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Despite the promise of alternative energy, coal still powers most of our power plants and steel mills. The story of its extraction, and of the people who live,

Few places in the United States confound and fascinate Americans like Appalachia, yet no other area has been so markedly mischaracterized by the mass media. Ste

This award-winning history examines the politics of progress in America through a close look at industrial development in Appalachia since WWII. Appalachia has

Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian pa

Text and illustrations explore the countryside and people of Appalachia.