Research Aids
Bibliographies
- Appalachian Studies Selected Bibliography
- Hymnals and Hymnody in the Appalachian Collection
- Native Americans of the Southeast
- Southern Mountaineers Filmography
Pathfinders
A library Pathfinder is a document that serves as map and guide to bibliographic research on a specific topic. The Pathfinders included on this page were compiled by graduate students in the class, AS 5000, "Appalachian Research and Bibliography" (1997 to present). These Pathfinders, like the students who produced them, vary in quality: some are excellent and others, while not as complete or as skillfully prepared, are still useful to the novice researcher. The Pathfinders also serve as introduction to more exhaustive bibliographies covering the same topics. The bibliographies are on file in the W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection. Because these pathfinders are the intellectual property of former students, they are not updated except to remove links to defunct websites.
If you are researching a specific topic, the Special Collections Subject Guides may direct you to relevant pathfinders more easily.
- Abingdon Coal and Iron Railroad's Evolution to the Virginia Creeper Trail
- African-American Cultural Influence in Appalachia
- African-American Music and Musicians in Appalachia
- Agricultural Forecasting; the Methodologies of Appalachia Farming and Maya Agriculture
- Agricultural Sustainability in the Southern Appalachian Mountains
- Agritourism in Western North Carolina
- Antebellum Appalachian African-Americans
- Appalachian Captivity Narratives
- Appalachian Dance
- Appalachian Folk Schools and Their Scandinavian Precedents
- Appalachian Literature for Children
- Appalachian Literary Criticism
- Appalachian Musical Instruments and Their Makers
- Appalachian Rails and Railways Collection
- Appalachian Religious Serpent Handling
- Appalachian Stereotypes
- Appalachian Women's Mental and Physical Health
- The Appalachian Work of Cormac McCarthy
- Apples in Appalachia
- The Arts and Crafts in Appalachia
- Arts at Black Mountain College
- Bessie Smith: Appalachian Classic Blues Singer
- The Bluegrass Mapping Project: Asheville NC
- Bluegrass Music
- Carter Family: Always a Song
- Carter G. Woodson
- Catholicism and Judaism in Appalachia
- Cherokee Healing
- The Civil War in Western North Carolina
- The Civilian Conservation Corps in Appalachia
- Clerical and Missionary Writings on Appalachia
- Commercial Country Music in Appalachia in the 1920s
- Contemporary Appalachian Photographers
- Contemporary Documentary Photography in Appalachia
- Contemporary Folk Painting in Appalachia
- Creation and Dispossession: Shenandoah National Park and Its Residents
- A Cultural History of Crop Production on Appalachian Farms
- Dance in Appalachia
- Dialect of Southern Appalachia
- Eastern European Immigration in Appalachian Industry
- An Environmental History of Linville Gorge
- Ethnographies and Ethnographic-like Works on Appalachia
- The Fiddle: From Europe to the American South
- Fiddlers' Conventions and Music Camps in Appalachia
- Folk Healing in Southern Appalachia
- Folk Pottery in Appalachian North Carolina
- The Foxfire Approach to Teaching and Learning: Pedagogical Roots and Legacy
- Frankie Silver: Tale of a murder and execution in myth, fact, and fiction
- Free Will, Missionary, and Primitive Baptists in Appalachia: Comparing Three Baptist Subdenominations
- Funeral Customs of Appalachia
- George L. Berry
- Grassroots Activism in the Southern Appalachian Political Economy and Culture
- Hand Weaving of the Southern Highlands
- Hatfield-McCoy Feud
- Hazel Dickens
- Hicks, Harmon, and Ward Storytelling Tradition on Beech Mountain and in Western North Carolina
- Historical Appalachian Out-Migration
- History and Development of the Appalachian Regional Commission
- The History of Agriculture in Central and Southern Appalachia
- History of Farms and Farming in Appalachia
- The History of Polk County, Tennessee
