Index
Achievement gap (Chapter 14)
Addiction (Chapter 19)
Additive models (Chapter 13)
Affrilachia (Chapter 4)
Agency (Chapter 5, 19)
Agriculture (Chapter 6, 7, 9, 10, 11)
Agrobiodiversity (Chapter 6)
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (Chapter 15)
Alcohol (Chapter 9)
Ale (Chapter 9)
Cider (Chapter 9)
Moonshine (Chapter 5, 9)
Whiskey (Chapter 9)
Whiskey Rebellion (Chapter 9)
White Whiskey (Chapter 9)
American Naturalism (Chapter 4)
Appalachian Regional Commission (Chapter 14)
Appalachian Writers Workshop (Chapter 4)
Appalshop (Chapter 5, 14, 16)
AmeriCorps/VISTA (Chapter 17)
Animals
Bear (Chapter 7, 8)
Bison (Chapter 8)
Cows or cattle (Chapter 8)
Deer (Chapter 6, 8, 11)
Elk (Chapter 8, 11)
Fish (Chapter 11)
Bass (Chapter 16)
Bluegill (Chapter 16)
Catfish (Chapter 10)
Crappie (Chapter 16)
Minnows (Chapter 10)
Shad (Chapter 10)
Water moccasin (Chapter 10)
Fox (Chapter 11)
Night crawlers (Chapter 10)
Pigs or hogs (Chapter 8)
Possum (opossum) (Chapter 7, 8)
Rabbit (Chapter 11)
Sika deer (Chapter 6)
Squirrel (Chapter 7, 8, 11)
Turkey (Chapter 8, 11)
White-tailed deer (Chapter 6)
Wild or feral pigs (Chapter 6)
Anthems (Chapter 3)
Anti-semitism (Chapter 1)
Appalachian Group to Save the Land and People (AGSLP) (Chapter 15, 16)
Appalachian literature (Chapter 4)
Appalachian Movement Press (Chapter 13, 14)
Appalachian regions
Allegheny Mountains and Plateau (Chapter 7, 13)
Appalachian Mountains (Chapter 3, 7, 14, 16, 17)
Appalachian Plateau (Chapter 11)
Blue Ridge (Chapter 8)
Clinch River Valley (Chapter 10)
Central Appalachia (Chapter 8, 10)
Cumberland Plateau (Chapter 8, 16)
Great Smoky Mountains (Chapter 2, 4, 9, 11)
Midwest Appalachia (Chapter 11)
Mountain South (Chapter 4, 6, 7)
Northeast Culture Area (Chapter 11)
Northern Appalachia (Chapter 11)
Ohio River Valley (Chapter 11)
Shenandoah Valley (Chapter 3)
Southeast Culture Area (Chapter 11)
Southern Appalachia (Chapter 1, 3, 6, 8, 9, 11)
Tennessee Valley (Chapter 10)
Appalachian Renaissance (Chapter 5)
Appalachian Studies (Chapter 5)
Appalachian Trail (Chapter 11)
Appalachian Volunteers (AV) (Chapter 16)
Area Redevelopment Administration (ARA) (Chapter 15)
Ballad (Chapter 1, 3, 5, 12)
Ballad hunters (Chapter 1)
Ballad singing (Chapter 3)
Broadside ballads (Chapter 3)
Child ballads (Chapter 1)
Murder ballads (Chapter 3)
Beats (Chapter 2)
Berea College (Chapter 1, 5, 7, 11)
Black by God (Chapter 12)
Black in Appalachia Project (PBS) (Chapter 10)
Black lung (Chapter 17)
Coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP) (Chapter 17)
Progressive massive fibrosis (PMF) (Chapter 17)
Black Lung Association (Chapter 17)
Black Lung Movement (Chapter 16)
Bows and arrows (Chapter 11)
Blackface minstrelsy (Chapter 2)
Bluegrass (Chapter 1)
Bows and arrows (Chapter 11)
Bristol Sessions (Chapter 5)
Broad-form deed (Chapter 16)
Cadence (Chapter 3)
Capital
Community capital (Chapter 14)
Natural capital (Chapter 14)
Savvy (Chapter 14)
Social capital (Chapter 14)
Causation
Direct causation (Chapter 18)
Proximate causation (Chapter 18)
Superseding cause (Chapter 18)
Center for Rural Strategies (Chapter 5)
Chiefdom (Chapter 11)
Citizen’s League to Protect Surface Rights (CLPSR) (Chapter 16)
Civil Rights Act (Chapter 13, 14)
Civil rights movement (Chapter 1, 5, 13, 16)
Class action (Chapter 18)
