North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio
Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root Gathering in Appalachia
The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco
Belonging: A Culture of Place
American Migration Routes, Part 1: Indian Paths, Post Roads & Wagon Roads
Melungeon Voices S2 E5 – Onur Kaya
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing
First Families of Tennessee: A Register of Early Settlers and Their Present-Day Descendants
Final Report of the United States De Soto Expedition Commission
Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree
Southern Folk Medicine: Healing Traditions from the Appalachian Fields and ForestsMelungeon Voices S3 E3 – Katya Faris
The Wilderness Road: A Description of the Routes of Travel by Which the Pioneer and Early Settlers First Came to Kentucky
“The Melungeons of Appalachia”, Heather Andolina (Day 2)
To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
King’s Mountain Men: The Story of the Battle with Sketches of the Soldiers Who Took Part
Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace
The Electronic Front Porch: An Oral History of the Arrival of Modern Media in Rural Appalachia and the Melungeon Community
“We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible”: A Reader in Black Women’s History
The Last Conquistadors of Southeast North America: Pedro Menéndez and the Collapse of La Florida’s Frontier
Free Negro Heads of Families in the United States in 1830
The Only Land I Know: A History of the Lumbee Indians
Living Stories of the Cherokee
Melungeons, A Multi-Ethnic Population
Daughter of the Legend
Women and Scottish Society, 1700-2000
Classic Household Guide to Appalachian Folk Healing: A Collection of Old-Time Remedies, Charms, and Spells
1850 U.S. Census, Slave Schedule – Wilkes County, North Carolina
The Melungeons: Red, Black and White in the Old South
Old Greasybeard: Tales from the Cumberland Gap
Jewish Morocco: A History from Pre-Islamic to Postcolonial Times
Origin Traditions of American Racial Isolates: A Case of Something Borrowed
From Anatolia to Appalachia: A Turkish-American Dialogue
Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern Appalachians and a Study of Life Among the Mountaineers
Researchers Tackle Mystery of the Melungeons
The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
Race, Roots, and Relations: Native and African Americans
Living Indian Histories: Lumbee and Tuscarora People in North Carolina
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
Footsteps of the Cherokees: A Guide to the Eastern Homelands of the Cherokee Nation
Melungeon Portraits: Lived Experience and Identity
Cherokee Ancestry Resource Guide
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
The Lambert Tapes, Volume Three: Cherokee History
Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth Century
Some Superstitions in the Cumberland Mountains
Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540-1840Melungeon Ties
Women of the Mountain South: Identity, Work, and Activism
Tennessee Folk Culture: An Annotated Bibliography
Melungeons: The Vanishing Colony of Newman’s Ridge
Sustainable Genealogy: Separating Fact from Fiction in Family Legends
Black Indian Genealogy Research
The Indelible Appalachians
Wisdom’s Daughter’s: Conversations with Women Elders of Native America
The Cherokee Ghost Dance
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
Indigenous Women from Appalachia in the Spanish Colonial Record
Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly ElegyMelungeon Memories Project
Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia
Analysis of a Tri-Racial IsolateMelungeon Voices S1 E6 – Sonja Griffin Evans
Compilation of History of the Cherokee Indians and Early History of the Cherokees
Sorry You Missed It: Memoirs of Growing Up in an Eastern Kentucky Coal Camp
One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race
A Darkness at Dawn: Appalachian Kentucky and the Future
Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge 1861-1956
A History of Blacks in Kentucky from Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891
Episode 12: No Safe Harbor, Part 3
Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers
Out of the Woods
An Introduction to the Guineas: West Virginia’s Melungeons
Beginning Black Indian History and Genealogy – the Cherokees
1830 U.S. Census – Floyd County, Kentucky
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Eastern Band Cherokee Women: Cultural Persistence in Their Letters and Speeches
Washed in the Blood
Mother of Rain
