Anderson Blanton
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469623979
- eISBN:
- 9781469623993
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469623979.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
In this work, Anderson Blanton illuminates how prayer, faith, and healing are intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and material culture in the charismatic Christian worship of southern ...
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In this work, Anderson Blanton illuminates how prayer, faith, and healing are intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and material culture in the charismatic Christian worship of southern Appalachia. From the radios used to broadcast prayer to the curative faith cloths circulated through the postal system, material objects known as spirit-matter have become essential since the 1940s, Blanton argues, to the Pentecostal community's understanding and performances of faith. Hittin' the Prayer Bones draws on Blanton's extensive site visits with church congregations, radio preachers and their listeners inside and outside the broadcasting studios, and more than thirty years of recorded charismatic worship made available to him by a small Christian radio station. In documenting the transformation and consecration of everyday objects through performances of communal worship, healing prayer, and chanted preaching, Blanton frames his ethnographic research in the historiography of faith healing and prayer, as well as theoretical models of materiality and transcendence. At the same time, his work affectingly conveys the feelings of horror, healing, and humor that are unleashed in practitioners as they experience, in their own words, the sacred, healing presence of the Holy Ghost.Less
In this work, Anderson Blanton illuminates how prayer, faith, and healing are intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and material culture in the charismatic Christian worship of southern Appalachia. From the radios used to broadcast prayer to the curative faith cloths circulated through the postal system, material objects known as spirit-matter have become essential since the 1940s, Blanton argues, to the Pentecostal community's understanding and performances of faith. Hittin' the Prayer Bones draws on Blanton's extensive site visits with church congregations, radio preachers and their listeners inside and outside the broadcasting studios, and more than thirty years of recorded charismatic worship made available to him by a small Christian radio station. In documenting the transformation and consecration of everyday objects through performances of communal worship, healing prayer, and chanted preaching, Blanton frames his ethnographic research in the historiography of faith healing and prayer, as well as theoretical models of materiality and transcendence. At the same time, his work affectingly conveys the feelings of horror, healing, and humor that are unleashed in practitioners as they experience, in their own words, the sacred, healing presence of the Holy Ghost.
Michael Pasquier
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195372335
- eISBN:
- 9780199777273
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372335.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
French émigré priests fled the religious turmoil of the French Revolution after 1789 and found themselves leading a new wave of Roman Catholic missionaries in the United States. This book explores ...
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French émigré priests fled the religious turmoil of the French Revolution after 1789 and found themselves leading a new wave of Roman Catholic missionaries in the United States. This book explores the diverse ways that French missionary priests guided the development of the early American church in Maryland, Kentucky, Louisiana, and other pockets of Catholic settlement throughout much of the trans-Appalachian West. This relatively small group of priests introduced Gallican, ultramontane, and missionary principles to a nascent institutional church in the United States. At the same time, they struggled to reconcile their romantic expectations of missionary life with their actual experiences as servants of a foreign church scattered across a frontier region with limited access to friends and family members still in France. As they became more accustomed to the lifeways of the American South and the West, French missionaries expressed anxiety about apparent discrepancies between how they were taught to practice the priesthood in French seminaries and what the Holy See expected them to achieve as representatives of a universal missionary church. As churchmen bridging the formal ecclesiastical standards of the church with the informal experiences of missionaries in American culture, this book evaluates the private lives of priests—the minimally scripted thoughts, emotions, and actions of strange men trying to make a home among strangers in a strange land—and treats the priesthood as a multicultural, transnational institution that does not fit neatly into national, progressive narratives of American Catholicism.Less
French émigré priests fled the religious turmoil of the French Revolution after 1789 and found themselves leading a new wave of Roman Catholic missionaries in the United States. This book explores the diverse ways that French missionary priests guided the development of the early American church in Maryland, Kentucky, Louisiana, and other pockets of Catholic settlement throughout much of the trans-Appalachian West. This relatively small group of priests introduced Gallican, ultramontane, and missionary principles to a nascent institutional church in the United States. At the same time, they struggled to reconcile their romantic expectations of missionary life with their actual experiences as servants of a foreign church scattered across a frontier region with limited access to friends and family members still in France. As they became more accustomed to the lifeways of the American South and the West, French missionaries expressed anxiety about apparent discrepancies between how they were taught to practice the priesthood in French seminaries and what the Holy See expected them to achieve as representatives of a universal missionary church. As churchmen bridging the formal ecclesiastical standards of the church with the informal experiences of missionaries in American culture, this book evaluates the private lives of priests—the minimally scripted thoughts, emotions, and actions of strange men trying to make a home among strangers in a strange land—and treats the priesthood as a multicultural, transnational institution that does not fit neatly into national, progressive narratives of American Catholicism.
