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Appalachian Studies Guide
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You can browse Rentschler Library's collection of Appalachian materials by clicking the button below. Once in the library's catalog, you can also limit your search by clicking "General Topic" from the left column of the page. This will let you sort your search results by "Social Life & Customs", "Social Conditions", "Economic Conditions", etc.
Selected Websites for Appalachian Studies
Appalachian Studies at Miami University Hamilton: A curriculum dedicated to understanding and sharing the history, culture and continuing influence of Appalachian immigration in our communities and our region.
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.
Folkstreams: Appalachian Library A National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures streamed with essays about the traditions and filmmaking. The site includes transcriptions, study and teaching guides, suggested readings, and links to related websites.
Rentschler Library Appalachian Bibliography
Art & Photography | Appalachian People | Appalachia as Place | Bibliographies | Children's Books | Environment/Ecology | Fiction & Poetry | Folklore/Folklife | History | Memoir/Biography | Social History/Living Conditions | Urban Appalachians & Migration | Documentary Films
A Day Before Yesterday : Appalachia. Photographs by Kenneth Murray. Johnson City, Tenn. : Center For Appalachian Studies and Services, 2008. F217.A65 M87 2008
Hands in Harmony : Traditional Crafts and Music in Appalachia. Barnwell, Tim.; foreword by Jan Davidson. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2009. TR658.5 .B37 2009
Historic Photos of Appalachia / Text and Captions by O’Donnell, Kevin E. Nashville, Tenn. : Turner Pub. Co., 2009. F106 .O26 2009
On Earth's Furrowed Brow: the Appalachian Farm in Photographs. Barnwell, Tim. New York: Norton, 2007. F217.A65B385 2007
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
Coalfield Jews: an Appalachian history. Deborah R. Weiner. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c2006. F250.J5W45 2006
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
Yesterday's People; Life in Contemporary Appalachia. Weller, Jack E. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1965. F210 .W43
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
Bibliographies
The Bibliography of Appalachia: More Than 4,700 Books, Articles, Monographs and Dissertations, Topically Arranged and Indexed. John R. Burch Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. F106 .B87 2009
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
Fearless Jack. Adapted and illustrated by Paul Brett Johnson. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2001. PZ8.1.J635 Fe 2001
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
The Appalachians. Brooks, Maurice Graham. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. QH104.5 .A6B7
Coal Country : Rising Up Against Mountaintop Removal Mining. Stewart Burns, Shirley; Evans, Mari-Lynn, and Silas House (eds.). San Francisco : Sierra Club Books ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2009. TD195.C58 C614 2009
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
Mountain Nature : a Seasonal Natural History of the Southern Appalachian. Frick-Ruppert, Jennifer. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010. QH104.5.A6 F75 2010
The new road : I-26 and the Footprint of Progress in Appalachia. Amberg, Rob. Chicago: Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago. F217.B6 A43 2009
Something’s Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountain Top Removal. Silas House. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. TD195.C58 H68 2009
The Tectonics of the Appalachians. Rodgers, John. New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1970. QE78.3 .R63
Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains & Piedmont : a Naturalist's Guide to the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, & Georgia. Spira, Timothy Spira. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011 QK122.3 .S65 2011
Appalachian Patterns. Ball, Bo. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. PS3552 .A4544A87 2002
Bastard out of Carolina. Allison, Dorothy. New York, N.Y: Plume, 2005. PS3551.L453 B37 2005
Black Mountain Breakdown. Lee Smith. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996. PS3569.M5376 B5 1996
Catalooche: A Novel. Wayne Caldwell. New York: Random House, 2008. PS3603.A438 C38 2008
Clay’s Quilt. Silas House. New York: Ballantine Books, 2002. PS3558.O8659 C58 2002
The Coal Tattoo: A Novel. House, Silas. New York : Ballantine Books, 2005. PS3558.O8659 C63 2005
Fair and Tender Ladies. Lee Smith. Ballantine reader's circle. New York: Ballantine, 2003. PS3569.M5376 F28 2003
Gap Creek: A Novel. Robert Morgan. New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 2000. PS3563.O87147 G36 2000b
Ghost Stories of the Appalachians. Susan Smitten. [Edmonton]: Lone Pine Pub. International, 2009. GR580 .S676 2009
Icy Sparks. Rubio, Gwyn Hyman. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books, 1999. PS3568 .U295I25 1999
Kinfolks: the Wilgus Stories. Norman, Gurney. Frankfort, Ky. : Gnomon, 1977. PS3564.O57 K55 1977
Nancy Culpepper: Stories. Mason, Bobbie Ann. New York: Random House, 2006. PS3563 .A7877 N36 2006.
Night Singer: The Collected Poems of Frank D. Moore. Cincinnati, Ohio: Little Miami Press, 2008. PS3563.O24387 N54 2008
Oral History: A Novel. Lee Smith. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003. PS3569.M5376 O7 2003
A Parchment of Leaves: House, Silas. New York : Ballantine Books, 2003. PS3558.O8659 P37 2003b
Prodigal Summer: A Novel. Kingsolver, Barbara. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. PS3561 .I496P76 2000
Trail of the Lonesome Pine. Fox, Jr. John. Champaign, IL : Book Jungle, 2008. PS1702 .T7 2008.
Appalachian Christmas Stories. Gifford, James M., Nance, Owen B. and Hall, Patricia A. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1997. PS554 .A67 1997
Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions. Smith, Ralph Lee. Lanham, Md. ; London : Scarecrow, 2002. ML1015.A6S63 2002.
