Appalachia

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• SOURCE: Pacific Standard
  1/16/19
  

  Jessica Wilkerson: If We Forget Appalachia's Radical History, We Will Misunderstand Its Future

  In her new book, Jessica Wilkerson tells the stories of the radical mountain women who fought against bosses and laid the groundwork for ensuing generations of Appalachian resistance.

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• SOURCE: The Activist History Review
  4-25-18
  

  This is what happened when a historian with a rural background wrote favorably about gun control in the Washington Post

  by Nathan Wuertenberg

  He was subjected to anti-Semitic diatribes from people who denied he represented rural America.

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• SOURCE: WSP
  2-12-18
  

  RFK's visit to Appalachia, 50 years later: How Kennedy country became Trump country

  Children of Kennedy Democrats are Trump Republicans. And for those inspired by RFK in 1968, what should be a happy anniversary is instead an occasion to puzzle a drastic reversal of political fortune.

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  2-6-18
  

  The Truth About Appalachia

  A conversation with historian Elizabeth Catte, author of a new book that upends narratives about a region that has been dubbed Trump Country

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1-31-18
  

  Historian Makes Case For "What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia" In New Book

  Historian Elizabeth Catte takes on J.D. Vance's memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."