Clawhammer (Chapter 2)
Coal (Chapter 4, 6, 13, 14, 15, 16)
Auger mining (Chapter 16)
Bench (Chapter 16)
Contour mining (Chapter 16)
Friends of Coal (Chapter 13)
Mountaintop removal (MTR) (Chapter 4, 13, 14, 16)
Overburden (Chapter 16)
Reclamation (Chapter 16)
Silica (Chapter 17)
Strip mining (Chapter 6, 16)
Surface mining (Chapter 15)
Cognitive dissonance (Chapter 5)
Colonization (Chapter 6, 7, 11)
Commodification (Chapter 9)
Commons (Chapter 16)
Appalachian commons (Chapter 8, 10)
Commons environmentalism (Chapter 16)
Commons commodities (Chapter 8)
Community action agencies (Chapter 15)
Community Film Workshop of Appalachia (Chapter 5)
Community schools (Chapter 14)
Community self defense (Chapter 16)
Community viability (Chapter 14)
Company towns (Chapter 13)
Conservatism (Chapter 12)
COVID-19 (Chapter 14, 18, 19)
Cowboy songs (Chapter 1)
Criminalization (Chapter 19)
Critical race theory (Chapter 13)
Crooked tunes (Chapter 2)
Cryptids (Chapter 12)
Batboy (Chapter 12)
Mothman (Chapter 12)
Sheepsquatch (Chapter 12)
Slender Man (Chapter 12)
Culinary tourism (Chapter 7)
Cuisine (Chapter 7)
Cultural ecology (Chapter 11)
Cultural intervention (Chapter 1)
Cultural memories (Chapter 6)
Culture (Chapter 7)
Dams and reservoirs
Carr Fork Reservoir (Chapter 15)
Cherokee Dam (Chapter 10)
Norris Dam and Reservoir (Chapter 10)
Pickwick Dam (Chapter 10)
Tellico Dam (Chapter 10)
Wheeler Dam (Chapter 10)
Wilson Dam (Chapter 10)
Dancing
Barn dance (Chapter 1)
Buck dancing (Chapter 1)
Morris dancing (Chapter 1)
Square dancing (Chapter 1)
Sword dancing (Chapter 1)
Decoration Day (Chapter 10, 12)
Deforestation (Chapter 8)
Deterrence (Chapter 19)
Dinner on the grounds (Chapter 3, 10, 12)
Disease of despair (Chapter 19)
Displacement (Chapter 10, 15)
Distillery (Chapter 9)
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) (Chapter 18)
Duty of care (Chapter 18)
Dynamism (Chapter 12)
Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization (EKWRO) (Chapter 15)
Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (Chapter 15)
Education
Career technical education (Chapter 14)
College for all (Chapter 14)
College readiness (Chapter 14)
Community and career connected learning (Chapter 14)
Educating out (Chapter 14)
Higher education (Chapter 14)
P-12 (Chapter 6)
Enculturation (Chapter 7)
Environmental justice (Chapter 7)
Ethnic boundary marker (Chapter 7)
Ethnography (Chapter 6, 7)
Emic (Chapter 12)
Eminent domain (Chapter 10, 15)
Etic (Chapter 12)
Extractive economies (Chapter 13)
Natural resource extraction (Chapter 14)
Coal (Chapter 7, 14, 17)
Oil and gas (Chapter 14)
Timber (Chapter 14, 15)
Federal Mine Health and Safety Act (FMHSA) (Chapter 17)
Fentanyl (Chapter 18)
Film and television
Appalachian Genesis (Chapter 5)
Belinda (Chapter 5)
The Beverly Hillbillies (Chapter 5)
Call of the Wildman (Chapter 5)
Christmas in Appalachia (Chapter 5)
Cold Mountain (Chapter 4, 5)
Deliverance (Chapter 4, 5)
Grand Ole Opry (Chapter 1)
Hee Haw (Chapter 5)
Hillbilly Elegy (Chapter 14)
A Little Piece of Me Chapter 5)
Matewan (Chapter 5)
Moonshiners (Chapter 5)
My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding (Chapter 5)
Not a Daughter (Chapter 5)
O Brother Where Art Thou (Chapter 1)
October Sky (Chapter 1, 5)
Rainbow Quest (Chapter 1)
Sergeant York (Chapter 1)