Tracing Your Ancestors from 1066 to 1837: A Guide for Family Historians
Boogers, Witches, and Haints: Appalachian Ghost Stories
Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South
The Untold History of the Tuscaroras Who Remained in North Carolina
Silent Matriarchs
Exploring Your Cherokee Ancestry: A Basic Genealogical Research Guide
Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
Review of “Washed in the Blood” by Lisa Alther
Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, From the Colonial Period to About 1820, Vol. III
Measurement of Race and Ethnicity Across the Decades: 1790–2020
Ascribed Ethnicity and the Ethnic Display Event: The Melungeons of Hancock County, Tennessee
American Colonies: The Settling of North America
The Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole
The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South 1521-1704
Lest We Forget: The Melungeon Colony of Newman’s RidgeEpisode 11: No Safe Harbor, Part 2
Madoc’s Legacy
A Geographic Analysis of White-Negro-Indian Racial Mixtures in Eastern United States
Melungeons: and Other Pioneer Families
Up Cutshin & Down Greasy: Folkways of a Kentucky Mountain Family
Strangers in Their Midst: The Free Black Population of Amherst County Virginia
Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, From the Colonial Period to About 1820, Vol. II
Revealing America’s Dark-Skinned Past, Vol. 2: The Columbian Era
Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia
Erasure & Tuscarora Resilience in Colonial North Carolina
Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment: Appalachian Women’s Literacies
A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire, Vol. 1: Portugal
Melungeons Out of the Dungeon
Sheer Resilience: An Untold Story of a Free Community of Color in Orange County, N.C.
Upon Her Shoulders: Southeastern Native Women Share Their Stories of Justice, Spirit, and Community
Greenbrier County, West Virginia: Reprinted from Early Historical Writings
Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution
The Juan Pardo Expeditions: Explorations of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568
Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America
The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1783
Tending the Bones
History for GenealogistsEpisode 14: Black Paddywhackery, Part 2
Gullah Cultural Legacies: A Synopsis of Gullah Traditions, Customary Beliefs, Art Forms and Speech on Hilton Head Island and Vicinal Sea Islands in South Carolina and Georgia
Research Like a Pro: A Genealogist’s Guide
Myths of the Cherokee
Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seamen in the American Revolution
Women, Race & Class
From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb
Santa Elena: A Brief History of the Colony, 1566-1587Melungeon Voices S5 E1 – Southern & Appalachian Folk Medicine
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
The Melungeons of Newman’s Ridge: An Insider’s Perspective
The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of HistoryMelungeon Voices S4 E6 – Scott Withrow
Divide and Rule: Red, White, and Black in the Southeast
Creek Indian History: A Historical Narrative of the Genealogy, Traditions and Downfall of the Ispocoga or Creek Indian Tribe
The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South
The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island
Gullah Tears: The Enslaved Souls of Charleston
The Forgotten Portuguese: The Melungeons and Other Groups
Tazewell County (Images of America)
The Malungeons
Bertie County: An Eastern Carolina HistoryMelungeon Voices S2 E3 – LaTonya Beatty
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
“Mixed Blood” Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South
How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia
White Servitude in the Colony of Virginia: A Study of the System of Indentured Labor in the American ColoniesMelungeon Voices S1 E3 – Bill Gipson
We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New TurfMelungeon Voices S1 E4 – Paul Johnson
1860 U.S. Census – Panther Creek, Hancock County, Tennessee
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
Windows on the Past: The Cultural Heritage of Vardy
Southern Communities: Identity, Conflict, and Memory in the American South
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Wingless Flights: Appalachian Women in Fiction
Wise County Virginia
Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
Ribbons of Color Along the Eno River: The History of African Americans and People of Color Living on the Eno
Letter from Walter A. Plecker to Local Registrars, et al.