Michael Pasquier
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195372335
- eISBN:
- 9780199777273
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372335.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
This chapter depicts French missionary priests in direct confrontation with their preconceived notions of the United States and as men experiencing life as foreign missionaries for the first time. It ...
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This chapter depicts French missionary priests in direct confrontation with their preconceived notions of the United States and as men experiencing life as foreign missionaries for the first time. It is a rendering of missionary life in the trans-Appalachian West and the effects of material deprivation, physical hardship, spiritual suffering, ecclesiastical conflict, and lay obstinacy on the collective performance of the priesthood in frontier settings. During the process of reconciling expectations with experiences, French missionary priests remapped Catholicism in the United States by developing an ecclesiastical network that stretched from Rome to Paris to Baltimore to Bardstown to St. Louis to New Orleans.Less
This chapter depicts French missionary priests in direct confrontation with their preconceived notions of the United States and as men experiencing life as foreign missionaries for the first time. It is a rendering of missionary life in the trans-Appalachian West and the effects of material deprivation, physical hardship, spiritual suffering, ecclesiastical conflict, and lay obstinacy on the collective performance of the priesthood in frontier settings. During the process of reconciling expectations with experiences, French missionary priests remapped Catholicism in the United States by developing an ecclesiastical network that stretched from Rome to Paris to Baltimore to Bardstown to St. Louis to New Orleans.
Jeff Todd Titon
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195173048
- eISBN:
- 9780199872091
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195173048.003.0019
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
Old Regular Baptist traditions from the Appalachian Mountains of the Southern United States rely on seemingly non-metric, non-liturgical practices of song, as opposed to hymns. This chapter uses ...
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Old Regular Baptist traditions from the Appalachian Mountains of the Southern United States rely on seemingly non-metric, non-liturgical practices of song, as opposed to hymns. This chapter uses ethnography, interviews, and spectral analysis to question assumptions about the general freedom Old Regular Baptist singing seemingly exhibits. The analytical interpretation is contextualized by historical examination of singing as developing over the course of centuries and the broadly inclusive practice of absorbing sacred songs from numerous sources. The close analyses of individual performances clarify the ways in which melodic codes and performance gestures bring Old Regular Baptists together in song to express their common belief in being tuned up with the grace of God.Less
Old Regular Baptist traditions from the Appalachian Mountains of the Southern United States rely on seemingly non-metric, non-liturgical practices of song, as opposed to hymns. This chapter uses ethnography, interviews, and spectral analysis to question assumptions about the general freedom Old Regular Baptist singing seemingly exhibits. The analytical interpretation is contextualized by historical examination of singing as developing over the course of centuries and the broadly inclusive practice of absorbing sacred songs from numerous sources. The close analyses of individual performances clarify the ways in which melodic codes and performance gestures bring Old Regular Baptists together in song to express their common belief in being tuned up with the grace of God.
Gwynne Tuell Potts
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813178677
- eISBN:
- 9780813178707
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813178677.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
This is a story of greed, adventure and settlement; of causes won and lost. The book’s theme is eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century conflict and settlement in the Ohio River valley, told within ...
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This is a story of greed, adventure and settlement; of causes won and lost. The book’s theme is eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century conflict and settlement in the Ohio River valley, told within the context of the national and international events that led to the American Revolution and guided Kentucky’s postwar future.“Colonel” George Croghan serves as the exemplar of Britain’s trans-Appalachian experience.
