Appalachia exists as much in myth as in literal geography. At the close of his RNC speech accepting his party’s nomination for vice president in July, then-Senator J. D. Vance lingered on the specific ...

Dr Anthony Harkins, Professor of History at Western Kentucky University and co-author of ‘Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy’, tells Metro.co.uk that the area is enormous.

The Appalachian region has long been ... The title of this one says it all: After Hillbilly Elegy and the 2016 election cycle set off a flurry of media attention in the region, this book came ...

Murder ballads are a major part of the tradition of bluegrass. These four songs of love, jealousy, and death are among the best.

If they were to eventually be interred there, he explained, they would mark the sixth generation of his family buried in the region he called his “ancestral home”: Appalachia. Since the release of his ...