Songcatcher (Chapter 1)
Sons of Anarchy (Chapter 9)
This Is the Last Dam Run of Likker I’ll Ever Make (Chapter 9)
Through Their Eyes: Stories of Gays and Lesbians in the Mountains (Chapter 5)
Thunder Road (Chapter 9)
The True Adventures of the Real Beverly Hillbillies (Chapter 5)
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (Chapter 5)
Welcome to Dragalachia (Chapter 5)
Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (Chapter 5)
Wrong Turn (Chapter 5)
Zero Tolerance (Chapter 5)
Fishing (angling) (Chapter 7, 10)
Folk festival
Appalachian String Band Festival (Chapter 1)
Festival of American Folklife (Chapter 12)
Mountain Dance and Folk Festival (Chapter 1, 2)
National Folk Festival (Chapter 1)
Rhododendron Festival (Chapter 1)
Smithsonian Folklife Festival (Chapter 12)
White Top Festival (Chapter 1, 3)
Folklore or Folklife (Chapter 5, 12)
Folklore (Chapter 7, 9, 12)
Folkloresque (Chapter 12)
Folk revival (Chapter 1, 5)
Legend (Chapter 12)
Foods
Apple or crabapple (Chapter 6)
Biscuits (Chapter 7)
Beans or soup beans (Chapter 7)
Benne seeds (Chapter 7)
Black-eyed peas (Chapter 7)
Bread (Chapter 7)
Buttermilk (Chapter 7)
Corn (or maize) (Chapter 6, 7, 9, 11)
Cornbread (Chapter 7)
Eggs (Chapter 7)
Empañadas (Chapter 7)
Gourd (Chapter 11)
Honey (Chapter 6, 7)
Jam (Chapter 7)
Meatballs (Chapter 7)
Mushroom (Chapter 6)
Onion (Chapter 7)
Pasta (Chapter 7)
Pawpaw (Chapter 8)
Pepperoni roll (Chapter 7)
Peppers (Chapter 7)
Persimmon (Chapter 8)
Potato (Chapter 7, 8)
Sorghum (Chapter 6, 7)
Squash (Chapter 6, 7, 11)
Sunflower (Chapter 11)
“The three sisters” (Chapter 6)
Tomato (Chapter 6)
Vinegar pie or desperation pie (Chapter 7)
Foodways (Chapter 7, 11)
Food activism (Chapter 6)
Food desert (Chapter 6)
Food environment (Chapter 6)
Food justice (Chapter 7)
Food sovereignty (Chapter 6, 7)
Food security/insecurity (Chapter 6)
Low food security (Chapter 6)
Very low food security, or hunger (Chapter 6)
Food systems (Chapter 6)
Foster care (Chapter 18)
Frailing (Chapter 2)
Frets (Chapter 2)
Fuguing tunes (Chapter 3)
Fur trade (Chapter 11)
Gender
Men (Chapter 1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 11)
Non-binary (Chapter 4)
Women (Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11)
Genre (Chapter 12)
Globalization (Chapter 6, 7)
Good Samaritan (Chapter 19)
Great Migration (Chapter 10, 12)
Great Depression (Chapter 1, 3, 4, 8, 15)
Harm reduction (Chapter 19)
Harvest and Honey (blog) (Chapter 7)
Heroin (Chapter 18)
Heterophony (Chapter 3)
HIDTA (Chapter 9)
Higher Ground (arts organization) (Chapter 4)
Highlander Folk School (Chapter 1, 13)
Hillbilly (Chapter 2, 5, 13)
Hillbilly Days (Chapter 5)
“Hillbilly” records (Chapter 2)
Holler, or hollow (Chapter 6, 9)
Hollow square (Chapter 3)
Horticulture (Chapter 6, 11)
Slash-and-burn horticulture (Chapter 11)
Hunters Helping the Hungry (Chapter 6)
Identity politics (Chapter 13)
Independent Coal Operators’ Association (ICOA) (Chapter 16)
Indian Affairs (also Bureau of Indian Affairs) (Chapter 11)
Indian Removal Act of 1830 (Chapter 11)
Industrialization (Chapter 5, 8)
Deindustrialization (Chapter 14)
Industrial Revolution (Chapter 4)
Pre-industrialization (Chapter 5)
Infrastructure (Chapter 15)
Integration (Chapter 13)
Internal colony theory (Chapter 13)
Intersectionality (Chapter 13)
Jack Tales (Chapter 12)