The Revolution was fought in three theaters; the northern belonged to George Washington, and among his officers was Croghan’s nephew, Major William Croghan. The major joined the southern theater at the moment the Continental Army surrendered to Britain in Charleston. The third theater was the Revolution in the West, and its leader was Virginia colonel, later general, George Rogers Clark, whose vision secured the old Northwest Territory for the new nation. Taken together, the war adventures of Clark and Croghan epitomize the American course of the Revolution.
Croghan and Clark arrived at the Falls of the Ohio River after the Revolutionto survey the land that served as payment for Virginia’s soldiers. Clark, however, regularly was called by Virginia and the federal government to secure peace in the Ohio River valley, leading to his financial ruin and emotional decline. Croghan, his partner and brother-in-law, remained at Clark’s side throughout it all, even as he prospered in the new world they had fought to create, while Clark languished.Less
This is a story of greed, adventure and settlement; of causes won and lost. The book’s theme is eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century conflict and settlement in the Ohio River valley, told within the context of the national and international events that led to the American Revolution and guided Kentucky’s postwar future.“Colonel” George Croghan serves as the exemplar of Britain’s trans-Appalachian experience.
The Revolution was fought in three theaters; the northern belonged to George Washington, and among his officers was Croghan’s nephew, Major William Croghan. The major joined the southern theater at the moment the Continental Army surrendered to Britain in Charleston. The third theater was the Revolution in the West, and its leader was Virginia colonel, later general, George Rogers Clark, whose vision secured the old Northwest Territory for the new nation. Taken together, the war adventures of Clark and Croghan epitomize the American course of the Revolution.
Croghan and Clark arrived at the Falls of the Ohio River after the Revolutionto survey the land that served as payment for Virginia’s soldiers. Clark, however, regularly was called by Virginia and the federal government to secure peace in the Ohio River valley, leading to his financial ruin and emotional decline. Croghan, his partner and brother-in-law, remained at Clark’s side throughout it all, even as he prospered in the new world they had fought to create, while Clark languished.
Robert M. Sandow
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823230518
- eISBN:
- 9780823240845
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823230518.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
During the Civil War, there were throughout the Union explosions of resistance to the war–from the deadly Draft Riots in New York City to other, less well-known outbreaks. In this book, the author ...
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During the Civil War, there were throughout the Union explosions of resistance to the war–from the deadly Draft Riots in New York City to other, less well-known outbreaks. In this book, the author explores one of these least known inner civil wars, the widespread, sometimes violent opposition in the Appalachian lumber country of Pennsylvania. Sparsely settled, these mountains were home to divided communities that provided a safe-haven for opponents of the war. The dissent of mountain folk reflected their own marginality in the face of rapidly increasing exploitation of timber resources by big firms, as well as partisan debates over loyalty. One of the few studies of the northern Appalachians, this book draws revealing parallels to the War in the southern mountains, exploring the roots of rural protest in frontier development, the market economy, military policy, partisan debate, and everyday resistance. The author also sheds new light on the party politics of rural resistance, rejecting easy depictions of war-opponents as traitors and malcontents for a more nuanced and complicated study of the class, economic upheaval, and localism.Less
During the Civil War, there were throughout the Union explosions of resistance to the war–from the deadly Draft Riots in New York City to other, less well-known outbreaks. In this book, the author explores one of these least known inner civil wars, the widespread, sometimes violent opposition in the Appalachian lumber country of Pennsylvania. Sparsely settled, these mountains were home to divided communities that provided a safe-haven for opponents of the war. The dissent of mountain folk reflected their own marginality in the face of rapidly increasing exploitation of timber resources by big firms, as well as partisan debates over loyalty. One of the few studies of the northern Appalachians, this book draws revealing parallels to the War in the southern mountains, exploring the roots of rural protest in frontier development, the market economy, military policy, partisan debate, and everyday resistance. The author also sheds new light on the party politics of rural resistance, rejecting easy depictions of war-opponents as traitors and malcontents for a more nuanced and complicated study of the class, economic upheaval, and localism.
Lacy K. Ford, Jr.
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195118094
- eISBN:
- 9780199870936
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195118094.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter examines the changing structure and demography of slavery in the early republican upper South. It explores how the decline of the Chesapeake tobacco economy gave masters an incentive to ...
