The Life And Work Of John C Campbell

Author : Olive Dame Campbell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813168554
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Work of John C. Campbell written by Olive Dame Campbell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John C. Campbell (1867–1919) is widely considered to be a pioneer in the objective study of the complex world of Appalachian mountaineers. Thanks to a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation, Campbell traveled throughout the region with his wife—noted social reformer and "songcatcher" Olive Dame Campbell—interviewing and profiling its people. His landmark work, The Southern Highlander and His Homeland, is cited by nearly every scholar writing about the region, yet little has been published about the Campbells and their role in the sociological, educational, and cultural history of Appalachia. Elizabeth McCutchen Williams has prepared the first critical edition of Olive Dame Campbell's comprehensive overview of her husband's life and work—a project left unfinished at the time of Olive's death. Never before published, this unique volume draws extensively on diary entries and personal letters to illuminate the significance and lasting impact of John C. Campbell's contributions. The result is a dynamic blend of biography and collected correspondence that presents an insightful portrait of the influential educator and reformer.

Author : John Charles Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Southern Highlander and His Homeland written by John Charles Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Olive Dame Campbell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081313644X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appalachian Travels written by Olive Dame Campbell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1908 and 1909, noted social reformer and "songcatcher" Olive Dame Campbell traveled with her husband, John C. Campbell, through the Southern Highlands region of Appalachia to survey the social and economic conditions in mountain communities. Throughout the journey, Olive kept a detailed diary offering a vivid, entertaining, and personal account of the places the couple visited, the people they met, and the mountain cultures they encountered. Although John C. Campbell's book, The Southern Highlander and His Homeland, is cited by nearly every scholar writing about the region, little has been published about the Campbells themselves and their role in the sociological, educational, and cultural history of Appalachia. In this critical edition, Elizabeth McCutchen Williams makes Olive's diary widely accessible to scholars and students for the first time. Appalachian Travels only offers an invaluable account of mountain society at the turn of the twentieth century.

Author : Michele Gillespie
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820347566
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Carolina Women written by Michele Gillespie and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the twentieth century, North Carolina’s progressive streak had strengthened, thanks in large part to a growing number of women who engaged in and influenced state and national policies and politics. These women included Gertrude Weil who fought tirelessly for the Nineteenth Amendment, which extended suffrage to women, and founded the state chapter of the League of Women Voters once the amendment was ratified in 1920. Gladys Avery Tillett, an ardent Democrat and supporter of Roosevelt's New Deal, became a major presence in her party at both the state and national levels. Guion Griffis Johnson turned to volunteer work in the postwar years, becoming one of the state's most prominent female civic leaders. Through her excellent education, keen legal mind, and family prominence, Susie Sharp in 1949 became the first woman judge in North Carolina and in 1974 the first woman in the nation to be elected and serve as chief justice of a state supreme court. Throughout her life, the Reverend Dr. Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray charted a religious, literary, and political path to racial reconciliation on both a national stage and in North Carolina. This is the second of two volumes that together explore the diverse and changing patterns of North Carolina women's lives. The essays in this volume cover the period beginning with women born in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but who made their greatest contributions to the social, political, cultural, legal, and economic life of the state during the late progressive era through the late twentieth century.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mountain Life and Work written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
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Download or read book Bibliographical Contributions - United States Department of Agriculture Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Everett Eugene Edwards
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book References on the Mountaineers of the Southern Appalachians written by Everett Eugene Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bibliographical Contributions written by National Agricultural Library (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 744 pages
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Download or read book Bibliographical Contributions written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Betty N. Smith
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813184088
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Hicks Gentry written by Betty N. Smith and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Winner of the North Carolina Society of Historians Award Jane Hicks Gentry lived her entire life in the remote, mountainous northwest corner of North Carolina and was descended from old Appalachian families in which singing and storytelling were part of everyday life. Gentry took this tradition to heart, and her legacy includes ballads, songs, stories, and riddles. Smith provides a full biography of this vibrant woman and the tradition into which she was born, presenting seventy of Gentry's songs and fifteen of the "Jack" tales she learned from her grandfather. When Englishman Cecil Sharp traveled through the South gathering material for his famous English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, his most generous informant was Jane Hicks Gentry. But despite her importance in Sharp's collection, Gentry has remained only a name on his pages. Now Betty Smith, herself a folksinger, brings to life this remarkable artist and her songs and tales.