WVU Libraries: Appalachian Bibliography

Appalachian Studies

Appalachian Journal Index, 1991-1996 . 1996. Special issue. Appalachian Journal 23 (Summer): 352-479.

Appalachian Journal Index, 1996-2001 . 2001. Special issue. Appalachian Journal 28 (Summer): 408-519.

Appalachian Journal Roundtable Discussion: A Conversation About Teaching Appalachian Studies. 2002. Introduction and Reflections by Sandra Hayslette & Chad Berry. “‘We’re All Appalachian’” by Mark Banker; “The Power of Stories” by Steve Fisher; “The Culture and the Classroom” by Roberta Herrin; “Appalachian Literature and Senior Learners” by Marianne Worthington; “The Education of a Sociologist of Appalachia” by Susan H. Ambler; “Hillbilly Trinkets and Doodads” by Grace Toney Edwards; “Faith in Ourselves, Faith in Our Future” by Stephen D. Mooney. In Appalachian Journal 29 (Summer): 416-441.

Appalachian Museums & Archives. 2000. Special issue, Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 17 (Winter): 1-40.

Appalachian Rivers, Lakes & Streams: A Region’s Life Reflected in its Waters. 2001. Special issue, Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 18 (Spring): 1-44.

Baehr, Theodore, Jr., Mark V. Wetherington, and Michael Toomey, compilers. 2004. “A Topical Bibliography of Articles from The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 1-61 (1929-1989) and The Journal of East Tennessee History 62-74 (1990-2002).” Journal of East Tennessee History 75 (2003): 91-112.

Ballard, Sandra, and Edwin T. Arnold, eds. 2002. “A Festschrift Featuring Works Presented at a Symposium in Honor of J. W. Williamson, Editor of the Appalachian Journal, 1972-2000” [retiring, founding editor]. Appalachian Journal 29 (Fall 2001-Winter 2002): 1-272.

Barney, Sandra. 1997. “Coming to Terms with Northern Appalachia” [ Pa.]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 14 (Winter): 8-10.

Berry , Chad. 2000. “Upon What Will I Hang My Hat in the Future? Appalachia and Awaiting Post-Postmodernity” [directions for scholarship]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 6 nos. 1-2 (Spring/Fall): 121-130.

Best, Bill, comp., ed. 1997. One Hundred Years of Appalachian Visions, 1897-1996 [literary collection; 50 essays and stories]. Berea, Ky.: Appalachian Imprints. 214 pp.

Best, Bill. 1999 [1973]. From Existence to Essence: A Conceptual and Mythological Model for an Appalachian Studies Curriculum. Berea, Ky.: Appalachian Imprints. 148 pp. Reprints the author’s Ed.D. thesis, University of Massachusetts, plus results of a 1966 follow-up study.

Bial, Raymond. 1997. Mist Over the Mountains: Appalachia and Its People [children’s literature; photographs]. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 48 pp.

Billings , Dwight B., Chad Berry, and John C. Inscoe. 2002. “Three Responses to Larry Griffin and Ashley Thompson” [“ Appalachia and the South: Collective Memory, Identity, and Representation.” Appalachian Journal 29 (Spring): 296-327]: “Insularity, Advocacy, and Postmodernism in Appalachian Studies” by Dwight B. Billings; “Looking for Common Ground” by Chad Berry; and “Encouraging Cross-Pollination” by John C. Inscoe. Appalachian Journal 29 (Spring): 328-340.

Billings , Dwight B., Mary Beth Pudup, and Altina Waller. 1995. “Taking Exception with Exceptionalism: The Emergence and Transformation of Historical Studies of Appalachia.” In Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century, ed. M. Pudup, D. Billings, A. Waller, 1-24. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Billings , Dwight. 2003. “Practicing Sociology in Appalachia: Interview with Dwight Billings.” Interview by Caroline E. Knight, Sarah Poteete, Amy Sparrow, and Jessica C. Wrye. Appalachian Journal 30 (Winter-Spring): 164-180.

Blaustein, Richard. 1998. Review essay of One Hundred Years of Appalachian Visions, 1897-1996, by Bill Best (Berea, Ky.: Appalachian Imprints, 1997). In Appalachian Journal 25 (Winter): 186-196.

Brown, Jo. B., comp. 1995. “Annual Bibliography, 1994.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 1 (Fall): 121-134.

Brown, Jo. B., comp. 1996. “Annual Bibliography, 1995.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 2 (Spring): 159-177.

