University of Illinois Press Appalachian Studies Catalog 2021

APPALACHIAN STUDIES

2021

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MUSIC / BIOGRAPHY

NEW IN PAPER

BILL MONROE

The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man

TOM EWING From cradle to great, the real story of Bill Monroe “Insightful . . . Presents bluegrass history as it happened, as well as a fresh look at ‘this extraordinary individual.’”

—WALL STREET JOURNAL Bill Monroe was a major star of the Grand Ole Opry for over fifty years; a member of the Country Music, Songwriters, and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame; and a legendary figure in American music. Former Blue Grass Boy and veteran music journalist Tom Ewing examines Monroe’s life in careful detail, moving beyond hearsay and sensationalism to explain how and why the Father of Bluegrass Music accomplished so much. Ewing draws on hundreds of interviews, his personal relationship with Monroe, and an immense personal archive of materials to separate the truth from longstanding myth. Throughout, he deftly captures Monroe’s relationships and the personalities of an ever-shifting roster of band members while shedding light on his business dealings and his pioneering work with Bean Blossom and other music festivals.

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Filled with previously unknown details, Bill Monroe offers even the most devoted fan a deeper understanding of Monroe’s towering achievements and timeless music.

E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05058-9 A volume in the series Music in American Life

TOM EWING was the guitarist/lead singer of Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys for ten years. He is the editor of The Bill Monroe Reader and wrote the “Thirty Years Ago This Month” column for Bluegrass Unlimited from 1994 to 2008.

Publication of this book is supported by the Otto Kinkeldey Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and by a grant from the L. J. and Mary C. Skaggs Folklore Fund.

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UNLIKELY ANGEL

The Songs of Dolly Parton

LYDIA R. HAMESSLEY Foreword by Steve Buckingham The creative process of a great American songwriter “Lydia Hamessley invites us on a deep dive into the world of Dolly Parton as songwriter. The book weaves together insightful analyses of the musical forms, cultural roots, and meanings found in Parton’s vast catalog, with Parton’s own accounts of her music. Hamessley unveils these songs as the heart and substance of Parton’s contributions to popular culture, and will inspire every reader to take yet another listen.”

—JOCELYN R. NEAL, author of Country Music: A Cultural and Stylistic History OCTOBER

Dolly Parton’s success as a performer and pop culture phenomenon has overshadowed her achievements as a songwriter. But she sees herself as a songwriter first, and with good reason. Parton’s compositions like “I Will Always Love You” and “Jolene” have become American standards with an impact far beyond country music.

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Lydia R. Hamessley’s expert analysis and Parton’s characteristically straightforward input inform this comprehensive look at the process, influences, and themes that have shaped the superstar’s songwriting artistry. Hamessley reveals how Parton’s loving, hardscrabble childhood in the Smoky Mountains provided the musical language, rhythms, and memories of old-time music that resonate in so many of her songs. Hamessley further provides an understanding of how Parton combines her cultural and musical heritage with an artisan’s sense of craft and design to compose eloquent, painfully honest, and gripping songs about women’s lives, poverty, heartbreak, inspiration, and love.

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Filled with insights on hit songs and less familiar gems, Unlikely Angel covers the full arc of Dolly Parton’s career and offers an unprecedented look at the creative force behind the image.

LYDIA R. HAMESSLEY is a professor of music at Hamilton College.

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MUSIC / MIDWEST

INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH BLUEGRASS

Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy

Edited by FRED BARTENSTEIN and CURTIS W. ELLISON Foreword by Neil V. Rosenberg High lonesome in the heartland “A new urban folk music, nurtured and shaped by a folk community in an industrial setting, has made the world familiar with southwestern Ohio’s bluegrass. Many facets of the region’s rich musical heritage are explored and celebrated in this book, a welcome addition to the literature on bluegrass.”

