In Appalachia's Path to Dependency, Paul Salstrom examines the evolution of economic life
over time in southern Appalachia. Moving away from the colonial model to an analysis …

In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than
those found throughout most of the South. Though relatively minor strategically, incursions …

A major theme in the vast popular and scholarly literature about Appalachia contends that
deficiencies in mountain culture have contributed to, or at least reinforced, economic …

Appalachia is a region without a formal history. Born in the fertile minds of late-nineteenth-
century local color writers,“Appalachia” was invented in the caricatures and atmospheric …

Most Americans know Appalachia through stereotyped images: moonshine and handicrafts,
poverty and illiteracy, rugged terrain and isolated mountaineers. Historian David Hsiung …

In the years following the Revolutionary War, the young American nation was in a state of
chaos. Citizens pleaded with government leaders to reorganize local infrastructures and …

“A singular achievement. Mark Banker reveals an almost paradoxical Appalachia that
trumps all the stereotypes. Interweaving his family history with the region's latest scholarship …

As with other objects of anthropological study, Appalachia has been vested with imagery
that isolates it from (the rest of) America. This essay traces the nineteenth-century roots of a …

When it created the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the 1930s, the National Park
Service decided to document the traditional life of the area. In 1937 it commissioned a young …

This study examines the transformation of masculinity on the early national frontier by
focusing on one particular region: the Upper Tennessee watershed. Nowhere else in the …