Appalachian Heritage

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : American literature
ISBN : UVA:X030287953

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Appalachian Heritage by Anonim Pdf

Author : James P. Ziliak
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815722151

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Appalachian Legacy by James P. Ziliak Pdf

In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Kentucky's Martin County to declare war on poverty. The following year he signed the Appalachian Regional Development Act, creating a state-federal partnership to improve the region's economic prospects through better job opportunities, improved human capital, and enhanced transportation. As the focal point of domestic antipoverty efforts, Appalachia took on special symbolic as well as economic importance. Nearly half a century later, what are the results? Appalachian Legacy provides the answers. Led by James P. Ziliak, prominent economists and demographers map out the region's current status. They explore important questions, including how has Appalachia fared since the signing of ARDA in 1965? How does it now compare to the nation as a whole in key categories such as education, employment, and health? Was ARDA an effective place-based policy for ameliorating hardship in a troubled region, or is Appalachia still mired in a poverty trap? And what lessons can we draw from the Appalachian experience? In addition to providing the reports of important research to help analysts, policymakers, scholars, and regional experts discern what works in fighting poverty, Appalachian Legacy is an important contribution to the economic history of the eastern United States.

Author : Herma Cate,Clyde Ussery,Randy Armstrong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Appalachian Region, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036832280

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The Southern Appalachian Heritage by Herma Cate,Clyde Ussery,Randy Armstrong Pdf

Author : Linda Hager Pack,Pat Banks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0813125561

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A is for Appalachia by Linda Hager Pack,Pat Banks Pdf

An alphabet book featuring words about Appalachian culture, plus additional stories and facts, a glossary, and a list of places to visit in the region.

Author : Michael B. Montgomery,Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 3218 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781469662558

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Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English by Michael B. Montgomery,Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller Pdf

The Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English is a revised and expanded edition of the Weatherford Award–winning Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, published in 2005 and known in Appalachian studies circles as the most comprehensive reference work dedicated to Appalachian vernacular and linguistic practice. Editors Michael B. Montgomery and Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller document the variety of English used in parts of eight states, ranging from West Virginia to Georgia—an expansion of the first edition's geography, which was limited primarily to North Carolina and Tennessee—and include over 10,000 entries drawn from over 2,200 sources. The entries include approximately 35,000 citations to provide the reader with historical context, meaning, and usage. Around 1,600 of those examples are from letters written by Civil War soldiers and their family members, and another 4,000 are taken from regional oral history recordings. Decades in the making, the Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English surpasses the original by thousands of entries. There is no work of this magnitude available that so completely illustrates the rich language of the Smoky Mountains and Southern Appalachia.

Author : Robert L. Ludke,Phillip J. Obermiller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780813135861

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Appalachian Health and Well-being by Robert L. Ludke,Phillip J. Obermiller Pdf

Appalachians have been characterized as a population with numerous disparities in health and limited access to medical services and infrastructures, leading to inaccurate generalizations that inhibit their healthcare progress. Appalachians face significant challenges in obtaining effective care, and the public lacks information about both their healthcare needs and about the resources communities have developed to meet those needs. In Appalachian Health and Well-Being, editors Robert L. Ludke and Phillip J. Obermiller bring together leading researchers and practitioners to provide a much-needed compilation of data- and research-driven perspectives, broadening our understanding of strategies to decrease the health inequalities affecting both rural and urban Appalachians. The contributors propose specific recommendations for necessary research, suggest practical solutions for health policy, and present best practices models for effective health intervention. This in-depth analysis offers new insights for students, health practitioners, and policy makers, promoting a greater understanding of the factors affecting Appalachian health and effective responses to those needs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Appalachian Region
ISBN : UOM:39015073357975

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Appalachia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chad Berry,Philip J. Obermiller,Shaunna L. Scott
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780252097348

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Studying Appalachian Studies by Chad Berry,Philip J. Obermiller,Shaunna L. Scott Pdf

In this collection, contributors reflect on scholarly, artistic, activist, educational, and practical endeavor known as Appalachian Studies. Following an introduction to the field, the writers discuss how Appalachian Studies illustrates the ways interdisciplinary studies emerge, organize, and institutionalize themselves, and how they engage with intellectual, political, and economic forces both locally and around the world. Essayists argue for Appalachian Studies' integration with kindred fields like African American studies, women's studies, and Southern studies, and they urge those involved in the field to globalize the perspective of Appalachian Studies; to commit to continued applied, participatory action, and community-based research; to embrace more fully the field's capacity for bringing about social justice; to advocate for a more accurate understanding of Appalachia and its people; and to understand and overcome the obstacles interdisciplinary studies face in the social and institutional construction of knowledge. Contributors: Chris Baker, Chad Berry, Donald Edward Davis, Amanda Fickey, Chris Green, Erica Abrams Locklear, Phillip J. Obermiller, Douglas Reichert Powell, Michael Samers, Shaunna L. Scott, and Barbara Ellen Smith.

Author : Robert J. Higgs
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0870498746

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Appalachia Inside Out: Conflict and change by Robert J. Higgs Pdf

An anthology of Appalachia writings.

