With the immersion method dominating contemporary language learning, the knowledge of traditional...

Historically we have constructed our classrooms with the assumption that learning is a dry, staid...

Epic and Lovely is the swan song of Nina Simone Blaine, the daughter of a long-dead 1950s Vegas c...

You may have heard it at a football game, in an advertisement, or on the radio on a road trip far...

'How would our lives change,' wondered entrepreneur Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard in 1987, 'if everyday pe...

When a mid-life couple finds an old farm that promises refuge from hectic lives and encroaching i...

Petroforms contributes a much-needed theory of form and genre to the cutting-edge field of petroc...

Before assembling 40 winning campaigns as head coach of the Florida State Seminoles, Bobby Bowden...

Each college campus shooting leaves a record: archival collections, monuments to the dead, govern...

'Tender, fierce, proudly black and beautiful, these stories will sneak inside you and take root.'...

Geeky Pedagogy is a funny, evidence-based, multidisciplinary, pragmatic, highly readable guide to...

The craft of making moonshine--an unaged white whiskey, often made and consumed outside legal par...

Wind energy is often framed as a factor in rural economic development, an element of the emerging...

In the late 1970s, a Jeff Koons art exhibit featured mounted vacuum cleaners lit by fluorescent t...

Essays are by Roger Ray, Faith Wallis, Calvin B. Kendall, George Hardin Brown, Scott DeGregorio, ...

In 1986 Lon Savage published Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21,a popu...

'Keeney delivers a riveting and propulsive story about a nine-year battle to save sacred ground t...

Community leadership development programs are designed to increase the capacity of citizens for c...

Geeky Pedagogy is a funny, evidence-based, multidisciplinary, pragmatic, highly readable guide to...

In one of the first collections of scholarship at the intersection of LGBTQ studies and Appalachi...

Students are reading on screens more than ever--how can we teach them to be better digital reader...

As our economic and natural systems continue on their collision course, Bruce Jennings asks wheth...

MK and Colleen get reacquainted while working at different stores in a bankrupt mall. Way back, t...

This work presents the reader with explanatory commentary that encompasses both the scientific an...

Between 1880 and 1922, the coal fields of southern West Virginia witnessed two bloody and protrac...

This book discusses the considerable influence exerted by Isidore's Etymologiaeon upon the compil...

In Perspectives on the Old Saxon Heliand, Valentine Pakis brings together recent scholarship that...

Mass starvation's causes may seem simple and immediate: crop failure, poverty, outbreaks of viole...

In exploring the ways that Appalachian people speak and write, Amanda E. Hayes raises the importa...

Appointed is a recently recovered novel written by William Anderson and Walter Stowers, two of th...

'West Virginia: A History' is widely considered one of the finest books ever written about the st...

J. McHenry Jones's Hearts of Gold is a gripping tale of post-Civil War battles against racism and...

First published in 1975 and long out of print, Folk Songs from the West Virginia Hills is a major...

Old South, New South, or Down South?: Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement exposes the im...

2019 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award winner

With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its a...

William Hal Gorby's study of Wheeling's Polish community weaves together stories of immigrating, ...

In Heeding the Call,William Jolliff offers the first book-length discussion of West Virginia writ...

Few know the name Anna Jarvis, yet we mail the card, buy the flowers, place the phone call, or ma...

First published in 1973, this debut novel is the deeply moving coming-of-age story of Speer Whitf...

Appalachian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century provides a complete exploration of English in A...

Higher education has seen better days. Harsh budget cuts, the precarious nature of employment in ...

Between 1899 and 1908, five long works of fiction by the Nashville-based black Baptist minister S...

Rebecca Harding Davis is best known for her gritty short story 'Life in the Iron-Mills,' set in h...

This story begins with a phone call out of the blue: a lawyer tells a writer that his ninety-six-...

Matewan Before the Massacre provides the first comprehensive history of the area, beginning in th...

On Petrocultures brings together key essays by Imre Szeman, a leading scholar in the field of ene...

Mountains Piled upon Mountains features nearly fifty writers from across Appalachia sharing their...