Appalachian Studies

Cooper, Baron. 2017. The Best Things About West Virginia. Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified. Gag book about the best things in WV.

Gold, David M. 2017. The Jacksonian Conservatism of Rufus P. Ranney: The Politics and Jurisprudence of a Northern Democrat from the Age of Jackson to the Gilded Age. Ohio University Press Series on Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest. Athens: Ohio University Press. In The Jacksonian Conservatism of Rufus P. Ranney, David M. Gold works with the public record to reveal the contours of the life and work of one of Ohio's most intriguing legal figures.

Holdren, Wendy. “An Appalachian Experience Lives On.” Wonderful West Virginia Vol 83 No. 7 (July 2019): 16-21.  Originally intended as a one-time celebration of West Virginia’s centennial, the Mountain State Art and Craft Fair remains a celebration of the state’s most talented artists and artisans.

Keesling, Lee. 2017. Proud to Be from West Virginia : Part of the Home Town Pride Series. Home Town Pride. Charleston, South Carolina: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 58 pp. Activity book that guides the reader through their pride for the state of West Virginia.

Schumann, William, Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, editors.  Appalachia Revisited: New Perspectives on Place, Tradition, and Progress (Place Matters New Direction Appal Stds).  318 pages.  University Press of Kentucky (June 2, 2016).  In this innovative volume, editors William Schumann and Rebecca Adkins Fletcher assemble both scholars and nonprofit practitioners to examine how Appalachia is perceived both within and beyond its borders. Together, they investigate the region's transformation and analyze the current approach as a topic of academic inquiry.  Arguing that interdisciplinary and comparative place-based studies increasingly matter, the contributors investigate numerous topics, including race and gender, environmental transformation, university-community collaborations, cyber identities, fracking, contemporary activist strategies, and analyze Appalachia in the context of local-to-global change.  A path breaking study analyzing continuity and change in the region through a global framework, Appalachia Revisited is essential reading for scholars and students as well as for policymakers, community and charitable organizers, and those involved in community development.

Stoll, Steven. 2017. Ramp Hollow : The Ordeal of Appalachia. First ed. New York: Hill and Wang. 412 pp. Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, from the earliest European settlers. He covers crucial episodes such as the Whiskey Rebellion and the founding of West Virginia, and the arrival of timber and coal companies that set off a devastating "scramble for Appalachia." Along the way Stoll questions our assumptions about progress and development, and exposes the devastating legacy of dispossession and its repercussions today (from book jacket).