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This chapter examines the changing structure and demography of slavery in the early republican upper South. It explores how the decline of the Chesapeake tobacco economy gave masters an incentive to dispose of surplus slaves, just as the rhetoric of the American Revolution gave upper South masters an ideological motivation to put slavery on a slow journey toward extinction. It also looks at how the expansion of slavery across the Appalachians into Kentucky and Tennessee engendered ambivalence toward the institution among whites in the new states.Less
This chapter examines the changing structure and demography of slavery in the early republican upper South. It explores how the decline of the Chesapeake tobacco economy gave masters an incentive to dispose of surplus slaves, just as the rhetoric of the American Revolution gave upper South masters an ideological motivation to put slavery on a slow journey toward extinction. It also looks at how the expansion of slavery across the Appalachians into Kentucky and Tennessee engendered ambivalence toward the institution among whites in the new states.
Kevin D. Cordi
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781496821249
- eISBN:
- 9781496821294
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496821249.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
A professional storyteller journeys to discover what it means to be a teacher and a teller of tales. Just like Jack, he traces his path from being raised on the stories of Appalachia and explores if ...
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A professional storyteller journeys to discover what it means to be a teacher and a teller of tales. Just like Jack, he traces his path from being raised on the stories of Appalachia and explores if they have a place in the classroom. However, he does not climb a beanstalk to understand this journey, but instead challenges what it means to be a teller and educator and even the definition of storytelling. As he reflects on not only his stories but his students, he changes as a storyteller, as an educator, and better understands his students in the process. Drawing from storymaking, storytelling, and dramatic methods, he revisits and finds new stories to tell.Less
A professional storyteller journeys to discover what it means to be a teacher and a teller of tales. Just like Jack, he traces his path from being raised on the stories of Appalachia and explores if they have a place in the classroom. However, he does not climb a beanstalk to understand this journey, but instead challenges what it means to be a teller and educator and even the definition of storytelling. As he reflects on not only his stories but his students, he changes as a storyteller, as an educator, and better understands his students in the process. Drawing from storymaking, storytelling, and dramatic methods, he revisits and finds new stories to tell.
Steven E. Woodworth
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195139211
- eISBN:
- 9780199848799
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195139211.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter details the fundamental problem behind the confederacy's western woes where Davis failed to find, use, and support a general who could work successfully both with him and with his ...
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This chapter details the fundamental problem behind the confederacy's western woes where Davis failed to find, use, and support a general who could work successfully both with him and with his subordinates—and who could win battles. On June 20, 1862, the confederate president called on Braxton Bragg to assume overall command of the chief Southern army west of the Applachians. Bragg would lead that army for seventeen months, far longer than any of its other commanders. Bragg was a capable commander, with excellent strategic sense, yet his effectiveness was ruined because too many of his officers would disobey his orders or carry them out half-heartedly and without trying to understand their purpose. Davis had also contributed to the fatal undermining of Bragg by leaving him a fragmented command system and retaining Leonidas Polk, an old friend and West Point crony, in the army.Less
This chapter details the fundamental problem behind the confederacy's western woes where Davis failed to find, use, and support a general who could work successfully both with him and with his subordinates—and who could win battles. On June 20, 1862, the confederate president called on Braxton Bragg to assume overall command of the chief Southern army west of the Applachians. Bragg would lead that army for seventeen months, far longer than any of its other commanders. Bragg was a capable commander, with excellent strategic sense, yet his effectiveness was ruined because too many of his officers would disobey his orders or carry them out half-heartedly and without trying to understand their purpose. Davis had also contributed to the fatal undermining of Bragg by leaving him a fragmented command system and retaining Leonidas Polk, an old friend and West Point crony, in the army.
Bernard Debarbieux, Gilles Rudaz, and Martin F. Price
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226031118
- eISBN:
- 9780226031255
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226031255.003.0006
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cultural and Historical Geography
Another set of policies adopted an alternative conception of the mountain mobilizing a specific kind of knowledge and practice. In several cases, in fact, without neglecting the national interest ...