Author : Vicki Sigmon Collins
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476627540

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The Silent Appalachian by Vicki Sigmon Collins Pdf

Appalachian literature is filled with silent or non-discursive characters. The reasons for their wordlessness vary. Some are mute or pretend to be, some choose not to speak or are silenced by grief, trauma or fear. Others mutter monosyllables, stutter, grunt and point, speak in tongues or idiosyncratic language. They capture the reader's attention by what they don't say.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : UIUC:30112059887221

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Inscoe
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813129617

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Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South by John Inscoe Pdf

Among the most pervasive of stereotypes imposed upon southern highlanders is that they were white, opposed slavery, and supported the Union before and during the Civil War, but the historical record suggests far different realities. John C. Inscoe has spent much of his scholarly career exploring the social, economic and political significance of slavery and slaveholding in the mountain South and the complex nature of the region’s wartime loyalties, and the brutal guerrilla warfare and home front traumas that stemmed from those divisions. The essays here embrace both facts and fictions related to those issues, often conveyed through intimate vignettes that focus on individuals, families, and communities, keeping the human dimension at the forefront of his insights and analysis. Drawing on the memories, memoirs, and other testimony of slaves and free blacks, slaveholders and abolitionists, guerrilla warriors, invading armies, and the highland civilians they encountered, Inscoe considers this multiplicity of perspectives and what is revealed about highlanders’ dual and overlapping identities as both a part of, and distinct from, the South as a whole. He devotes attention to how the truths derived from these contemporary voices were exploited, distorted, reshaped, reinforced, or ignored by later generations of novelists, journalists, filmmakers, dramatists, and even historians with differing agendas over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His cast of characters includes John Henry, Frederick Law Olmsted and John Brown, Andrew Johnson and Zebulon Vance, and those who later interpreted their stories—John Fox and John Ehle, Thomas Wolfe and Charles Frazier, Emma Bell Miles and Harry Caudill, Carter Woodson and W. J. Cash, Horace Kephart and John C. Campbell, even William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor. Their work and that of many others have contributed much to either our understanding—or misunderstanding—of nineteenth century Appalachia and its place in the American imagination.

Author : Sara Webb-Sunderhaus,Kim Donehower
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780813165608

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Rereading Appalachia by Sara Webb-Sunderhaus,Kim Donehower Pdf

Appalachia faces overwhelming challenges that plague many rural areas across the country, including poorly funded schools, stagnant economic development, corrupt political systems, poverty, and drug abuse. Its citizens, in turn, have often been the target of unkind characterizations depicting them as illiterate or backward. Despite entrenched social and economic disadvantages, the region is also known for its strong sense of culture, language, and community. In this innovative volume, a multidisciplinary team of both established and rising scholars challenge Appalachian stereotypes through an examination of language and rhetoric. Together, the contributors offer a new perspective on Appalachia and its literacy, hoping to counteract essentialist or class-based arguments about the region's people, and reexamine past research in the context of researcher bias. Featuring a mix of traditional scholarship and personal narratives, Rereading Appalachia assesses a number of pressing topics, including the struggles of first-generation college students and the pressure to leave the area in search of higher-quality jobs, prejudice toward the LGBT community, and the emergence of Appalachian and Affrilachian art in urban communities. The volume also offers rich historical perspectives on issues such as the intended and unintended consequences of education activist Cora Wilson Stewart's campaign to promote literacy at the Kentucky Moonlight Schools. A call to arms for those studying the heritage and culture of Appalachia, this timely collection provides fresh perspectives on the region, its people, and their literacy beliefs and practices.

Author : Morris Allen Grubbs,Mary Ellen Miller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780813147260

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Every Leaf a Mirror by Morris Allen Grubbs,Mary Ellen Miller Pdf

Jim Wayne Miller (1936–1996) was a prolific writer, a revered teacher and scholar, and a pioneer in the field of Appalachian studies. During his thirty-three-year tenure at Western Kentucky University, he helped build programs in the discipline in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio, and worked tirelessly to promote regional voices by presenting the work of others as often as he did his own. An innovative poet, essayist, and short story writer, Miller was one of the founding fathers and animating spirits of the Appalachian renaissance. In Every Leaf a Mirror, Morris Allen Grubbs and Mary Ellen Miller have gathered essential selections from the beloved author's oeuvre. Highlights from the volume include touchstone poems; seminal articles; a rare autobiographical essay; a commencement address; and an excerpt from the previously unpublished short story "Truth and Fiction." Revealing the scope and significance of Miller's contributions as an artist and cultural scholar, this reader captures the excitement that surrounded the birth of modern Appalachian literature. With commentary by Mary Ellen Miller, an introduction from well-known author Robert Morgan, and an afterword by the notable Silas House, Every Leaf a Mirror provides an unprecedentedly intimate look at Miller's writing. This long overdue collection not only celebrates the life of this revered ambassador of Appalachian literature and culture but also introduces a new generation of readers to his work.

Author : Robert M. West,Jesse Graves
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476641348

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Robert Morgan by Robert M. West,Jesse Graves Pdf

For more than fifty years Robert Morgan has brought to life the landscape, history and culture of the Southern Appalachia of his youth. In 30 acclaimed volumes, including poetry, short story collections, novels and nonfiction prose, he has celebrated an often marginalized region. His many honors include four NEA Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as television appearances (The Best American Poetry: New Stories from the South, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards). This first book on Morgan collects appreciations and analyses by some of his most dedicated readers, including fellow poets, authors, critics and scholars. An unpublished interview with him is included, along with an essay by him on the importance of sense of place, and a bibliography of publications by and about him.