Jim Crow (Chapter 1, 10, 13)
Judicial mixture (Chapter 13)
Kentucky Derby (Chapter 5)
Kentucky Living (formerly Rural Kentuckian ) (Chapter 16)
Kentucky Poets Laureate (Chapter 4)
Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee (KUAC) (Chapter 15)
Key (musical) (Chapter 3)
King Coal (Chapter 15)
Labor movement (Chapter 13)
Land acknowledgment (Chapter 11)
Legal decisions
Buchanan v. Watson (Chapter 16)
Treadway v. Wilson (Chapter 16)
TVA vs. Hiram G. Hill Jr. (Chapter 10)
Legalization (Chapter 9)
LGBTQQIAAP2S+ (Chapter 4, 5)
Lined-out hymnody (lining out) (Chapter 3)
Literary movements
American naturalism (Chapter 4)
Contemporary (Chapter 4)
Local color (Chapter 1, 4, 5, 9)
Modernist (Chapter 4)
Social realism (Chapter 4)
Literary works
Affrilachia (Chapter 4)
Animal Vegetable Miracle (Chapter 7)
Appalachian Elegy (Chapter 4, 5, 14)
The Birds of Opulence (Chapter 4)
Blackberries, Blackberries (Chapter 4)
Cold Mountain (Chapter 1)
A Death in the Family (Chapter 4)
Deliverance (novel) (Chapter 4)
Demon Copperhead (Chapter 4)
The Dollmaker (Chapter 4)
Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery (Chapter 7)
Higher Ground (novel) (Chapter 4)
Hillbilly Elegy (Chapter 14)
Hill Women (Chapter 14)
“Horace Kephart” (Chapter 4)
Look Homeward, Angel (Chapter 4)
My Land Is Dying (Chapter 16)
“On the Mountainside” (Chapter 4)
Oral History (Chapter 4)
Our Southern Highlanders (Chapter 4)
Perfect Black (Chapter 4)
Pop (Chapter 4)
The Prettiest Star (Chapter 4)
Prodigal Summer (Chapter 4)
The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains (Chapter 4)
River of Earth (Chapter 4)
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts (Chapter 4, 7)
Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia (Chapter 4)
Serena (Chapter 4)
Smoke, Mountain, Roots, Harvest (Chapter 7)
Southernmost (Chapter 4)
“The Split Cherry Tree” (Chapter 4)
Strange As This Weather Has Been (Chapter 4)
Trail of the Lonesome Pine (Chapter 5)
Trampoline (Chapter 4)
Victuals (Chapter 7)
Water Street (Chapter 4)
Weedeater (Chapter 4)
What My Heart Wants to Tell (Chapter 8)
WWJD (Chapter 4)
Litigation (Chapter 18)
Civil litigation (Chapter 18)
Deposition (Chapter 18)
Estoppel (Chapter 18)
Litigation discovery (Chapter 18)
Policy (Chapter 15)
Redaction (Chapter 18)
Sealing (Chapter 18)
Testimony (Chapter 16, 17, 18)
Tort (Chapter 18)
Lived experience (Chapter 5, 7, 10, 13, 15)
Logging (Chapter 7, 8)
Lua Project (Chapter 12)
Manifest destiny (Chapter 11)
Marginalized (Chapter 5, 12)
Matrilineal descent (Chapter 11)
Medical desert (Chapter 19)
Memes (Chapter 12)
Interview Possum (Chapter 12)
Memorial lesson (Chapter 3)
Middle Kentucky River Area Development Council (Chapter 15)
Mine disasters
Farmington Mine Disaster (Chapter 17)
Upper Big Branch Mine explosion (Chapter 17)
Mine wars
Battle of Blair Mountain (Chapter 13, 14)
Battle of Matewan (Chapter 5, 13)
Battle of the Tug (Chapter 13)
Bloody Harlan (Chapter 5)
Harlan County War (Chapter 1, 3)
Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike (Chapter 13)
West Virginia Mine Wars (Chapter 13)
Minor mode (Chapter 3)
Mobile distribution units (Chapter 19)
Monongah mine explosion (Chapter 13)
Mountaineers (Chapter 8)
Mountaintop Gun Club (MGC) (Chapter 16)
Mule trains (Chapter 13)
Musical instruments
