Overview :Culture, Class and Politics in Modern Appalachia takes stock of the field of Appalachian studies as it explores issues still at the center o... Read More
Overview :America's emergence as a global industrial superpower was built on iron and steel, and despite their comparatively small numbers, no immigra... Read More
Overview :In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States. A majority of them were skilled laborers from the coal mines ... Read More
Overview :This volume of the Journal of Appalachian Studies Association includes contributions by Gordon B. McKinney; Jean Haskell Speer; Rodger Cunni... Read More
Overview :From the early day of mining in colonial Virginia and Maryland up to the time of World War II, blacks were an important part of the labor fo... Read More
Overview :In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. Ronald L... Read More