Summary

Leading the Public University provides an account of the challenges faced by public higher education through the eyes of a man who spent over a decade as the head of a major public university. This compilation of essays, speeches, and articles written during the administration of David C. Hardesty, Jr., depicts the history of West Virginia University during the twelve-year period that he led from 1995–2007 while representing the communication tools he used to achieve cultural change and to advance the university’s official agenda.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction · Follow Your Instincts
• Part One · Lessons Learned: Leadership Principles and Practices
  
  1. Recognizing Lessons Learned at the Turn of the Century: The Final State of the University Address
  2. Ten Characteristics of a Highly Effective Organization
  3. Lifelong Learning for Leaders and Organizations
  4. Building Leadership Capacity
  5. Leader Overlord: The Opperational Risks of a Robust Organizational Agenda
  6. Can Education Be Run Like a Business?
  7. Leading Change: Remarks to the Nataional Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
• Part Two · Mission, Vision, and Values: The President as University Advocate
  
  8. Getting Started: The Inaugural Address
  9. Marking Progress in the State University Addresses
  10. A Plea for Public Support of Higher Education
  11. The Joy of Teaching, Inside and Outside of the Classroom
  12. Involving Parents in Support of the Mission: The West Virginia University Moutaineer Parents Club
      By Susan B. Hardesty
  13. The Vital Role of the Private Donor: West Virginia University's Randolph Cancer Center Gala
  14. The Role of Women at West Virginia University
      By Susan B. Hardesty
  15. The Value and Perils of Intercollegiate Athletics
  16. The Meaning of Social Justice
  17. Priests of the Temple
• Part Three · Teaching Momenst: A President's Call to Action
  
  18. Remarks after September 11
  19. Remarks to New Citizens of the United States at a Naturalization Ceremony
  20. Finding Wisdom in the Information Age
  21. Champion for Youth Development Programs
  22. Celebrating Volunteers: First Annual Conference on Volunteerism
  23. Encouraging Student Success
  24. Supporting Productive Communities
• Part Four · Education and Experience: Preparing for Leadership
  
  25. Reflections on Our Journey to Service
  26. Reflections on Undergraduate Growth: For the 125th Anniversary of Woodburn Hall
  27. Reflections on the Oxford Experience: Residential Education as Preparation for Leadership
  28. Leading Lawyers: Why Lawyers Lead in America
  29. The Education of a Volunteer: Report of the Chairman to the University System Board of Trustees
  30. Afterword · Brining Closure, Time to Say Goodbye: A Letter of Farewell to the University Community
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1 · Timeline of Speeches
• Appendix 2 · The Numbers at WVU
• Biographical Information
• References and Cited Works

Author

David C. Hardesty, Jr., served as president of his undergraduate alma mater, West Virginia University, from 1995–2007. He also holds degrees from Oxford University and Harvard Law School. His presidency has been recognized for its student-centered initiatives and its commitment to West Virginia’s economic development. Enrollment, research activity, and endowments also grew rapidly under his leadership.

Summary

Back in print—a classic work from a West Virginia Poet Laureate!

With a new introduction by A.E. Stringer, this reprint of Louise McNeill's classic work remains as vivid as when it was first published. Containing poems from several decades of her career, Paradox Hill: From Appalachia to Lunar Shore is a must-have collection of a beloved poet's heartfelt exploration of her physical and cultural surroundings.

