Richard A. Straw is professor of history at Radford University, the author of Images of America: Blacksburg, and has published articles on Appalachian foodways, on Mike Seeger, and on the United Mine Workers of America, coal mining, and historical photography. H. Tyler Blethen is Creighton Sossomon Professor of History and director of the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University, and a coeditor of Ulster and North America: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Scotch-Irish.

Appalachian Writers Association, Appalachian Book of the Year Award in Nonfiction, 2005. Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, 2005.— Appalachian Writers AssociationAppalachian Writers Association, Appalachian Book of the Year Award in Nonfiction, 2005. Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, 2005.— Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award

• Acknowledgments   vi Introduction   1   Richard A. Straw1. Native Americans   7   C. Clifford Boyd Jr.2. Pioneer Settlement   17   H. Tyler Blethen3. Slavery and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century   30   John C. Inscoe4. The Civil War and Reconstruction   46   Gordon B. McKinney5. Industrialization   59   Ronald L. Lewis6. The Great Depression   74   Paul Salstrom7. Migration   88   Phillip J. Obermiller8. Stereotypes   101   David C. Hsiung9. Music   114   Bill C. Malone10. Folklife   135   Michael Ann Williams11. English Language   147   Michael Montgomery12. Literature   165   Ted Olson13. Religion   179   Deborah Vansau McCauley14. Modernization, 1940-2000   197   Ronald D Eller Suggested Readings   221Contributors   231Index   235

Richard A. Straw is professor of history at Radford University, the author of Images of America: Blacksburg, and has published articles on Appalachian foodways, on Mike Seeger, and on the United Mine Workers of America, coal mining, and historical photography. H. Tyler Blethen is Creighton Sossomon Professor of History and director of the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University, and a coeditor of Ulster and North America: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Scotch-Irish.

Appalachian Writers Association, Appalachian Book of the Year Award in Nonfiction, 2005. Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, 2005.— Appalachian Writers AssociationAppalachian Writers Association, Appalachian Book of the Year Award in Nonfiction, 2005. Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, 2005.— Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award

• Acknowledgments   vi Introduction   1   Richard A. Straw1. Native Americans   7   C. Clifford Boyd Jr.2. Pioneer Settlement   17   H. Tyler Blethen3. Slavery and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century   30   John C. Inscoe4. The Civil War and Reconstruction   46   Gordon B. McKinney5. Industrialization   59   Ronald L. Lewis6. The Great Depression   74   Paul Salstrom7. Migration   88   Phillip J. Obermiller8. Stereotypes   101   David C. Hsiung9. Music   114   Bill C. Malone10. Folklife   135   Michael Ann Williams11. English Language   147   Michael Montgomery12. Literature   165   Ted Olson13. Religion   179   Deborah Vansau McCauley14. Modernization, 1940-2000   197   Ronald D Eller Suggested Readings   221Contributors   231Index   235

Richard A. Straw is professor of history at Radford University, the author of Images of America: Blacksburg, and has published articles on Appalachian foodways, on Mike Seeger, and on the United Mine Workers of America, coal mining, and historical photography. H. Tyler Blethen is Creighton Sossomon Professor of History and director of the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University, and a coeditor of Ulster and North America: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Scotch-Irish.

Appalachian Writers Association, Appalachian Book of the Year Award in Nonfiction, 2005. Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, 2005.— Appalachian Writers AssociationAppalachian Writers Association, Appalachian Book of the Year Award in Nonfiction, 2005. Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, 2005.— Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award

• Acknowledgments   vi Introduction   1   Richard A. Straw1. Native Americans   7   C. Clifford Boyd Jr.2. Pioneer Settlement   17   H. Tyler Blethen3. Slavery and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century   30   John C. Inscoe4. The Civil War and Reconstruction   46   Gordon B. McKinney5. Industrialization   59   Ronald L. Lewis6. The Great Depression   74   Paul Salstrom7. Migration   88   Phillip J. Obermiller8. Stereotypes   101   David C. Hsiung9. Music   114   Bill C. Malone10. Folklife   135   Michael Ann Williams11. English Language   147   Michael Montgomery12. Literature   165   Ted Olson13. Religion   179   Deborah Vansau McCauley14. Modernization, 1940-2000   197   Ronald D Eller Suggested Readings   221Contributors   231Index   235