Akonting (Chapter 2)
Banjo (Chapter 1)
Fiddle (Chapter 1, 2, 3)
Guitar (Chapter 3)
Gourd banjo (Chapter 2)
Mountain dulcimer (Chapter 1, 3)
Spike lute (Chapter 2)
Violin (Chapter 2)
National Association of Stock Car Racing (NASCAR) (Chapter 9)
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) (Chapter 5)
National Park Service (NPS) (Chapter 7)
Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Chapter 7, 12)
National Welfare Rights Organization (Chapter 15)
Negligence (Chapter 18)
Network
Closed network (Chapter 14)
Collective efficacy (Chapter 14)
Kinship (Chapter 16)
Social network (Chapter 14)
Weak ties (Chapter 14)
New Deal (Chapter 10, 15)
Night Comes to the Cumberlands (Chapter 15)
No Child Left Behind (Chapter 14)
Non-timber forest products (NTFP) (Chapter 6)
Bloodroot (Chapter 6)
Blue cohosh (Chapter 6)
Ginger (Chapter 6)
Ginseng (Chapter 6, 8)
Goldenseal (Chapter 6)
Nuts (see also Trees) (Chapter 6)
Ramps (Chapter 7)
Wild ginger (Chapter 6)
Nyéléni Declaration (Chapter 7)
Odes (Chapter 3)
Opioids (Chapter 19)
Hillbilly heroin (Chapter 19)
Medication assisted treatment (Chapter 19)
Naloxone (Chapter 19)
NSAIDs (Chapter 18)
Opioid crisis or opioid epidemic (Chapter 14, 18, 19)
OxyContin (Chapter 5, 18, 19)
P harmaceutical industry (Chapter 18, 19)
Pill Mills (Chapter 17)
Syringe exchange programs (Chapter 19)
Opportunity gap (Chapter 14)
Oral tradition (Chapter 2, 3)
Origin myth (Chapter 6)
Original instructions (Chapter 6)
Ornaments (Chapter 3)
Othering/Otherness (Chapter 5, 13)
Outdoor recreation (Chapter 10)
Outlaw culture (Chapter 9)
Outmigration (Chapter 4, 5, 14)
Participatory methodologies (Chapter 12)
Patrilineal descent (Chapter 11)
Peoples/countries
Affrilachian (Chapter 1, 4, 12, 13)
African (Chapter 2, 6, 7)
Algonquin (Chapter 11)
Anglo-Saxon (Chapter 1)
Asian American (Chapter 12)
Australian (Chapter 3)
Barbados (Chapter 2)
Black or African American (Chapter 1, 4, 7, 10)
British or Great Britain or British Isles (Chapter 1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 17)
Canadian (Chapter 6)
Caribbean (Chapter 2)
Catawba (Chapter 11)
Cayuga (Chapter 11)
Celtic (Chapter 9)
Cherokee (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) (Chapter 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11)
Chinese (Chapter 6)
Delaware (Chapter 8, 11)
English (Chapter 6)
Erie (Chapter 11)
European (Chapter 2, 3, 7, 11)
Fort Ancient (Chapter 8)
France (Chapter 3)
French Antilles (Chapter 2)
German (Chapter 3, 6, 7)
Indigenous or Native American (Chapter 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 17)
Iroquois or Haudenosaunee (Chapter 6, 8, 11)
Italian (Chapter 3, 6, 7)
Irish (Chapter 6, 9)
Jamaican (Chapter 2)
Japan (Chapter 6)
Jewish (Chapter 1)
Latine (Chapter 1)
Leni Lanape (formerly Delaware) (Chapter 11)
Mennonite (Chapter 7)
Mexican (Chapter 6)
Mexilachian (Chapter 12)
Mohawk (Chapter 11)
Muscogee (formerly Creek) (Chapter 11)
Norway (Chapter 3)
Onondaga (Chapter 11)
Oneida (Chapter 11)
Osage (Chapter 7)
Poland (Chapter 3)
Powatan (Chapter 11)
St. Kitts (Chapter 2)
Scottish (Chapter 6, 9, 16)
Scots-Irish (Chapter 2, 3)
Seneca (Chapter 11)
Shawnee (Chapter 7, 8, 11)
South Korean (Chapter 3, 6)
Spanish/Asturias (Chapter 6, 7)
Suriname (Chapter 2)
Susquehannock (Chapter 11)
Swiss (Chapter 3, 7)
Tuscarora (Chapter 11)
