West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies最新文献

{"title":"William Marland, William Woodson Trent, and Cecil Underwood: West Virginia Leaders in the Era of Civil Rights","authors":"Sam F. Stack","doi":"10.1353/wvh.2023.a913798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wvh.2023.a913798","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350051,"journal":{"name":"West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"155 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139344443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Endless Caverns: An Underground Journey into the Show Caves of Appalachia by Douglas Reichert Powell (review)","authors":"Joe Lebold","doi":"10.1353/wvh.2023.a913800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wvh.2023.a913800","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350051,"journal":{"name":"West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"187 - 188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139346277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Born Merchant: Local Influence on Extractive Industry in Pocahontas County, West Virginia","authors":"Kristen Bailey","doi":"10.1353/wvh.2023.a913797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wvh.2023.a913797","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350051,"journal":{"name":"West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"127 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139344013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On the Plains in '65: The 6th West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry in the West by George H. Holliday (review)","authors":"Molly C. Mersmann","doi":"10.1353/wvh.2023.a913802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wvh.2023.a913802","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350051,"journal":{"name":"West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"189 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139345925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toward Cherokee Removal: Land, Violence, and the White Man's Chance by Adam J. Pratt (review)","authors":"Brooke M. Bauer","doi":"10.1353/wvh.2023.a913804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wvh.2023.a913804","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350051,"journal":{"name":"West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"183 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139345628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gwinnett County, Georgia, and the Transformation of the American South, 1818–2018 ed. by Michael Gagnon and Matthew Hild (review)","authors":"M. Buseman","doi":"10.1353/wvh.2023.a913801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wvh.2023.a913801","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350051,"journal":{"name":"West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"184 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139343630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Through the Mountains: The French Broad River and Time by John E. Ross (review)","authors":"Robert Hunt Ferguson","doi":"10.1353/wvh.2023.a913803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wvh.2023.a913803","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350051,"journal":{"name":"West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies","volume":"70 1","pages":"186 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139345434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton and Robert K. Oermann (review)","authors":"Charles Bowen","doi":"10.1353/wvh.2023.a906880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wvh.2023.a906880","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton and Robert K. Oermann Charles Bowen Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics. By Dolly Parton and Robert K. Oermann. (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2020. Pp. ix, 380.) A daughter of the mountains, Dolly Parton grew up hearing her mom’s Appalachian ballads as entertainment, as history, as cautionary tales about the ways of a harsh world. “Mama had this haunting voice, and, Lord, you would feel it,” Parton writes in her book Songteller. “There is a famous old folk song called ‘Two Little Orphans’ about two little kids who come up to the door and are frozen to death because nobody’s answering. Mama would emphasize those moments in the lyrics the two little orphans are ‘talking.’ It was really like being there if Mama was singing it.” Parton was born in East Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains 77 years ago into a life that seemed to be right out of one of those stark mountain stories. One of a dozen siblings, “we lived in these old, cold-ass houses,” she writes, so cold that the kids slept with their clothes on, so poor that the doctor who delivered Dolly was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Later on, that same doctor was to be the subject of one of Parton’s early songs. In “Dr. Robert F. Thomas,” she wrote that “he often rode on horseback to get where he was needed / But if he had to walk, he always came.” People and events from her mountain raisings inhabit many of the near-3,000 tunes that Parton has written to date. Some of those songs are famous, of course. Who doesn’t know about the child who was mocked for wearing a colorful coat of rags to school? Who hasn’t heard the lament about the ravenous, ravishing mountain siren named Jolene? “As a songwriter, I love to write those mournful things and put myself in those situations,” she relates in the book. “It comes from those early days of all the old songs I grew up with. I loved feeling all the sorrow in a song.” But some of the best stories in Songteller are Parton’s lesser known ones. [End Page 117] “Applejack,” for instance—a 1977 recording on which Dolly was accompanied by a court of Nashville royalty, including Kitty Wells, Grandpa Jones, Roy Acuff, Chet Atkins, and Minnie Pearl—was about a character from her Appalachian youth. “An old guy we called ‘Sawdust’ lived up in the woods and he played the banjo,” she writes. “He had a bunch of old hunting dogs, and he stunk like crazy, but I would sneak off to his place. Mama said, ‘Don’t go up there.’ But I was so intrigued, because I’d heard him playing the banjo. . . . I thought, ‘Well, I’ll just hold my nose and go.’” Of course another role for those mountain ballads of Dolly’s childhood was to provide the news of the day, and as a working songwriter she carries on that tradition too, as illustrated in the final pages of the book. When the COVID-19 epidemic forced massive shutdowns in quarantines in the spring of 2020, a compassionate Dolly Parton quietly pledged $1 million","PeriodicalId":350051,"journal":{"name":"West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies","volume":"474 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135533232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Black Athlete in West Virginia: High School and College Sports from 1900 through the End of Segregation by Bob Barnett, Dana Brooks and Ronald Althouse (review)","authors":"Raja Malikah Rahim","doi":"10.1353/wvh.2023.a906883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wvh.2023.a906883","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: The Black Athlete in West Virginia: High School and College Sports from 1900 through the End of Segregation by Bob Barnett, Dana Brooks and Ronald Althouse Raja Malikah Rahim The Black Athlete in West Virginia: High School and College Sports from 1900 through the End of Segregation. By Bob Barnett, Dana Brooks, and Ronald Althouse. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2020. Pp. x, 225.) In the late 1940s, West Virginia State University (WVSU), a Historically Black University, had one of the nation’s most dominant basketball programs. In 1948, WVSU’s basketball team was the only undefeated team in the country, with a 23–0 record, which caught the attention of college basketball promoter Frank Walsh. The following season, the WVSU Yellow Jackets became the first Black college team to compete in San Francisco’s Cow Palace against white college basketball teams. Led by Earl Lloyd, the first African American to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Yellow Jackets competed in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic [End Page 121] Association (CIAA), the oldest and most prestigious Black college athletic conference, winning two CIAA basketball championships by 1950. The athletic prowess of Lloyd and WVSU basketball during the golden age of Black college sports is one of many stories captured by authors Bob Barnett, Dan Brooks, and Ronald Althouse. The Black Athlete in West Virginia: High School and College Sports from 1900 through the End of Segregation is a timely addition to the scholarship on race and sports and adds to the emerging field of African American sports history. In 10 chapters, divided into two parts, it examines the history of Black sporting communities and the experiences of Black athletes in West Virginia, a state deeply divided along racial lines, from the turn of the twentieth century to the integration of athletic programs in the early 1960s. Despite the inadequate resources in Black colleges and high schools, African Americans cultivated successful teams that bonded together Black communities throughout the state. Using archival documents, newspapers, photographs, and oral histories, the authors explore the value that Black people, communities, institutions, and culture placed on African American participation in sports. The book’s most compelling narrative centers on how African Americans and Black institutions grappled with civil rights and integration as the authors trace how the state’s two Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) transformed from predominately Black institutions to white-majority universities. In the immediate months following Brown v. Board of Education, Bluefield State and West Virginia State became the first HBCUs in the nation to join a historically white-college athletic conference, the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC). The authors depict how some African Americans viewed the integration of the WVIAC as racial progress, while others expressed disapprov","PeriodicalId":350051,"journal":{"name":"West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135533236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns by William H. Turner (review)","authors":"Susan E. Keefe","doi":"10.1353/wvh.2023.a906882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wvh.2023.a906882","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns by William H. Turner Susan E. Keefe The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns. By William H. Turner. (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2021. Pp. xiii, 390.) William Turner invites us to meet the Black residents of Lynch, Kentucky, the model mining town built by U.S. Steel in 1917 and named for the company’s president, Thomas Lynch. The town was one of many in the Appalachian coalfields populated in part by southern Black workers recruited in the first half of the twentieth century. Turner compares the emergence of Black cultural life in Harlan County during the coal boom to the Harlem Renaissance in Manhattan around the same time. This is more than a memoir; it is an encyclopedic review of everything that was important to Black people like him at the time. Of course, the reader comes to know Turner’s family and friends, but he also captures the way of life in Lynch—then a town of 10,000 including 4,000 Blacks—where his father mined coal while urging his children to avoid the occupation. Turner describes all aspects of the Black community—the segregated school and meeting hall, the churches, the secret societies, the UMWA union, the Black baseball team, the holiday celebrations, the local customs like nicknaming and trash talking, and more. This book is also a love letter from a native son. Turner is clearly proud of his hometown. While Blacks were segregated, they did not feel inferior to whites because they were paid the same wages and lived in the same company housing. In fact, he argues their social segregation created a sheltered existence for Black residents. Lacking television and news beyond Jet and Ebony magazines, Blacks in Lynch were unconcerned about racial issues and civil rights (although Turner went on to be involved in both later in life). They were proud of their Black schools where children had good role models and teachers who introduced them to Black authors and history. Despite being impoverished and isolated, the Black community was stable and close-knit, bound by affection and neighborliness. Turner is by turns entertaining and frustrated, angry and sentimental, sad and nostalgic. But he is never boring! He takes the opportunity to settle scores, as for example in his takedown of the term “Affrilachian” and the Affrilachian Poets. He also traces his personal intellectual and spiritual journey [End Page 120] from Alex Haley to Ed Cabbell (his coeditor of Blacks in Appalachia). Nevertheless, his main achievement is to counter the white-centered accounts of Appalachia as racially homogeneous. For Turner, his story is the intersection of being Black and Appalachian, where identity hinges on being Black-not-Appalachian while sharing many cultural traits with whites in the region (including food, love of place, family ties, and religiosity) although living racially separate lives. Turner is careful to place","PeriodicalId":350051,"journal":{"name":"West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135533238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}