Author: John Charles CampbellPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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The Future of the Church and Independent Schools in Our Southern Highlands
Author: John Charles CampbellPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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The Southern Highlander and His Homeland
Author: John Charles CampbellPublisher:
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Category : Appalachians (People)
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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The Life and Work of John C. Campbell
Author: Olive Dame CampbellPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813168554
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 723
Book Description
John C. Campbell (1867–1919) is widely considered to be a pioneer in the objective study of the complex world of Appalachian mountaineers. Thanks to a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation, Campbell traveled throughout the region with his wife—noted social reformer and "songcatcher" Olive Dame Campbell—interviewing and profiling its people. His landmark work, The Southern Highlander and His Homeland, is cited by nearly every scholar writing about the region, yet little has been published about the Campbells and their role in the sociological, educational, and cultural history of Appalachia. Elizabeth McCutchen Williams has prepared the first critical edition of Olive Dame Campbell's comprehensive overview of her husband's life and work—a project left unfinished at the time of Olive's death. Never before published, this unique volume draws extensively on diary entries and personal letters to illuminate the significance and lasting impact of John C. Campbell's contributions. The result is a dynamic blend of biography and collected correspondence that presents an insightful portrait of the influential educator and reformer.
Appalachia on Our Mind
Author: Henry D. ShapiroPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469617242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Appalachia on Our Mind is not a history of Appalachia. It is rather a history of the American idea of Appalachia. The author argues that the emergence of this idea has little to do with the realities of mountain life but was the result of a need to reconcile the "otherness" of Appalachia, as decribed by local-color writers, tourists, and home missionaries, with assumptions about the nature of America and American civilization. Between 1870 and 1900, it became clear that the existence of the "strange land and peculiar people" of the southern mountains challenged dominant notions about the basic homogeneity of the American people and the progress of the United States toward achiving a uniform national civilization. Some people attempted to explain Appalachian otherness as normal and natural -- no exception to the rule of progress. Others attempted the practical integration of Appalachia into America through philanthropic work. In the twentieth century, however, still other people began questioning their assumptions about the characteristics of American civilization itself, ultimately defining Appalachia as a region in a nation of regions and the mountaineers as a people in a nation of peoples. In his skillful examination of the "invention" of the idea of Appalachia and its impact on American thought and action during the early twentieth century, Mr. Shapiro analyzes the following: the "discovery" of Appalachia as a field for fiction by the local-color writers and as a field for benevolent work by the home missionaries of the northern Protestant churches; the emergence of the "problem" of Appalachia and attempts to solve it through explanation and social action; the articulation of a regionalist definition of Appalachia and the establishment of instituions that reinforced that definition; the impact of that regionalistic definition of Appalachia on the conduct of systematic benevolence, expecially in the context of the debate over child-labor restriction and the transformation of philanthropy into community work; and the attempt to discover the bases for an indigenous mountain culture in handicrafts, folksong, and folkdance.
Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century
Author: Wayne FlyntPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817319085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
12. Religion for the Blues: Evangelicalism, Poor Whites, and the Great Depression -- 13. Conflicted Interpretations of Christ, the Church, and the American Constitution -- 14. The South's Battle over God -- 15. God's Politics: Is Southern Religion Blue, Red, or Purple? -- Notes -- Wayne Flynt's Works about Southern Religion Published in Books, Journals, and Anthologies from 1963 to 2011 -- Index
Bibliographical Contributions
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The Cumulative Book Index
Author: The Politics of Education in the New South
Author: Rebecca S. MontgomeryPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807133477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Alarmed at the growing poverty, illiteracy, class strife, and vulnerability of women after the upheavals of Reconstruction, female activists in Georgia advocated a fair and just system of education as a way of providing economic opportunity for women and the rural and urban poor. Their focus on educational reform transfigured private and public social relations in the New South, as Rebecca S. Montgomery details in this expansive study. The Politics of Education in the New South provides the most complete picture of women's role in expanding the democratic promise of education in the South and reveals how concern about their own status motivated these women to push for reform on behalf of others. Montgomery argues that women's prolonged campaign for educational improvements reflected their concern for distributing public resources more equitably. Middle-class white women in Georgia recognized the crippling effects of discrimination and state inaction, which they came to understand in terms of both gender and class. They subsequently pushed for admission of women to Georgia's state colleges and universities and for rural school improvement, home extension services, public kindergartens, child labor reforms, and the establishment of female-run boarding schools in the mountains of North Georgia. In the process, a distinct female political culture developed that directly opposed the individualism, corruption, and short-sightedness that plagued formal politics in the New South.
Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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