Appalachian History Series Why the cove mattered In the spring of 1864 Ulysses S. Grant pushed on all fronts in Virginia. One prong sent Brigadier General George Crook to wreck the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad at Dublin Depot and to burn the big railroad bridge over the New River at Central Depot, today’s Radford.

Appalachian History Series Why Marion mattered In the last winter of the war, southwestern Virginia still fed the Confederacy’s armies with salt from Saltville and lead from the mines along the upper New River. Those resources moved over the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad through Wytheville and Marion. Any serious Federal raid into the mountains would try to break that industrial chain.

Appalachian History What happened At daybreak on April 30, 1863, Union Col. Abel D. Streight’s provisional brigade was pushing east along Sand Mountain when Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s pursuing cavalry struck the column’s rear at Day’s Gap in present-day Cullman County. The Federals stood, repulsed the first assaults, and kept moving.

Appalachian History Setting the stage in Western North Carolina By the spring of 1865, war in North Carolina had fractured into scattered columns, couriers, and rumors. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston had agreed to surrender terms to Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman on April 26 at Bennett Place, yet in the mountains the situation remained fluid. Confederate forces in the Western District under Brig. Gen.

Appalachian History Series Evarts High School stood at the heart of Clover Fork for most of the twentieth century, first as the community’s own secondary school, then as one of three high schools in the Harlan County district. The Wildcats carried blue and gold in halls filled with class banners, pep club signs, and KHSAA schedules.

Here’s a wee puzzle: A mature Open Data focused journal (“Journal A”), owned and launched by an company or Institute (“Institute B”), developed into the flagship of an Academic Publisher (“Publisher C”), runs their own properly archived and citable blog with DOIs etc (“Blog D”). If a briefly published editorial Blog Post (“Editorial E”) disappears from their Blog, could it be an accident, or something else?

Two recent photo posts on Mastodon reminded me how much necks lie.

DOI: 10.60804/9qxx-bh58 Didier Torny is a Senior Researcher at CNRS, and the project lead for Matilda, a bibliographic platform built specifically for open science. We spoke with Didier about the project, and their plans to incorporate links to datasets for the articles they index in Matilda. The motivation for Matilda...

Structural demographic theory and the United States

Unrecognized potential number 6 in GetPot A rather silly error in Gaussian, but one that seems to be common and to which I haven’t found any posted solutions, so here goes mine.

There’s a cave in Ethiopia, in an area called Dikika. At some point, around 3.4 million years ago, an early hominin made some incisions on an animal carcass, leaving some notches on a bone as the makeshift knife cut past the muscle and sinew into the bone, tell-tale kerf marks that speak of the first time one of our ancestors used a tool. ¹ What happened in that cave changed everything for our species. ¹ McPherron, S.