Appalachian Studies Materials

Rentschler Library, in collaboration with faculty in Appalachian Studies program, is adding books and other materials in support of the proposed program in that area. If you have suggestions for this collection please email Mark Shores or call 785-3203.

Click on any of the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) below to see what items are owned by Miami University libraries. These same subject headings can be used to search other library catalogs, such as WorldCat. See the bottom of the page for some other helpful websites.

Appalachian Region
Appalachian Region (Southern)
Appalachians (People)
Appalachians (People) in motion pictures
Mountain Life Appalachian Region Southern

To find additional information on the migration of Appalachians to urban areas try the subject heading below or combine it with one of the subject headings above.

Rural-Urban Migration United States

Here is a list of Appalachian studies items in the Rentschler Library (Miami University Hamilton) collection.

Art and Photography
Appalachian People
Appalachia as a Place
Children’s Books
Environment and Ecology
Fiction
Folklore and Folklife
History
Personal Memoirs
Social History/Living Conditions
Urban Appalachians/Appalachian Migration

Art and Photography

Mountain Shadow: Four Appalachian Artists. Weil, Dorothy, Goetzman, Jane, Sletten, Greg, et al. Cincinnati, Ohio: TV Image, 1997.  F217 .A65 M66 1997   

On Earth's Furrowed Brow: the Appalachian Farm in Photographs. Tim Barnwell. New York: Norton, 2007. F217.A65B385 2007

Appalachian People

Appalachian Cultural Competency: a Guide for Medical, Mental Health, and Social Service Professionals. Susan E. Keefe. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. HV98.A58A66 2005

Appalachians and Race: the Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation. Inscoe, John (ed.) Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001 E185.912 .A67 2001

Hillbillyland: What the Movies did to the Mountains and What the Mountains did to the Movies. J. W. Williamson. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1995. PN1995.9.M67W54 1995

The True Meaning of Pictures. {videorecording} De Pencier, Nick, Baichwal, Jennifer, Adams, Shelby Lee, et al. New York: Docurama, 2003. F217 .A65T78 2003

Yesterday's People; Life in Contemporary Appalachia. Weller, Jack E. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1965. F210 .W43

Appalachia as a Place

Appalachia / America :The Proceedings of the 1980 Appalachian Studies Conference. Somerville, Wilson. Johnson City, TN: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1981. F106 .A6 1980

The Appalachians: America's First and Last Frontier. Evans, Mari-Lynn, George-Warren, Holly and Santelli, Robert. New York: Random House, 2004. F106 .A59 2004

Bubbling Waters. Firestone, Clark Barnaby. New York: R. M. McBride, 1938. F456 .F57

High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place. Straw, Richard Alan and Blethen, Tyler. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. F106.H46 2004

Children’s Books

Appalachian ABCs. Francie Hall. Kent Oehm. Johnson City, TN: The Overmountain Press, 1998. F106 .H18 1998.

An Appalachian Mother Goose. James Still and Paul Brett Johnson. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. PZ8.3.S858Ap 1998

Jack and the Animals: an Appalachian Folktale. Donald Davis and Kitty Harvill. Little Rock : August House LittleFolk, 1995. PZ8.1.D289Jaf 1995

The Old Woman and Her Pig: an Appalachian Folktale. Margaret Read MacDonald and John Kanzler. New York: HarperCollins, 2007. PZ8.1.M15924Old 2007

Silver Packages: An Appalachian Christmas Story. Cynthia Rylant and Chris K. Soentpiet. New York : Orchard Books, 1997. PZ7.R982Si 1997

Environment and Ecology

The Appalachians. Brooks, Maurice Graham. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. QH104.5 .A6B7

A Land Imperiled: the Declining Health of the Southern Appalachian Bioregion. Nolt, John. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. GE 155 .A58 N65 2005

Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness : Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia. Reece, Erik. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006. TD195 .S75R43 2006

The Tectonics of the Appalachians. Rodgers, John. New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1970. QE78.3 .R63

Fiction

Appalachian Patterns. Ball, Bo. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. PS3552 .A4544A87 2002

Icy Sparks. Rubio, Gwyn Hyman. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books, 1999. PS3568 .U295I25 1999

Nancy Culpepper: Stories. Mason, Bobbie Ann. New York: Random House, 2006. PS3563 .A7877 N36 2006.

