Ky., September 29,
        1984.
Read "Military History of Colonel G. W. Scott," The Mid-American Conference on History, Southwest Missouri State
        University, Springfield, Mo., September 20, 1979.
Read "Forget Hell! The Burning of Columbia, 1865-1965," The Citadel Conference on the New South, Charleston, S.C.,
        April 1978.
Chaired Session, The Duquesne University History Forum, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 2, 1972.

Current Research

Book:

"A Biography of John G. Fee: Kentucky Abolitionist and Educator." Under contract for publication by the University Press of
Florida.

Awards

Awarded, University Distinguished Professorship, fall 1999.
Winner, 1993 Richard H. Collins Award, The Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, Kentucky.
Winner, 1993 Potter College Faculty Research Award, Western Kentucky University.
Winner, 1993 University Faculty Research Award, Western Kentucky University.
Winner, 1993 Jefferson Community College, Louisville, Kentucky, Black Affairs Committee, Community Service
Award.
Certificate of Appreciation, Governor Brereton C. Jones and The Kentucky Bicentennial Commission, 1992.
Winner, 1989 Otto A. Rothert Award, The Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky.

Professional Associations

Southern Historical Association.
Kentucky Historical Society.
Filson Club History Society.
Kentucky Association of Teachers of History.
American Association of University Professors.

Manuscript Evaluations

The University Press of Kentucky.
The Popular Press, Bowling Green State University.
The Journal of Southern History.
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society.
Filson Club History Quarterly.
The Kentucky Humanities Council.

Consultations and Evaluations

Consultant, Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, Louisville, Kentucky, Summer 2002.
Consultant, Dr. Hazel Johnson and Dr. Ann Butler, "The Louisville Underground Railroad Museum," November 1998.
Evaluator, Austin Peay State University's History Department, for the Tennessee Board of Regents, Clarksville, Tenn.,
        April 22-23, 1997.
Evaluator, "Miss Dinnie Thompson," a Chautauqua presentation by Juanita White, Lexington, Ky., for the Kentucky
        Humanities Council, August 1997.
Consultant, "The Underground Railroad in Kentucky," Kentucky Educational Television, Lexington, Ky., March 6,
        1997.
Consultant, National Geographic Magazine, on "Black Explorers of Mammoth Cave: Stephen Bishop," February 17,
        1995.
Consultant, with Charles Thompson for article on "Kentucky Blacks" in KHC Bulletin, Kentucky Humanities Council,
        Lexington, Ky., December 15, 1995.
Consultant, "Frontier Kentucky Symposium," Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, Ky., August 25, 1990.
Consultant, Dan Bradshaw, Kentucky Wesleyan College, on TV Script for "Josiah Henson, Kentucky Fugitive Slave,"
        Kentucky Humanities Council, Lexington, Ky., 1986.
Consultant, James Reston, Jr., New Yorker Magazine, on "Reaction to Sherman in South Carolina," 1983.
Consultant, "Blacks in Kentucky History," for Linda Levstick "Kentucky Studies" Grant, University of Kentucky,
        1982.
Consultant, "Upon This Rock," Kentucky Educational Television, Lexington, Ky., 1981.
Evaluator, "Sherman's Laurels," National Endowment for Humanities, Washington, D.C., 1977.

Research Grants

Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, Ga., 1999, $645.
WKU Sponsored Programs, Spring 1999, $2,000.
WKU Faculty Research Grant, 1997, $ 1,000.
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, Ga., 1996, $750.
WKU History Department Research Grant, 1996, $750.
WKU Faculty Research Grant, 1995, $845.00
WKU Summer Research Grant, 1993, $4,000.
Appalachian Studies Fellowship, Berea College, Berea, Ky., 1990, $1,150.
WKU Faculty Research Grant, 1990, $360.
WKU Summer Research Grant, 1981, $4,000.
Kentucky Historical Society, 1980-1992, to support research for "Black Kentuckians, 1760-1891," $8,000.
WKU Faculty Research Fund, 1973, $350.

