Many Appalachian scholars thought it trafficked ... politics, the media and rural working-class people than anything else. "'Hillbilly Elegy' was so popular at the start, and all of a sudden ...

East Tennessee State University researchers have examined the devastating effects of the 1918 Spanish flu in Appalachia, uncovering lessons that resonate in the wake of COVID-19.

Fewer people than before are being diagnosed with and dying from cancer in Appalachia, but cancer incidence and death rates ...