High Mountains Rising

Richard A. Straw is professor of history at Radford University, the author of Images of America: Blacksburg, and has published articles on Appalachian foodways, on Mike Seeger, and on the United Mine Workers of America, coal mining, and historical photography. H. Tyler Blethen is Creighton Sossomon Professor of History and director of the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University, and a coeditor of Ulster and North America: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Scotch-Irish.

• Acknowledgments   viIntroduction   1   Richard A. Straw1. Native Americans   7   C. Clifford Boyd Jr.2. Pioneer Settlement   17   H. Tyler Blethen3. Slavery and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century   30   John C. Inscoe4. The Civil War and Reconstruction   46   Gordon B. McKinney5. Industrialization   59   Ronald L. Lewis6. The Great Depression   74   Paul Salstrom7. Migration   88   Phillip J. Obermiller8. Stereotypes   101   David C. Hsiung9. Music   114   Bill C. Malone10. Folklife   135   Michael Ann Williams11. English Language   147   Michael Montgomery12. Literature   165   Ted Olson13. Religion   179   Deborah Vansau McCauley14. Modernization, 1940-2000   197   Ronald D EllerSuggested Readings   221Contributors   231Index   235

Appalachian Writers Association, Appalachian Book of the Year Award in Nonfiction, 2005. Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, 2005."This stimulating, readable collection of essays gives a fine overview of Appalachia, its history, its people, and different aspects of life in the region over time that range from economic and social life to literature and folklore."--Loyal Jones, former director of the Berea College Appalachian Center and author of Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands "What a fine addition to books about Appalachia. . . . It is an anthology that serves as the single best introduction to the whole idea of Appalachia. . . . The authors of the selections are quite simply the foremost experts in their fields, and they have managed to create entries which serve as excellent introductions to their topics while at the same time they are stimulating to the already well-informed."--Appalachian Heritage "The first comprehensive, cohesive volume to unite Appalachian history with its culture."--Black Issues Book Review "Blethen and Straw should be commended for their work compiling and editing this important and very accessible collection. The individual essays hang together well, and there is an impressive internal consistency between them. . . . High Mountains Rising should be, and undoubtedly will be, widely used in Appalachian Studies classes."--Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review