—NEIL V. ROSENBERG, from the foreword JANUARY

In the twentieth century, Appalachian migrants seeking economic opportunities relocated to southwestern Ohio, bringing their music with them. Between 1947 and 1989, they created an internationally renowned capital for the thriving bluegrass music genre, centered on the industrial region of Cincinnati, Dayton, Hamilton, Middletown, and Springfield. Fred Bartenstein and Curtis W. Ellison edit a collection of eyewitness narratives and in-depth analyses that explore southwestern Ohio’s bluegrass musicians, radio broadcasters, recording studios, record labels, and performance venues, along with the music’s contributions to religious activities, community development, and public education. As the bluegrass scene grew, southwestern Ohio’s distinctive sounds reached new fans and influenced those everywhere who continue to play, produce, and love roots music.

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Revelatory and multifaceted, Industrial Strength Bluegrass shares the inspiring story of a bluegrass hotbed and the people who created it.

Publication supported by a grant from the Judith McCulloh Endowment for American Music.

Contributors: Fred Bartenstein, Curtis W. Ellison, Jon Hartley Fox, Rick Good, Lily Isaacs, Ben Krakauer, Mac McDivitt, Nathan McGee, Daniel Mullins, Joe Mullins, Larry Nager, Phillip J. Obermiller, Bobby Osborne, and Neil V. Rosenberg.

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FRED BARTENSTEIN is an adjunct instructor in music at the University of Dayton. He is the editor of Bluegrass Bluesman, The Bluegrass Hall of Fame, and two anthologies of writings by folk arts impresario Joe Wilson.

CURTIS W. ELLISON is a professor emeritus of history and American studies at Miami University. He is the author of Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven and editor of Donald Davidson’s The Big Ballad Jamboree.

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SOUTHERN HISTORY AND CULTURE

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A HISTORY OF THE OZARKS, VOLUME 1

The Old Ozarks

BROOKS BLEVINS The Ozarks before they were the Ozarks “Brooks Blevins is an expert in weaving many diverse strands into a seamless tapestry.”

—ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT GAZETTE The Ozarks reflect the epic tableau of the American people—the native Osage and would-be colonial conquerors, the determined settlers and on-the-make speculators, the hardscrabble farmers and visionary entrepreneurs. Brooks Blevins begins his three-volume history of the region and its inhabitants in deep prehistory, charting how the highlands came to exist. From there he turns to the political and economic motivations behind the eagerness of many peoples to possess the Ozarks. Blevins places these early proto-Ozarkers within the context of the economic, social, and political forces that drove American history. But he also tells the colorful human stories that fill the region’s storied past—and contribute to the powerful myths and misunderstandings that even today distort our views of the Ozarks’ places and people.

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A monumental history in the grand tradition, A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks is essential reading for anyone who cares about the highland heart of America.

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BROOKS BLEVINS is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University. He is the author or editor of nine books, including A History of the Ozarks, Volume 2: The Conflicted Ozarks; Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South; and Arkansas, Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol’ Boys Defined a State.

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A HISTORY OF THE OZARKS, VOLUME 2

The Conflicted Ozarks

BROOKS BLEVINS Slavery, civil war, and the birth of the modern Ozarks “Brooks Blevins’s second volume of A History of the Ozarks is the work of a premier historian and a master storyteller. Whether the topic is Civil War guerrillas or postwar Bald Knobbers, Blevins peels away the layers of myth and legend to reveal the region’s heritage and history in all its ­complexity. Highly recommended for both the scholar and the general reader.”

—WILLIAM GARRETT PISTON, coauthor of Wilson’s Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It The Ozarks of the mid-1800s was a land of divisions. The uplands and its people inhabited a geographic and cultural borderland straddling Midwest and West, North and South, frontier and civilization, and secessionist and Unionist. As civil war raged across the region, neighbor turned against neighbor, unleashing a generation of animus and violence that lasted long after 1865.

