This study focuses on two communities in the trans-Appalachian West. It draws on
borderland historiography and the significance of regions in American history to examine …

Abstract During the American Civil War, guerrilla raids, military operations, economic
hardships, political turmoil, and racial tensions upset the status quo of communities situated …

From its post-Revolutionary position as the First West to its current status as a political
bellwether, the Ohio Valley has always been a liminal space in American history. This …

US regional history owes its existence, in large part, to the study of the Civil War. Almost as
soon as the Civil War ended, historians of the conflict identified regionalism as a central …

Southern home front studies have been one of the most robust areas of research in Civil War
and Southern history over the last three decades. The field can be broken into two broad …

In one bold, highly effective stroke, J. Mills Thornton III has stripped the Civil Rights
Movement of its ethereal majesty. Thornton's Dividing Lines, with its polarized voting …

MARGARET RIPI. EY OLFE uring the 1960s, Appalachia became one of the principal
theaters in America's War on Poverty and eastern Kentucky became a major battleground …

This innovative study presents a new, integrated view of the Civil War and Reconstruction
and the history of the western United States. Award-winning historians such as Steven …

War upon Our Border examines the experiences of two Ohio River Valley communities
during the turmoil and social upheaval of the American Civil War. Although on opposite …

To many antebellum Americans, Appalachia was a frightening wilderness of lawlessness,
peril, robbers, and hidden dangers. The extensive media coverage of horse stealing and …