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Another set of policies adopted an alternative conception of the mountain mobilizing a specific kind of knowledge and practice. In several cases, in fact, without neglecting the national interest (their primary motivation), they declared objectives relating to the people most affected: the local populations. This second group of public policies was the result of an expansion in the range of objectives the modern state took on in the early twentieth century, which included education, health, and an improved standard of living. They targeted the populations themselves and no longer merely a territory to be controlled or resources to be exploited. With the advent of the welfare state, the mountain was conceived as a collective living environment. The mountain became a territory. The considerable interest that Western societies and nation-states have shown in their mountains and “mountaineers” has radically changed the local populations’ image of themselves. That slow emergence of the mountaineer as a political figure is therefore inseparable from the emergence of the mountain as a political object.Less
Another set of policies adopted an alternative conception of the mountain mobilizing a specific kind of knowledge and practice. In several cases, in fact, without neglecting the national interest (their primary motivation), they declared objectives relating to the people most affected: the local populations. This second group of public policies was the result of an expansion in the range of objectives the modern state took on in the early twentieth century, which included education, health, and an improved standard of living. They targeted the populations themselves and no longer merely a territory to be controlled or resources to be exploited. With the advent of the welfare state, the mountain was conceived as a collective living environment. The mountain became a territory. The considerable interest that Western societies and nation-states have shown in their mountains and “mountaineers” has radically changed the local populations’ image of themselves. That slow emergence of the mountaineer as a political figure is therefore inseparable from the emergence of the mountain as a political object.
Mark Franko
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199777662
- eISBN:
- 9780199950119
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199777662.003.0002
- Subject:
- Music, Dance, History, American
This chapter analyzes Graham’s Appalachian Spring (1944) as a work that encrypts its popular front critique of American history through revisions of the scenarios Graham wrote for Aaron Copland and ...
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This chapter analyzes Graham’s Appalachian Spring (1944) as a work that encrypts its popular front critique of American history through revisions of the scenarios Graham wrote for Aaron Copland and changes in the choreography. The subtext of slavery and John Brown is discussed, the idea of character compression in Graham’s dramaturgy, and her distrust of narrative.Less
This chapter analyzes Graham’s Appalachian Spring (1944) as a work that encrypts its popular front critique of American history through revisions of the scenarios Graham wrote for Aaron Copland and changes in the choreography. The subtext of slavery and John Brown is discussed, the idea of character compression in Graham’s dramaturgy, and her distrust of narrative.
Kristin Shrader‐Frechette
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195152036
- eISBN:
- 9780199833665
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195152034.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
Using case studies focusing on Appalachian coal and California farmland, the chapter argues that ordinary people typically have unequal access to natural resources like land. A major reason for this ...
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Using case studies focusing on Appalachian coal and California farmland, the chapter argues that ordinary people typically have unequal access to natural resources like land. A major reason for this unequal access is the power of agribusiness and the corporate control of coal and other resources. It also shows that Appalachia is, in many ways, a region victimized by colonialism, even though it is within the U.S. Analyzing the concepts of end‐state justice and procedural justice, it shows that the arguments of Nozick, often used to justify environmental injustice in cases like Appalachia, are flawed. It also argues that a correct understanding of property rights, as explained in John Locke and John Rawls, can support this chapter's appeal for equal access to natural resources.Less
Using case studies focusing on Appalachian coal and California farmland, the chapter argues that ordinary people typically have unequal access to natural resources like land. A major reason for this unequal access is the power of agribusiness and the corporate control of coal and other resources. It also shows that Appalachia is, in many ways, a region victimized by colonialism, even though it is within the U.S. Analyzing the concepts of end‐state justice and procedural justice, it shows that the arguments of Nozick, often used to justify environmental injustice in cases like Appalachia, are flawed. It also argues that a correct understanding of property rights, as explained in John Locke and John Rawls, can support this chapter's appeal for equal access to natural resources.
Richard W. Jefferies
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781683400462
- eISBN:
- 9781683400684
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9781683400462.003.0009
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
Archaeological evidence from throughout much of eastern North America documents a transition from small, scattered settlements to nucleated, often circular, villages during the Late Woodland/Late ...
