The Museum of Appalachia celebrated Independence Day with anvil shooting and historical reenactments of American life.

Appalachia is back. No, I don't mean the trends like the latest Old Crow Medicine Show album or Whole Foods stocking wild ramps on their shelves. I mean another wave of media fixation with ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. America has never understood Appalachia. More than a century ago, ...

Dr. Enkeshi El-Amin, a researcher, lecturer, and cultural worker at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and William Isom, director of the Black in Appalachia project at East Tennessee PBS, were ...

Editor’s note: Neema Avashia is a regular contributor to Cognoscenti. She’s written several pieces for us over the years, mostly on topics related to education and identity. She’s out with a new book ...

JACKSON, KY — The home where Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) spent his summers with his grandparents still stands just outside a tiny town in Breathitt County, Kentucky. Vance has credited this place with ...

In this excerpt from “Beginning Again,” Nikki Giovanni offers an ode to the great people who call Appalachia home. I will raise my eyes to the mountains; from where will my help come? My help comes ...

Carolyn Krause brings us an alarmingly simple but profound observation about our region of Appalachia. At a recent Oak Ridge Institute for Continued Learning class, Harry Moore and Fred Brown brought ...

There’s a warm, welcoming spirit to life in Appalachia, writes West Virginia author Kathleen Jacobs, and it shares connections with Danish traditions recently gaining in popularity. The Danes’ concept ...