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic AncestryMelungeon Voices S4 E7 – Dr. José Pimienta-Bey
Making Indians “White”: The Judicial Abolition of Native Slavery in Revolutionary Virginia and Its Racial Legacy
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States
Reading Early American Handwriting
Appalachian Folklore Unveiled: Mysterious Happenings of Folk Spirits and Mystic Shades from the Ancient Foothills
The Portuguese Making of America: Melungeons and Early Settlers of America
Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals
Witchcraft in Colonial Virginia
Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color LineMelungeon Voices S4 E5 – Melinda Trueblood Stimpson
Folklore of the Scottish Highlands
1850 U.S. Census, Slave Schedule – Subdivision 32, Hancock County, Tennessee
Greenbrier Pioneers and Their Homes
South from Hell-fer-Sartin: Kentucky Mountain Folk Tales
Our Mountain Heritage: Ancestors from Southwest Virginia (Including Edwards, Wright, Hay, Colley, Deel)
Wildflowers and Ferns of Red River Gorge and the Greater Red River Basin
In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000 Year History of American Indians
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
Catawba Nation: Treasures in History
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place
Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, From the Colonial Period to About 1820, Vol. I
Housekeeping in Old Virginia
Voicing Identity: Cultural Appropriation and Indigenous Issues
Tennessee Templars: A Register of Names, With Biographical Sketches, of the Knights Templar of Tennessee, and Brief Histories of the Grand and Subordinate Commanderies
Eastern Cherokee Stories: A Living Oral Tradition and Its Cultural Continuance
The Melungeons
Black Drink: A Native American Tea
The Diaspora of Africans Liberated from Slave Ships in the Nineteenth Century
First People: The Early Indians of Virginia
Sweetgrass Baskets and the Gullah Tradition
1619 – Twenty Africans: Their Story, and Discovery of Their Black, Red, & White Descendants
Appalachian Women: An Annotated Bibliography
1870 U.S. Census – District 11, Hancock County, Tennessee
Melungeon History and Myth
Southern Folk Medicine 1750-1820
Melungeon Voices S5 E5 – Overcoming Generational Trauma and Melungeon ResilienceMelungeon Voices S3 E1 – Ramona Moore Big Eagle
The Legend of the Chiscas: From Viking to Melungeon?
“Not Negroes nor Slaves but Free People”: Free People of Color in the Colonial Southeast Indian Trade
An Overview of the Phenomenon of Mixed Racial Isolates in the United States
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Alliances: Re/Envisioning Indigenous-Non-indigenous Relationships
Arrival of the First Africans in Virginia
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
Belles of the Creek Nation
The Complete Guide to FamilyTreeDNA
Roots, Branches & Spirits: The Folkways & Witchery of Appalachia
Appalachian Magazine’s Mountain Superstitions, Ghost Stories & Haint Tales
The Mystery of the MelungeonsMelungeon Voices S3 E6 – Gabriel Greaves
History of Kentucky, Volume 1
Native Women’s History in Eastern North America before 1900: A Guide to Researching and Writing
Your DNA Guide – the Book
A History of the United States: The Planting of a Nation in the New World, 1000 – 1660
Forbidden Love: The Secret History of Mixed-Race America
The Melungeons: The Pioneers of the Interior Southeastern United States 1526-1997
New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States
Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation
Erasures of the Past: Culture, Power, and Heterogeneity in Appalachia
Our Foothills III: Another Anthology by the Foothills Writers
Scots and Scotch Irish: Frontier Life in North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky
Mixing in the Mountains
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando De Soto and the South’s Ancient ChiefdomsMelungeon Voices S1 E1 – Frederick Murphy
Voices from the North Carolina Mountains: Appalachian Oral Histories
1850 U.S. Census – Subdivision 32, Hancock County, Tennessee
The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity
La Florida: Spanish Exploration & Settlement in North America, 1500 to 1600
Black in Appalachia S1 E10 – Melungeons
Virginia Wills and Administrations 1632-1800Episode 16: Pre-Deliverance, Part 2
Voices Worth the Listening: Three Women of AppalachiaMelungeon Voices S5 E7 – Melungeon and Redbone Ancestral Connections
What Color is Melungeon?
Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative
Toward a Genetic Profile of Melungeons in Southern Appalachia
The Melungeons’ Forbidden Black Ancestry
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White
A Note on the Melungeons
The Lost Colony of Roanoke: New Perspectives
Genetic Genealogy: The Basics and Beyond
1830 U.S. Census – Morgan County, KentuckyThe Black Potter + an Ugly Jug Named Slave
1880 U.S. Census – District 91, Hancock County, Tennessee
Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia
1850 U.S. Census, Slave Schedule – Subdivision 33, Hancock County, Tennessee
Generation by Generation: A Modern Approach to the Basics of Genealogy
Melungeons Yesterday and Today
Demon CopperheadEpisode 15: Pre-Deliverance, Part 1
The Tuscaroras: Mythology, Medicine, CultureMelungeon Voices S4 E1 – Kiran Singh SirahAre Redbones and Melungeons Related?
1860 U.S. Census, Slave Schedule – Wilkes County, North Carolina (Lower Division)
Kings Mountain and Its Heroes
Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian SouthColonial-Era Wool Production + Buckskins & Hog Slaughters
1800 U.S. Census – Morgan Twp, Ashe County, North Carolina
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
1755 Orange County, North Carolina Tax ListMelungeon Voices S3 E5 – Janeen Stephens
The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky’s Red River Gorge
The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies
History of the American Frontier 1763-1893
More on the Free Black Population of the Southern Appalachian Mountains: Speculations on the North African Connection
Eugenics as Indian Removal: Sociohistorical Processes and the De(con)struction of American Indians in the Southeast
Litigating Whiteness: Trials of Racial Determination in the Nineteenth-Century South
Native Carolinians: The Indians of North CarolinaPower, Light & Outmigration
The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave TradeMelungeon Voices S2 E2 – Jake RichardsEpisode 10: No Safe Harbor, Part 1
Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas
Survey of Demography, Anthropometry, and Genetics in the Melungeons of Tennessee: An Isolate of Hybrid Origin in Process of Dissolution
Toward a New History of the Appalachian South
The Drifters: A Christian Historical Novel About the Melungeon Shantyboat People
Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal
Ancestral Lineage Healing
A Question of Indian Identity in the Plecker Era: The Monacan Indian Nation in the Twentieth CenturyMelungeon Voices S3 E7 – Dr. Melissa Carver
The Farfarers: A New History of North America
Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756-1763
Mountain Conjure and Southern Root Work
Whistlin’ and Crowin’ Women of Appalachia: Literacy Practices Since College
Far Appalachia: Following the New River North
The American South as We Know It
Melungeon Voices
Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race“Genocide in America”, John King (Day 1)
History and Heritage Made Accessible: The Lee County, Virginia Story
Big Stone GapMelungeon Voices S5 E4 – Melungeon & Maroon Communities and the Underground RailroadIn the Land of the Cherokee + the Warrior Dance
Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers
Giving Glory to God in Appalachia: Worship Practices of Six Baptist Subdenominations
Joara: Tale of the New World, 1566 – 1568Solving the Melungeon Mystery
1850 U.S. Census – Subdivision 33, Hancock County, Tennessee
1830 U.S. Census – Hawkins County, Tennessee
Pioneer Families of Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky
Smoky Mountain Mysteries: Stories About Magnificent Mountains Unique PeopleMelungeon Voices S1 E5 – Robert Wells
Taking Up Serpents: Snake Handlers of Eastern Kentucky
The Mind of the South
Research Like a Pro With DNA: A Genealogist’s Guide to Finding and Confirming Ancestors With DNA Evidence
Boone Before Boone: The Archaeological Record of Northwestern North Carolina Through 1769Episode 17: Pre-Deliverance, Part 3
Black History in East Tennessee
Free Blacks in Colonial America
Melungeons: Footprints From the Past
1860 U.S. Census – Division 2, Morgan County, Kentucky
Weaving an Otherwise: In-Relations Methodological Practice
American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race
Race Relations in Virginia and Miscegenation in the South 1776–1860
History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia
Trees & Shrubs of Kentucky
Singing Down the Preacher
Adventures in the Gene Pool
The Melungeons of Newman’s Ridge: A Portfolio of Portraits
The Road to Black Ned’s Forge: A Story of Race, Sex, and Trade on the Colonial American Frontier
Red, White & Black: The Peoples of Early North America
The Indian Card: Who Gets to be Native in America
Turtle Island
Wildflowers and Ferns of Kentucky
Gibson Family Genealogy: A Melungeon Line
Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America
The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud PeopleThe Graysville Melungeons: A Tri-Racial People in Lower East Tennessee
1870 U.S. Census – Barnett’s Creek, Johnson County, Kentucky
Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies
The Indians’ New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal
Herbal Remedies of the Lumbee Indians
Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders: An Appalachian Mountain Ecology
On Family and Fences: Tracing Melungeon Roots in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and Tennessee
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
A Study of Tri-Racial Isolates in Eastern United States
Folklore of Highland County, Ohio
Sang Spell
The Gullah: The History and Legacy of the African American Ethnic Group in the American Southeast
Redbone Chronicles
Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History
Tazewell (Images of America)
Squaw Winter
A Melungeon WinterMelungeon Voices S5 E6 – At-Risk Populations of Appalachia & Southern U.S.
