The History Of An Appalachian Family
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The History Of An Appalachian Family
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Author : Nancy Richmond
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2010-12-22
The History Of An Appalachian Family written by Nancy Richmond and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-22 with Family & Relationships categories.
'The History of an Appalachian Family' traces the lives of one West Virginia family back through history to their roots in Europe, and to some of history's greatest figures, a journey of over one thousand years.
Spirits In The Field
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Author : Bruce Hopkins
language : en
Publisher: Bruce Hopkins
Release Date : 2003
Spirits In The Field written by Bruce Hopkins and has been published by Bruce Hopkins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Stories of the Hopkins and Prater families who lived around Greasy Creek in Pike County, Kentucky.
The Freeman Family
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Author : Christopher D. Freeman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The Freeman Family written by Christopher D. Freeman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Wise County (Va.) categories.
Only When They Re Little
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Author : Kate Pickens Day
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985-01-01
Only When They Re Little written by Kate Pickens Day and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-01-01 with Fiction categories.
In the little town of Tarpley, North Carolina, Cora Barker "is an energetic, well-educated woman who is devoted to seeing each member of her family excel in their own particular ways."--Jacket.
A History Of The Young Family Of Appalachia
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Author : Jeffrey Young
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
A History Of The Young Family Of Appalachia written by Jeffrey Young and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Appalachian Region categories.
Hillbilly Elegy
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Author : J. D. Vance
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2018-05-01
Hillbilly Elegy written by J. D. Vance and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-01 with Social Science categories.
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
An American Heritage
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Author : Pamela Adams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-10-08
An American Heritage written by Pamela Adams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-08 with categories.
"A people without a heritage are easily persuaded." - Karl Marx"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." - George OrwellUntil recently, as generations married and started families, they usually remained in or around their hometown. Therefore, children had frequent contact with their grandparents and great-grandparents. As a result, children were showered with endless stories of their ancestors. Though the children complained about grandpa's endless dronings, years later they recalled to their grandchildren, "As my pappy use to say..." Family heritages were preserved and shared through oral stories for generations. Today, some children are lucky if they see their grandparents once a year.In school, we learned the major events and incidents of American and World history. Yet with social issues overtaking the importance of learning our past, we are losing more and more of those facts as well.Both of these phenomenons are affecting the same thing - our heritage. Orwell exposed how progressives are successfully teaching our children to deny and obliterate their own history. While that happens, people are looking to fill the void. As Marx said, someone will always be there ready to influence the people's direction. As history proves, this never ends well.This book marries the two normally separated topics into one. Follow a particular family as they experience national and world-wide events from the early 18th century to the end of the 20th century. Yet this is not just the Spencer's heritage, it's An American Heritage.
A History Of Appalachia
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Author : Richard B. Drake
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2003-09-01
A History Of Appalachia written by Richard B. Drake and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-01 with History categories.
Richard Drake has skillfully woven together the various strands of the Appalachian experience into a sweeping whole. Touching upon folk traditions, health care, the environment, higher education, the role of blacks and women, and much more, Drake offers a compelling social history of a unique American region. The Appalachian region, extending from Alabama in the South up to the Allegheny highlands of Pennsylvania, has historically been characterized by its largely rural populations, rich natural resources that have fueled industry in other parts of the country, and the strong and wild, undeveloped land. The rugged geography of the region allowed Native American societies, especially the Cherokee, to flourish. Early white settlers tended to favor a self-sufficient approach to farming, contrary to the land grabbing and plantation building going on elsewhere in the South. The growth of a market economy and competition from other agricultural areas of the country sparked an economic decline of the region's rural population at least as early as 1830. The Civil War and the sometimes hostile legislation of Reconstruction made life even more difficult for rural Appalachians. Recent history of the region is marked by the corporate exploitation of resources. Regional oil, gas, and coal had attracted some industry even before the Civil War, but the postwar years saw an immense expansion of American industry, nearly all of which relied heavily on Appalachian fossil fuels, particularly coal. What was initially a boon to the region eventually brought financial disaster to many mountain people as unsafe working conditions and strip mining ravaged the land and its inhabitants. A History of Appalachia also examines pockets of urbanization in Appalachia. Chemical, textile, and other industries have encouraged the development of urban areas. At the same time, radio, television, and the internet provide residents direct links to cultures from all over the world. The author looks at the process of urbanization as it belies commonly held notions about the region's rural character.
The Mountain Family
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Author : Tzirel Rus Berger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Mountain Family written by Tzirel Rus Berger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Jewish converts from Christianity categories.
True Names
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Author : Malaika Adero
language : en
Publisher: Center Street
Release Date : 2020-12-01
True Names written by Malaika Adero and has been published by Center Street this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-01 with Social Science categories.
African Americans in Southern Appalachia faced a particularly rural kind of oppression, no matter what names they were called-black, Melungeon or mulatto. True Names: Four Generations of My Afro Appalachian Family tells the story of four generations of Black people, burdened by the absurdities of race, who created a rich, triumphant family culture in Knoxville, Tennessee. African Americans are particularly challenged when they attempt to know the history of their families. Facts of their ancestors' lives are often lost in time and rarely recorded. True Names brings together the evidence of the African American presence in Appalachia from the time Africans and Europeans first arrived in the region centuries ago. This well-researched narrative of two families coming together in their process of emancipation from the end of Slavery to the Black Power movement is based on oral histories, government records and family documents. Set in East Tennessee, it reaches far beyond, to other places--South, North and Midwest. In personal and political terms, it reveals the impact of the Great Migration on individuals who chose to remain in the South. Their story is that they survived and thrived by maintaining family culture and values across distance and time. True Names reveals this sustaining family culture, an untold part of the history of rural America, recently popularized in such books as Hillbilly Elegy and The Glass Castle. Sgt. Grundy Crump, who served in the Civil War, begins the story; it continues with the author's mother, who successfully battled for a place for herself and her five children to thrive in the turbulent 1960s; and it concludes with the author's affirmation of her own identity and the right to her own true name.