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A Place Remote : StoriesAuthor: Gwen GoodkinPublisher: West Virginia University PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2020Number of Pages: 180 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

History at the intersection of healthcare, labor, and civil rights. The union of hospital workers usually referred to as the 1199 sits at the intersection of three of the most important topics in US...

In 1990, the New York Times wrote, "Government corruption was not invented in West Virginia. But there are people who contend that West Virginia officials have done more than their share over the...

Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields. This collection brings together nearly three decades of research on the African American experience,...

Author: Sadie HoaglandPublisher: West Virginia University PressPublication Date: October 02, 2019Number of Pages: 168 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1949199215ISBN-13: 9781949199215

A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture--and with old, weird America. At the heart of American Vaudeville is one strange, unsettling fact: for nearly fifty years, from...

n this paperback edition of An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression, Jerry Bruce Thomas examines the economic and social conditions of the state of West Virginia before,...

An Appalachian Reawakening: West Virginia and the Perils of the New Machine Age, 1945-1972 recounts the difficulties the state of West Virginia faced during the post-World War II period.Author: Jerry...

Appalachia North: A MemoirAuthor: Matthew FerrencePublisher: West Virginia University PressPublication Date: Feb 11, 2019Number of Pages: 296 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Beowulf and the Grendel-Kin: Politics and Poetry in Eleventh-Century EnglandAuthor: Helen DamicoPublisher: West Virginia University PressPublication Date: Dec 19, 2014Number of Pages: 215...

Coal is West Virginia's bread and butter. For more than a century, West Virginia has answered the energy call of the nation--and the world--by mining and exporting its coal. In 2004, West Virginia's...

The essays in this book use the nine-line poem known as C dmon's Hymn as a lens on the world of Bede's Ecclesiastical History.Author: Allen J. FrantzenPublisher: West Virginia University...

At the turn of the 20th century, the California dream was a suburban ideal where life on the farm was exceptional. Agrarian virtue existed alongside good roads, social clubs, cultural institutions,...

A newly discovered nineteenth-century novel about West Virginia breaking away from Virginia, set amid the cannel coal boom and featuring an interracial abolitionist movement. Based mostly on his own...

One of the first book-length considerations of the Appalachian writer Robert Morgan. One of the first book-length studies of Robert Morgan, Community across Time considers the Appalachian writer's...

Community Effects of Leadership Development EducationAuthor: Kenneth PiggPublisher: West Virginia University PressPublication Date: May 15, 2015Number of Pages: 240 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Community Effects of Leadership Development Education: Citizen Empowerment for Civic EngagementAuthor: Kenneth PiggPublisher: West Virginia University PressPublication Date: Feb 01, 2015Number of...

Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy ReuterAuthor: Sarah Larratt KeeferPublisher: West Virginia University PressPublication Date: May 01, 2010Number of...

Culture, Class, and Politics in Modern Appalachia: Essays in Honor of Ronald L. LewisAuthor: Jennifer EgolfPublisher: West Virginia University PressPublication Date: Mar 23, 2009Number of Pages: 384...

Compelling, candid, and sometimes violent stories drawn from oral history frame the American lumberjack at the intersection of labor and environment.Author: Jason L NewtonPublisher: West Virginia...

Defending the Homeland: Historical Perspectives on Radicalism, Terrorism, and State ResponsesAuthor: Melinda HicksPublisher: West Virginia University PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2007Number of...

In this third edition of East Africa: An Introductory History, Robert M. Maxon revisits the diverse eastern region of Africa, including the modern nations of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.Author:...

A more-than-human approach to planetary survival, from a leading environmental humanist. Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene is a tour de force. With transdisciplinarity and theoretical...

An indigent queer sculptor details the culmination and dissolution of her chosen family of artists, bohemians, and libertines in an American city engulfed in civil conflict--Author: Douglas W...

Essays on the History of Transportation and TechnologyAuthor: Emory L. KempPublisher: West Virginia University PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2014Number of Pages: 432 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

Memoir about ballet and illness from a creative writing teacher whose career as a ballerina was stopped by rheumatoid arthritis. Ren?e Nicholson's professional training in ballet had both moments of...

One of the first new interpretations of West Virginia's origins in over a century--and one that corrects previous histories' tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state's founding. Every...

Folk-Songs of the South: Collected Under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society is a collection of ballads and folk-songs from West Virginia. First published in 1925, this resource...

"Part mystery, part fable but all original, Jim Foote is sure to be one of your favorite literary detectives--cryptid or otherwise." --Jordan Farmer, author of The Poison Flood and The Pallbearer In...

In a series of columns published in the African American newspaper The Christian Recorder, the young, charismatic preacher Henry McNeal Turner described his experience of the Civil War, first from...