RESOURCES
Resources for Appalachian Studies Found on Campus
Appalachian State offers many resources for any one researching or interested in Appalachia. Learn about and explore some of the organizations here.
W. L. Eury Collection, located in the Carol Grotnes Belk Library, is a repository for a wide variety of materials related to the Southern uplands. The Appalachian Collection has more than 40,000 books and over 200 periodical subscriptions, with special strengths in the social sciences, regional and local history, literature, folklore, music, religion, genealogy, and African and Native Appalachia. The Appalachian Collection also includes thousands of maps (including all of the USGS topographic maps for the entire Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) defined region), over 2300 audiotapes, 1,000 videotapes and films, 3,000 commercially produced sound discs, as well as slides, CD-ROMs, photographs, and ephemera. The Collection's comprehensive clippings file contains more than 150 linear feet of articles from Southern Appalachian area newspapers. A song title index is regularly updated from songs received in any audio format into the Collection. There is an extensive collection of micro-format materials with over 5300 microfiche and 11,000 reels of microfilm, including newspapers, theses and dissertations, government documents, county records, the federal census for all ARC counties from 1790 to 1930, and a large set of genealogical resources. The Appalachian Collection also houses a growing manuscript collection with over 1,500 linear feet of manuscript materials (including the papers of regional scholars Helen Lewis, Cratis Williams, Jerry Wayne Williams, and Henry Shapiro).
Appalachian Cultural Museum, seeks to provide a continuing reinterpretation of life and culture in the Blue Ridge Region, and to serve as a laboratory for new museum ideas.
Appalachian Journal, A Regional Studies Review
Ballardsl@appstate.edu.
Sustainable Development is offered as an undergraduate minor, find out about the program, and a past trip to Honduras.
Ethnographic Field School is occasionally offered as a course through the Anthropology department, taught by Dr. Susan Keefe.
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