Engaging Appalachia

How public history can be a catalyst for stronger relationships between universities and their communities

<p>In one of the first collections of scholarship at the intersection of LGBTQ studies and Appalachian studies, voices from the region's valleys, hollers, mountains, and campuses blend personal stories with scholarly and creative examinations...

<i><b>A critical legal scholar uses feminist and environmental theory to sketch alternate futures for Appalachia.</b></i><p/> Environmental law has failed spectacularly to protect Appalachia from the ravages of liberal capitalism,...

Surveying some two dozen films and the literary and historical sources from which they were adapted, John Inscoe argues that in the American imagination Appalachia has long represented far more than deprived and depraved hillbillies. Rather, the films...