Public Service

Speech, "A History of the Democratic Party," May 4, 2009, Warren County Democratic Woman's Club, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Panelist, "Slavery in Lexington: Its History and Legacy, February 22, 2005, Sponsored by The Lexington Network, Lexington,
        Kentucky.
Presenter, "John G. Fee," Regional Teacher Workshop, January 22, 2005, Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University,
        Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Panelist, "Life on the Kentucky Frontier: A Roundtable Discussion," Boone Day, July 5, 2004, Kentucky Historical Society,
        Frankfort, Kentucky.
Speech, "John G. Fee, Kentucky Abolitionists and Educator: The Six Crises of his Life," Kentucky Alive 2004, February 12,
        2004, Barnes and Noble, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Discussion, "Highlights of the Civil War," Warren East Middle School, April 24, 2003.
Chair C-Span Session,"Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky." Southern Kentucky Book
        Fest, April 20, 2003, 11:00 a.m. Room 5, Sloan Convention Center, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Speech, "Student Life at Berea College in the 1870s and 1880s," Madison County Historical Society, Berea, Kentucky,
        October 17, 2002.
Speaker, "John Gregg Fee," Bracken County Historical Society, Germantown Community Center, June 22, 2002.
Panel Discussion, "George W. Bush: The Presidential Year in Review," Western Kentucky University, February 19, 2002.
Keynote Speaker, "The Burning of Columbia, February 17, 1865: What Happened?" Sponsored by the Historic Columbia
        Foundation and The University of South Carolina Southern Studies Program, February 17, 2002, Columbia, S.C.
Discussion, "The Underground Railroad in Kentucky," Warren East Middle School, February 6, 2002.
Radio interview, South Carolina Public Radio, "The Burning of Columbia," February 16, 2001.
Speech, "The End of Slavery in Kentucky," Christ Episcopal Church, February 4, 2001, Bowling Green, Ky.
Speech, "Sherman and The Burning of Columbia," Knights of Columbus, January 18, 2001, Bowling Green, Ky.
Speech, "The Burning of Columbia," The Lexington Civil War Roundtable, January 15, 2001, Lexington, Ky.
Discussant, "W.T. Sherman," EQB Club, Bowling Green, Ky., January 4, 2001.
Scholar participant on KET's "Kentucky's Underground Railroad: Passage to Freedom," televised spring 2000.
Interview, KET, on "Race and Slavery in Kentucky," February 22, 2000.
Read "Blacks and the Civil War," The Crowe Academy Civil War in Kentuckiana Symposium, June 21, 1999, Hanover
        College, Hanover, Indiana.
Keynote Speaker, "An Overview of the Civil War in Kentuckiana," The Crowe Academy Civil War in Kentuckiana
        Symposium, June 20, 1999, Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana.
Speech, "Slavery in Kentucky," Breckinridge County Public Library, Hardinsburg, Kentucky, sponsored by the Kentucky
        Humanities Council, February 22, 1999.
Interview, "The Underground in Kentucky," for Kentucky Educational Television, February 9, 1999.
Interview, "Slavery in Kentucky," for Black History Month, WKYU-FM, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Ky.,
        February 1, 1999.
Taught Elder Hostel, Bowling Green Community College, September 1998.
Comment on, "The 1998 Racial Justice Act," The Advocate: Journal of Criminal Justice Education & Research 20 (Sept.
        1998): 8.
Speech, "Slavery in Kentucky," Taylor County Historical Society, Campbellsville, Kentucky, sponsored by the Kentucky
        Humanities Council, August 18, 1998.
Speech, "Kentucky Blacks: The Transition from Slavery to Freedom," Morehead State University, February 25, 1997,
        sponsored by the Kentucky Humanities Council.
Speech on "African Americans on the Kentucky Frontier," Boone Day, The Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, Ky., June
        7, 1997.
Speech, "John G. Fee and the Exile of the Berea Missionaries 1859-1862," Madison County Civil War Round Table, Berea,
        Ky., May 23, 1997.
Speech, "William E. Barton and College Life at Berea College, 1881-1885," Kiwanis Club, Bowling Green, Ky., February
        22, 1996.
Speech, "Slavery in Louisville," at Locust Grove, Louisville, Ky., February 1, 1995.
Speech, "Slave Treatment in Kentucky: A Value Judgment," Kiwanis Club, Bowling Green, Ky., June 30, 1993.
Speech, "Kentucky Blacks: Transition from Slavery to Freedom," Boone Day, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, Ky.,
        June 7, 1993.
Interview on A History of Blacks in Kentucky, WBKO-TV Mid-Day Program, Bowling Green, Ky., March 2, 1993.
Interview, "Black History Month," WKMS, Murray Public Radio, Murray State University, Murray, Ky., February 11, 1993.
Interview, "Black History Month," WKYU-TV, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Ky., February 9, 1993.
Speech, "Kentucky Blacks: The Transition from Slavery to Freedom," to the Bowling Green, Ky., Kiwanis Club, February 27,
        1991.
Speech, "Kentucky Blacks in the Civil War," at Mammoth Cave National Park, Park City, Ky., February 26, 1991.
Speech, "Black Kentuckians: The Transition from Slavery to Freedom," in the "Hidden Faces of Kentucky" Series, sponsored
        by the Departments of Anthropology and History, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., February 15, 1991.
Speech, "Camp Nelson, Kentucky," Madison County Civil War Roundtable, Berea, Ky., September 28, 1990.
Speech, "Sherman and the Burning of Columbia: One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Anniversary," to the Columbia, S.C., Civil
        War Round Table, February 15, 1990.
Speech, "R. E. Lee: The Man and the General," to WKU Kappa Alpha Fraternity, Bowling Green, Ky., November 1989.
Debate, "The Presidential Election of 1988," ROTC Honor Society, Scabbard and Blade, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, October 5, 1988 (Representing Michael Dukakis).
Speech, "The Black History Project: Writing A History of Kentucky Blacks," to Bowling Green Rotary Club, Bowling Green,
        Ky., March 23, 1988.
Telephone interview with Ottawa, Illinois, radio station on the "The Racial Remarks of Jimmy the Greek," January 1988.
Speech, "The Civil War in Southcentral Kentucky," at Medco Center for "Civil War Days Celebration," Franklin, Ky., May
        11, 1987.
Speech, "Two Black Kentuckians," to the Bowling Green Kiwanis Club, Bowling Green, Ky., February 18, 1987.
Speech, "Religion of Black Kentuckians," to Adult Class, Christ Episcopal Church, Bowling Green, Ky., January 25, 1987.
Speech, "Slavery and the Civil War," Edmundson County Historical Society, Brownsville, Ky., May 5, 1986.
Speech, "Kentucky Blacks and the Civil War," Warren County Genealogical Society, Bowling Green, Ky., March 17, 1986.
Interview on "Midday," WBKO TV, Bowling Green, Ky., on "North and South" Mini-Series, November 5, 1985.
Speech, "Robert E. Lee: Hero," WKU Kappa Alpha Fraternity, Bowling Green, Ky., April 30, 1980.
Speech, "Two Black Kentucky Heroes," Davis County Historical Society, Owensboro, Ky., 1979.
ROTC Scholarship Interview Committee, WKU, 1979.
WKYU TV, KET Interview with historian Willie Lee Rose, 1977.
WKYU TV, KET Interview with historian Frank Vandiver, 1975.

