The Melungeons: The Pioneers of the Interior Southeastern United States 1526-1997
Africans in the Americas: A History of the Black Diaspora
Living Indian Histories: Lumbee and Tuscarora People in North Carolina
Melungeons Yesterday and Today
Windows on the Past: The Cultural Heritage of Vardy
How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia
The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People
Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America
Melungeon Portraits: Exploring Kinship and Identity
Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia
The Electronic Front Porch: An Oral History of the Arrival of Modern Media in Rural Appalachia and the Melungeon Community
Red, White & Black: The Peoples of Early North America
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
Tennessee Folk Culture: An Annotated Bibliography
Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South
Virginia Wills and Administrations 1632-1800
Black Indian Genealogy Research
Southern Folk Medicine: Healing Traditions from the Appalachian Fields and Forests
La Florida: Spanish Exploration & Settlement in North America, 1500 to 1600
Melungeons: Footprints From the Past
We’re Still Here: Contemporary Virginia Indians Tell Their Stories
Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America
North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio
Through the Back Door: Melungeon Literacies and Twenty-First Century TechnologiesRESOURCE CENTER
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