The Highland Clans
A Church Book for Stony Creek Church
Pocahontas’s People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia through Four Centuries
Beyond the Sunset: The Melungeon Outdoor Drama, 1969-1976
A History of the Valley of Virginia
1840 U.S. Census – Hawkins County, Tennessee
Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains
Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866
Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples
Almost White: A Study of Certain Racial Hybrids in the Eastern United States
Unofficial Guide to FamilySearch.org: How to Find Your Family History on the World’s Largest Free Genealogy Website
Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896
My Melungeon Heritage: A Story of Life on Newman’s Ridge
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times
Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies
History of Pioneer Kentucky
Free Negro Owners of Slaves in 1830
The Birth Certificate: An American History
First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian HistoryMelungeon Voices S3 Bonus – Live from the 2022 Author EventMelungeon Voices S1 E2 – Beverly ScarlettMelungeon Voices S2 E7 – Dr. Arwin Smallwood
King’s Mountain: The Epic of the Blue Ridge “Mountain Men” in the American RevolutionFreedman of the Five Civilized Tribes
“Of Portuguese Origin”: Litigating Identity and Citizenship among the “Little Races” in Nineteenth-Century America
Blurring the Lines of Race & Freedom: Mulattoes & Mixed Bloods in English Colonial America
Outwitting the Devil: Jack Tales from Wise County VirginiaMelungeon Voices S3 E4 – Ron Carson
1820 U.S. Census – Prestonsburg, Floyd County, Kentucky“What Ain’t Called Melungeons is Called Hillbillies”: Southern Appalachia’s In-Between People
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
The Other Side of the Coin: Race, Generations and Reconciliation
Unravelling the Hidden Ancestry of American Admixed Populations
Tennessee, The Volunteer State 1769 – 1923
Tracing Your Ancestors Using DNA: A Guide for Family HistoriansMelungeon Voices S2 E6 – Lauren Magnussen
Kentucky Genealogical Research
A Peculiar People: The Melungeons
DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America
The Lost Continent – Travels in Small-Town America
Our Side of the Mountain: A Pocahontas to Melungeon Revolution
All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
Who the Hell Told You That?Melungeon Voices S2 E4 – William Isom II
GodPretty in the Tobacco Field
Yuchi Indian Histories Before the Removal Era
Africans in the Americas: A History of the Black Diaspora
The Harris Family of Orange County, North Carolina: 318 Years of Black-American Indian Culture
The Book Woman of Troublesome CreekThe Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy
Revealing America’s Dark-Skinned Past, Vol. 1
Legends of The Lumbee (and some that will be)
The Physical Anthropology and Genetics of Marginal People of the Southeastern United States
Early Families of Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
Lee County, Virginia: History Revealed Through Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Its Ancestors
A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
What It Means to Identify as Melungeon
A Panel of Ancestry Informative Markers for Estimating Individual Biogeographical Ancestry and Admixture From Four Continents: Utility and ApplicationsMelungeon Voices S3 E2 – Mike Richards + Tim Webb
Pell Mellers: Race and Memory in a Carolina PocosinMelungeon Voices S4 E4 – Aaron Collins
The Mixed-Blood Racial Strain of Carmel, Ohio, and Magoffin County, Kentucky
Arts and Crafts of the Cherokee
The Catawba Indians: The People of the RiverMelungeon Voices S2 E1 – Kimberly Knight
Kentucky Folklore
The Lambert Tapes, Volume Two: Cherokee History
The Melungeon Identity Movement and the Construction of Appalachian Whiteness
The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca
Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic ScienceThe Many Faces of Melungeon Ancestry
1790 U.S. Census – Wilkes County, North Carolina
Through the Back Door: Melungeon Literacies and Twenty-First Century Technologies
“We Are Still Here”: American Indians Since 1890