Committees

Public Service Committees:

President, WKU Phi Kappa Phi Chapter 238, 2000-2001.
Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship Committee, WKU Chair, 1999-present.
Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association, 1970, 1995.

University Committees:

Faculty Grievance Committee, 2002-2003.
Distinguished Professor Committee, fall 1999-present.
Representative, National James Madison Fellowship Program, WKU, 1994-present.
President's Special Grant Committee, 1994-1997.
Faculty Senate, 1995-1997.
Parking and Traffic Committee, 1972-1994.
Vice President's Advisory Committee, 1992-1993.
Faculty Research Committee, 1991-1993.
Academic Probations Committee, 1977-1990.
Academic Complaint Committee, 1972-1976, 1984.
Faculty Senate, 1979-1981.
Academic Council General Educations Guidelines Committee, 1977-1979.
Academic Council 1977-1979.
Home Town Representative, 1976-1978.
Who's Who Selection Committee, 1976, 1977.
Course Review Committee, 1971-1973.
Proficiency Testing Committee, 1971.
Accreditation: Committee on Financial Resources, 1970-1971.

Potter College of Arts, Humanities and Social Studies Committees:

Academic Complaint Committee, 1997.
Nominations Committee, Distinguished Contributions to the University Award, 1982, 1991, 1992.
Dean's Advisory Committee, 1985.
Dean Selection Committee, 1974.
Potter College Curriculum Committee, 1970.

History Department Committees:

Stickles Scholarship Committee, 1995-1998.
Ohio Valley History Conference Coordinator, 1996.
Representative on Faculty Continuance Committee, 1995, 1996.
Ohio Valley History Conference Coordinator, 1993.
History Contest Coordinator, 1992-present.
Faculty Evaluation Committee, 1973-1974.
Departmental Policies, Goals, and Planning Committee, 1972-1973