Brown, Jo. B., comp. 1997. “Annual Bibliography, 1996.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 3 (Spring): 99-122.

Brown, Jo. B., comp. 1998. “Annual Bibliography, 1997.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 4 (Spring): 115-152.

Brown, Jo. B., comp. 1999. “Annual Bibliography, 1998.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 5 (Spring): 77-113.

Brown, Jo. B., comp. 2000. “Annual Bibliography, 1999.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 6 nos. 1-2 (Spring/Fall): 172-208.

Brown, Jo. B., comp. 2001. “Annual Bibliography, 2000.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 7 (Spring): 104-143.

Brown, Jo. B., comp. 2002. “Annual Bibliography, 2001.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 8 (Spring): 168-213.

Brown, Jo. B., comp. 2003. “Annual Bibliography, 2002.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 9 (Spring): 147-215.

Brown, Jo. B., comp. 2004. “Annual Bibliography, 2003.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 10 (Spring/Fall): 167-200.

Brown, Logan, Theresa Burchett-Anderson, Donavan Cain, and Jinny Turman Deal, with Howard Dorgan. 2003. “Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? A History of the Appalachian Studies Association” [with responses by Richard B. Drake, 86-87; Howard Dorgan, 88-90; Phillip J. Obermiller, 90-92]. Appalachian Journal 31 (Fall): 30-92.

Bryant, Ron D., comp. 2000. Kentucky History: An Annotated Bibliography. Bibliographies of the States of the United States, no. 9. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 553 pp.

Campbell, John C. 2004 [1921, 1969]. The Southern Highlander & His Homeland [seminal cultural study]. Foreword by Rupert B. Vance; introduction by Henry D. Shapiro. Reprint. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 405 pp. Originally published, New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 405 pp.

Center for Appalachian Studies and Services: Celebrating 20 Years. 2003. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 20, nos. 2-3 (Summer/Winter): 38-56. [essays in tribute to ETSU’s CASS in this possibly final issue of the Center’s journal, by Ted Olson, Arthur H. DeRosier Jr., Richard Blaustein, Patricia Beaver, Jack Higgs, Jean Haskell, Phil Leonard, Christina Tortora and Judy B. Bernstein, Kathleen Curtis Wilson, Richard M. Kesner, Norma Myers, Jackson A. Berea, Jill Oxendine, Thomas G. Burton, Margaret A. Mackay, and Jack Tottle].

Center for Virtual Appalachia [website]. 2001. Provided by The Institute for Regional Analysis and Public Policy, Morehead State University, Morehead, Ky. http://cva.morehead-st.edu/index.html. [Extensive website includes search engine, maps, news, and six major headers: Overview of Appalachia; People and Culture; Data Sources; Landscape and Environment; Appalachia on the Web; Explore the CVA Site].

Commemorating 30 Years of Service to the People of Appalachia. 1995. Special issue. Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 28 (Winter/Spring): 1-80.

Conway, Cecelia. 2002. “ Appalachia” [definition, overview]. In The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs, eds. J. Flora and L. Mackethan, 39-43. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Cunningham, Rodger. 1996. "Post the Lost Past: Malcolm Chapman's The Celts." [review essay] Journal of Appalachian Studies 2 (Fall): 263-276.

Cunningham, Rodger. 2003. “Appalachian Studies among the Posts” [modernism, structuralism, colonialism; 25 years of Appalachian Studies began with Henry Shapiro’s Appalachia on Our Mind (1978)]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 9 (Fall): 377-386.

Dickinson , W. Calvin, and Eloise R. Hitchcock, eds. 1999. A Bibliography of Tennessee History, 1973-1996 [arranged by county and historical period]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 453 pp.

Dirlik, Arif. 2002. “Civic Scholarship: Comments on ‘ Appalachia as a Global Region: Toward Critical Regionalism and Civic Professionalism’” [by Herbert Reid and Betsy Taylor, Journal of Appalachian Studies 8 (Spring 2002): 9-32]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 8 (Spring 2002): 33-41.

Drake, Richard B. 2000. “Appalachian Notes and Appalachian Studies: A Memoir” [quarterly journal, 1973-1985]. Appalachian Heritage 28 (Fall): 19-23.

Drake, Richard B. 2000. “Early Interpreters of Appalachian Culture” [Who’s who list of scholars]. Appalachian Heritage 28 (Winter): 5-7.

Drake, Richard B. 2001. A History of Appalachia [long-awaited, first comprehensive history of the region]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 304 pp.

Drake, Richard. 1996. Reviews of Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century and The First Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia. Appalachian Heritage 24 (Summer): 54-62.

