Appalachia

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  8/12/2020
  

  Unearthing New Histories of Black Appalachia (Review)

  by Jillean McCommons

  Tension between Black and white memory of the founding of Liberia, South Carolina drives John M. Coggeshall’s study, which adds significant insight to the history of Black Appalachia.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  6/16/2020
  

  Appalachian Hillsides as Black Ecologies: Housing, Memory, and The Sanctified Hill Disaster of 1972

  by Jillean McCommons

  The Sanctified Hill disaster exposed the vulnerability of Black people to climate events due to a combination of placement and neglect.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/18/2020
  

  You Don't Have to Choose Between Jobs and Safety. Just Ask West Virginia

  We can guarantee economic security and keep every working family safe, paid for by an end to grotesque wealth inequality. Here’s how.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  5/18/2020
  

  ‘Matewan Massacre’ A Century Ago Embodied Miners’ Struggles

  Historian Lou Martin, a board member of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, recounts the oppressive atmosphere in mining towns that led to a violently repressed unionization drive.

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• 5/10/2020
  

  60 Years Ago, West Virginia Helped Make JFK President

  by Robert Rupp

  JFK's diligent campaigning in West Virginian in 1960 overcame the state's suspicion of his Catholic faith and later put Appalachia on the nation's policy agenda.

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• SOURCE: Pacific Standard
  1/16/19
  

  Jessica Wilkerson: If We Forget Appalachia's Radical History, We Will Misunderstand Its Future

  In her new book, Jessica Wilkerson tells the stories of the radical mountain women who fought against bosses and laid the groundwork for ensuing generations of Appalachian resistance.

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• SOURCE: The Activist History Review
  4-25-18
  

  This is what happened when a historian with a rural background wrote favorably about gun control in the Washington Post

  by Nathan Wuertenberg

  He was subjected to anti-Semitic diatribes from people who denied he represented rural America.

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• SOURCE: WSP
  2-12-18
  

  RFK's visit to Appalachia, 50 years later: How Kennedy country became Trump country

  Children of Kennedy Democrats are Trump Republicans. And for those inspired by RFK in 1968, what should be a happy anniversary is instead an occasion to puzzle a drastic reversal of political fortune.

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  2-6-18
  

  The Truth About Appalachia

  A conversation with historian Elizabeth Catte, author of a new book that upends narratives about a region that has been dubbed Trump Country

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1-31-18
  

  Historian Makes Case For "What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia" In New Book

  Historian Elizabeth Catte takes on J.D. Vance's memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."