High in the misty hills of Appalachia, where old forests stretch for miles and stories travel easily from one porch to ...

Settlers in frontier Appalachia felt a sense of community building because of distances they had to travel at Christmas.

Hi, I'm Carley, and I'm a proud Appalachian. Appalachia is a very specific and often misunderstood region of the South. And yes, while the Appalachian Mountains range from Newfoundland, Canada, to ...

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 ...

Switching gears now to a story from the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee, home to a population of mixed race people called the Melungeons. That's a term that, decades ago, used to be a derogatory ...

Sunrise over Appalachian Mountains in autumn (Getty Images). As a tenth generation Appalachian, Ivy Brashear sees J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” as a “really one-sided and simple view of ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Millions of people are tuning in to YouTube and TikTok to tour the towns that make up Appalachia. The people who share these stories are thrilled that people want to learn about the ...

As a holiday gift to Appalachia’s 26.3 million residents, the Appalachian Regional Commission this week released a report detailing what it has done for them over the past few years. According to the ...

Invest Appalachia's report, Climate Resilience in Central Appalachia: Impacts and Opportunities, identified places like West Virginia, eastern Kentucky and parts of Ohio as places with “receiving ...

Pavlo Rybaruk earned a master's degree in Appalachian Studies. He used his knowledge in fighting to help people in his ...

“It is time to tell our story. But then who gets to tell that story – and it’s not necessarily the women,” says Pauletta Hansel. We talk weeks before election night, before venture capitalist turned ...