Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. CREATIVE TEACHING OF APPALACHIAN HISTORY -- ONE: Intro to Appalachian Studies: Navigating Myths of Appalachian Exceptionalism -- TWO: Listening to Black Appalachian Laundrywomen: Teaching with Photographs, Letters, Diaries, and Lost Voices -- THREE: The Southern Highlands according to Hollywood: Teaching Appalachian History through Film -- PART: TWO. APPALACHIAN LITERATURE AND FOLKTALES IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM -- FOUR: Building Bridges with Ron Rash's The World Made Straight: Results from One University and High School Partnership -- FIVE: The Feast Hall, the Arsenal, and the Mirror: Teaching Literature to Students at Risk -- SIX: I Hear Appalachia Singing: Teaching Appalachian Literature in a General Education American Literature Course -- SEVEN: "Way Back Yonder" but Not So Far Away: Teaching Appalachian Folktales -- PART THREE. THE NOVEL IN APPALACHIA -- EIGHT: Teaching Modern Appalachia in Wilma Dykeman's The Far Family -- NINE: Fred Chappell's I Am One of You Forever as a Subject for Literary Analysis and an Alternative Image of Mid-Twentieth-Century Appalachia -- TEN: Startling Morals: Teaching Ecofiction with Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer -- PART FOUR. APPALACHIAN POETRY AND PROSE -- ELEVEN: Appalachian Poetry: A Field Guide for Teachers -- TWELVE: From Harlem Home to Affrilachia: Teaching the Literary Journey -- THIRTEEN: Teaching the Poetry and Prose of Marilou Awiakta -- FOURTEEN: Toward "Crystal-Tight Arrays": Teaching the Evolving Art of Robert Morgan's Poetry -- Contributors -- Index.