HERSTORY
This page is dedicated to the discovery, reweaving, and sharing of our women ancestors’ stories. “Herstory” is often erased or forgotten…
(coming soon)
Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History
Daughter of the Legend
Women and Scottish Society, 1700-2000
Wisdom’s Daughter’s: Conversations with Women Elders of Native America
Witchcraft in Colonial Virginia
Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
Silent Matriarchs
Eastern Band Cherokee Women: Cultural Persistence in Their Letters and Speeches
Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835
Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia
Hillbilly Women: Mountain Women Speak of Struggle and Joy in Southern Appalachia
Her Words: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women’s Poetry
Housekeeping in Old Virginia
Appalachian Women: An Annotated Bibliography
To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place
Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540-1840
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts
Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals
Voices Worth the Listening: Three Women of Appalachia
The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History
Women, Race & Class
Indigenous Women from Appalachia in the Spanish Colonial Record
Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment: Appalachian Women’s Literacies
Upon Her Shoulders: Southeastern Native Women Share Their Stories of Justice, Spirit, and Community
Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers
Whistlin’ and Crowin’ Women of Appalachia: Literacy Practices Since College
Women Speak, Volume 5 (Women of Appalachia Project)
The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South
Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice
Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies
Women of the Mountain South: Identity, Work, and Activism
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Finding Lola
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Lilla’s Story
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Charity’s Story
Nancy’s Story
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