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Appalachian Review was founded in 1973 as Appalachian Heritage by mountain poet Albert Stewart at Alice Lloyd College. The magazine moved to the Hindman Settlement School in 1982. Berea College began sponsoring the magazine in 1985. It publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, craft essays, interviews, book reviews, and visual art.
The Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775–1850 is a book written by Malcolm J. Rohrbough and published by Oxford University Press in 1978 (first edition) and Indiana University Press (third edition) in 2008.
Appalachian Americans, or simply Appalachians, are Americans living in the geocultural area of Appalachia in the eastern United States, or their descendants. [2] [3]While not an official demographic used or recognized by the United States Census Bureau, Appalachian Americans, due to various factors, have developed their own distinct culture within larger social groupings.
Eliot Wigginton (born Brooks Eliot Wigginton on November 9, 1942) is an American oral historian, folklorist, writer and former educator.He is most widely known for developing with his high school students the Foxfire Project, a writing project consisting of interviews and stories about Appalachia.
Helen Matthews Lewis (October 2, 1924 – September 4, 2022) was an American sociologist, historian, and activist who specialized in Appalachia and women's rights.She was noted for developing an interpretation of Appalachia as an internal United States colony, as well as designing the first academic programs for Appalachian studies. [1]
OpEd: J.D. Vance isn’t a coal baron but he’s the exact mold of a man who is going to exploit the same people he claims to speak for.
Our Southern Highlanders was the "seminal work" of Appalachian nonfiction, and provided a foundation for numerous other studies of Appalachian culture over subsequent decades. [1] In spite of the book's shortcomings, its keen observations went a long way toward demystifying the rural people of Southern Appalachia. [ 1 ]
Frazier was born in Asheville, North Carolina, grew up in Andrews and Franklin, North Carolina, [2] and graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1973. He earned an M.A. from Appalachian State University in the mid-1970s, and received his Ph.D. in English from the University of South Carolina in 1986.