Welsh (Chapter 9)
White (Chapter 1, 2, 10)
Place identity (Chapter 14)
Poor People’s Campaign (Chapter 13)
Portsmouth, Ohio
Portsmouth Floodwall Murals
Portsmouth Street Art Project
Portsmouth United Project
Positionality (Chapter 7)
Pottery (Chapter 11)
Poverty (Chapter 7)
War on Poverty (Chapter 5, 15, 16)
Precenter (Chapter 3)
Privilege (Chapter 8)
Prohibition (Chapter 9)
Public commemoration (Chapter 12)
Public nuisance (Chapter 18)
Public Works Acceleration Act (PWAA) (Chapter 15)
Purdue Pharma (Chapter 14)
“Race” records (Chapter 1)
Racial Integrity Act (Chapter 1)
Redneck (Chapter 13)
Red River Gorge (Chapter 14)
Refrain (Chapter 3)
Regulatory capture (Chapter 18)
Representation (Chapter 12)
Politics of representation (Chapter 12)
Resource curse hypothesis (Chapter 13)
Restorative justice (Chapter 19)
Resurrection City (Chapter 13)
Retributive justice (Chapter 19)
Revenuers or Internal Revenue Service (Chapter 9)
Revivalist (Chapter 1)
Rivers, lakes, and waterways
Carr Creek/Lake (Chapter 15)
Cherokee Lake (Chapter 10)
Chesapeake Bay
Fall Creek (Chapter 10)
Holston River (Chapter 10)
Marrowbone Creek (Chapter 15)
Ohio River (Chapter 11, 14)
Poor Valley Creek (Chapter 10)
Tennessee River (Chapter 10)
Roadside shrines or spontaneous shrines (Chapter 12)
Roving Pickets (Chapter 15, 16)
Royal Proclamation Line of 1763 (Chapter 11)
The Sacred Harp (Chapter 3)
Satirical media
The Onion (Chapter 12)
Ramp News (Chapter 12)
Weekly World News (Chapter 12)
Scale (Chapter 2)
Scale degree (Chapter 3)
Scotland (Chapter 3)
Scrip (Chapter 13)
Seed keepers (Chapter 6)
Segregation (Chapter 13)
Settlement schools (Chapter 1, 12)
Hindman Settlement School (Chapter 1, 4)
Shape-note singing (Chapter 1, 3)
Singing masters (Chapter 3)
Singing schools (Chapter 3)
Singings (Chapter 3)
Slang (Chapter 12)
Social construction (Chapter 5)
Solfège syllable (Chapter 3)
Songs
“Altamont” (Chapter 2)
“Amazing Grace” (Chapter 3)
“And Am I Born to Die?” (Chapter 3)
“Barbara Allen” (Chapter 3)
“Big-Eyed Rabbit” (Chapter 2)
“Bound for Canaan” (Chapter 3)
“Crazy Blues”
“Dreadful Memories” (Chapter 3)
“Easter Anthem” (Chapter 3)
“Easy Rider” (Chapter 2)
“Evening Shade” (Chapter 3)
“Famous Friends” (Chapter 14)
“Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss” (Chapter 2)
“Five Miles from Town” (Chapter 2)
“Idumea” (Chapter 3)
“In Your Love” (Chapter 5)
“Jewett” (Chapter 3)
“Lay the Lily Low” (Chapter 3)
“Loyston” (Chapter 10)
“A Poor, Wayfaring Stranger” (Chapter 3)
“Precious Memories” (Chapter 3)
“Pretty Polly” (Chapter 3)
“Snowbird” (Chapter 2)
“Trotline” (Chapter 10)
“Which Side Are You On?” (Chapter 3, 14)
“Windham” (Chapter 3)
“Ye Nations All” (Chapter 3)
Southern Conference Education Fund (Chapter 15)
Southern literature (Chapter 4)
Southern Seed Legacy Project (Chapter 6, 7)
Staff notation (Chapter 3)
Stereotypes (Chapter 12)
Still (moonshine) (Chapter 9)
Strains (Chapter 2)
String band (Chapter 2)
Strip Mine Control Act (Chapter 16)
Strophic (Chapter 3)
Structural change (Chapter 15)
Sukey jumps (Chapter 2)
Symbols (Chapter 7)
Syncopated (Chapter 2)
Tanning (leather) (Chapter 8)
Teach for America (Chapter 14)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) (Chapter 10, 16)
Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency (TWRA) (Chapter 10)