Dunaway, Wilma. 2004. “Revisionist With a Cause: Interview With Wilma Dunaway.” By Erin Casto, Sara E. Harris, Eddie Huffman, Melanie Keyes, Sharon Price, and Paul Robertson, with Patricia Beaver. Appalachian Journal 31 (Winter): 166-191.

Evans, Mari-Lynn, Holly George-Warren, and Robert Santelli, eds. 2004. The Appalachians: America’s First and Last Frontier [profusely illustrated historical portrait in 30 brief chapters, and companion volume to three-hour PBS documentary; pt. 1. The first frontier -- The land / Bill Richardson -- The landscape of the Southern Appalachians / T. Addison Richards -- Wild thing: the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest / Ted Olson -- The mountain melting pot: Appalachia's diverse ethnic and racial groups / Ted Olson -- Appalachia's Scots-Irish ancestry / John Trew -- The Civil War in Appalachia / Gordon B. McKinney -- Storytelling in Appalachia / Judy Prozzillo Byers -- pt. 2. Feuds, coal, white lightning, and good ol' mountain music -- The Great Mountain Feud / Tom Robertson -- Appalachian myths and the legacy of coal / Ronald L. Lewis -- Moonshine on the mountain / Tom Robertson -- The Bristol sessions / Charles Wolfe -- The story of my family: the Carter family / Rita Forrester -- Falling in love with the Carters / Johnny Cash -- pt. 3. Boom or bust -- A hillbilly timeline / Holly George-Warren -- Discoveries of the people: an introduction to the music of Appalachia / Paul Burch -- A West Virginia life / Robert C. Byrd -- Blue Kentucky girl / Martha Hume -- Readin', writin', and Route 21: the road from West Virginia to Ohio / David Giffels -- My West Virginia / Alan B. Mollohan -- pt. 4. Memories: keeping the spirit in the modern world -- The trunk in the attic / Gary Carden -- Black Mountain breakdown / Lee Smith -- Killing our hills: the devastation of mountaintop removal / Vivian Stockman -- Fighting for my Appalachian home / Julia Bonds -- Religion in Appalachia: examples of the diversity / Howard Dorgan -- Preaching to the chickens / Gary Carden -- The Jolo Church of the Lord Jesus / Shannon Bell -- The picture man / Shelby Lee Adams -- The quare gene / Tony Earley -- Full circle / Edwin Sweeney -- The train passes through but doesn't stop / Jason Ringenberg]. New York: Random House. 255 pp.

Fine, Elizabeth C., ed. 1995. Appalachia and the Politics of Culture. Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, vol. 7. Johnson City: East Tennessee State University, Center for Appalachian Studies and Services. 162 pp.

Fowler, John D. 1998. “ Appalachia’s Agony: A Historiographical Essay on Modernization and Development in the Appalachian Region.” Filson Club Historical Quarterly 72 (July): 305-328.

Gaventa, John. 2002. “Appalachian Studies in Global Context: Reflections on the Beginnings--Challenges for the Future” [article based on the author’s keynote address at the 25 th annual meeting of the Appalachian Studies Association, Helen, Ga., March 2002; with comments on “Appalachia as a Global Region: Toward Critical Regionalism and Civic Professionalism” by Herbert Reid and Betsy Taylor, Journal of Appalachian Studies 8 (Spring 2002): 9-32]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 8 (Spring 2002): 79-90.

Griffin , Larry J., and Ashley B. Thompson. 2002. “ Appalachia and the South: Collective Memory, Identity, and Representation” [cultural politics]. Appalachian Journal 29 (Spring): 296-327.

Hanlon, Tina L., and Judy A. Teaford, eds. 2000. AppLit [award winning web site containing resources for readers and teachers of Appalachian literature: articles, authors, bibliographies, fiction & poems, lesson plans, links, study guides]. Online at http://www.ferrum.edu/applit/.

Hay, Fred J. 2004. “From ‘Mountain Whites’ to ‘ Appalachians (People)’: A Description of the Journey, Concluding with a Brief Sermon” [changing the standard Library of Congress Subject Heading]. ANSS-L Monthly Questions and Answers: Publications and Bibliographies (Anthropology and Sociology Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries). Online at http://www.lib.odu.edu/anss/sbacquestions/saco.html.

Higgs, Robert J., Ambrose N. Manning, and Jim Wayne Miller, eds. 1995. Appalachia Inside Out: A Sequel to Voices from the Hills. Volume 1: Conflict and Change; Volume 2: Culture and Custom. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 753 pp.