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The second volume of Brooks Blevins’s history of the Ozarks begins with the region’s distinctive relationship to slavery. Because the Ozarks were largely unsuitable for plantation farming, residents used enslaved persons on a smaller scale or, in some places, not at all. Blevins moves on to the devastating Civil War years where the dehumanizing, personal nature of Ozark conflict was made uglier by the predations of marching armies and criminal gangs. Blending personal stories with a wide narrative scope, he examines how civilians and soldiers alike experienced the war, from brutal partisan warfare to ill-advised refugee policies to women’s struggles to safeguard farms and stay alive in an atmosphere of constant danger. The war stunted the region’s growth, delaying the development of Ozarks society and the processes of physical, economic, and social reconstruction. More and more, striving uplanders dedicated to modernization fought an image of the Ozarks as a land of mountaineers and hillbillies hostile to the idea of progress. Yet the dawn of the twentieth century saw the uplands emerge as an increasingly uniform culture forged, for better and worse, in the tumult of a conflicted era.

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BROOKS BLEVINS is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University. He is the author or editor of nine books, including A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks and Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South.

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LABOR HISTORY / MIDWEST

UNION RENEGADES

Miners, Capitalism, and Organizing in the Gilded Age

DANA M. CALDEMEYER The self-interest behind joining, or not joining, a union “With brilliant, incisive empathy, Caldemeyer reconstructs the complex pragmatism of Midwestern coal-mining families as they navigated Gilded Age capitalism, often outside and against organized labor. This original, persuasive study is essential for anyone trying to understand the rural-­ industrial working class.”

—JAROD ROLL, author of Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South In the late nineteenth century, Midwestern miners often had to decide if joining a union was in their interest. Arguing that these workers were neither pro-union nor anti-union, Dana M. Caldemeyer shows that they acted according to what they believed would benefit them and their families. As corporations moved to control coal markets and unions sought to centralize their organizations to check corporate control, workers were often caught between these institutions and sided with whichever one offered the best advantage in the moment. Workers chased profits while paying union dues, rejected national unions while forming local orders, and broke strikes while claiming to be union members. This pragmatic form of unionism differed from what union leaders expected of rank-and-file members, but for many workers the choice to follow or reject union orders was a path to better pay, stability, and independence in an otherwise unstable age.

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HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04350-5 $110.00x £88.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08540-6 $30.00x £22.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05238-5 A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by James R. Barrett, Julie Greene, William P. Jones, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Nelson Lichtenstein

Nuanced and eye-opening, Union Renegades challenges popular notions of workers attitudes during the Gilded Age. DANA M. CALDEMEYER is an assistant professor of history at South Georgia State College.

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CURRENT EVENTS / APPALACHIAN STUDIES / SOUTHERN HISTORY AND CULTURE

SHELTER FROM THE MACHINE

Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism

JASON G. STRANGE Hard work and hard truths inside the back-to-the-land movement “An important and much-needed addition. Strange does a strong job of providing the historical context for homesteading and the reasons why it is so significant today. But even more important are his willingness to ground the book in the words and deeds of the homesteaders themselves and his own history with homesteading, and to go beyond a historical description to explore the role of class and capitalism in explaining the homesteaders’ differences.”

—STEPHEN L. FISHER, coeditor of Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia

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“You’re either buried with your crystals or your shotgun.” That laconic comment captures the hippies-versus-hicks conflict that divides, and in some ways defines, modern-day homesteaders. It also reveals that back-to-the-landers, though they may seek lives off the grid, remain connected to the most pressing questions confronting the United States today.

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Jason G. Strange shows where homesteaders fit, and don’t fit, within contemporary America. Blending history with personal stories, Strange visits pig roasts and bohemian work parties to find people engaged in a lifestyle that offers challenge and fulfillment for those in search of virtues like self-employment, frugality, contact with nature, and escape from the mainstream. He also lays bare the vast differences in education and opportunity that leave some homesteaders dispossessed while charting the tensions that arise when people seek refuge from the ills of modern society—only to find themselves indelibly marked by the system they dreamed of escaping.