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Archaeological evidence from throughout much of eastern North America documents a transition from small, scattered settlements to nucleated, often circular, villages during the Late Woodland/Late Prehistoric period (ca. A.D. 1000-1600). In southwestern Virginia's Appalachian Highlands, this transition is marked by the appearance of large circular palisaded villages associated with what Howard MacCord called the Intermontane Culture. This paper investigates the origin, structure, and spatial distribution of Late Woodland circular villages across the southern Appalachian landscape and compares their emergence to similar trends in settlement structure and organization witnessed in other parts of the Appalachian Highlands and beyond.Less
Archaeological evidence from throughout much of eastern North America documents a transition from small, scattered settlements to nucleated, often circular, villages during the Late Woodland/Late Prehistoric period (ca. A.D. 1000-1600). In southwestern Virginia's Appalachian Highlands, this transition is marked by the appearance of large circular palisaded villages associated with what Howard MacCord called the Intermontane Culture. This paper investigates the origin, structure, and spatial distribution of Late Woodland circular villages across the southern Appalachian landscape and compares their emergence to similar trends in settlement structure and organization witnessed in other parts of the Appalachian Highlands and beyond.
Duncan Maysilles
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834596
- eISBN:
- 9781469603155
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807877937_maysilles
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year. After decades of copper mining, however, all that remained of the old hardwood forests in the Ducktown Mining ...
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It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year. After decades of copper mining, however, all that remained of the old hardwood forests in the Ducktown Mining District of the Southern Appalachian Mountains was a fifty-square-mile barren expanse of heavily gullied red hills—a landscape created by sulfur dioxide smoke from copper smelting and destructive logging practices. This book examines this environmental disaster, one of the worst the South has experienced, and its impact on environmental law and Appalachian conservation. Beginning in 1896, the widening destruction wrought in Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina by Ducktown copper mining spawned hundreds of private lawsuits, culminating in Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co., the U.S. Supreme Court's first air pollution case. In its 1907 decision, the Court recognized for the first time the sovereign right of individual states to protect their natural resources from transborder pollution, a foundational opinion in the formation of American environmental law. The author reveals how the Supreme Court case brought together the disparate forces of agrarian populism, industrial logging, and the forest conservation movement to set a legal precedent that remains relevant in environmental law today.Less
It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year. After decades of copper mining, however, all that remained of the old hardwood forests in the Ducktown Mining District of the Southern Appalachian Mountains was a fifty-square-mile barren expanse of heavily gullied red hills—a landscape created by sulfur dioxide smoke from copper smelting and destructive logging practices. This book examines this environmental disaster, one of the worst the South has experienced, and its impact on environmental law and Appalachian conservation. Beginning in 1896, the widening destruction wrought in Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina by Ducktown copper mining spawned hundreds of private lawsuits, culminating in Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co., the U.S. Supreme Court's first air pollution case. In its 1907 decision, the Court recognized for the first time the sovereign right of individual states to protect their natural resources from transborder pollution, a foundational opinion in the formation of American environmental law. The author reveals how the Supreme Court case brought together the disparate forces of agrarian populism, industrial logging, and the forest conservation movement to set a legal precedent that remains relevant in environmental law today.
Olive Dame Campbell
Elizabeth M. Williams (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813136448
- eISBN:
- 9780813141404
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813136448.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Olive Dame Campbell is best known as a ballad collector, but she was also a social reformer in Appalachia. Her diary is a the record of a trip that she and her husband, John C. Campbell, made in the ...
