Ronald T Eller

This digital document, covering the life and work of Ronald D Eller, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1223 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry...

When The Kentucky Cycle won the Pulitzer prize for drama, a stunned Gurney Norman, already dismayed by national critics' lack of attention to the negative depictions of Appalachian people in the play, launched an attack on the stereotypical representations of mountain people. In time, Bobbie Ann Mas...

Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. Created by urban journalists in the years following the Civil War, the idea of Appalachia provided a counterpoint to emerging definitions of progress. Early-twentieth-century critics of modernity saw t...

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This digital document is an article from Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, published by Emporia State University on March 22, 2009. The length of the article is 540 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available ...