Contents

• Foreword to the First Edition
• Introduction, Arthur E. Stringer
• Appalachia
  • Stories at Evening
  • The Roads
  • Ballad of Pete Ellers
  • Ballad of the Rest Home
  • Ballad of New River
  • Ballad of Miss Sally
  • Scotch Irish
  • Memoria
  • Hill Daughter
  • First Flight
  • Limestone Cavern
  • Sea and Fire
  • Walk in Autumn
  • The Roads
  • The Sailor
  • Garden Moment
  • Arrow Grasses by Greenbrier River
  • Involved
  • Blizzard
  • Snow Angels
  • Threnody for Old Orchards
  • Fox and Geese
  • Overheard on a Bus (Miner’s Wife)
  • Overheard on a Bus (Woman with a cleft palate)
  • Mayapple Hill
  • Heart-Wood
  • Blue and Brown
  • Gravity
  • Pasture Line Fence
  • The Old Woman
  • Over the Mountain
• Scattered Leaves
  • To the Boys in Freshman History
  • The Dream
  • Poet
  • The Cave
  • The Golden Garden of Cuzco
  • Eden Tree
  • Warning
  • Time—The Passage of Time
  • Confession
  • Boating Song
  • The Invisible Line
  • Aubade to Fear
  • Reflection Without Color
  • Minutiae
  • Under Sea—The Unicorn
• To Lunar Shore
  • Of Soothsayers
  • Fireseed
  • After the Blast
  • Life-Force
  • Potherbs
  • The New Corbies
  • Prophecy for the Atomic Age
  • After Hearing a Lecture on Modern Physics
  • The Martian Box
  • The Lovers—Space Age
  • Earth Day—1970
  • White Dwarf Stars
  • Space Ship
  • Projection to a Space of Lower Order
  • Lost in Orbit
  • Chain Reaction
  • “Light”
  • Quadrille of the Naked Contours
  • Earth Day 1971
  • Letter Written at Twilight
• About the Authors

Author

Louise McNeill was born in 1911 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. She was West Virginia Poet Laureate from 1979 until her death in 1993.

A. E. Stringer is Professor of Creative Writing at Marshall University.

Read More about Louise McNeill.

Reviews

"Louise McNeill had a voice, both in person and in the poems, that was direct and forceful. Her toughness came from her resistance to the merely decorative or folksy. We still need such a voice. Her poems project a powerful presence: it is resonant with character. It is the sound of the griefs and meanings and dignities of the land and the people. It strikes me as absolutely authentic."
Irene McKinney, Poet Laureate of West Virginia and author Vivid Companion and Unthinkable

"[McNeill’s] poems have the virtue of freshness, a spontaneity that is equally evident in the lyrics and the narratives. I particularly like the ballad-like music that ranges from the matter-of-fact to the macabre. There is warmth as well as wit in the lines.”
Louis Untermeyer, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1961-1963

“I don’t know anybody in Appalachia, writing poetry, who equals [McNeill’s] brilliant work. Buy this book. Read it and love it. I cannot praise this excellent poet too highly.”
Jesse Hilton Stuart, Poet Laureate of Kentucky, 1954-1984

Links

Listen to Kate Long, Colleen Anderson, and Debbie Haught read McNeil's poetry on Charleston Gazette's MountainWord blog.

Summary

This fifth collection of poetry from West Virginia's poet laureate and author of Six O'Clock Mine Report is an extraordinary set of poems which reflects the complexity, the magnanimity, and the resilience of the human spirit. McKinney writes with candor, precision, and compassion; most importantly, though, her poems are accessible to all types of readers.

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Contents

•  
  • Our Lady of the Iguanas
  • Gray’s Anatomy
  • The Surgery
  • The Stutter
  • Clitoral
  • Fodder
  • Ravi Sings
  • Fame
  • Ironweed
  • Personal
  • Constant Companion
•  
  • Mary Cragin: The Honeymoon, 1834
  • Catherine Baker: Arrival at Oneida Creek, 1848
  • The Testimony of Harriet Worden, 1850
  • Sarah Burt: The Doll Burning, 1851
  • Solitude in the Oneida Community: Victor Cragin Noyes, 1866
  • Professor Mears of Hamilton College Speaks to the Court
  • The Tree of Life Tapestry: Jessie Kinsley, 1927
•  
  • Hiding
  • Filthy Weather
  • Three Three Three
  • Immanent
  • Covering Up
  • Low Red Moon
  • Full Moon: Sitting Up Late At My Father’s Bedside
•  
  • Monkey Heart
  • Home
  • Stained
  • Atavistic
  • Woods Burning
  • Redemption
  • Dark Rain
  • Homage to Roy Orbison
•  
  • Homage to Baroness Elsa Von Freytag Loringhoven
  • The Dream Feast
  • Adobe
  • Handholds
  • Face
  • Illuminated Manuscript
  • At 24
  • The Walk
  • Viridian Days
  • Ready
• Notes

Author

Irene McKinney grew up in the small town of Bellington, WV and received her BA at West Virginia Wesleyan College. She received her PhD from the University of Utah . Currently she is the Director of Creative Writing and an associate professor of English at West Virginia Wesleyan College. McKinney was appointed Poet Laureate of West Virginia in 1993. McKinney's real gift is her ability to use her poetry to reflect the beauty of the state and its residents, and her works are a tribute to the spirit of West Virginia.