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
Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia. Cavender, Anthony P. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. GR108.15.C38 2003
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
Highland Handcrafters : Appalachian Craftspeople. Joslin, Michael. Boone, N.C. : Parkway Publishers, 2005. TT23.2 .J67 2005
Mountain Mysteries : Investigating the Mystic Traditions of Appalachia. Thacker Jr., Larry D. Johnson City, Tenn. : Overmountain Press, 2007. GR108.15 .T43 2007
A People and their Quilts. Irwin, John Rice. Exton, Pa. : Schiffer Pub., 1984. NK9112 .I79 1984
Signs, Cures & Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore. Milnes, Gerald. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. GR111 .G47 M55 2007
Southern Mountain Speech. Williams, Cratis D. edited with an introduction & glossary by Jim Wayne Miller & Loyal Jones. Berea, KY : Berea College Press, 1992. PE2970.A6 W55 1992.
Witches, Ghosts, and Signs : Folklore of the Southern Appalachians. Gainer, Patrick. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2008. GR110.W4 W57 2008
Appalachia: A History. Williams, John Alexander. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. F106 .W68 2002
Appalachia in the Sixties: Decade of Reawakening. Walls, David S., and Stephenson, John B. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1972. HC 107 .A13 W35
The Appalachian frontier: America's first surge westward. John Anthony Caruso. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. F396.C32 2003
Appalachians All : East Tennesseans and the Elusive History of an American region. Banker, Mark T.. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2010. F442.1 .B365 2010
A History of Appalachia Richard B. Drake. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. F106.D73 2001
Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Abramson, Rudy and Haskell, Jean. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Reference F106 .E53 2006
An Oral History of Southern Appalachia. Laurence French. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. F217.A65 F74 2008
Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South. Inscoe, John C. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2009, c2008 F217.A65 I57 2009
Reconstructing Appalachia : the Civil War's Aftermath. Slap, Andrew L. (ed.) ; introduction by Gordon B. McKinney. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2010. F217.A65 R43 2010.
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
Uneven Ground: Appalachia Since 1945. Ron Eller. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. HN79.A127 E55 2008
United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America. Jeff Biggers. F217 .A65 B54 2006
Appalachia: As I Remember it. Smith, Arnold R. Tuscon, Ariz.: Hats Off Books, 2001. PS3569 .M46A67 2001
Appalachia and Beyond: Conversations with Writers from the Mountain South, Lang, John (ed.) Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2006. PS286.A6 A59 2006
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
Face Boss : the Memoir of a Western Kentucky Coal Miner. Guillerman, Michael D. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2009. HD8039.M62 U6266 2009
Gathering up Memories: a Collection of Appalachian Stories. Cooper, Ann Goode. Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers, 2003. F232.S3C66 2003
The Good Old Days : Surviving Appalachia. Baker, Andy. Pittsburgh, Penn. : Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. ; 2004. F457.O98 B25 2004
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.
This Holler is My Home. Bragg, Alyce Faye. Charleston, W.V.: Mountain State Press, 1993. CT275 .B59446 A3 1993.
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
The Battle of Blair Mountain : the Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising. Shogan, Robert. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2004. HD5325.M615 S49 2004
Christianity in Appalachia: Profiles in Regional Pluralism. Bill Leonard. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. BR535.C45 1999
Culture, Class, and Politics in Modern Appalachia : Essays in honor of Ronald L. Lewis. Egolf, Jennifer; Fones-Wolfk, Ken and Louis C. Martin (eds.). Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2009. HD9547.A127 C85 2009
Daughters of the Mountain: Women Coal Miners in Central Appalachia, Tallichet, Suzanne. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. HD6073 .M62 U68 2006
A Darkness at Dawn : Appalachian Kentucky and the Future. Caudill, Harry M. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2009, 1976. HC107.K4 C27 2009
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
How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia. Katherine Vande Brake Macon, Ga: Mercer University Press, 2001. PS286.A6 V36 2001
Mountain Sisters : From Convent to Community in Appalachia. Lewis, Helen M.; Appleby, Monica.; foreword by Rosemary Radford Ruether. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2003. BV4420 .L48 2003
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 2001
Old Time Religion in the Southern Appalachians. Morgan, Larry G. Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers, 2005
BR 555 .N782 M236 2005.
Participatory Development in Appalachia : Cultural Identity, Community, and Sustainability. Keefe, Susan E. (ed.) Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2009. HN49.C6 P3684 2009
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
Something's rising: Appalachians fighting mountaintop removal. House, Sials and Howard, Jason. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, c2009. TD195.C58H68 2009
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
Uplifting the South: Mary Mildred Sullivan's Legacy for Appalachia. Wilson, Kathleen Curtis. Johnson City, Tenn: Overmountain Press. 2006. HV28.S855 W45 2006
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
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
Appalachians: The Silent Minority. Dayton, OH: Greater Dayton Public Television, 1996. F210 .A661 1996
Appalachia: a history of mountains and People. a film series by Jamie Ross, Ross Spears, Paul Wagner, et al. 4 DVDs. Riverdale, MD: Agee Films, 2009. F217.A65R67 2009
Coal Black voices : a documentary. Covington, Ky : Media Working Group, 2001. PS591.N4 .C63 2001.
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
Mountain Shadow: Four Appalachian Artists. Weil, Dorothy, Goetzman, Jane, Sletten, Greg, et al. Cincinnati, Ohio: TV Image, 1997. {audiovisual} F217 .A65 M66 1997
The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia. produced by Nick de Pencier and Jennifer Baichwal ; directed by Jennifer Baichwal. New York: Docurama: Distributed by New Video Group, 2003 F217.A65 T78 2003.