The Melungeons: An Annotated BibliographyMelungeon Voices S5 E3 – Discovering Melungeon & Indigenous Ancestry
List of Free African Americans in the American Revolution: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware
We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing EarthMelungeon Voices S1 E7 – Wayne Winkler
1820 U.S. Census – Floyd County, Kentucky
The Catawba Indian Nation of the Carolinas
Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors: The Essential Genealogical Guide to Early Modern Ulster, 1600-1800
Sense of Place: American Regional Cultures
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
We’re Still Here: Contemporary Virginia Indians Tell Their Stories
Letcher County (Images of America)
Melungeons: Examining an Appalachian Legend
Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775Episode 13: Black Paddywhackery, Part 1
The Berbers of Morocco: A History of Resistance
Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination
The Everything Guide to Online Genealogy: Trace Your Roots, Share Your History, and Create a Family Tree
Sang Branch Settlers: Folksongs and Tales of a Kentucky Mountain Family
Othello’s Children in the “New World”: Moorish History & Identity in the African American Experience
The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown
Advanced Genetic Genealogy: Techniques and Case Studies
The ‘Twenty and Odd’: The Silences of Africans in Early Virginia Revealed
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
The Sleuth Book for Genealogists: Strategies for More Successful Family History Research
Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835Melungeon Voices S4 E2 – Dr. Kathy Lyday
Melungeon Portraits: Exploring Kinship and Identity
1850 U.S. Census – Morgan County, Kentucky
The Melungeons: A Mixed-Blood Strain of the Southern Appalachians
The Melungeons: Notes on the Origin of a Race
The Buffalo Ridge Cherokee: A Remnant of a Great Nation DividedMelungeon Voices S4 E3 – Joshua Outsey
Zotero for Genealogy: Harnessing the Power of Your Research
2023 Melungeon Heritage Sound Project
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
The Complexities of Native Identity in America
Trace Your Roots with DNA: Using Genetic Tests to Explore Your Family Tree
The Southeastern Indians
Women Speak, Volume 5 (Women of Appalachia Project)
Secret Genealogy IV: Native Americans Hidden in Our Family TreesGod + Snake Handling Churches of Appalachia
Melungeons and Other Mestee Groups
Research Justice: Methodologies for Social Change
Snowbird Cherokees: People of Persistence
Hillbilly Women: Mountain Women Speak of Struggle and Joy in Southern Appalachia
Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming
1870 U.S. Census – Paintsville, Johnson County, Kentucky
The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery
Redbones of Louisiana: For 200 Years Redbones Have Been Louisiana’s Mystery People
Sifters: Native American Women’s Lives
The Scotch-Irish: A Social History
Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
Map Guide to American Migration Routes, 1735-1815Marcus Garvey Revisited: Eugenics
DNA for Native American Genealogy
Her Words: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women’s Poetry
Mysterious Kentucky, Vol. 2: The Dark and Bloody Ground
We Are All Catawba: Complete Genealogy of My Daddy’s Catawba Ancestors
To Belong Here: A New Generation of Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Appalachian WritersMelungeon Voices S5 E2 – “Generations: An Indigenous Exhibit”
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
Earth Medicine: Ancestors’ Ways of Harmony for Many Moons
Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies
A Wandering Tribe: Dispersal of the Catawba Nation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Swift’s Silver Mines and Related Appalachian Treasures
The Catawba Nation
Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage
1840 U.S. Census – Morgan County, Kentucky
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice
Will Allen Dromgoole: A Biographical Sketch
Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our FutureRESOURCE CENTER
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