Reviews

"McKinney's poetry reflects the beauty of the state and its residents, and her works are a tribute to the spirit of West Virginia."
Bookshelf Reviews, West Virginia University Alumni Magazine

"Vivid Companion's 44 poems defy the tendency toward female self-deprecation, and McKinney forcefully embraces her body and history as relevant, positive, and spiritual. The poet's intention centers less on confession than understanding as she walks through scenes of her aging body, her father's death, rural surroundings, and a historical interlude on new York's historical Oneida Community . . . While her position as the lifetime poet laureate of West Virginia centers her work on the Appalachians, her scope supercedes territory to encompass the overarching soul of the natural world and femininity in conflict."
Casie Fedukovich, American Book Review

Links

Listen to Garrion Keillor's interpretation of "A Homage to Roy Orbison" on the April 25th broadcast of The Writer's Almanac.
Listen to McKinney's "Ready," which aired on The Writer's Almanac on May 15. 2009.
These poems are part of McKinney's collection of poems found within Vivid Companion.

Summary

Finding a Clear Path intertwines literature, agriculture, and ecology as author Jim Minick takes the reader on many journeys, allowing you to float on a pond, fly with a titmouse, gather ginseng, and grow the lowly potato. The reader visits monarch butterflies and morel mushrooms, encountering beavers, black snakes, and bloodroot along the way. Using his background as a blueberry farmer, gardener and naturalist, Minick explores the Appalachian region and also introduces information that can be appreciated from a scientific point of view, explaining, for example, the ears of an owl, or the problems with the typical Christmas tree. Reading this collection of essays invites you to search for ways to better understand and appreciate this marvelous world, opening paths for journeys of your own.

Contents

• Walking
  • Finding a Clear Path
  • Creases
  • Walking in the World of Language
• Naming it All
  • Naming What You Love
  • Seasons' Dance
  • The River of Spring
  • Small, Bright Glows of Spring
  • Drive
  • Cruel April
  • Longevity
  • Snake Stories
• Floating
  • Springs, Strong and Sweet
  • To Pond
  • The Return of the Beaver
  • Sea Turtles
• Flying
  • Nests
  • Birding by Car
  • Vanishing Birds
  • Monarchs: Flying Poetry
  • Mirrored Intruder
  • Terrifying Beauty
  • Counting Birds at Christmas
  • Homes for the Holidays
• Gathering
  • Miacle Morels
  • Have Fungi, But Ne Careful
  • The Bridge of Antlers
  • Growing Ginseng
  • A "Woods Garden" Full of Cohosh
  • Wineberries—Wild, Red Jewels
  • In Praise of Pawpaws
• Growing
  • Food Security, or Do You Know Where That Egg Came From?
  • Grow a Patch of Your Own
  • Some Kind of Habit
  • How to Get the Good Bugs In
  • Summertime, Winter Work
  • Gray Buffalo
  • Beans, Bovines, and Beetles
  • Groundhogs
  • Health, Hunger, and Hunting
  • Footprints, or We All Have Big Feet
  • For the Love of Chicken
  • The Holy, Lowly Spud
  • Claiming Ground
  • Corn Mazes
  • Cussed Yellow Jackets
  • Shocked
  • We Create the World We Eat: The Benefits of Organic Food
  • Beyond Organic
  • Star Linked
  • Not Ready for Roundup's Results
  • Zone
  • The Trouble With "Waste"
• Working Among Trees
  • Sunlight on Willow
  • Hitting the Mark
  • Masonry Stoves
  • Praise for One Tough Tree
  • The Slow Work of Healing
  • Green Lumber, Green Profits: Sustainable Forestry in Appalachia
  • A Rision Tide Floats All Logs
  • A Different Fire: The Southern Pine Beetle
  • Bullish Invasives
  • Eastern Hemlocks Fade from our Forests
  • Beyond Bare-Ground: Organic Christmas Trees in the South
  • Bowls for Christmas
  • Handmade
• Following Myself Home
  • Night Walking
  • Following Myself Home
• Appendix

Author

Jim Minick lives, writes, and farms in southwest Virginia, while teaching writing and literature at Radford University. His poems and essays have appeared in many books and periodicals including Orion, Shenandoah, YES!, Natural Home, Encyclopedia of Appalachia, Appalachian Journal, Appalachian Heritage, and Wind. Since 1996, Minick has written a regular column for The Roanoke Times New River Current as well as other articles that have appeared in major newspapers throughout the south.

