"Few regions in the U.S. confound and fascinate Americans like Appalachia; yet no other region has been so misrepresented by the mass media. With humor, intelligence, and clarity, Jeff Biggers shows how a remarkable procession of innovators from the hills of Appalachia helped to…
"Few regions in the United States confound and fascinate Americans like Appalachia; yet no other region has been so misrepresented by the mass media. With humor, intelligence, and clarity, Jeff Biggers shows how a remarkable procession of innovators from the hills of Appalachia …
Challenges stereotypes to profile Appalachia as a cradle of American independence and artistry, tracing the region's history to show that many of the nation's freedoms and founding moments found their origins there.
S tate Out of the Union is award-winning journalist and historian Jeff Biggers? riveting account of Arizona, the famed frontier state whose conflict over immigration and state?s rights has become a national bellwether. Biggers shows how Arizona?s long history of labor and civil …
"Days after President Obama beseeched his fellow lawmakers in the State of the Union to come together as a people, Republicans, Democrats, Independents, "and find common ground, even as we're having some very vigorous debates," the extraordinary effect of Arizona's sagebrush reb…
"Days after President Obama beseeched his fellow lawmakers in the State of the Union to come together as a people, Republicans, Democrats, Independents, "and find common ground, even as we're having some very vigorous debates," the extraordinary effect of Arizona's sagebrush reb…
"Award-winning journalist and cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us on a journey into the secret history of coal mining in the American heartland. Set in the ruins of his family's strip-mined homestead in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois, Biggers delivers a de…
4.5 hours : the choices we made -- In the name of the Shawnee : removing the Earth's liver -- Black diamonds, black lives : the entangled roots of slavery and coal -- Who killed the miners? : an anatomy of denial -- Black waters, black waters : murder of Little Egypt -- The shor…
"Award-winning journalist and cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us on a journey into the secret history of coal mining in the American heartland. Set in the ruins of his family's strip-mined homestead in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois, Biggers delivers a de…