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Black Swans And Safety Nets: Food Aid, Dispersal, And Eugenics In Corbin Hollow, Glenn Davis Stone, Richard K. Robinson

Southern Anthropologist

No abstract provided.

Robert S. Frasure Murder Trails Collection, 1915-2017, Robert Silas Frasure

Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections

No abstract provided.

Charity Begins At Home: A Case Study Of Rural Western Pennsylvania During The Great Depression, Jacob A. Battle, Colin J. Wood, Christian E. Mumpower

Bound Away: The Liberty Journal of History

Rural Pennsylvania is often neglected when discussing the world-shaping events of the Great Depression. This study addresses a significant gap in historical research by exploring how a small-town in Pennsylvania, New Bethlehem, survived and even thrived during the Great Depression. New Bethlehem, situated in the fertile Redbank Valley, built its settlement on local resources and rural communalism. During the Depression, the townsfolk banded together through wealthy philanthropy, backyard gardens, and homegrown charity to withstand the crippling implications of the event. By examining church records, newspaper archives, and conducting oral interviews, this article reveals the resilience and resourcefulness of rural Pennsylvanian …

Carter County Veterans, Rhonda Sparks P'Simer, Kaitlyn P'Simer

County Histories of Kentucky

Veterans in the Sparks, Tackett, Roak, and P'Simer families in Carter County, Kentucky.

P'Simer Genealogy, Kaitlyn P'Simer

Carter County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the P'Simer family in Carter County, Kentucky.

Stamper, James W. - Volume 1, Carter County Genealogical Society, Gladys Stamper Meyers

Carter County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the James W. and Sarah (Moore) Stamper family in Carter County, Kentucky.

Stamper, James W. - Volume 2, Carter County Genealogical Society, Betty Stamper Wellman

Carter County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the James W. and Sarah (Moore) Stamper family in Carter County, Kentucky.

James is the father of William 'Tater Bill' and John R. 'Pewter John' Stamper.

Stamper, James W. - Volume 3, Carter County Genealogical Society, Betty Stamper Wellman

Carter County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the James W. and Sarah (Moore) Stamper family in Carter County, Kentucky.

James is the father of William 'Tater Bill' and John R. 'Pewter John' Stamper.

Stamper, James W. - Volume 4, Carter County Genealogical Society, Olive Stamper, Howard Pollitt

Carter County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the James W. and Sarah (Moore) Stamper family in Carter County, Kentucky.

James is the father of William 'Tater Bill' and John R. 'Pewter John' Stamper

Stamper, Thomas Jefferson - Volume 2, Carter County Genealogical Society, Betty Stamper Wellman

Carter County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of Thomas Jefferson Stamper Sr. family in Carter County, Kentucky.

Thomas is the eighth child of John R. 'Pewter John' and Sarah 'Sallie' Stamper

Gee Marriages, Carter County Genealogical Society

Carter County Genealogy Collection

A collection of marriages regarding the Gee family in Carter County, Kentucky.

Stamper, Thomas Jefferson - Volume 1, Carter County Genealogical Society, Betty Stamper Wellman

Carter County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of Thomas Jefferson Stamper Sr. family in Carter County, Kentucky.

Thomas is the eighth child of John R. 'Pewter John' and Sarah 'Sallie' Stamper

This Is A War: The 1977-78 Coal Strike And The Fracturing Of The Postwar Social Compact, Christian B. Rowe

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The 1977–78 coal strike was a landmark moment for the American labor movement. Despite holding out for 110 days with no pay or benefits through a historically severe winter, miners were unable to advance their demands and achieve a progressive contract. By invoking the Taft–Hartley Act to end the strike, Jimmy Carter destabilized the New Deal political coalition by enraging one of its core constituencies and placing the needs of the state over the needs of unionized industrial workers. The BCOA’s immovable position in negotiations was an early sign that the labor-management accord that had governed industrial relations since World …

Workable Seams, Jackson Mills Smith

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

In Jackson Mills Smith’s Workable Seams, readers encounter the stories, landscapes, and lives of rural Knox County, Indiana, from the oscillating vantage of a Hoosier boy raised with a Cajun sensibility. After relocating from Louisiana to the river bottoms of the crossroad state at a young age, the speaker gradually uncovers a local history only previously understood in fragmentary shards and fading glimpses.

Alternating between semi-lyrical embodied experiences and memories, documentary pieces in conversation with the state’s historical archive, and the retelling of exaggerated local yarns, poetry is a means of inquiry in Workable Seams. Topics range from …

Maps And Oversized Photographs Collection, 1901-1993, University Library

Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections

No abstract provided.

Morgan County - W. Lynn Nickell Collection Inventory & Finding Aid, Dieter C. Ullrich

County Histories of Kentucky

An Inventory & Finding Aid for the W. Lynn Nickell Collection housed at the Morgan County Public Library in West Liberty, Kentucky. For more information on how to access the collection contact [email protected] or call (606) 743-4151.

Land, Labor, And The Railroad In Industrial Appalachia: How The Baltimore And Ohio Railroad Engineered Space, 1843-1872, Lillian R. K. M. Austin

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

During the nineteenth century, the Baltimore and Ohio railroad reshaped the social, political, and physical environment of the mid-Atlantic around the needs of the industrial economy. The creation of industrial space, and the proliferation of communities to populate it, is seen retrospectively as an inevitable consequence of technological innovation, but engaging with contemporary corporate records reveals that this space, like the railroad, was engineered. In order to design a supply chain that would make industrialization economical, the railroad and coal industries engaged in political and social engineering to design the new locales of industrialism, exemplified in the Allegheny Mountains by …

James Still Manuscript Collection, James Still

Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections

No abstract provided.

“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 …

Dean-Creech, Volume 14, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Dean-Creech family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Auxier, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Auxier family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Horton, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Horton family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Patrick, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Patrick family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Oates, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Oates family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Oney, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Oney family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Pratt - Misc., Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Miscellaneous genealogy of the Pratt family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

James - Misc., Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Miscellaneous genealogy of the James family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Hall, David, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the David Hall family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Morgan, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Morgan family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Justice-Thacker, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Justice - Thacker family in Rowan County, Kentucky.