Appalachian History Series – Letters from the Fraterville Mine: The 1902 Explosion in Anderson County, Tennessee If you follow the narrow road up Coal Creek Valley in Anderson County, Tennessee, the ridges close in around you. To the east rises Walden Ridge, to the west Vowell Mountain.

Appalachian History Series – Coalfield Classrooms: The Kanawha County Textbook War and the Rise of the Culture Wars In the late summer of 1974, a school board meeting in Charleston turned into one of the most intense curriculum battles in American history. The fight began over a stack of language arts textbooks meant to bring multicultural voices into Kanawha County classrooms.

Appalachian History Series – The Monongah Mine Disaster of 1907: Coal, Immigrants, and the Worst Day in American Mining On a cold Friday morning in early December 1907, the town of Monongah in Marion County, West Virginia, woke to a sound that people later said could be heard for miles along the West Fork River.

Appalachian History Series – Tupelo’s Dark Sunday: The 1936 Tornado and the Making of Modern Appalachian Mississippi On a warm Palm Sunday evening in April 1936, the people of Tupelo, Mississippi settled into the usual routines of a small hill country town. Families finished supper, children were put to bed, and the lights of north Tupelo glowed around a shallow body of water locals called Gum Pond. Within a few minutes that quiet vanished.

Appalachian History Series – Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster: Silica, Silence, and Memory in the New River Gorge If you stand at the overlook near Hawks Nest State Park in Fayette County, West Virginia, the New River looks calm and distant. Freight trains slide along the riverbank, and tourists lean on the stone wall to photograph the gorge.

Appalachian History Series – Walking the Hill: The Clinton Twelve and Appalachian Tennessee’s First Integrated High School A Mountain Town Drawn Into a National Story On the map, Clinton looks like one more small town in the ridge country north of Knoxville. The courthouse square sits above the Clinch River, with the Cumberland Plateau rising in long, timbered ridges to the west and the Great Smoky foothills not far to the east.

Forgotten Appalachia Series – Lilly on the Bluestone and the Flood That Never Came On a quiet day in the Bluestone Gorge, if you follow the old river road that hikers now call the Bluestone Turnpike Trail, you can walk for miles with the river on one side and deep forest on the other.

Your browser does not support the audio tag. Download: PDF | EPUB | MP3 | WATCH VIDEO There is a tendency, among both scientists and non-scientists, to assume that our current scientific theories are correct in some fundamental sense … but the history of science suggests otherwise.

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The Rogue Scholar science blog archive consolidated authentication into a single Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, powered by a self-hosted Keycloak instance, by the end of last year. This week, this service started supporting passwordless authentication via magic links.