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Further Reading · Appalachian Culture

Appalachia: A History by John Alexander Williams
Williams, a professor at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, chronicles four and a half centuries of the region’s social, political, and economic history.

The Civil War in Appalachia: Collected Essays
Each essay in this groundbreaking study examines a different aspect of the war in Appalachia, dispelling long-held myths and stereotypes.

Mountain Partisans: Guerilla Warfare in the Southern Appalachians, 1861-1865 by Sean Michael O’Brien
O’Brien documents the “civil war within the Civil War,” in which many mountain Southerners—usually the poorer members of their communities—opposed the Confederacy and supported the Union.