Module 2, Activity 1: Appalachian History

In this activity you will view a presentation on Appalachian History given by Dr. Ronald Eller.

Originally from southern West Virginia, Ron Eller has spent the last thirty years writing and teaching about the Appalachian region.  A descendent of eight generations of families from Appalachia, Dr. Eller currently serves as an Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. A former Rockefeller Foundation Scholar, Dr. Eller holds the Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is widely known as a scholar of Appalachian history and the study of rural economic development and social change.  He has published more than sixty articles and reports but is most well known for his award-winning book Miners, Millhands and Mountaineers: The Industrialization of the Appalachian South. He has served as Chairman of the Kentucky Appalachian Task Force, founding Chairman of the Kentucky Appalachian Commission and as a member of the Sustainable Communities Task Force of President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development.

Among other awards, he is the recipient of the Jim Wayne Miller Award for Distinguished Service to Appalachia, the Willis D. Weatherford Award for Appalachian Scholarship, the East Kentucky Leadership Foundation Special Award, and the University of Kentucky William E. Lyons Award for Outstanding Public Service.  He has recently worked on projects in rural education reform with the Ford Foundation, the American Council on Education, and the American Association of Community Colleges.  He currently serves as the John D. Whismant Appalachian Scholar for the Appalachian Regional Commission in Washington.  Dr. Eller recently finished a history of Poverty and the Politics of Development in Appalachia Since 1945 which is scheduled for publication fall 2008.

Speaker profile is taken from the University of Kentucky website faculty profiles.

Instructions:

• Open the file CJ 2-1A History Preliminary & Follow Up Questions in your Course Journal
• Complete the questionnaire
• View Dr. Eller's presentations.
1. Presentation Overview
   File type: QuickTime movie
   Size: 23.7 MB
   Length: 6 minutes
2. History of Appalachian Development
   File type: Camtasia
   Size: 4 KB
   Length: 41 minutes
   
   

   Additional Commentaries

   3. Themes of Appalachian History
      File type: QuickTime movie
      Size: 12.3 MB
      Length: 3 minutes
   4. Interpretive Models
      File type: QuickTime movie
      Size: 11.7 MB
      Length: 3 minutes

    

   
   
• Open the file CJ 2-1B History Preliminary & Follow Up Questions and answer the follow up questions.