Reviews

"In Finding a Clear Path, Jim Minick maps the trails, real and metaphorical, that twine through the ancient Appalachian hills and through the hearts of those who love them, gracefully uniting the land, the wildlife, and its people."
Scott Weidensaul, author Mountains of the Heart

"In Finding a Clear Path, Jim Minick walks woods, gardens, and fields with a poet's eye; his seeing is sharp, his knowledge deep, his sentences tough and lean. And he is as practical as a farmer's almanac, too, offering not only observations and reflections, but advice on country matters of all kinds. Minick knows that on this lovely, flawed planet of ours, much is well."
Richard Hague, author Ripenings and Milltown Natural

"Jim Minick is blessed with brevity. Each of his one to three page essays meditates on one small thing, yet manages to enhance our understanding of the whole wide world. Readers be warned: seeing the macrocosm in a microcosm is a dangerous subversion of the normal egocentric human perspective, and may cause changes in attitude."
Chris Bolgiano, author The Appalachian Forest and Living in the Appalachian Forest

"...Finding a Clear Path is a beautifully wrought example of nature writing and environmental advocacy at its most appealing."
John C. Inscoe, Journal of Appalachian Studies

Summary

In this revised and expanded edition of Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders, author George Constantz, a biologist and naturalist, writes about the beauty and nature of the Appalachian landscape. While the information is scientific in nature, Constantz’s accessible descriptions of the adaptation of various organisms to their environment enable the reader to enjoy learning about the Appalachian ecosystem. The book is divided into three sections: “Stage and Theater,” “The Players,” and “Seasonal Act.” Each section sets the scene and describes the events occurring in nature. “Stage and Theatre” is comprised of chapters that describe the origins of the Appalachia region. “The Players” is an interesting and in-depth look into the ecology of animals, such as the mating rituals of different species, and the evolutionary explanation for the adaptation of Appalachian wildlife. The last section, “Seasonal Act,” makes note of the changes in Appalachian weather each season and its effect on the inhabitants.

Contents

• Thanks
•   1. Prologue
• Stage and Theater
•   2. Origins
•   3. Forest Design
•   4. Creating Diversity
•   5. Catastrophe and the Appalachian Quilt
•   6. Balds
•   7. The Asian Connection
• The Players
•   8. The Improbable Lady’s-slipper
•   9. Sexual Decisions of Jack-in-the-Pulpit
•   10. Nuptial Gift of the Hangingfly
•   11. Femmes Fatales of Twilight
•   12. Small Fishes in Shallow Headwaters
•   13. Darter Daddies
•   14. To the Brook Trout, with Esteem
•   15. A Lungless Salamander Trilogy: Primer
•   16. A Lungless Salamander Trilogy: Coexistence
•   17. A Lungless Salamander Trilogy: Mimicry
•   18. Love Among the Frogs
•   19. Box Turtle’s Independence
•   20. Copperhead’s Year
•   21. Oaks and Squirrels
•   22. Highlanders
• Seasonal Acts
•   23. Autumn Leaves
•   24. Window on Bird Politics
•   25. Thwarting Swords of Ice
•   26. Spring Tensions
•   27. Dawn Chorus
•   28. Trees and Caterpillars
• Epilogue
•   29. The Remnant Archipelago
•   30. Abuse, Resurrection, Hope
• Actors
• Jargon
• Sources
• Index
• Author

Author

Born in Washington, DC, in 1947, George Constantz spent six years of his childhood in Barranquilla, Colombia, among the iguanas of the Magdalena River’s floodplain, and in Chihuahua, Mexico, where he chased roadrunners through the desert. Since receiving a BA in biology from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and a PhD in zoology from Arizona State University, Constantz has worked as a park naturalist, a teacher of biology and environmental science, a fish ecologist, researcher, and writer. He founded Cacapon Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving Appalachian rivers. Currently, he manages the Education Program at the Canaan Valley Institute. He lives with his wife, Nancy Ailes, in the Cacapon River watershed of West Virginia.