E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05189-0 All rights: University of Illinois

JASON G. STRANGE is an assistant professor of general studies and peace and social justice studies at Berea College, and the chair of the Department of Peace and Social Justice Studies.

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WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES / EDUCATION

DEGREES OF DIFFERENCE

Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School

Edited by KIMBERLY D. McKEE and DENISE A. DELGADO Foreword by Karen J. Leong A go-to resource for helping women of color survive, and thrive, in grad school “The personal and the political are addressed in this multi­ faceted collection, which is a blanket of resources for graduate students and tenure-track academics, as well as for seasoned and tenured committee members, serving on university rank and tenure committees. Bravas! This is a great addition to a collection of groundbreaking literature in this area.”

—GABRIELLA GUTIÉRREZ Y MUHS, editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia

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University commitments to diversity and inclusivity have yet to translate into support for women of color graduate students. Sexism, classism, homophobia, racial microaggressions, alienation, disillusionment, a lack of institutional and departmental support, limited help from family and partners, imposter syndrome, narrow reading lists—all remain commonplace. Indifference to the struggles of women of color in graduate school and widespread dismissal of their work further poison an atmosphere that suffocates not only ambition but a person’s quality of life.

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In Degrees of Difference, women of color from diverse backgrounds give frank, unapologetic accounts of their battles—both internal and external—to navigate grad school and fulfill their ambitions. At the same time, the authors offer strategies for surviving the grind via stories of their own hard-won successes with self-care, building supportive communities, finding like-minded mentors, and resisting racism and unsupportive faculty and colleagues.

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Contributors: Aeriel A. Ashlee, Denise A. Delgado, Nwadiogo I. Ejiogu, Delia Fernández, Regina Emily Idoate, Karen J. Leong, Kimberly D. McKee, Délice Mugabo, Carrie Sampson, Arianna Taboada, Jenny Heijun Wills, and Soha Youssef KIMBERLY D. MCKEE is an associate professor in the Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies Department at Grand Valley State University and the author of Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States. DENISE A. DELGADO received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University and works as an analyst and trainer.

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MUSIC / WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES

HILLBILLY MAIDENS, OKIES, AND COWGIRLS

Women’s Country Music, 1930–1960

STEPHANIE VANDER WEL Pioneering women and their soundtrack of searching in country music “Women’s struggle for inclusion is one of the biggest stories in country music today. Vander Wel’s rich history shows how female artists fought for a voice and made it central to country’s stories of gender, class, and migration in mid– twentieth-century America.”

—NADINE HUBBS, author of Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music From the 1930s to the 1960s, the booming popularity of country music threw a spotlight on a new generation of innovative women artists. These individuals blazed trails as singers, musicians, and performers even as the industry hemmed in their potential popularity with labels like woman hillbilly, singing cowgirl, and honkytonk angel.

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Stephanie Vander Wel looks at the careers of artists like Patsy Montana, Rose Maddox, and Kitty Wells against the backdrop of country music’s golden age.

Analyzing recordings and appearances on radio, film, and television, she connects performances to real and imagined places and examines how the music sparked new ways for women listeners to imagine the open range, the honky-tonk, and the home. The music also captured the tensions felt by women facing geographic disruption and economic uncertainty. While classic songs and heartfelt performances might ease anxieties, the subject matter underlined women’s ambivalent relationships to industrialism, middle-class security, and established notions of femininity.

HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04308-6 $110.00x £91.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08495-9 $25.95s £20.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05194-4 Publication of this book was supported by a grant from the Judith McCulloh Endowment for American Music, and by the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

STEPHANIE VANDER WEL is an associate professor of music at the University at Buffalo.

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EARL SCRUGGS AND FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN

The Making of an American Classic

THOMAS GOLDSMITH The breakneck banjo tune that became a song for the ages “The Bluegrass Reader successfully manages to appeal to both the bluegrass insider and the newcomer to the genre, and in the process has given well-deserved new life to some masterful bits of writing.”

