Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Institution
-
- Morehead State University (4982)
- Marshall University (36)
- East Tennessee State University (7)
- Western Kentucky University (7)
- West Virginia University (6)
-
- Olivet Nazarene University (4)
- James Madison University (2)
- Liberty University (2)
- SelectedWorks (2)
- University of Kentucky (2)
- Wofford College (2)
- Abilene Christian University (1)
- Dominican University of California (1)
- Gettysburg College (1)
- Hollins University (1)
- Kennesaw State University (1)
- Maurer School of Law: Indiana University (1)
- Mississippi State University (1)
- Selected Works (1)
- The University of Akron (1)
- The University of Southern Mississippi (1)
- University of Louisville (1)
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (1)
- Yale University (1)
- Keyword
-
- Appalachia (20)
- West Virginia (18)
- Civil War (10)
- WV (6)
- World War I (6)
-
- Family history (5)
- Farming (5)
- Huntington (5)
- Depression life (4)
- Education (4)
- Kentucky (4)
- Slavery (4)
- Class (3)
- DAR (3)
- Food preservation (3)
- Food preservation and preparation (3)
- Funerals and burials (3)
- North Carolina (3)
- Railroads (3)
- WWI (3)
- Women (3)
- 1918 influenza epidemic (2)
- Akron offering (2)
- American history (2)
- American literary history (2)
- American literature (2)
- Country living (2)
- Farm life (2)
- Folk music (2)
- Food preparation (2)
- Publication Year
- Publication
-
- Rowan County News Archive (1488)
- Magyar Banyaszlap Archive, 1913-1928 (760)
- Rowan County War Collection (529)
- Morehead Independent Archive (497)
- County Histories of Kentucky (356)
-
- Paintsville Herald Archive (230)
- Morehead First Christian Church Records Archive (192)
- Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection (160)
- Kentucky Flag Archive (145)
- The Independent Archive (133)
- Olive Hill Times Archive (120)
- James Still World War II Collection (117)
- Flemingsburg Democrat Archive (88)
- Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections (67)
- The Progressive Archive (64)
- Guides to Manuscript Collections (18)
- Vintage Fiddlers Oral History Project Collection (14)
- 0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection (11)
- Menefee Meteor Archive (11)
- Ewing Inquirer Archive (7)
- Theses, Dissertations and Capstones (7)
- Electronic Theses and Dissertations (6)
- Faculty Emeriti Scholarship (4)
- Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (3)
- Undergraduate Honors Theses (3)
- Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection (2)
- History Faculty Publications (2)
- Lydia F. Knight (2)
- Olive Hill Dispatch Archive (2)
- Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019 (2)
- Publication Type
Articles 1 - 30 of 5065
Full-Text Articles in United States History
“They Can’T Just Stamp Out This Faith”: Cold War Anti-Communism And International Evangelism At The Appalachian Preaching Mission, Braden Lay
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The Appalachian Preaching Missions (1955-1981) occurred annually in Northeast Tennessee, with their predecessor, the Bristol Preaching Mission, dating back to at least 1949. Local churches, primarily Protestant, organized and convened these annual ecumenical gatherings. Nationally known clergy and laypeople from various denominations spoke, with up to several thousand congregants attending each mission. These individuals provided sermons and speeches on spiritual, domestic, and international issues. Among the most consistently repeated sermon themes was Christianity’s spiritual conflict with atheistic communism. This work addresses the missions’ origins and how the speakers spoke on international Christian missions in decolonized or developing nations as threatened …
Lloyd Dean Collection, Lloyd Dean
Lloyd Dean Collection, Lloyd Dean
Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections
No abstract provided.
Morris Family Collection, Fenton Lee Morris, Margaret Sue Cornette Morris
Morris Family Collection, Fenton Lee Morris, Margaret Sue Cornette Morris
Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections
No abstract provided.
Review-Fishing For Chickens: A Smokies Food Memoir, Blake Denton
Review-Fishing For Chickens: A Smokies Food Memoir, Blake Denton
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Morehead First Christian Church Collection, Morehead First Christian Church, Morehead Christian Women's Fellowship
Morehead First Christian Church Collection, Morehead First Christian Church, Morehead Christian Women's Fellowship
Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections
No abstract provided.