- A History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Appalachia
- History of Tourism in Western North Carolina Through the 1950s
- Holston Methodism
- Home Missions Movement in Appalachia
- Hunting in Appalachia
- Intentional Communities for Sustainable Development in Southern Appalachia
- Internal Migration: Appalachian Urban Areas
- Jack Tales in Appalachia
- Land Ownership Changes in the Southern Appalachians and their Effect on Small Farming Communities
- Latinos in the Southern Appalachians
- Life Narratives of Appalachian Women in North Carolina
- The Life and Work of Wendell Berry
- Linking Women in Appalachia to Agriculture: Rural Culture Past and Present
- Local Food Systems in Southern Appalachia
- Lynchings
- Mary Breckinridge and the Frontier Nursing Service
- Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians
- Medicine Shows in Appalachia
- Melungeon History, Research and Resources
- Methodism in Western North Carolina
- Mexico to Appalachia: The Context for Immigration and the Globalization of Labor in North Carolina
- Migration from Appalachia to Baltimore/DC
- Migration from Appalachia: Central Appalachians in Midwestern Cities
- Molly Tynes
- Moonshine in Appalachia
- Mountain Maryland
- Multiple Use Planning and Development Issues of the Blue Ridge Parkway
- Murder in the Southern Appalachians
- "Music from the Lost Provinces": A Guide to Traditional Music in Ashe County, North Carolina, Grayson County, Virginia, and the Surrounding Area
- Music of Watauga County: A Guide to the Music and Musicians of Watauga County, North Carolina
- Non-mining Protest and Resistance Movements in Appalachia
- Northeast Mississippi Hill Country Blues
- Northern West Virginia's Petro-Chemical Industry
- Old-time to Bluegrass: The Emergence of a Fiddle Style
- Old-Timey Women Musicians in Appalachia --1860's to 1942
- Olive Tilford Dargon (Fielding Burke): the Life and Literature
- Oral History and Appalachia
- Oral Tradition in Appalachian Old-Time Instrumental Music
- Otto Wood: The Outlaw and the Ballad
- Outsider and Self-Taught Artists of the Appalachian Region: 20th and 21st Centuries
- Parks and People: The Effects of National Parks on Appalachian Communities
- The Persistence of Agriculturally Based Home Economies in Appalachia with Special Attention to Mitchell County, NC
- Policies and Perceptions Surrounding Issues of Climate Change in Southern Appalachia: Air Pollution and Global Warming
- Polio in Appalachia
- Post Vietnam Women Appalachian Authors
- Prisons and Penitentiaries in Appalachia
- Protest Songs of the Appalachian Coalfields
- Published Field Recordings of West Virginia
- Quakers in Appalachia
- Quilts in Appalachia
- River Conservation in Western North Carolina
- The Role of Women in Coal Mining Labor Activism in Appalachia
- The Roles and Experiences of Women in Agriculture in Appalachia
- Round Peak Style: Old Time Music from Surry County, North Carolina
- Rural Homelessness and Poverty in Appalachia
- Rutherford County, North Carolina
- Scots-Irish Settlement in Southern Appalachia
- Shenandoah Bluegrass
- Singing Traditions of the Primitive and Regular Baptists in Appalachia
- Strip Mining in Appalachia
- Sustainable Agriculture in Appalachia/West Africa: A Comparative Study
- The Timber Industry in Western North Carolina: Impacts on the Environment
- Tourism in East Tennessee: The History of Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Current Ramifications of Tourism
- Traditional Appalachian Architecture
- Traditional Heirloom Vegetable Varieties of Appalachia and Southeast China
- Volunteer Organizations in Appalachia
- Western North Carolina Ballad Collection
- Western North Carolina Murder Ballads: Tom Dula and Frankie Silver
- Wildcrafting in Appalachia
- Women Activism Towards Labor Equality in the Coal Fields of Central Appalachia, 1964-1989
- Women and Agriculture in the Appalachian Region
- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Appalachia
Content editor: Mark Brittain, brittanma@appstate.edu