—BLUEGRASS UNLIMITED

“An enormous contribution to the history of bluegrass and a fascinating read, well organized and well told. Goldsmith’s lengthy interview with Earl is a treasure trove of information not only about ‘Foggy Mountain Breakdown’ but about the early days of bluegrass and specifically Earl’s working relationship with Bill Monroe, which has long been clouded in mystery.”

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Recorded in 1949, “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” changed the face of American music. Earl Scruggs’s instrumental essentially transformed the folk culture that came before it while helping to energize bluegrass’s entry into the mainstream in the 1960s. The song has become a gateway to bluegrass for musicians and fans alike as well as a happily inescapable track in film and television.

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Thomas Goldsmith explores the origins and influence of “Foggy Mountain Break­ down” against the backdrop of Scruggs’s legendary career. Interviews with Scruggs, his wife Louise, disciple Béla Fleck, and sidemen like Curly Seckler, Mac Wiseman, and Jerry Douglas shed light on topics like Scruggs’s musical evolution and his working relationship with Bill Monroe. As Goldsmith shows, the captivating sound of “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” helped bring back the banjo from obscurity and distinguished the low-key Scruggs as a principal figure in American acoustic music.

E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05182-1 A volume in the series Music in American Life Publication of this book was supported in part by a grant from the Judith McCulloh Endowment for American Music.

THOMAS GOLDSMITH is a music journalist. For more than thirty years, he has worked both in daily newspapers in North Carolina and Tennessee and as a freelance writer. He is the editor of The Bluegrass Reader and was the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Print Media Person of the Year.

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BLACK HUNTINGTON

An Appalachian Story

CICERO M. FAIN III How African Americans thrived in a West Virginia city “This most welcome study provides great insights into the urban experience of Affrilachians. It is highly recommended for collections in African American studies, Appalachian studies, civil rights, and urban studies.”

—CHOICE

“A well-written account that documents an area often overlooked in studies of slavery, Reconstruction, and the struggle for racial equality.”

—JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY By 1930, Huntington had become West Virginia’s largest city. Its booming economy and relatively tolerant racial climate attracted African Americans from across Appalachia and the South. Prosperity gave these migrants political clout and spurred the formation of communities that defined black Huntington—factors that empowered blacks to confront institutionalized and industrial racism on the one hand and the white embrace of Jim Crow on the other.

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Cicero M. Fain III illuminates the unique cultural identity and dynamic sense of accomplishment and purpose that transformed African American life in Huntington. Using interviews and untapped archival materials, Fain details the rise and consolidation of the black working class as it pursued, then fulfilled, its aspirations. He also reveals how African Americans developed a host of strategies—strong kin and social networks, institutional development, property ownership, and legal challenges—to defend their gains in the face of the white status quo.

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Eye-opening and eloquent, Black Huntington makes visible another facet of the African American experience in Appalachia.

CICERO M. FAIN III is a professor of history at the College of Southern Maryland.

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DIXIE DEWDROP

The Uncle Dave Macon Story

MICHAEL D. DOUBLER From Tennessee earth to hillbilly heaven with the grandfather of country music “An eminently readable chronicle.”

—RAMBLES.NET

“Michael D. Doubler has given us a rich and highly nuanced portrait of the complex, highly gifted man who helped put country music on the map. As Macon’s great-grandson, Doubler was able to draw on family archives and reminiscences that might otherwise be unavailable, and his excellent writing skills have allowed him to weave this material together into a compelling and entertaining narrative.”

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One of the earliest performers on WSM in Nashville, Uncle Dave Macon became the Grand Ole Opry’s first superstar. His old-time music and energetic stage shows made him a national sensation and fueled a thirty-year run as one of America’s most beloved entertainers.

