Appalachian History

We post a new episode of Appalachian History weekly podcast every Sunday. You can start listening right away by clicking the podcast icon over on the left side of your screen. If you’d rather grab the show off itunes for later listening, click here. We open today’s show with a review of the recently published [...]

Please welcome guest blogger Lynn Salsi, author of “The Jack Tales” and “Young Ray Hicks Learns the Jack Tales.” She has received the American Library Association’s Notable Book Award, six Willie Parker Peace History Book Awards for her non-fiction books about North Carolina, and was named the North Carolina Historian of the Year in 2001. [...]

We post a new episode of Appalachian History weekly podcast every Sunday. You can start listening right away by clicking the podcast icon over on the left side of your screen. If you’d rather grab the show off itunes for later listening, click here. We open today’s show with a dark chapter from Virginia history. [...]

We post a new episode of Appalachian History weekly podcast every Sunday. You can start listening right away by clicking the podcast icon over on the left side of your screen. If you’d rather grab the show off itunes for later listening, click here. We open today’s show with the details on Kentucky’s cave wars [...]

Please welcome guest blogger Beth Kephart. Kephart is an award-winning author of what is now ten books—memoir,poetry,corporate, fable, history, and literary novels for young adults—who is currently at work on a novel for adults. He must have been short, my brother tells me. I saw a portrait of his face, full on, he says, for [...]