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Olive Dame Campbell is best known as a ballad collector, but she was also a social reformer in Appalachia. Her diary is a the record of a trip that she and her husband, John C. Campbell, made in the early part of the 20th century to gather data for the Russell Sage Foundation about the true social, religious, and economic conditions in the Southern Highlands. Visiting eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina, they interviewed missionaries, teachers, and settlement school workers, going to out-of-the-way villages and towns on roads that were often nothing more than creek beds. After John Campbell's death in 1919, she continued his work, finishing his book, The Southern Highlander and His Homeland, the first comprehensive history of Appalachia. All the while, she maintained her interest in folk songs, acquired on their fact-finding trip. She studied the educational principles of Scandinavian folk schools and established the John C. Campbell Folk School near Brasstown, North Carolina, to encourage the local population to continue the tradition of creating native crafts and was instrumental in the establishment of the Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild. Olive Dame Campbell's diary of their investigative trip to gather information is an entertaining and enlightening account of the places the Campbells visited and the people they met, revealing captivating details of everyday life in Appalachia at the turn of the century.Less
Olive Dame Campbell is best known as a ballad collector, but she was also a social reformer in Appalachia. Her diary is a the record of a trip that she and her husband, John C. Campbell, made in the early part of the 20th century to gather data for the Russell Sage Foundation about the true social, religious, and economic conditions in the Southern Highlands. Visiting eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina, they interviewed missionaries, teachers, and settlement school workers, going to out-of-the-way villages and towns on roads that were often nothing more than creek beds. After John Campbell's death in 1919, she continued his work, finishing his book, The Southern Highlander and His Homeland, the first comprehensive history of Appalachia. All the while, she maintained her interest in folk songs, acquired on their fact-finding trip. She studied the educational principles of Scandinavian folk schools and established the John C. Campbell Folk School near Brasstown, North Carolina, to encourage the local population to continue the tradition of creating native crafts and was instrumental in the establishment of the Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild. Olive Dame Campbell's diary of their investigative trip to gather information is an entertaining and enlightening account of the places the Campbells visited and the people they met, revealing captivating details of everyday life in Appalachia at the turn of the century.
Carol Boggess
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813174181
- eISBN:
- 9780813174815
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813174181.003.0021
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter recounts Still’s transition from teaching at Morehead to living in Knott County where problems and change were increasingly evident. President Johnson’s War on Poverty put a national ...
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This chapter recounts Still’s transition from teaching at Morehead to living in Knott County where problems and change were increasingly evident. President Johnson’s War on Poverty put a national focus on the region’s economy and environment. Still continued to develop his public personality during the 1970s and built connections with people like Cratis Williams, Robert Higgs, Harry Caudill, Bill Weinberg, and Mike Mullins. He was inadvertently becoming part of the emerging Appalachian Studies movement that would lead eventually to the title unofficially bestowed on him: Dean of Appalachian Literature.Less
This chapter recounts Still’s transition from teaching at Morehead to living in Knott County where problems and change were increasingly evident. President Johnson’s War on Poverty put a national focus on the region’s economy and environment. Still continued to develop his public personality during the 1970s and built connections with people like Cratis Williams, Robert Higgs, Harry Caudill, Bill Weinberg, and Mike Mullins. He was inadvertently becoming part of the emerging Appalachian Studies movement that would lead eventually to the title unofficially bestowed on him: Dean of Appalachian Literature.
John R. Dichtl
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813124865
- eISBN:
- 9780813135106
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813124865.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
In attempts to find new opportunities away from the east coast, some Catholics opted to settle in or across the west part of Pennsylvania in Appalachians, Kentucky, and areas in between since they ...
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In attempts to find new opportunities away from the east coast, some Catholics opted to settle in or across the west part of Pennsylvania in Appalachians, Kentucky, and areas in between since they felt that they would prefer to be in the company of fellow religionists at the Ohio River valley's western or eastern end. In spite of how these Catholics tended to group together, they found themselves surrounded by nonbelievers, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, and those of other religions. Because of uncertainty during the 1780s, Father John Carroll had to watch carefully what he referred to as the Protestants' “extreme circumspection” towards American Catholicism. Carroll's assessment involved how Catholics had to act warily so that they would not have to experience political and legal backlash.Less
In attempts to find new opportunities away from the east coast, some Catholics opted to settle in or across the west part of Pennsylvania in Appalachians, Kentucky, and areas in between since they felt that they would prefer to be in the company of fellow religionists at the Ohio River valley's western or eastern end. In spite of how these Catholics tended to group together, they found themselves surrounded by nonbelievers, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, and those of other religions. Because of uncertainty during the 1780s, Father John Carroll had to watch carefully what he referred to as the Protestants' “extreme circumspection” towards American Catholicism. Carroll's assessment involved how Catholics had to act warily so that they would not have to experience political and legal backlash.
John R. Dichtl
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813124865
- eISBN:
- 9780813135106
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813124865.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
This chapter tells the story of the Livingston family. The Livingston family living near Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and in 1789, or 1790, they openly accommodated a severely ill poor Irish traveler to ...
