Home--Resources that are/give information about Web Gateways

--Appalachian Center of Berea College Resources

http://www.berea.edu/appalachiancenter/resources.asp

Portion of the site sponsored by Berea College which includes an extensive list of links to other Appalachian region links.

--Appalachian Collection

http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/appalachian/

Site sponsored by the Libraries of West Virginia University. It includes description of their collected Appalachian materials, an Appalachian Studies bibliography and recommended links to other Appalachian sites.

--Appalachian Resources on the Web

http://www.shepherd.edu/passweb/links.htm

Small gateway site from the Shepherd College Appalachian Center. It mainly consists of a list of links sorted into broad topic areas.

--Center for Appalachian Studies

http://www.appstudies.appstate.edu/links.html

A list of links to sites dealing with various topics on Appalachia, this site is supported by the Center for Appalachian Studies, a department of the College of Arts and Sciences at Appalachian State University.

--Center for Virtual Appalachia

http://cva.morehead-st.edu/

Sponsored by Morehead State University, this site is a "vast portal to online information" on the Appalachian region. It states that it's intended audience is 1) academics studying the region 2) residents or companies located in Appalachia.

--CreativeFolk.com

http://creativefolk.com/appalachia.html

Focus is mainly on Appalachian women musicians, and includes a bibliography, discography and selected links arranged in topic areas. The author is an academic historian and musician whose focus is women in the Appalachian region.

--Highlander

http://www.highlandercenter.org/resources.asp

Resources portion of the Highlander website. Highlander is an organization whose aims are to overcome poverty, bigotry, and economic injustice in Appalachia and the South. It's Library/Resource Center and Links sections provide sources for doing research on a variety of topics.

--Kentuckiana Digital Library-Appalachian Region

http://kdl.kyvl.org/

The Kentuckiana Digital Library is built to enhance scholarship, research and lifelong learning through the establishment of access to shared digital archival collections in the state of Kentucky. One topic area covered is Appalachian Region. Other collections (like Oral History, Images, and Electronic Texts) are included.

--Melungeon Heritage Page

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mtnties/melungeon.html

This site serves as a portal to other sites with Melungeon information. Includes general information, Melungeon genealogy, book reviews, and a list of primary resources and documents. Most of the information is provided through the research of Nancy Sparks Morrison, Kelly Pritchard and Martha Short.

--Mountain Ties

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mtnties/mlgnlinks.html

Meta-site: Contains a list of links. Some links are dead but the pages webmaster invites users to notify of these. The site explores the genealogy, history, folklore and culture of the peoples living in the Cumberland Mountain area of the Central Appalachian region centered around Dickenson, Wise and Russell Counties in Southwestern Virginia and Pike and Letcher Counties in Eastern Kentucky.

--Real Beverly Hillbillies Links

http://www.sirlinksalot.net/realbeverlyhillbillies.html

This is a meta site collection of links to news articles about the controversy surrounding the Real Beverly Hillbillies show concept.

--Robert Morgan Interview

http://www.beatrice.com/interviews/morgan/

Ron Hogan interview for BookSense of author Robert Morgan. Morgan discusses personal experiences involving Appalachian women who have since become the basis for characters in his books.

--Society: Ethnicity: Melungeon category listing from DMIZ Open directory project.

http://dmoz.org/Society/Ethnicity/The_Americas/Melungeon/

This is the subject listing for Society-Ethnicity-Melungeon from the DMOZ Open Directory Project. This directory project is administered and hosted by Netscape Communication Corp. It powers many of the popular search engines including Google, Lycos, HotBot and others.

-- University of Kentucky Appalachian Center

http://www.uky.edu/RGS/AppalCenter/Home/Frameset/HomeFrameset.htm

Home page of a multi discipline institute established to link resources at the University of Kentucky with communities in the areas of Outreach, teaching, and research. Contains research projects that are aimed at collecting data and statistics about Appalachia. Full text articles from past publications available.

--Women in Kentucky

http://www.womeninkentucky.com/

Sponsored by the Office of the Governor of Kentucky in conjunction with Kentucky Educational Television and several other governmental bodies, this site offers geographical searches for women and their accomplishments, resources and links.

--Women's Labor History

http://www.afscme.org/publications/10404.cfm

Part of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union site. Includes a set of links to other appropriate sites, such as the complete test of The Autobiography of Mother Jones, and a book on Fannie Sellins, a famous labor organizer killed during a coal mine strike.