The Ramsey House was built in 1797 for Col. Francis Alexander Ramsey, a prominent early settler of East Tennessee who, along with his two sons J. G. M. Ramsey and William B. A. Ramsey, shaped the phys
Assembles fifteen essays by a multidisciplinary set of scholars and professionals to argue for the development of a cultural model of practice based on respect for local Appalachia knowledge, the valu
It was called “the summer of dynamite.” In 1929, on the eve of the Great Depression, the southern textile belt—from the rayon mills of upper East Tennessee to the bleacheries and weave rooms of the Ca
Zimring explores the significance of men born in what was to become The North but were living what became The South at the outbreak of the US Civil War, and fought for their adopted rather than native
In this innovative work, Julia King moves nimbly among a variety of sources and disciplinary approaches—archaeological, historical, architectural, literary, and art-historical—to show how places tak
In the expansive canon of Civil War memoirs, relatively few accounts from women exist. Among the most engaging and informative of these rare female perspectives is Constance Cary Harrison’s
In This Provocative Work, Cheryl Claassen challenges long-standing notions about hunter-gatherer life in the southern Ohio Valley as it unfolded some 8,000 to 3,500 years ago. Focusing on freshwater
“This book will make a real contribution to the history of McCarthyism, the history of Tennessee, and the history of TVA.” —Russell B. Olwell, At Work in the Atomic City: A Labor and Social History of
In the spring of 1861, young men throughout the Northern states rallied around the Union flag, eager to punish the Confederate renegades who had brazenly inaugurated civil war by firing on Fort Sumter
“Scholars in a number of disciplines (sociology, anthropology, law, Appalachian studies, southern studies Latino studies, labor studies) would find this book useful in both their research and courses.
Marshall Keeble (1878-1968) stands as one of the Church of Christ's most influential and celebrated African American evangelists.? His impact was felt throughout the South and well beyond as he helped
In From the Miners’ Doublehouse, archaeologist Karen Metheny uses an interpretive, contextual approach to examine the physical and cultural landscape of the now-abandoned coal-mining town of Helvetia
Originally published in 1988, Middle Tennessee Society Transformed marks a significant advance in the social history of the American Civil War—an approach exemplified and extended in Ash’s later work
The racial, class, and gender stratification of the American South gave rise to a idealized notion of "civilized" behavior propagated by the white male elites. Examining the examples of the Brotherhoo
Cades CoveThe Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community, 1818-1937Durwood DunnWinner of the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award!Drawing on a rich trove of documents never before available to scholars
" . . . provides valuable information for the specialist in American studies, and for the anthropologist or folklorist focusing on food use, and may also be of interest to the general reading audience
This study of the work of American novelist Cormac McCarthy draws on the newly available complete papers of McCarthy, including drafts, proofs, and editorial correspondence. chronicles his working and
This work details the life, career, and impact of L. W. Diggs (Lemuel Whitley Diggs), a physician who treated sickle cell anemia in a segregated hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, created the South’s fir
Focusing on the moral tale as foremost among the new genres of literature that emerged during the late 18th century, Fleming examines both the narrative conventions of moral tales themselves and the w
With their stirring depictions of a proud people striving for fulfillment in a land of natural beauty and economic hardship, West Virginia authors have produced a body of work that is worthy of study
Sciorra provides a place-centric, ethnographic study of the religious material culture of New York City’s Italian American Catholics. This study was conducted over the course of thirty-five years and