Prodigal Summer: A Novel. Kingsolver, Barbara. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. PS3561 .I496P76 2000

Folklore and folklife

Appalachian Christmas Stories. Gifford, James M., Nance, Owen B. and Hall, Patricia A. Ashland,  Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1997. PS554 .A67 1997

Appalachian Folkways. Rehder, John B. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. GR108 .R48 2004

Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture. McNeil, W. K. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995. F217.A65A656 1995

Foxfire 2: Ghost Stories, Spring Wild Plant Foods, Spinning and Weaving, Midwifing, Burial Customs, Corn Shuckin's Wagon Making and More Affairs of Plain Living. Wigginton, Eliot. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press, 1973. F217 .A65F66x

Foxfire 3 :Animal Care, Banjos and Dulcimers, Hide Tanning, Summer and Fall Wild Plant Foods, Butter Churns, Ginseng, and Still More Affairs of Plain Living. Wigginton, Eliot. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press, 1975.
F217.A65F67x

Foxfire 8. Cooper, Susan, Wigginton, Eliot and Bennett, Margie. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1984. F217.A65F693 1984

The Foxfire 40th Anniversary Book: Faith, Family,  and the Land. Cheek, Angie, Nix, Lacy Hunter and Foxfire Fund. New York: Anchor Books, 2006. F292 .R3F713 2006

The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing; Log Cabin Building; Mountain Crafts and Foods; Planting by the Signs; Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing; Moonshining; and Other Affairs of Plain Living. Wigginton, Eliot. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1972. F217.A65F65x

Signs, Cures & Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore. Milnes, Gerald. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. GR111 .G47 M55 2007

History

Appalachia: A History. Williams, John Alexander. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. F106 .W68 2002

A History of Appalachia Richard B. Drake. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. F106.D73 2001

The Appalachian frontier: America's first surge westward. John Anthony Caruso. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. F396.C32 2003

Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Abramson, Rudy and Haskell, Jean. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Reference F106 .E53 2006

Two continents, one culture : the Scotch-Irish in Southern Appalachia. Elizabeth Hirschman, Stephen Brown, Pauline Maclaren [sic]. Johnson City, Tenn.; Overmountain Press, 2006. F220 .S4 H57 2006

United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America. Jeff Biggers. F217 .A65 B54 2006

Personal Memoirs, Biographies

Appalachia: As I Remember it. Smith, Arnold R. Tuscon, Ariz.: Hats Off Books, 2001. PS3569 .M46A67 2001

An Appalachian Farmer's Story: Portrait of an Extraordinary Common Man Diane Asseo Griliches and Roy Anderson. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2007. F217.A65G755 2007

Appalachia Inside Out. Higgs, Robert J., Manning, Ambrose N. and Miller, Jim Wayne. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995. PS554 .A65 1995

Appalachian Mountain Girl. Warren, Rhoda B. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1998. F459 .L47W37 1998

Appalachian Yesterdays. Eaton, Ercel Stidham. Fairfield, Ohio: Appalachian Yesterdays, 1982. F457 .L47E37 1982

At Home in the Heart of Appalachia. O'Brien, John. New York: Anchor Books, 2002. CT275 .O24A3 2001

Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers. Dyer, Joyce. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. PS286 .A6B57 1998

Cratis Williams: Living the Divided Life. {videorecording} Johnson, Fred, Williams, Cratis D., Donohue, Jean and Media Working Group. Covington, Ky.: Media Working Group, 1999. F217 .A65 .C73 1999

Gathering up Memories: a Collection of Appalachian Stories. Cooper, Ann Goode. Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers, 2003. F232.S3C66 2003

Homeplace Geography: Essays for Appalachia. Donald Edward Davis. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2006. F217.A65D38 2006

Minstrel of the Appalachians: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford. Jones, Loyal and Forbes, John M. Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1984. ML420 .L935J6 1984

My Appalachia: a Memoir. Farr, Sidney Saylor. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. F217 .A65 F37 2007.