Higgs, Robert J., and Ambrose N. Manning, eds. 1996. Voices from the Hills: Selected Readings of Southern Appalachia. Second Edition. Reprint, Dubuque, Ia.: Kendall/Hunt. 540 pp. Originally published, New York: Frederick Ungar; co-published with Appalachian Consortium Press, Boone, N.C., 1975.

Hsiung, David C. 1997. Two Worlds in the Tennessee Mountains: Exploring the Origins of Appalachian Stereotypes [winner, 1996 Appalachian Studies Award]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 224 pp.

Inscoe, John C. 2002. “The Discovery of Appalachia: Regional Revisionism as Scholarly Renaissance” [narrative history, reviewing several dozen standard studies]. In A Companion to the American South, ed. J. Boles, 369-386. Blackwell Companions to American History, no. 3. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.

Kephart, Horace. 2001 [1922]. Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern Appalachians and a Study of Life among the Mountaineers. Reprint of revised edition (Macmillan Company, 1922). Alexander, N.C.: Land of the Sky Books. 469 pp. Originally published, New York: Outing Pub. Co., 1913 [Note: the standard, modern reprint edition of this seminal study is Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1976, with its Introduction by George Ellison, ix-xlvi, and his Note on Location of Kephart Materials, xlvii-xlviii].

Lewis, Ronald L. 2001 [1999]. “Beyond Isolation and Homogeneity: Diversity and the History of Appalachia.” In Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes, eds. D. Billings, G. Norman, and K. Ledford, 21-43. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. Originally published as Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes.

Lewis, Ronald L., and Dwight B. Billings. 1997. “Appalachian Culture and Economic Development: A Retrospective View on the Theory and Literature” [excerpt from “A Socioeconomic Review of Appalachia”: A Report Prepared for the Appalachian Regional Commission]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 3 (Spring): 3-42.

Macneal, Douglas. 1997. “How Can You Call Pittsburgh Appalachian?” Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 14 (Winter): 10-13.

McCann, Eugene J. 1998. “Mapping Appalachia: Toward a Critical Understanding” [”official” maps versus grassroots, GIS-participatory mapping]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 4 (Spring): 87-113.

McKinney, Gordon B. 1996. "The Future of the Appalachian Past." [survey of contemporary scholars' more honest assessments of the Region's past] Appalachian Heritage 24 (Winter): 14-21.

Mitchell, Alison C. 2001. “Researching Appalachia and the WPA at the Library of Congress.” Folklife Center News (Library of Congress) 23, no. 2 (Spring): 17-19.

Montgomery, Michael. 1994. “The Contributions of Joseph Sargent Hall to Appalachian Studies.” In Appalachian Adaptations to a Changing World, ed. Norma Myers. Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association 6: 89-98. Johnson City: East Tennessee State University, Center for Appalachian Studies and Services.

New Georgia Encyclopedia [free online edition; 1600 articles; work-in-progress; completion target date 2006]. Atlanta, Athens: Georgia Humanities Council, University of Georgia Press. Updated regularly. Online at http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/.

Noe, Kenneth W. 2002. “Appalachia Before Mr. Peabody: Some Recent Literature on the Southern Mountain Region” [narrative accounting of landmark studies since the 1970s]. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 110 (no. 1): 5-34.

Northern Appalachia [W.Va., Ohio, Pa., N.Y.]. 1997. Special issue, Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 14 (Winter): 1-48.

Now & Then Magazine. 2003. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 20, nos. 2-3 (Summer/Winter): 57-64. [20 th anniversary tribute essays from past and present editors in this possibly final issue, by Nancy Fischman, Fred Waage, Pat Arnow, Laurene Scalf, Linda Parsons Marion, and Marianne Worthington; includes list of issue titles].

Obermiller, Phillip J., and Michael E. Maloney, eds. 2002. Appalachia: Social Context Past and Present [textbook anthology: 39 chapters plus selected bibliographies]. Fourth edition, with a foreword by Loyal Jones. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt. 450 pp.

Perkins, Alfred. 1995. "John Stephenson and the College of Appalachia: A Chronicle and a Tribute." Appalachian Heritage 23 (Spring): 19-23.

Pudup, Mary Beth, ed. 1995. Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 391 pp.

Raine, James Watt. 1997 [1924; 1969]. The Land of Saddle-Bags: A Study of the Mountain People of Appalachia. Foreword by Dwight Billings [pp. ix-xliv]. Reprint. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 260 pp.

