Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

‘Who are you intending to overcome?’ A talk with Pete Seeger

“We’ll overcome our tendencies to solve our problems with killing and learn to work together to bring this world together.”

The Cult of Individualism explores the rarely discussed cultural differences leading to today’s seemingly intractable political divides.

How does it feel to be deeply rooted in Appalachian community, to know that you belong from the past, and forward? Not an idle question.

Robert Winans, co-curator of a Baltimore Museum of Industry exhibition on the early banjo, explores how it moved from Africa into Appalachia.

Did Jacob Snider & family live long, prosperous lives on Maryland’s Catoctin Mountain? Or were they murdered by Susquehanna Indians in 1790?