Appalachian History, Life & Values
Basics
On the Web: Articles
Appalachian Traditional Music: A Short History
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Glossory of Appalachian History
In the Library: Articles
Bole, William. "Bitter strike at Appalachia food plant a symbol of bad times in rural America," National Catholic Reporter (5/5/95):7.
Robinson, Iillian S. "Coal miners' daughter," Nation (12/28/92):816.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Adams, Shelby Lee. Appalachian Lives (Jackson: U. of Mississippi, 2003).
Balducci, David. Wish You Were Here (?:?, 200?).
Barnwell, Tim. The Face of Appalachia: Portraits from the Mountain Farm (NY: Norton, 2003).
Bial, Raymond. Mist Over the Mountains: Appalachia & its People (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997).
Caudill, Harry. Night Comes to the Cumberlands: Biography of a Depressed Area (Boston: Beacon, 1962).
Englehardt, Elizabeth Sanders Delwiche. The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism & Appalachian Literature (Athens: Ohio U., 2003).
Ergood, Bruce & Bruce E. Kuhre (eds.) Appalachia: Social Context, Past & Present (Dubuque IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1991).
Fisher, Stephen L. (ed.) Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance & Change (Philadelphia: Temple, 1993).
Fones-Wolf & Ronald L. Lewis (eds.) Transnational West Virginia: Ethnic Communities & Economic Change, 1840-1940 (Morgantown: U. of West Virginia, 2002).
Foster, Stephen William. The Past is Another Country: Representation, Historical Consciousness & Resistance in the Blue Ridge (Berkeley: U. California, 1998).
Gaventa, John. Power & Powerlessness: Quiescence & Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley (Chicago: U. of Illinois, 1980).
Hawkins, Anthony. Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon (NY: Oxford, 2002).
Hinsdale, Mary Ann; Helen Lewis & S. Maxine Waller. It Comes From the People: Community Development & Local Theology (Philadelphia: Temple U., 1995).
Montrie, Chad. To Save the Land & People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina, 2003).
Montell, William Lynwood. The Saga of Coe Ridge: A Study in Oral History (Knoxville: U. Tennessee, 1970).
National Coalition for the Homeless. Rural Homelessness in America: Appalachia & the South (NY: Coalition, 1987).
Reed, Louis. Warning in Appalachia: A Study of Wirt County, West Virginia (Morgantown: U. of West Virginia, 1967).
Salstrom, Paul. Appalachia's Path to Dependency: Rethinking a Region's Economic History, 1730-1940 (Lexington: U. of Kentucky, 1994).
Stoddart, Jess. Challenge & Change in Appalachia: The Story of Hindman Settlement School (Lexington: U. of Kentucky, 2002).
Weinbaum, Eve S. To Move a Mountain: Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia (NY: New, 2004).
Whisnant, David E. Modernizing the Mountaneer: People, Power & Planning in Appalachia (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium, 1981).
Williams, John Alexander. Appalachia (Chapel Hill: U. North Carolina, 2002).
Wolfe, Margaret Ripley. Aliens in Southern Appalachia: Catholics in the Coal Camps, 1900-1940 (Notre Dame IN: Notre Dame, 1977).
In the Library: Fiction
Ball, Bo. Appalachian Patterns: Stories (Atlanta: Independence, 1988).
Ballard, Sandra L. & Patricia L. Hudson (eds.) Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia (Lexington: U. of Kentucky, 2003).
Clark, Billy C. (Lexington : U. of Kentucky, 2003).
Cooke, Grace MacGowan. The Power & the Glory (Boston: Northeastern U., 2003).
Giardina, Denise. Storming Heaven: A Novel (NY: Norton, 1987).
__________. The Unquiet Earth: A Novel (NY: Norton, 1992).
Jackson, Joe. How I Left the Great State of Tennessee & Went On to Better Things: A Novel (NY: Carrol & Graf, 2004).
McCrumb, Sharon. The Ballad of Frankie Silver (NY: Dutton, 1998).
Smith, Doris Buchanan. Return to Bitter Creek (NY: Viking Kestrel, 1986).
Williams, Sheila. The Shade of My Own Tree (NY: Ballantine, 2003).