Reviews

“Creative and interesting histories, facts, and personal reflections flesh out the well-researched information insuring that this colorful exploration of the mountains will delight, rather than bore, the reader.”
Appalachian Heritage

Summary

A manual to identify trees and shrubs in winter when the lack of leaves, fruits, and flowers makes them least identifiable, Woody Plants in Winter has become a classic for naturalists, botanists, gardeners, and hobbyists. Earl L. Core and Nell P. Ammons, both West Virginia University professors of distinction, originally published this book with the Boxwood Press in 1958.

Contents

• Woody Plants in Winter
• Key to the Genera
• Descriptions of Genera and Species
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• Index

Summary

Macrofungi Associated with Oaks of Eastern North America, which was written as a companion to Field Guide to Oak Species of Eastern North America, represents the first major publication devoted exclusively to the macrofungi that occur in association with oak trees in the forests of eastern North America. The macrofungi covered in this volume include many of the more common examples of the three groups—mycorrhizal fungi, decomposers, and pathogens—that are ecologically important to the forest ecosystems in which oaks occur. More than 200 species of macrofungi are described and illustrated via vibrantly colored photographs. Information is given on edibility, medicinal properties, and other novel uses as well. This publication reflects the combined expertise of six mycologists on the macrofungi anyone would be likely to encounter in an oak forest.

2008 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award Finalist

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Oak Forests in Eastern North America
• Taxonomic Groups
•   Basidiomycota
•   Ascomycota
•   Myxomycota
• Mycorrhizal Species
• Pathogens
• Decomposers
• Glossary
• References
• Muchroom Poisoning
• General Index

Author

Dr. Steve Stephenson, who has also published Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the World and Myxomycetes of New Zealand, is a former Professor of Biology at Fairmont State University, West Virginia. 

Introduced to fungi in 1995 by Stephenson, fellow author and information technology specialist, Denise Binion is the co-author of Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America.

William Roody is currently documenting the distribution of macrofungi throughout West Virginia and works with the state’s rare plants and animals.

Dr. Larissa Vasilyeva, a research scientist, has described 100 new species of the pyrenomycetous fungi, along with twenty new genera in this group.

Dr. Harold Burdsall Jr., a mycologist and former project leader, has been studying wood-inhabiting fungi for more than forty years and is currently a volunteer mycologist.

Dr. Orson K. Miller Jr., a former professor of botany at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, has published more than 160 scientific manuscripts and eight books.

Reviews

"All mycologists and mycophiles east of the Rocky Mountains will find this book a tremendous asset when hitting the woods!"
John Plischke, Fungi Magazine

Summary

Originally published in 1948, this is the germinal text on nearly 250 species of spring wildflowers found in West Virginia. Common or English names and scientific or Latin names are given for each species. The descriptions are in two sections: The first description includes the meaning of the name of the flower, uses, habitats, and ranges in West Virginia. Secondly, the plant itself is described in deep detail to help in identification. Each description is accompanied by a facing page detailed line drawing. This book is a must have for those interested in the beauty and science of West Virginia's spring flora. 

Author

Earl L. Core co-wrote the four-volume Flora of West Virginia. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from West Virginia University and his doctorate from Columbia. He was a biology professor at WVU where the 75-acre arboretum managed by the university bears his name.

The illustrator, William A. Lunk, received his doctorate at the University of Michigan and went on to become curator of their University Museums.

Summary

In this new, scholarly text—an ambitious study of contemporary poetics—Joe W. Moffett deciphers the twentieth-century long poem, searching for a better understanding of why long-poem writers are preoccupied with a search for origins.

Moffett focuses on issues like postcolonialism, nation, modernism, and postmodernism. He conceptualizes his theories by using what he calls “originiary moments”: historical periods or specific events from which a poet contends our culture descends. These moments enlighten and inspire the modern poet to use origin or “source” as a way to examine present culture and social conditions. The poems also encourage modern readers to question, revise, and repudiate. Moffett organizes his argument by arranging specific examples into three categories of originary moments: Sumerian, Homeric, and Anglo-Saxon.