Our Appalachia (the Appalachian Oral History Project). Shackelford, Laurel, and Bill Weinberg (eds.) Photos by Donald Anderson. New York: Hill and Wang, 1977. F 217 .A65 O97 1977

Past Titan Rock: Journeys into an Appalachian Valley. High, Ellesa Clay. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1984. F457 .R4H54 1984

Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia. Covington, Dennis. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1995. BX7990 .H6C68 1995

Stinking Creek. Fetterman, John. New York: Dutton, 1967. F457 .K6F4

Tales from Sacred Wind: Coming of Age in Appalachia : the Cratis Williams Chronicles. Wiliams, Cratis. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2003. CT275 .W5652 A3 2003.

Voices from the Hills: Selected Readings of Southern Appalachia. Higgs, Robert J. and Manning, Ambrose N. New York: F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1975. PS551 .V64

Social History, Living Conditions

Appalachia: Social Context Past and Present. Obermiller, Phillip J. and Maloney, Michael E. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., 2007. HN79 .A13A788 2007

Appalachia in the Sixties: Decade of Reawakening. Walls, David S. and Stephenson, John B. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1972. HC107 .A13W35

Appalachian Values. Jones, Loyal and Brunner, Warren E. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1994. F217.A65J66 1994

Appalachians and Race: the Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation. John C. Inscoe. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2001. E185.912.A67 2001

Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes. Billings, Dwight B.,  Norman, Gurney and Ledford, Katherine. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. F210 .C66 2001

Christianity in Appalachia: Profiles in Regional Pluralism. Bill Leonard. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. BR535.C45 1999

Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and Change. Fisher, Stephen L. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. HN79 .A127F54 1993

Glass Towns: Industry, Labor and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890-1930s. Ken Fones-Wolf. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. HD9623.U46 A645 2007

A Handbook to Appalachia: an Introduction to the Region. Edwards, Grace Toney, Asbury, JoAnn Aust, Fox, Rickey L. (eds.) Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. F106 .H23 2006

Moving mountains : How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal. Loeb, Penny. University Press of Kentucky, 2007. KF228. B733 L64 2007

Night Comes to the Cumberlands, a Biography of a Depressed Area. Caudill, Harry M. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963. HC107.K4C3

Old Time Religion in the Southern Appalachians. Morgan, Larry G. Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers, 2005
BR 555 .N782 M236 2005.

Red, White, Black and Blue: a Dual Memoir of Race and Class in Appalachia. Drennen, William M., Jones, William T. (Kojo), edited by Dolores M. Johnson. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004 F294 .C4 D74 2004

Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley. Gaventa, John. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980. HC107.A127G38

Shared Power: a Study of Four Federal Funding Systems in Appalachia. Pascale, Richard T. and Barbour, George P. Washington: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1977. HJ277 .P37

Tick Ridge Faces the South. Danny Fulks. Ashland, KY: Mountain Press, 2006. F106 .F85 2006

To Move a Mountain: Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia. Weinbaum, Eva S. New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2004. HD5708.55 .U62 A558 2004

Urban Appalachians/Appalachian Migration

From Mountain to Metropolis: Appalachian Migrants in American Cities. Borman, Kathryn M. and Obermiller, Phillip J. Westport, Conn.: Bergin & Garvey, 1994. F217 .A65F76 1994

Appalachian Migrants in Urban America: Cultural Conflict Or Ethnic Group Formation? Philliber, William W. New York, N.Y.: Praeger Publishers, 1981. F499 .C59M836

Appalachians: The Silent Minority.  {videorecording} Dayton, OH: Greater Dayton Public Television, 1996. F210 .A661 1996

Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago. Gitlin, Todd and Hollander, Nanci. New York: Harper & Row,  1970. HV4046 .C36G52

Valuing our Past, Creating our Future: the Founding of the Urban Appalachian Council. Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller. Berea, KY: Berea College Press, 1999. HV4046.C38W34 1999

Selected Websites on Appalachian Studies

Appalachian Studies Association

Resources for teaching and learning Appalachian studies, syllabi, K-12 educational resources, bibliographies and more.

Digital Library of Appalachia

Online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The contents of the DLA are drawn from special collections of Appalachian College Association member libraries.

Appalachian Studies Bibliography - from West Virginia University

An extensive list of resources arranged by subject.

Appalachian Treasures Gateway - Ohio University Zanesville Library

A subject arrangement of websites related to Appalachian Studies. Also includes a bibliography

updated 6 October 2008