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Book Pine Mountain Settlement School  Pine Mountain  Harlan Co   Kentucky

Download or read book Pine Mountain Settlement School Pine Mountain Harlan Co Kentucky written by Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Pine Mountain Settlement School

Download or read book The History of the Pine Mountain Settlement School written by Pine Mountain Settlement School, Inc. (Pine Mountain, Ky.) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Experiences in Consumer Cooperation at Pine Mountain Settlement School  Pine Mountain  Harlan County  Kentucky

Download or read book Experiences in Consumer Cooperation at Pine Mountain Settlement School Pine Mountain Harlan County Kentucky written by Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Findings of the Pine Mountain Guidance Institute Held at Pine Mountain Settlement School  Pine Mountain  Harlan County  Kentucky  August 20 26  1939

Download or read book Findings of the Pine Mountain Guidance Institute Held at Pine Mountain Settlement School Pine Mountain Harlan County Kentucky August 20 26 1939 written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Challenge and Change in Appalachia

Download or read book Challenge and Change in Appalachia written by Jess Stoddart and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " The first and most successful rural social settlement school in the United States lies at the forks of Troublesome Creek in Knott County, Kentucky. Since its founding in 1902 by May Stone and Katherine Pettit, the Hindman Settlement School has received accolades for the quality of its education, health, and community services that have measurably improved the lives of people in the region. Challenge and Change in Appalachia is the story of a groundbreaking center for education that transformed a community. The School's farms and extension work brought modern methods to the area. At the same time, the School encouraged preservation of the region's crafts and music. Today, unique programs for dyslexic children, work in adult education, and cultural heritage activities make the School a model for rural redevelopment.

Book The History of the Pine Mountain Settlement School

Download or read book The History of the Pine Mountain Settlement School written by Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book They Say in Harlan County

Download or read book They Say in Harlan County written by Alessandro Portelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter.

Book The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

Download or read book The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come written by John Fox and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1993-01-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " This powerful novel is one of the most perceptive tellings of the Civil War experience.

Book The History of the Pine Mountain Settlement School

Download or read book The History of the Pine Mountain Settlement School written by Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pine Mountain Settlement School  Incorporated

Download or read book Pine Mountain Settlement School Incorporated written by Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Searching for Their Places

Download or read book Searching for Their Places written by Thomas H. Appleton and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for Their Places is a collection inspired by the Fifth Southern Conference on Women's History. The essays in this volume are particularly astute in assessing how southern women, in the course of "searching for their places," have individually or collectively sought to empower themselves. The essays, written by outstanding historians in this field, represent some of the freshest and most exciting scholarship about women in the South. They convincingly illustrate how the national experience looks different when southern women become the focus. The essayists use extensive analyses of primary source materials to examine a variety of issues that have confronted women in the South from the days of English colonization through the civil rights struggles of the post-World War II era. The collection is well balanced in its periodization, with one essay on the seventeenth century, four on the antebellum years, one on the Civil War, three on the immediate postbellum era, and four based in the twentieth century. Studying women of different colors, backgrounds, and stations across the region and across four centuries, Searching for Their Places will appeal to historians, the general reader, and anyone interested in women's studies.

Book Days of Darkness

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Pearce
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 1994-11-15
  • ISBN : 9780813118741
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Days of Darkness written by John Pearce and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1994-11-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Among the darkest corners of Kentucky’s past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of Eastern Kentucky from the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth. Now, from the tangled threads of conflicting testimony, John Ed Pearce, Kentucky’s best known journalist, weaves engrossing accounts of six of the most notorior accounts to uncover what really happened and why. His story of those days of darkness brings to light new evidence, questions commonly held beliefs about the feuds, and us and long-running feuds—those in Breathitt, Clay Harlan, Perry, Pike, and Rowan counties. What caused the feuds that left Kentucky with its lingering reputation for violence? Who were the feudists, and what forces—social, political, financial—hurled them at each other? Did Big Jim Howard really kill Governor William Goebel? Did Joe Eversole die trying to protect small mountain landowners from ruthless Eastern mineral exploiters? Did the Hatfield-McCoy fight start over a hog? For years, Pearce has interviewed descendants of feuding families and examined skimpy court records and often fictional newspapeputs to rest some of the more popular legends.

