Appalachia exists as much in myth as in literal geography. At the close of his RNC speech accepting his party’s nomination for vice president in July, then-Senator J. D. Vance lingered on the specific ...

Holy Cow! History is written by novelist, former TV journalist and diehard history buff J. Mark Powell. Have a historic ...

A new feature exhibition, “’It’ll Tickle Yore Innards!’: A (Hillbilly) History of Mountain Dew”, is on display through Jan. 20, 2020, at the Museum of East Tennessee History in Knoxville.

March 18, 1925, began like any other Wednesday in the Heartland. It didn’t stay normal for long; when the day was over, it ...