Poverty, Flooding & Grassroots Organizing: An Analysis Of The War On Poverty & The 1977 Flood In Central Appalachia, Brooklyn Lile
Poverty, Flooding & Grassroots Organizing: An Analysis Of The War On Poverty & The 1977 Flood In Central Appalachia, Brooklyn Lile
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
There is a long history of environmental exploitation and disastrous flooding in Central Appalachia. The region has long been plagued by exploitative practices such as strip mining and mountaintop removal which have stripped vegetation from land, leading to more disastrous floods and more frequent floods. With repeated floods comes a vicious cycle of substantial damage and destruction, as well as inadequate time and resources for full recovery before the next flood strikes. Consequently, floods and poverty have been cyclical, interlinked, and inseparable. Thus, this paper explores the relationship between poverty, flooding, and relief by analyzing the connections between the War …
Morehead Area Habitat For Humanity Records, 1990-2012, Morehead Area Habitat For Humanity (Morehead, Ky.)
Morehead Area Habitat For Humanity Records, 1990-2012, Morehead Area Habitat For Humanity (Morehead, Ky.)
Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections
No abstract provided.
Bibliography, Anthony Harkins
Bibliography, Anthony Harkins
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Bibliography of publications by Anthony Harkins.
John C. C. Mayo Research Collection, Carolyn Hay Traum
John C. C. Mayo Research Collection, Carolyn Hay Traum
Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections
MS081-2022
"Cry Aloud And Spare Not": William G. Brownlow, The "Fighting Parson" And His Cantankerous Spirit, Melanie Storie
"Cry Aloud And Spare Not": William G. Brownlow, The "Fighting Parson" And His Cantankerous Spirit, Melanie Storie
Bound Away: The Liberty Journal of History
Best known as the “Fighting Parson,” William G. Brownlow earned his sobriquet during his years as an early 19th century, circuit-riding Methodist preacher in the southern Appalachians. E. Merton Coulter, renowned historian and Brownlow biographer, explained the “frontier man of God was a hard rider, a hard preacher, and a hard liver.” Thus, Brownlow learned very quickly how antagonizing his rivals served as a powerful tool in the contest of soul-winning on the frontier. This practice of verbally attacking his enemies was also used during his long public career in both journalism and politics. Consequently, for Brownlow, religion and …
Morehead State College Negatives, 1948-1959, Art Stewart
Morehead State College Negatives, 1948-1959, Art Stewart
Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections
No abstract provided.
“Infantry Would Not Do:” Appalachia, The Environment, And The Evolution Of Mountain Warfare During The American Civil War, Lucas Michael Wilder
“Infantry Would Not Do:” Appalachia, The Environment, And The Evolution Of Mountain Warfare During The American Civil War, Lucas Michael Wilder
Theses and Dissertations
Union General Ambrose E. Burnside launched his invasion of East Tennessee in the summer of 1863. The corps he used consisted of half-infantry and half-mounted units to utilize their speed to overcome mountain obstacles. The successful campaign and the capture of the agriculturally rich region of East Tennessee and its vital East Tennessee & Virginia Railroad deprived the Confederacy of resources, ultimately contributing to Confederate defeat. The American Civil War saw commanders plunge into the mountains of Appalachia and encounter a terrain and a people with which many were unacquainted. This dissertation argues that their tactics and strategies for dealing …
Jesse Stuart Manuscript Collection, Jesse Hilton Stuart
Jesse Stuart Manuscript Collection, Jesse Hilton Stuart
Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections
MS077-1991
Coal, Land, And Ideology: Inventions Of Appalachia In The Mind Of The American Ruling Class, Zachary Harris
Coal, Land, And Ideology: Inventions Of Appalachia In The Mind Of The American Ruling Class, Zachary Harris
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Appalachia, itself a difficult to resolutely define region, has undergone the economic forces of colonialism and industrializing capitalism which allow for an excellent case study to apply Gramsci’s theory of cultural hegemony. No American region’s national conception is likely to have been as varied and often misrepresented as that of Appalachia. From the Revolutionary American State’s invention of early white settlers as the virtuous yeoman of the Republic to the modern perception of Appalachia as backwards, conservative, and drug-addled, shifting national economic conditions resulted in a constant invention of Appalachia in congruence. Whenever the people residing in Appalachia, whether Black, …
Black Hillbilly: An Exploration Of The Black Erasure From The Appalachian Historical Narrative, Suzanne S A Blunk
Black Hillbilly: An Exploration Of The Black Erasure From The Appalachian Historical Narrative, Suzanne S A Blunk
Master of Arts in Humanities | Master's Theses 1936 - 2022
In 1915 two Black businessmen, Archie McKinney and Matthew Buster, secured the purchase and operation of Eagle Coal Company Inc. in Montgomery, West Virginia. A Black-owned coal company operated and existed in southwestern West Virginia. Eagle Coal has all but disappeared, even from historical memory. What exactly happened to this coal company remains very much a mystery and is a poignant image that represents the mystery that surrounds the Black experience in Appalachia. In the face of “social injustice, racial violence, disfranchisement, and the intensification of the segregationist system,” Black Americans set out from the South in search of better …
"The Bottom Would Drop Out Of Everything": A Brief History Of The Battle For Blair Mountain, Brandon Neely
"The Bottom Would Drop Out Of Everything": A Brief History Of The Battle For Blair Mountain, Brandon Neely
Student Publications
In the summer of 1921, thousands of Appalachian miners took up arms and marched in southwest West Virginia. Fighting back against attacks on miners' unions like the United Mine Workers of America, the conflict quickly turned violent. The Battle for Blair Mountain, as it came to be known, was one of the largest labor strikes in American history and impacted the history of the Coal Wars and the United States for decades to come. This analysis uses interviews with people who experienced the battle as well as the speeches of labor leaders Samuel Gompers and John Lewis to discuss the …
Photographic Slides Of Appalachia, Appalachian Museum. Berea College.
