The roots of American globalization can be found in the War of 1898. Then, as today, the Unite...
In the early 1970s, as U.S. combat forces began to withdraw from Southeast Asia, South Vietnamese...
Isaac Burns Murphy (1861--1896) was one of the most dynamic jockeys of his era. Still considered ...
Winner of the 1997 Appalachian Studies Award Appalachian Writers Association 1999 Book of the ...
In 1962, Walker Percy (1916--1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene w...
Mae Murray (1885--1965), popularly known as 'the girl with the bee-stung lips,' was a fiery prese...
It is said the champions of the ancient Olympic Games received a crown of olive leaves, symbol...
One of the most famous figures of the American frontier, Daniel Boone clashed with the Shawnee...
Bourbon whiskey is perhaps Kentucky's most distinctive product. Despite bourbon's prominence in t...
Charming and classically handsome, John Gilbert (1897--1936) was among the world's most recogniza...
From the author and the illustrator ofA is for Appalachia! The Alphabet Book of Appalachian...
In the years immediately following the Civil War, the nation's leaders called desperately for ...