Rehder, John B. 2004. Appalachian Folkways [cultural milieu; chapters cover public image, geography, ethnicity, architecture, jobs, foodways, folk remedies, music, art, festivals, and speech]. Creating the North American Landscape. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 353 pp.

Reid, Herbert, and Betsy Taylor. 2002. “Appalachia as a Global Region: Toward Critical Regionalism and Civic Professionalism” [globalization, identity, and the role of Appalachian Studies]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 8 (Spring): 9-32.

Reid, Herbert G. 1996. "Global Adjustments, Throwaway Regions, Appalachian Studies: Resituating The Kentucky Cycle on the Postmodern Frontier." Journal of Appalachian Studies 2 (Fall): 235-262.

Remembering John B. Stephenson. 1995. Special Commemorative Section. Appalachian Heritage 23 (Winter): 3-26.

Salstrom, Paul. 1995. “Newer Appalachia as One of America’s Last Frontiers.” In Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century, ed. M. Pudup, D. Billings, A. Waller, 76-102. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Sather, Nancy. 1999. “Appalachian Heritage: A Celebration of the Vernacular” [overview and accolade for this regional literary journal]. Appalachian Heritage 27 (Summer): 7-8.

Sawyer, David. 1995. "Bodhisattva in Berea: John Stephenson and the Tibetans." Appalachian Heritage 23 (Spring): 16-18.

Scott, Shaunna L. 1995. "Teaching for Democracy: Reflections on Teaching Appalachian Studies." In Appalachia and the Politics of Culture, ed. E. C. Fine. Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association 7: 131-139. Johnson City: East Tennessee State University, Center for Appalachian Studies and Services.

Scott, Shaunna L. 2001. “Civics Lessons from Another Place: A Case Study of the Northern Ireland Women’s Festival Day Project.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 7 (Fall): 187-225.

Shapiro, Henry D. 1996. Review essay of Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century (1995). In Appalachian Journal 24 (Fall): 81-91.

Smith, Barbara Ellen. 2002. “The Place of Appalachia” [political identity; globalization]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 8 (Spring): 42-49.

Smithfield Review: Studies in the History of the Region West of the Blue Ridge [published annually in May]. Vol. 1— . 1997— . Published by the Montgomery County Branch Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities; in conjunction with Pocahontas Press, Inc., Blacksburg, Va.

Snyder, Bob. 1995. "The Appalachian Band in the Moral Spectrum." Appalachian Journal 22 (Spring): 250-261.

Straw, Richard A., and H. Tyler Blethen, eds. 2004. High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place [14 essays; primer on history and culture, by leading scholars]. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 240 pp.

Tennessee Electronic Atlas (TEA) . 2002. Dir. Bruce A. Ralston. Housed at Knoxville: Department of Geography, University of Tennessee. Online at http://tnatlas.geog.utk.edu/tea/tea.asp.

Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, The [free online edition; 1500 entries]. 2002. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Text copyright 1998 by The Tennessee Historical Society, Nashville. Online at http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net.

Tucker, Bruce. 2002. Review essay on four books: Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen Blee, The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia (2000); Jane Becker, Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930-1940 (1998); Dwight B. Billings, Gurney Norman, and Katherine Ledford, eds., Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes (1999); Chad Berry, Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles (2000). Canadian Review of American Studies 32 (no. 3): 321-332.

Tucker, Bruce. 2003. “Harry Caudill and the Problem of the Past.” (Rethinking Appalachian Studies Series). Journal of Appalachian Studies 9 (Spring): 114-146.

West, Carroll Van, ed. 1998. Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture [1500 entries; 29 major essays; index]. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Society. 1193 pp.

Williams, John Alexander. 1996. “Appalachia.” In American Folklore: An Encyclopedia, ed. J. H. Brunvand, 35-38. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 1551. New York: Garland.

Williams, John Alexander. 1996. "Counting Yesterday's People: Using Aggregate Data To Address the Problem of Appalachia's Boundaries." Journal of Appalachian Studies 2 (Spring): 3-27.

Williams, John Alexander. 2001 [1976]. West Virginia: A History. Second edition. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press. 220 pp. Originally published by W.W. Norton as West Virginia: A Bicentennial History.

Williams, John Alexander. 2001. “Appalachian History: Regional History in the Post-Modern Zone” [adapted from the introduction to Appalachia: A History (2002)]. Appalachian Journal 28 (Winter): 168-187.

Williams, John Alexander. 2002. Appalachia: A History [Weatherford Award winner]. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 496 pp.