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How Appalachia got its name
Le Moyne also created a map that names the mountains as Appalachian and identifies a village has Apalatchi. Le Moyne’s map, which wasn’t published until 1591, proved overall to be the most ...
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Who Counts as a Hillbilly—And Who Gets to Decide?
Driven in part by Caudill’s writing, Congress finally affixed Appalachia to a map in 1965, creating the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) and tasking it with disbursing federal funds across ...