March 2008
New Books Received

Terri M. Baker and Connie Oliver Henshaw, Editors. Women who Pioneered Oklahoma: Stories from the WPA Narratives. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. 226 pages with foreword by M. Susan Savage and photos.Hardback with dust jacket, $29.95.

John Benhart Jr. Appalachian Aspirations: The Geography of Urbanization and Development in the Upper Tennessee River Valley, 1865-1900. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. 184 pages with photos, maps, and tables. Hardback with dust jacket, $38.00.

Marla Browne, Ellen Lohmeyer, Cassie Robinson, and Jinny Turman, Editors. Appalachia: Ways of Seeing, Ways of Knowing. Boone: Appalachian State University, 2000. 121 pages with photos. Spiralbound, no price listed.

Jan Carew. The Guyanese Wanderer. Louisville: Sarabande Books, 2007. 107 pages with introduction by Austin Clarke. Trade paperback, $14.95.

Mark de Castrique. Final Undertaking: A Barry Clayton Mystery. Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press, 2007. 255 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.

Billy C. Clark. To Catch an Autumn. Nicholasville: Wind Publications, 2007. 76 pages. Trade paperback, $15.00.

Mark DeFoe. Weekend Update. Charlotte: Main Street Rag, 2008. 44 pages. Trade paperback, $10.00.

David H. Dye. Cave Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands: Essays in Honor of Patty Jo Watson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. 278 with photos, tables, and maps. Hardback with dust jacket, $42.95.

Bruce W. Eelman. Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry: Commercial Culture in Spartanburg, South Carolina 1845-1880. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. 320 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $42.95.

Christopher J. Einolf. George Thomas: Virginian for the Union. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. 413 pages with maps and photos. Hardback with dust jacket, $29.95.

Charles H. Faulkner. The Ramseys at Swan Pond: The Archaeology and History of an East Tennessee Farm. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. 168 pages with photos and illustrations. Hardback with dust jacket, $39.95.

Steve Flairty. Kentucky’s Everyday Heroes. Nicholasville: Wind Publications, 2008. 163 pages with foreword by David Dick and photos. Trade paperback, $15.00.

Thomas Hughes. Rugby, Tennessee: Some Account of the Settlement Founded on the Cumberland Plateau. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. 168 pages with introduction by Benita J. Howell. Trade paperback, $17.95.

Leatha Kendrick. Second Opinion. Cincinnati: David Roberts Books, 2008. 68 pages. Trade paperback, $17.00.

Gene Logsdon. The Last of the Husbandmen: A Novel of Farming Life. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. 333 pages. Trade paperback, $16.95.

Brent Martin. Poems from Snow Hill Road. Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2007. 20 pages. Staplebound Paperback, $8.00.
Kevin McFadden. Hardscrabble. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. 101 pages. Trade paperback, $16.95.

Kristine M. McCusker. Lonesome Girls and Honky-Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. 224 pages with photographs. Trade paperback. $19.95. [comes out on April 14, 2008].

Donald Ray Pollock. Knockemstiff. New York: Doubleday, 2008. 224 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $22.95.

Katrina M. Powell. The Anguish of Displacement: The Politics of Literacy in the Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. 212 pages with photos and map. Hardback with dust jacket, $35.00.

Frederick Ramsay. Buffalo Mountain. Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press, 2007. 257 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.

C. Lynn Shaffer. Persistence of Vision. Nicholasville: Wind Publications, 2008. 87 pages with introduction by John Drury. Trade paperback, $15.00.

Deborah Smith. A Gentle Rain. Smyrna, GA: BelleBooks, Inc., 2007. 372 pages. Trade paperback, $16.95.

Margaret Connell Szasz. Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. 285 pages with maps and photos. Hardback with dust jacket, $34.95.

Pia Taavila. Moon on the Meadow. Washington, D.C.: Galludet University Press, 2008. 140 pages. Trade paperback, $24.95.

Allen Tate. Collected Poems, 19119-1976. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2007. 218 pages. Trade paperback. $16.00.

Robert J. Trout, Editor. Memoirs of the Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion: Moorman’s and Hart’s Batteries. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. 373 pages with foreword by Peter S. Carmichael and photos. Hardback with dustjacket, no price listed.

Jane Van Ryan. The Seduction of Miss Evelyn Hazen. Glen Echo, MD: GlenEcho Publishers, 2006. 307 pages. Trade paperback, $14.95.

Barry Aron Vann. In Search of Ulster-Scots Land: The Birth and Geotheological Imagings of a Transatlantic People, 1603-1703. Columbia: University of South Carolina press, 2008. 252 pages with maps, tables, and photos. Hardback with dust jacket, $39.95.

REPRINTS

J. Lee Annis Jr. Howard Baker: Conciliator in an Age of Crisis. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, a 2007 reprint of a 1995 original. 326 pages with photos. Trade paperback, $19.95.

Fred Brown Jr. and Juanita Blair. Days of Anger, Days of Tears: The History of the Rowan County War. Nicholasville: Wind Publications, a 2007 reprint. 235 pages with photos. Hardback with pictorial cover, $22.00.

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Rebecca Caudill. Happy Little Family. Bathgate, ND: Bethlehem Books, 2004. 107 pages with illustrations by Decie Merwin. Trade paperback, $10.95.

Brenda Gough. Legend of the Dogwood. Johnson City: Overmountain Press, 2008. 26 pages with illustrations by Malinda Mays. Hardback with pictorial cover, $16.95.

 

Appalachian Heritage is part of the Appalachian Center of Berea College.
Header photo by Dean Hill.
Become a contributor  |  Subscribe