Appalachian Studies  Tags: appalachian_culture hillbilly redneck mountain_life appalachia_people georgia south_carolina north_carolina tennessee  

Region & Map  Appalachia Trail

Georgia Appalachian Foothills Parkway tour http://www.appalachianfoothillsparkway.org/

Appalachian Trail Museum http://www.atmuseum.org/ 

Appalachian Trail History http://www.outdoors.org/conservation/trails/at/at-history.cfm

History of Blue Ridge http://www.theblueridgehighlander.com/history/index.html

Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture http://www.loc.gov/folklife/archive.html

Appalachia is a term used to describe a cultural region in the eastern United States that stretches from southern New York state to northern Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia.

An estimated 90% of Appalachia's earliest European settlers originated from the Anglo-Scottish border country— namely the English counties of Cumberland, Westmoreland, Northumberland, Durham, Lancashire, and Yorkshire, and the Lowland Scottish counties of Ayrshire, Dumfriesshire, Roxburghshire, Berwickshire, and Wigtownshire— and from a related group of Anglo-Scots that had resettled in the Ulster area of northeastern Ireland in the 17th century.

In America, these people are often grouped under the single name "Scots-Irish" or "Scotch-Irish," although along with Ulster Scots the group included the aforementioned northern English and Lowland Scottish, as well as native Irish Protestants.

Appalachian Studies Association Online Syllabus

Appalachian Center at the University of Kentucky
Appalachian Collection at Virginia Tech
The Appalachian Cultural Museum, Appalachian State University NC
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, Marshall University WV
Oral History of Appalachia Program, Marshall University, WV
Center for Appalachian Studies, East Tennessee State University
Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University
The Augusta Heritage Center, Davis and Elkins College WV
The Mountain Heritage Center, Western North Carolina University
Blue Ridge Institute and Museum, Ferrum College VA

Appalachian Studies Organization

2010 Appalachian Studies Association Conference

Please mark your calendars now: the Appalachian Studies Association Conference is coming to NGCSU in March 2010! (March 19-21). The theme will be Engaging Communities.

Rebecca Sewell Homan employeed 23 years by GSC.

Archivist, Bibliographer, and Associate Professor.

MLIS 1980, MEd 2007