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Michael D. Doubler tells the amazing story of the Dixie Dewdrop, a country music icon. Born in 1870, David Harrison Macon learned the banjo from musicians passing through his parents’ Nashville hotel. After playing local shows in Middle Tennessee for decades, a big break led Macon to vaudeville, the earliest of his 200-plus recordings and eventually to national stardom. Uncle Dave—clad in his trademark plug hat and gates-ajar collar—soon became the face of the Opry itself with his spirited singing, humor, and array of banjo picking styles. For the rest of his life, he defied age to tour and record prolifically, manage his business affairs, mentor up-and-comers like David “Stringbean” Akeman, and play with the Delmore Brothers, Roy Acuff, and Bill Monroe.

E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05069-5 A volume in the series Music in American Life Publication of this book is supported by the Dragan Plamenac Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and by the Judith McCulloh Endowment for American Music.

MICHAEL D. DOUBLER is the great-grandson of Uncle Dave Macon. His books include Closing with the Enemy: How GIs Fought the War in Europe, 1944–1945 and Civilian in Peace, Soldier in War: The Army National Guard, 1636–2000.

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TO LIVE HERE, YOU HAVE TO FIGHT

How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice

JESSICA WILKERSON Bringing Appalachian tradition to the national stage “Astonishing.”

—THE CUT

“A bold new examination of women’s struggles in Appalachia rests on a concept that is both simple and profound: the caregiver as activist. . . . Thanks to Wilkerson’s efforts, histories of women’s bravery and persistence are here brought to life and preserved to inspire new generations.”

—WOMEN’S REVIEW OF BOOKS 280 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 10 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen caregiving and seasoned by decades of activism and community service.

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Jessica Wilkerson tells their stories within the larger drama of efforts to enact change in the 1960s and 1970s. She shows white Appalachian women acting as leaders and soldiers in a grassroots war on poverty—shaping and sustaining programs, engaging in ideological debates, offering fresh visions of democratic participation, and facing personal political struggles. Their insistence that caregiving was valuable labor clashed with entrenched attitudes and rising criticisms of welfare. Their persistence, meanwhile, brought them into unlikely coalitions with black women, disabled miners, and others to fight for causes that ranged from poor people’s rights to community health to unionization.

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Inspiring yet sobering, To Live Here, You Have to Fight reveals Appalachian women as the indomitable caregivers of a region—and overlooked actors in the movements that defined their time.

Publication supported by a grant from the Howard D. and Marjorie I. Brooks Fund for Progressive Thought.

E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05092-3 A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by James R. Barrett, Julie Greene, William P. Jones, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Nelson Lichtenstein

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JESSICA WILKERSON is an associate professor and Joyce and Stuart Robbins Chair in the department of history at West Virginia University.

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REMEMBERING LATTIMER

Labor, Migration, and Race in Pennsylvania Anthracite Country

PAUL A. SHACKEL The meaning of a massacre “Shackel’s contribution provides a deeply researched discussion about an often-neglected event in labor history.”

—INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HERITAGE STUDIES On September 10, 1897, a group of 400 striking coal miners—workers of Polish, Slovak, and Lithuanian descent or origin—marched on Lattimer, Pennsylvania. There, law enforcement officers fired without warning into the protesters, killing nineteen miners and wounding thirty-eight others. The bloody day quickly faded into history.

Paul A. Shackel confronts the legacies and lessons of the Lattimer event. Beginning with a dramatic retelling of the incident, Shackel traces how the violence, and the acquittal of the deputies who perpetrated it, spurred membership in the United Mine Workers. By blending archival and archaeological research with interviews, he weighs how the people living in the region remember—and forget—what happened. Now in positions of power, the descendants of the slain miners have themselves become rabidly anti-union and anti-immigrant as Dominicans and other Latinos change the community. Shackel shows how the social, economic, and political circumstances surrounding historic Lattimer connect in profound ways to the riven communities of today.

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Compelling and timely, Remembering Lattimer restores an American tragedy to our public memory.

E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05073-2 A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by James R. Barrett, Julie Greene, William P. Jones, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Nelson Lichtenstein

PAUL A. SHACKEL is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland-College Park. His books include Archaeology, Heritage and Civic Engagement: Working Toward the Public Good.

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