Photographic Slides Of Appalachia, Appalachian Museum. Berea College.
Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections
No abstract provided.
Progress In The Bluegrass: An Analysis Of Grassroots Organizing In Kentucky Post 1970, Brooklyn Lile
Progress In The Bluegrass: An Analysis Of Grassroots Organizing In Kentucky Post 1970, Brooklyn Lile
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
While historians and other scholars have explored grassroots organizing in Kentucky, most historiography on this topic is limited to the 1930s through 1970s and focused on coal, labor, and the Civil Rights Movement. This paper fills a gap within the historiography by extending the discussion of grassroots organizing in Kentucky past the 1970s. Through the examination of organizational documents, membership newsletters, and oral histories, this paper explores the transformation of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth (KFTC) from 1981 to 2020. KFTC began as a small Eastern Kentucky organization focused predominantly on fair taxing practices in coal companies. Through efforts to diversify …
"Not Just Whites In Appalachia": The Black Appalachian Commission, Regional Black Power Politics, And The War On Poverty, 1965-1975, Jillean Mccommons
"Not Just Whites In Appalachia": The Black Appalachian Commission, Regional Black Power Politics, And The War On Poverty, 1965-1975, Jillean Mccommons
Theses and Dissertations--History
During the Black Power era of the late 1960s and 1970s, Black activists in Appalachia used the opening of the War on Poverty to wage a regional war against institutional and environmental racism. Through the Black Appalachian Commission, a grassroots organization created in 1969, Black activists worked to expose racism in local and federal policy as the root cause of poverty for Black Appalachians, who they argued were the poorest in the region. Their outward self-definition as Black and Appalachian was a political strategy to garner power over resources earmarked for Appalachians. The term “Black Appalachian'' was more than a …
The Vanishing Frontier: Economic And Social Change In Western North Carolina, 1945-1970, Elisabeth Avery Moore
The Vanishing Frontier: Economic And Social Change In Western North Carolina, 1945-1970, Elisabeth Avery Moore
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
This dissertation works to integrate the growth of regional tourism into the existing historiography of economic development in Appalachia and the postwar American South. Regional leaders introduced an economic transition throughout western North Carolina that emphasized the growth of regional tourism. By centering this study on the growth of regional tourism, this research also analyzes regional boosters’ efforts to manufacture and commodify a racialized and classed folk culture within the region for tourist consumption. In the late nineteenth century, journalists and folklorists had emphasized the deviance of mountain life and simultaneously romanticized the area as a land of rugged, white …
All Roads Lead To Darrington: Building A Bluegrass Community In Western Washington, James W. Edgar
All Roads Lead To Darrington: Building A Bluegrass Community In Western Washington, James W. Edgar
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Through the mid-twentieth century, a significant pattern of migration occurred between Appalachia and the Pacific Northwest, with Washington’s thriving timber industry offering compelling economic opportunities. Many workers and families from western North Carolina settled in the small mountain town of Darrington, Washington, frequently accompanied by their banjos and guitars. As a group of young bluegrass enthusiasts from Seattle established relationships with Darrington’s “Tar Heel” musicians, a collaborative music community formed, laying the foundation for the region’s contemporary bluegrass scene.
Drawn from a series of ethnographic interviews, this project illuminates the development of a bluegrass community in western Washington, while identifying …
Kemper Family Papers, Kemper Family.
Kemper Family Papers, Kemper Family.
Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections
No abstract provided.
