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Das Projekt OA Datenpraxis verfolgt das Ziel, die Open-Access-Transformation in Deutschland voranzubringen, indem der Umgang mit Publikations- und Kostendaten untersucht und unterstützt wird. Das Projektteam hat nun Informations- und Lernmaterialien zu Monitoringaktivitäten mit offenen Datenquellen veröffentlicht.

Appalachian FiguresBoyd County KY
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

Appalachian Figures On a cold November day in 1921, women across Kentucky stepped into voting booths for the first time in a presidential election. In Boyd County, a former Pikeville schoolteacher and Ashland journalist named Mary Elliott Flanery did more than mark a ballot.

Appalachian FiguresMartin County KY
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

Appalachian Figures If you walk the streets of The Market Common in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the name “Reed” appears on a street sign and on the General Robert H. Reed Recreation Center. City markers explain that the building honors a retired four star Air Force general who helped turn a shuttered base into a thriving neighborhood, and who insisted that its military history not be forgotten.

Appalachian FiguresHarlan County KY
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

Appalachian Figures On an autumn morning in 2024, flags across Kentucky dipped to half staff in memory of a state senator from Harlan County. Governor Andy Beshear’s order was brief, but it marked an extraordinary thing for a boy who had once walked from a Pine Mountain homeplace to a mission school in his bare feet.

Appalachian FiguresHarlan County KY
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

Appalachian Figures On a ridge above the Pine Mountain valley in Harlan County, a stone house still looks west down the long hollow. Its terraces are dry laid from local rock, its chimney and foundation fitted so tightly that a century of rain has barely opened the seams. Local tradition remembers the place simply as Zande House, after the man who built it by hand.

Appalachian FiguresKnott County KY
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

Appalachian Figures In the spring of 1940, a national newsmagazine sent a reporter into a narrow Kentucky valley where students hauled their own coal, scrubbed their own floors, and climbed stone steps to class on a hillside campus that seemed to grow straight out of the rock.