The Unsettling of Appalachia: Identity, Activism, and Appalachian Consciousness in Conversation with S-Town
Appalachia is a region too politicized to romanticize. Though the region could definitely use some romance.
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Brexit, Uncertainty, and Encounter: An Interview with Corrymeela Community’s Executive Director Colin Craig
As the generation that built the system that promoted peace in Europe fades away, we find ourselves struggling to maintain those institutions. This is in large part because we forget too easily that their original and true purpose was not the sacrifice of national identity at the altar of economic integration. The purpose was peace.
Bring Back Our Jobs: Work, Machines, and Energy Infrastructure
Sometime in the late 1930s, Irene Robertson interviewed Mary Teel about her memory of slavery and her life since. Some of Robertson’s questions clearly made the formerly-enslaved Teel feel uncomfortable, like when she asked about the Klan, education, and voting. Nonetheless, Teel’s account of slavery and its aftermath repeated a theme common among her peers: years of hard work still left her “hard up.”
The Activist History Review 