A new study by University of Kentucky researchers shows that women who never or rarely screen for breast cancer are also unlikely to receive screening for cervical cancer. The study also identified ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As United as the States may be, the country's vast expanses mean that sharp cultural differences are all but inevitable. From the laid-back ...

The one time I met J. D. Vance was shortly after his book, Hillbilly Elegy, came out, at an event in Kentucky—the state where his grandparents were from and that he wrote about in the memoir. I told ...

"THE FOXFIRE BOOK OF APPALACHIAN WOMEN," edited By Kami Ahrens (The University of North Carolina Press, 268 pages, $25). The Foxfire series, as editor Kami Ahrens explains in the introduction to "The ...

PIKEVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Appalachian Center for the Arts is welcoming folks to a female-fronted “FUNdraiser” to celebrate the creativity and resilience of women in Appalachia. The Mountain ...

Imagine going into labor in a cabin tucked deep into the mountains of western North Carolina. It is 1905. There is no hospital down the road. There is no ambulance. There may not even be a telephone.

Some stories cling to the misty hills of Appalachia like the scent of pine and rain. Some are about miners who never came home, others about ghosts that light lanterns deep in the hollows. But none ...

Winner of the 1997 Appalachian Studies Award Appalachian Writers Association 1999 Book of the Year Winner of the Susan Koppleman Award of the Popular Culture Association for Best Edited Collection in ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The Appalachian League celebrates the women working in the front-office and on-field roles across the league for the 2023 season. This year’s group of 12 women includes Appalachian ...

Appalachian State University Police Officer Cashae Cook was named Woman of the Year by the North Carolina Law Enforcement Women’s Association, marking the first time an officer from a University of ...