Author: Alessandro Portelli
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199934851
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter.
They Say in Harlan County
Author: Alessandro Portelli
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199934851
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199934851
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter.
A History of Harlan County
Author: Mabel Green Condon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harlan County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harlan County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Growing Up Hard in Harlan County
Author: Green C. Jones
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813115213
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
G.C. “Red” Jones’s classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of “Bloody Harlan,” and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian history.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813115213
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
G.C. “Red” Jones’s classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of “Bloody Harlan,” and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian history.
Which Side are You On?
Author: John W. Hevener
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252070778
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Detailing the dimensions of unionization and the balance of power spawned by New Deal labor policy after government intervention, this book is the definitive analysis of Harlan's bloody decade.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252070778
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Detailing the dimensions of unionization and the balance of power spawned by New Deal labor policy after government intervention, this book is the definitive analysis of Harlan's bloody decade.
Farther Along: Origins of the Cobb, Pope, and Ball Families of Harlan County, Kentucky
Author: John Rhinehart
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794886346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
The book traces the progenitors of the Harlan County, Kentucky, Cobb, Pope, and Ball families from their known North American origins in colonial Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina to their eventual settlement in eastern Tennessee, western Virginia, and southeastern Kentucky. Substantial national, state, and local history is included in the narrative for the purpose of setting the people discussed in the context of their times. Issues such as the Methodist Church and the slavery issue, and Kentucky and the secession crisis are considered, as is Harlan County and the Civil War. Much attention is given to Harlan County's political history, from its Democratic-Whig beginnings to the Radical Republicanism of the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877. The narrative ends about 1900. Roughly 100 of the 500 pages of the book are exhibits.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794886346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
The book traces the progenitors of the Harlan County, Kentucky, Cobb, Pope, and Ball families from their known North American origins in colonial Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina to their eventual settlement in eastern Tennessee, western Virginia, and southeastern Kentucky. Substantial national, state, and local history is included in the narrative for the purpose of setting the people discussed in the context of their times. Issues such as the Methodist Church and the slavery issue, and Kentucky and the secession crisis are considered, as is Harlan County and the Civil War. Much attention is given to Harlan County's political history, from its Democratic-Whig beginnings to the Radical Republicanism of the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877. The narrative ends about 1900. Roughly 100 of the 500 pages of the book are exhibits.
History of Harlan County, Kentucky
Author: Henry Harvey Fuson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harlan County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harlan County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Harlan Renaissance
Author: William H Turner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781952271212
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Black life in Appalachia.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781952271212
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Black life in Appalachia.
Harlan County Haunts
Author: Darla Jackson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615199143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Harlan County Haunts explores the unknown with over 60 tales of spooky encounters and weird occurrences. Although the focus is on Harlan County, there are stories from around the southeastern Kentucky region as well as other states. Featured in Harlan County Haunts is the novella, "Caroline", which highlights one of Harlan County's most compelling unsolved crimes.Jackson, a lifelong Native of Harlan County, takes you on a ghostly journey through the mountains of Appalachia and beyond. Harlan County Haunts contains ghosts, monsters, angels, and many personal accounts of encounters with the unexplained.Harlan County Haunts was over two years in the making, with Jackson compiling well over 100 true accounts of experiences with the paranormal. After many interviews and research, the stories in the book are what she considered the best and most credible.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615199143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Harlan County Haunts explores the unknown with over 60 tales of spooky encounters and weird occurrences. Although the focus is on Harlan County, there are stories from around the southeastern Kentucky region as well as other states. Featured in Harlan County Haunts is the novella, "Caroline", which highlights one of Harlan County's most compelling unsolved crimes.Jackson, a lifelong Native of Harlan County, takes you on a ghostly journey through the mountains of Appalachia and beyond. Harlan County Haunts contains ghosts, monsters, angels, and many personal accounts of encounters with the unexplained.Harlan County Haunts was over two years in the making, with Jackson compiling well over 100 true accounts of experiences with the paranormal. After many interviews and research, the stories in the book are what she considered the best and most credible.
Harlan County, Kentucky
Author: Holly Fee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harlan County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harlan County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Harlan County Stories
Author: Lydia Dykes
Publisher: Ascended Ideas
ISBN: 9780982396988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Harlan County has many stories... Ever wonder how Billy G. Hollow or Maggie Lane got their names? Did you know Benham has its own mafia? Who held the record as the oldest citizen of Kentucky at the time he died? Which Benham citizen once cooked at the Smithsonian? And what exactly is a 'Blistered Cat' or a 'Harlan County Smoky'? Harlan County, Kentucky has a long history and a multitude of stories. Lydia Dykes has brought together the stories behind some of the people and places that are a part of the rich history of the region that many people may not know.
Publisher: Ascended Ideas
ISBN: 9780982396988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Harlan County has many stories... Ever wonder how Billy G. Hollow or Maggie Lane got their names? Did you know Benham has its own mafia? Who held the record as the oldest citizen of Kentucky at the time he died? Which Benham citizen once cooked at the Smithsonian? And what exactly is a 'Blistered Cat' or a 'Harlan County Smoky'? Harlan County, Kentucky has a long history and a multitude of stories. Lydia Dykes has brought together the stories behind some of the people and places that are a part of the rich history of the region that many people may not know.