"Our Women Are Made Of The Right Stuff": Gender, Politics, And Conflict In Civil War West Virginia, Amanda Romain Shaver
"Our Women Are Made Of The Right Stuff": Gender, Politics, And Conflict In Civil War West Virginia, Amanda Romain Shaver
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
“’Our Women Are Made of the Right Stuff:’ Gender, Politics, and Conflict in Civil War West Virginia” examines the lives and contributions of white West Virginia women and argues that they were not merely victims of the war, but dynamic participants whose opinions were influential and whose actions determined the ability of both the Union and Confederate armies to wage war in Appalachia. Striking a balance between the antebellum standards of “True Womanhood” and the emerging ideals of the women’s rights movement, West Virginia women became politically engaged in both the statehood movement and the Civil War. They transformed their …
“A Constant Reminder To All”: Remembering Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson In West Virginia, Steven Cody Straley
“A Constant Reminder To All”: Remembering Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson In West Virginia, Steven Cody Straley
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
This thesis argues that Confederate heritage groups leading the Lost Cause Movement in West Virginia promoted Stonewall Jackson, through tactics such as ceremonies, publications, and monuments, to the point where his appeal expanded beyond that of former Confederates and their descendants. During the late 1800s, Confederate supporters in the state formed branches of Confederate heritage organizations and espoused a Lost Cause narrative with Stonewall Jackson as its figurehead. In doing so, they accomplished two things: to integrate the seemingly proUnion West Virginia into Confederate memory, and to gain acceptance of Confederates as full members of West Virginia society. Jackson’s advocates …
0865: Mccomas Family Letters, 1906 – 1930s, Marshall University Special Collections
0865: Mccomas Family Letters, 1906 – 1930s, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
The collection consists of eight folders of correspondence between various family members of the McComas family between 1906 – 1930s. The McComas family consists of Mr. and Mrs. George J. McComas, and their son, B.C. “Curtis” McComas, and daughter, Margaret McComas. The majority of the folders contain correspondence from Curtis McComas detailing his experiences in France and Germany during the First World War. Other soldiers, including Curtis and Margaret’s cousin, Henry, also sent letters to Margaret detailing their experiences or thanks for gifts provided to the war front. The rest of the collection include letters received during Margaret’s stay in …
Doctors, Miners, And Black Lung: A Transatlantic Comparison Of Organized Medicine's Role In The Fight For Black Lung Recognition In West Virginia And Wales, Mollie M. Cecil Md
Doctors, Miners, And Black Lung: A Transatlantic Comparison Of Organized Medicine's Role In The Fight For Black Lung Recognition In West Virginia And Wales, Mollie M. Cecil Md
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
Black lung disease is a crippling occupational lung disease experienced by coal miners throughout the world. However, this disease was not always recognized by the medical profession and required significant efforts on the part of miners’ unions to force mainstream recognition. The historiography on the subject is limited, especially with respect to the relationship between organized medicine and organized labor. This work further explores this relationship, particularly how this relationship differed between the parties in Wales and in West Virginia. In doing so, it portrays a more detailed picture of the fight for black lung recognition as well as highlights …
John C. Campbell Folk School - Brasstown, North Carolina (Fa 1377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
John C. Campbell Folk School - Brasstown, North Carolina (Fa 1377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 1377. Research materials for a history of the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina, compiled by Dr. James M. Gifford.
Mallie Cody Turner Collection, Mallie Cody Turner, Lawrence Carr Turner
Mallie Cody Turner Collection, Mallie Cody Turner, Lawrence Carr Turner
Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections
No abstract provided.
A Forgotten Shade Of Blue: Support For The Union And The Constitutional Republic In Southeastern Kentucky During The Civil War Era., Howard Muncy
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis analyzes Southeastern Kentucky’s political and military support for the Union during the Civil War era. In the decades prior to the 1860 election, Kentucky developed deep social and economic ties with all sections of the country. After the secession winter that followed Abraham Lincoln’s presidential election, the statewide population divided and pockets of significant Confederate sympathies emerged. Kentucky’s southeastern counties aligned with the Union at the outbreak of the Civil War because of a strong national identity and the absence of a large slave population. As the war unfolded, Southeastern Kentuckians played an important role in the disruption …
The Powerful Presence Of Dams In Appalachian Poetry, Zoe Hester
The Powerful Presence Of Dams In Appalachian Poetry, Zoe Hester
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Contemporary Appalachian poetry offers a lens through which we can see the immense impact that the Tennessee Valley Authority has had in Appalachia. In this thesis, I explore the powerful presence of dams in Appalachian poetry by analyzing three poems. Jesse Graves’s “The Road into the Lake” centers on personal and familial loss, Jackson Wheeler’s “The TVA Built a Dam” mourns the loss of communities, and Rose McLarney’s “Imminent Domain” focuses on the ecological destruction that has occurred in Appalachia and around the globe as the result of the construction of TVA dams. Ultimately, all three poems serve as eulogies …