Sociology of 
Appalachian Culture

Created by Kathleen Christy,
Reference Librarian

Reference Journals Other Sources Videos
LC Subject Headings Additional Books WWW Resources

Subject Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Reference

Bibliography of Religion in the South Reference 016.28 L766b  
Appalachian Folk Culture and Regional History: A Guide to Audio and Video Recordings Available from the Archives of Appalachia Reference 016.78162 A673a 1981
Mountain Range: A Dictionary of Expressions from Appalachia to the Ozarks Reference 427.974 H498m 1997

 Journals

Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission Indexed in GeoRef (through FirstSearch) and Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) (through FirstSearch).
Appalachian journal Indexed in MLA.
Castanea: The Journal of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club Indexed in Environment (through FirstSearch) and GeoRef (through FirstSearch).
Foxfire Indexed in MLA.

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Other Sources of Relevant Information:

JSTOR
InfoTrac
Videos
Beyond measure : Appalachian Culture and Economy
The Buffalo Creek Flood : An Act of Man
Buffalo Creek Revisited
Chemical Valley
Fighting for a Breath
The Frontier Nursing Service
In the Good Old-Fashioned Way : the Old Regular Baptist Church
Justice in the Coalfields
On Our Own Land
Quilting Women
The Ramsey Trade Fair
Ready for Harvest : Clearcutting in the Southern Appalachians
Strangers and Kin
Tradition
Yellow Creek, Kentucky Part 1  

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Selected Library of Congress Subject Headings
Appalachian Region
Keyword Search on McQuest: Appalachia OR appalachian  
Additional Books (Not Available in the Maryville College Library)
 
Philip Paludan Victims: A True Story of the Civil War
Durwood Dunn Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community, 1818-1937 University of Tennessee: 1988
Grady McWhinney Cracker Culture: The Influence of the Celts on the South University of Alabama Press
Dennis Covington Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia Addison Wesley, 1995
Wilbur R. Miller Revenuers and Moonshiners: Enforcing Federal Liquor Laws in the Mountain South, 1865 - 1900 Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991  

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WWW Resources

University of Kentucky: Henry Caudill & Liberalism http://www.uky.edu/RGS/AppalCenter/eller1.htm
Appalachian College Association http://www.acaweb.org/
Appalachian culture: a thumbnail sketch / UTK Speech / Audiology Dept. http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~abrice/roark.html
Center for Appalachian Studies and Services (CASS) http://cass.etsu.edu/
National Park Service Overview; includes links http://www.nps.gov/blri/history.htm
Setting of Multicultural literature; Includes bibliographic references http://www.ceap.wcu.edu/Houston/Multicultural.html
University of Kentucky: Review of Revenuers and Moonshiners http://www.uky.edu/RGS/AppalCenter/izumi.htm
Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/ecoplaces/part1/site25.html

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Created by: Kathleen Christy
Last Update: June 22, 2000