Tenor (Chapter 3)
Timber (Chapter 6)
Time periods
Archaic period (Chapter 11)
Colonial period (Chapter 11)
Ice Age (Chapter 11)
Late Archaic period (Chapter 8)
Late Prehistoric period (Chapter 11)
Middle Archaic period (Chapter 8)
Mississippian period (Chapter 6)
Paleoindian period (Chapter 11)
Woodland period (Chapter 11)
Tradition (Chapter 7, 12)
Trail of Tears (Chapter 6, 11)
Treaties (Chapter 11)
Treble (Chapter 3)
Trees
American Chestnut (Chapter 4, 6, 8)
Black locust (Chapter 8)
Chestnut blight (Chapter 8)
Hickory (Chapter 6)
Maple (Chapter 8)
Mast (Chapter 8)
May apple (Chapter 6)
Mulberry (Chapter 6)
Oak (Chapter 6)
Pawpaw (Chapter 6, 8)
Persimmon (Chapter 6)
Plum (Chapter 6)
Sassafras (Chapter 6)
Serviceberry (Chapter 6)
Slippery elm (Chapter 6)
Walnut (Chapter 6)
Wild cherry (Chapter 6)
Tribe
Federally recognized tribe (Chapter 11)
Sovereignty (Chapter 11)
State-recognized tribe (Chapter 11)
Trotlines (Chapter 10)
Union (Chapter 13, 15, 17
Union strike (Chapter 13)
United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) (Chapter 13, 15, 16, 17)
University of Kentucky (Chapter 12)
Black Student Advisory Council (Chapter 12)
Upward mobility (Chapter 14)
Urban Appalachia (Chapter 12)
Veterans (Chapter 18)
VISTA (Chapter 17)
Vocal production (Chapter 3)
Volunteer in Service to America (Chapter 15)
Wars
Civil War (Chapter 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 13, 14, 16)
Revolutionary War (Chapter 1, 9, 11)
Seven Years’ War (Chapter 11)
Vietnam War (Chapter 16)
War of 1812 (Chapter 9)
World War I (Chapter 3, 13)
World War II (Chapter 5, 10, 13, 15, 16)
Waterman (Chapter 10)
Wattle and daub (Chapter 11)
Welfare (Chapter 15)
West Virginia Labor Movement (Chapter 13)
West Virginia Teachers’ Strike (Chapter 13)
Whistleblowers (Chapter 10, 18)
Wigwam (Chapter 11)
Wildcat strike (Chapter 13)
People:
John Adams (Chapter 9)
James Agee (Chapter 4, 10)
Katherine Antolini (Chapter 13)
Harriette Simpson Arnow (Chapter 4)
Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency (Chapter 13)
Wendell Berry (Chapter 12)
Bill Best (Chapter 6)
Jake Blount (Chapter 1)
Aysha Bodenhamer (Chapter 17)
Daniel Boone (Chapter 8)
Edward “Ned” Breathitt (Chapter 15, 16)
Samantha Bumgarner (Chapter 2)
Olive Dame Campbell (Chapter 1)
Kelli Carmean (Chapter 11)
Julian Carroll (Chapter 16)
Fiddlin’ John Carson (Chapter 1)
Elizabeth Catte (Chapter 14)
Harry M. Caudill (Chapter 15, 16)
Don Chafin (Chapter 13)
Corn Mother or Selu (Chapter 6)
Francis James Child (Chapter 1)
Tyler Childers (Chapter 5)
Molly Clever (Chapter 13)
Ollie Combs (The Widow Combs) (Chapter 16)
Bessie Lou Cornett (Chapter 16)
Sarah Craycraft (Chapter 12)
Sudie Crusenberry (Chapter 15)
Robert Dafford (Chapter 12)
Riccardo Paolo D’Amato (Chapter 15)
Clyde Davenport (Chapter 2)
Lisa Day (Introduction, Chapter 10)
John Denver (Chapter 12)
James Dickey (Chapter 4)
Wilma Dykeman (Chapter 4)
Edith Easterling (Chapter 15)
King George III (Chapter 11)
George Floyd (Chapter 12)
Henry Ford (Chapter 1)
John Fox, Jr. (Chapter 5)
Charles Frazier (Chapter 4)
Jim Garland (Chapter 1)
The General (Chapter 9)
Rhiannon Giddens (Chapter 1)
Robert Gipe (Chapter 4)
Dan Gibson (Chapter 16)
William Goodell Frost (Chapter 1, 5)
Texas Gladden (Chapter 3)
Crystal Good (Chapter 12)
Ulysses S. Grant (Chapter 9)
