This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Appalachia’s iconic salamander was slated for federal ...

The history of Appalachia is one of exploitation and extraction — and dogged resistance to both. This region, my family’s home for seven generations, has literally powered American life since the 19th ...

Stories and Songs of Appalachia,” a one-night performance presented by Interim Dean of Campus and Community Relations Richard W. Greenlee, will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 19, in the Ohio ...

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 ...

Neema Avashia is all too used to the shocked reaction she gets when she tells people she’s from West Virginia. A queer woman whose parents immigrated to the US from India, Avashia doesn’t fit the ...

In her new novel “Demon Copperhead” (Harper, 560 pp., ★★★ out of four, out Tuesday), Barbara Kingsolver transports the plot of Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield” to late-1990s Appalachia. It’s a ...