According to Moffett, the long poem is appealing because it “lacks strict conventions that govern other genres.” Using a wide variety of poems to support his arguments, Moffett asks many stimulating questions and also provides provocative answers.

Questions of when and where It All Began have been off the critical agenda for some time now, embargoed by poststructuralism. Undeterred, Joe Moffett boldly revisits the search for cultural origins, which preoccupied major poets throughout the twentieth century. Capacious in his scope, eclectic in his choices, Moffett rounds up unusual subjects, including long poems by Armand Schwerner, Derek Walcott, Geoffrey Hill, and Judy Grahn, with excursions into Charles Olson, Seamus Heaney, and others. Nowhere will you find clearer, more intelligent, or better-informed readings of these poems than Moffett’s.

Contents

• "Returning to the Origin and Bringing Something Back" in the Twentieth-Century Long Poem
• Charles Olson's The Maximus Poems and Armand Shwerner's The Tablets: From Late Modernist to Postmodernist Long Poem
• "Master, I Was the Freshest of All Your Readers": Postcolonialism and Postmodern Self-Reflexivity in Derek Walcott's Omeros
• Narrating the Origins of the Nation: Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns and "An Appology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England"
• "A New Myth of Origin": Judy Grahn's A Chronicle of Queens and Popular culture
• Conclusions: Origins and the Modern/Postmodern Divide
• Bibliography
• Index

Summary

As a border county in a border state, Barbour County, West Virginia, felt the full terror and tragedy of the Civil War. The wounds of the Civil War cut most bitterly in the border states, that strip of America from Maryland to Kansas, where conflicting loyalties and traditions ripped apart communities, institutions, and families. Barbour County, in the mountainous Northwest of (West) Virginia, is a telling microcosm of the deep divisions which both caused the war and were caused by it. By examining and interpreting long-ignored documents of the times and the personal accounts of the people who were there, Clash of Loyalties offers a startling new view of America’s most bitter hour. Nearly half of the military-age men in the county served in the armed forces, almost perfectly divided between the Union and the Confederacy. After West Virginia split with Virginia to rejoin the Union, Confederate soldiers from the regions could not safely visit their homes on furlough, or even send letters to their families. The county’s two leading political figures, Samuel Woods and Spencer Dayton, became leaders of the fight for and against secession, dissolved their close personal friendship, and never spoke to one another again. The two factions launched campaigns of terror and intimidation, leading to the burning of several homes, the kidnapping of a sheriff, the murder of a pacifist minister, and the self-imposed exile of many of the county’s influential families. The conflicting loyalties crossed nearly all social and economic lines; even the county’s slave owners were evenly divided between Union and Confederate sympathies. With a meticulous examination of census and military records, geneologies, period newspapers, tax rolls, eyewitness accounts, and other relevant documents, Clash of Loyalties presents a compelling account of the passion and violence which tore apart Barbour County and the nation.

Contents

• List of Tables
• Introduction
• Borderland County
• Wellsprings of Loyalty
• Dark Clouds Gather
• Patterns of Enlistment
• War in the Mountains
• Keep the Home Fires Burning
• Strangers in a Strange Land
• Let Malice Go
• Appendix A
•   Notes on Sources and Methods
• Appendix B
•   Immigration into Barbour
• Appendix C
•   Birthplaces of Barbour's Soldiers, their Fathers, and their Grandfathers
• Appendix D
•   Chronology of Enlistments
• Endnotes
• Bibliography
• Index

Author

John W. Shaffer earned a PhD in history from UCLA. He has taught at California State University at Chico. He is the author of Family and Farm: Agrarian Change and Household Organization in the Loire Valley, 1500–1900, as well as numerous articles in journals and books. Shaffer is currently vice president of United Mercantile Agencies in San Francisco.

Reviews

“[A] fascinating study . . . ”
C. Stuart McGehee, West Virginia History

“ . . . to my knowledge no Civil War scholar to date has documented patterns of local conflict so meticulously, and those seeking to understand Appalachia’s Civil War will find in this monograph an effective model for continued exploration.”
Robert Tracy McKenzie, Journal of Appalachian Studies