Amanda Green (Chapter 6, 7)
Edward Green (Chapter 9)
Gribble, Lusk, and York (Chapter 2)
Andy Griffith (Chapter 9)
Sarah Gripshover (Chapter 11)
Sarah Ogan Gunning (Chapter 1, 3, 5)
Lacy Hale (Chapter 12)
Eula Hall (Chapter 15)
Alexander Hamilton (Chapter 9)
Catherine Herdman (Chapter 5)
Roscoe Holcomb (Chapter 1)
bell hooks (Chapter 4, 13, 14)
Silas House (Chapter 4, 14
Zora Neale Hurston (Chapter 1)
Augustus “Gus” Isom (Chapter 10)
William Isom II (Chapter 10)
Andrew Jackson (Chapter 11)
Aunt Molly Jackson (Chapter 1, 3)
Thomas Jefferson (Chapter 4, 9)
Jacob Johnson (Introduction, Chapter 8, 16)
Junior Johnson (Chapter 9)
Lyndon B. Johnson (Chapter 16)
Bennett Judkins (Chapter 17)
John F. Kennedy (Chapter 15)
Robert F. Kennedy (Chapter 16)
Horace Kephart (Chapter 4)
Shawn Kimbro (Chapter 10)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Chapter 13)
Barbara Kingsolver (Chapter 4)
Sarah Gertrude Knott (Chapter 1)
Alan Lomax (Chapter 1, 2, 3)
Jordan Lovejoy (Chapter 12)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford (Chapter 1, 2)
Minnie Lunsford (Chapter 15)
Charles “Buck” Maggard (Chapter 16)
Horace Mann (Chapter 14)
Bill Monroe (Chapter 1)
Alan McSurely (Chapter 15)
Margaret McSurely (Chapter 15)
Jim Wayne Miller (Chapter 4)
Lewis H. Morgan (Chapter 11)
Robert Morgan (Chapter 4)
Esther Morgan-Ellis (Chapter 1, 2, 3)
Joseph Mulloy (Chapter 15)
Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock) (Chapter 4)
Holly Ningard (Chapter 19)
Lynnette Noblitt (Chapter 18)
Louie B. Nunn (Chapter 15, 16)
Carl D. Perkins (Chapter 15, 16)
New Lost City Ramblers (Chapter 1)
Ann Rice O’Hanlon (Chapter 12)
Karyn Olivier (Chapter 12)
Ann Pancake (Chapter 4)
Thomas Parker (Chapter 18)
Dolly Parton (Chapter 12)
Cassie Patterson (Chapter 12)
Ralph Peer (Chapter 1)
Katherine Pettit (Chapter 1)
John Powell (Chapter 1)
Erin Presley (Chapter 4)
Ron Rash (Chapter 4)
Jink Ray (Chapter 15)
Ronald Reagan (Chapter 9)
Florence Reese (Chapter 1, 3, 14)
Allison Ricket (Chapter 14)
Jean Ritchie (Chapter 1, 3)
Elizabeth Madox Roberts (Chapter 4)
Eleanor Roosevelt (Chapter 1, 2)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) (Chapter 1, 2, 10)
Carl Root (Chapter 9)
Lois Scott (Chapter 15)
Mike Seeger (Chapter 1)
Pete Seeger (Chapter 1, 2)
Henry Shapiro (Chapter 4, 5)
Cecil Sharp (Chapter 3)
Anne Shelby (Chapter 4)
Sargent Shriver (Chapter 15)
Carter Sickels (Chapter 4)
Savannah Sipple (Chapter 4)
Shaun Slifer (Chapter 14)
Verna Mae Slone (Chapter 8)
Lee Smith (Chapter 4)
Mamie Smith (Chapter 1)
Manco Sneed (Chapter 2)
Speed Racer (Chapter 9)
Ralph Stanley (Chapter 1)
Chris Stapleton (Chapter 5)
James Still (Chapter 4)
Jesse Stuart (Chapter 4)
Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton (Chapter 9)
Joel Walker “Joe” Sweeney (Chapter 2)
Travelin’ Appalachians Revue (Chapter 19)
Turtleman of Kentucky (Chapter 5)
J.D. Vance (Chapter 5, 14)
Sydney Varajon (Chapter 12)
Frank X Walker (Chapter 4)
Booker T. Washington (Chapter 4)
George Washington (Chapter 9)
Doc Watson (Chapter 1, 3)
Isaac Watts (Chapter 3)
Tasha Werry (Chapter 14)
Charles Wesley (Chapter 3)
Earl White (Chapter 1)
Jessco White (Chapter 5)
Jessica Wilkerson (Chapter 16)
Crystal Wilkinson (Chapter 4, 7)
Cratis D. Williams (Chapter 4)
Thomas Wolfe (Chapter 4)
Jacqueline Yahn (Chapter 14)