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This chapter tells the story of the Livingston family. The Livingston family living near Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and in 1789, or 1790, they openly accommodated a severely ill poor Irish traveler to their home. They did this in spite of the fact that they were Lutheran and the Irishman was Catholic. However, Mr. Livingston did not grant the dying man's request to send for a priest, and he died without receiving his last rites. After which, it was believed that the Livingstons were often plagued by malicious spirits. Mr. Livingston sent for Lutheran and other Protestant ministers to help, unfortunately they proved ineffective. Mr. Livingston thus called for Father Dennis Cahill and Father Demetrius Gallitzin to combat the evil spirits. This story ends with how the Livingstons opted to convert to Catholicism.Less
This chapter tells the story of the Livingston family. The Livingston family living near Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and in 1789, or 1790, they openly accommodated a severely ill poor Irish traveler to their home. They did this in spite of the fact that they were Lutheran and the Irishman was Catholic. However, Mr. Livingston did not grant the dying man's request to send for a priest, and he died without receiving his last rites. After which, it was believed that the Livingstons were often plagued by malicious spirits. Mr. Livingston sent for Lutheran and other Protestant ministers to help, unfortunately they proved ineffective. Mr. Livingston thus called for Father Dennis Cahill and Father Demetrius Gallitzin to combat the evil spirits. This story ends with how the Livingstons opted to convert to Catholicism.
John R. Dichtl
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813124865
- eISBN:
- 9780813135106
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813124865.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
Catholics who resided in the trans-Appalachian West fostered good relations and interaction with the neighboring Protestants and those of other non-Catholic religions. Although there may have been ...
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Catholics who resided in the trans-Appalachian West fostered good relations and interaction with the neighboring Protestants and those of other non-Catholic religions. Although there may have been some instances in which the Catholics opposed their neighbors, they nonetheless considered their non-Catholic neighbors in their endeavors of establishing a religious presence. The Catholic clergy, along with their Protestant counterparts, had high hopes for the area since they had various visions involving overcoming manpower, money, distance, and other such obstructions as well as the initiation of seminaries and schools, the establishment of church buildings, the reinforcement of ecclesiastical authority, as well as the attainment of the acceptance of the Protestant majority. The West proved to have presented both challenges and opportunities that shifted the focus of the clergy outward.Less
Catholics who resided in the trans-Appalachian West fostered good relations and interaction with the neighboring Protestants and those of other non-Catholic religions. Although there may have been some instances in which the Catholics opposed their neighbors, they nonetheless considered their non-Catholic neighbors in their endeavors of establishing a religious presence. The Catholic clergy, along with their Protestant counterparts, had high hopes for the area since they had various visions involving overcoming manpower, money, distance, and other such obstructions as well as the initiation of seminaries and schools, the establishment of church buildings, the reinforcement of ecclesiastical authority, as well as the attainment of the acceptance of the Protestant majority. The West proved to have presented both challenges and opportunities that shifted the focus of the clergy outward.
Dawn Gilchrist
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496814531
- eISBN:
- 9781496814579
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496814531.003.0023
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This essay looks at how AP students in rural poverty respond to Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path.” In a tiered assignment that includes both conversation and writing, college-bound, rural, white and ...
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This essay looks at how AP students in rural poverty respond to Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path.” In a tiered assignment that includes both conversation and writing, college-bound, rural, white and Native American students create questions that require an analysis of the story’s meanings. It is their exploration of Welty’s characterization, her depiction of class, and her use of allegory as a layering device that allows them to understand her theme. However, it is their self-conscious awareness of the academy’s interest in uplifting them as the downtrodden that authentically connects Welty’s underclass to their own lives.Less
This essay looks at how AP students in rural poverty respond to Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path.” In a tiered assignment that includes both conversation and writing, college-bound, rural, white and Native American students create questions that require an analysis of the story’s meanings. It is their exploration of Welty’s characterization, her depiction of class, and her use of allegory as a layering device that allows them to understand her theme. However, it is their self-conscious awareness of the academy’s interest in uplifting them as the downtrodden that authentically connects Welty’s underclass to their own lives.
