Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers
The hills of the Appalachian region hold secrets―dark, deep, varied, and mysterious. These secrets are often told in the form of eerie, hair-raising…
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Sense of Place: American Regional Cultures
Despite the homogenization of American life, areas of strong regional consciousness still persist in the United States, and there is a growing interes…
To Belong Here: A New Generation of Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Appalachian Writers
Appalachia has long been flattened into a white, Christian, and conservative place. While many Appalachians embrace those labels, they fail to acknowl…
Indigenous Women from Appalachia in the Spanish Colonial Record
Melissa D. Birkhofer is a settler scholar who was born in Iowa and grew up in North Carolina. She is teaching assistant professor of English at Appala…
Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia
Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia is a landmark anthology that brings together the work of 105 Appalachian women writers, including Dorothy All…
Appalachian Women: An Annotated Bibliography
Appalachian women have been the subject of song, story, and report for nearly two centuries. Now for the first time a fully annotated bibliography mak…
Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers
Thirty-five women writers from Appalachia define the region in a larger, more generous, and more intricate way that it has been defined before, dispel…
Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South
Among the most pervasive of stereotypes imposed upon southern highlanders is that they were white, opposed slavery, and supported the Union before and…
Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation
African Americans have had a profound impact on the economy, culture, and social landscape of southern Appalachia but only after a surge of study in t…