Book South from Hell fer Sartin

Download or read book South from Hell fer Sartin written by Leonard Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our Appalachia

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  • Author : Laurel Shackelford
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2014-10-17
  • ISBN : 0813158249
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Our Appalachia written by Laurel Shackelford and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written about Appalachia, but few have voiced its concerns with the warmth and directness of this one. From hundreds of interviews gathered by the Appalachian Oral History Project, editors Laurel Shackelford and Bill Weinberg have woven a rich verbal tapestry that portrays the people and the region in all their variety. The words on the page have the ring of truth, for these are the people of Appalachia speaking for themselves. Here they recollect an earlier time of isolation but of independence and neighborliness. For a nearer time they tell of the great changes that took place in Appalachia with the growth of coal mining and railroads and the disruption of old ways. Persisting through the years and sounding clearly in the interviews are the dignity of the Appalachian people and their close ties with the land, despite the exploitation and change they have endured. When first published, Our Appalachia was widely praised. This new edition again makes available an authentic source of social history for all those with an interest in the region.

Book A History of Appalachia

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  • Author : Richard B. Drake
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2003-09-01
  • ISBN : 0813137934
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book A History of Appalachia written by Richard B. Drake and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Drake has skillfully woven together the various strands of the Appalachian experience into a sweeping whole. Touching upon folk traditions, health care, the environment, higher education, the role of blacks and women, and much more, Drake offers a compelling social history of a unique American region. The Appalachian region, extending from Alabama in the South up to the Allegheny highlands of Pennsylvania, has historically been characterized by its largely rural populations, rich natural resources that have fueled industry in other parts of the country, and the strong and wild, undeveloped land. The rugged geography of the region allowed Native American societies, especially the Cherokee, to flourish. Early white settlers tended to favor a self-sufficient approach to farming, contrary to the land grabbing and plantation building going on elsewhere in the South. The growth of a market economy and competition from other agricultural areas of the country sparked an economic decline of the region's rural population at least as early as 1830. The Civil War and the sometimes hostile legislation of Reconstruction made life even more difficult for rural Appalachians. Recent history of the region is marked by the corporate exploitation of resources. Regional oil, gas, and coal had attracted some industry even before the Civil War, but the postwar years saw an immense expansion of American industry, nearly all of which relied heavily on Appalachian fossil fuels, particularly coal. What was initially a boon to the region eventually brought financial disaster to many mountain people as unsafe working conditions and strip mining ravaged the land and its inhabitants. A History of Appalachia also examines pockets of urbanization in Appalachia. Chemical, textile, and other industries have encouraged the development of urban areas. At the same time, radio, television, and the internet provide residents direct links to cultures from all over the world. The author looks at the process of urbanization as it belies commonly held notions about the region's rural character.

Book Hard Times and New Deal in Kentucky

Download or read book Hard Times and New Deal in Kentucky written by George T. Blakey and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Depression and the New Deal touched the lives of almost every Kentuckian during the 1930s. Fifty years later the Commonwealth is still affected by the legacies of that era and the policies of the Roosevelt administration. George T. Blakey has written the first full study of this turbulent decade in Kentucky, and he offers a fresh perspective on the New Deal programs by viewing them from the local and state level rather than from Washington. Thousands of Kentuckians worked for New Deal programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Projects Administration; thousands more kept their homes through loans from the Home Owners Loan Corporation. Tobacco growers adopted new production techniques and rural farms received their first electricity because of the Agricultural Adjustment and Rural Electrification administrations. The New Deal stretched from the Harlan County coal mines to a TVA dam near Paducah, and it encompassed subjects as small as Social Security pension checks and as large as revived Bourbon distilleries. The impact of these phenomena on Kentucky was both beneficial and disruptive, temporary and enduring. Blakey analyzes the economic effects of this unprecedented and massive government spending to end the depression. He also discusses the political arena in which Governors Laffoon, Chandler, and Johnson had to wrestle with new federal rules. And he highlights social changes the New Deal brought to the Commonwealth: accelerated urbanization, enlightened land use, a lessening of state power and individualism, and a greater awareness of Kentucky history. Hard Times and New Deal weaves together private memories of older Kentuckians and public statements of contemporary politicians; it includes legislative debates and newspaper accounts, government statistics and personal reminiscences. The result is a balanced and fresh look at the patchwork of emergency and reform activities which many people loved, many others hated, but no one could ignore.