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Allan Eckert’s Winning of America Series
This Jesse Stuart Foundation best-selling series details accounts of frontiersmen and Native Americans and many dramatic events of the time period. Many years of research went into this popular series that also tells the story of wilderness America itself, its penetration and settlement.
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Jesse Stuart Junior Books
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Education was a calling for Jesse Stuart. In his books he portrays the teacher as a devoted nurturer, an advocate, and a liberator, rescuing children and their families from decline, illiteracy, social decay, or economic instability. “We educate our people or we perish,” he often said. Stuart recounts his experiences as a teacher, principal, superintendent, educational reformer, lecturer, and ambassador for education in his books. Beyond Dark Hills, his autobiography [...]
Hill Man a contemporary novel with universal themes and patterns
In October of 1945, Janice Holt married Henry Giles in Louisville just after he returned from service in World War II. After four years in Louisville, she and Henry moved to a forty-acre farm on Giles Ridge, an area where they would live until her death in 1979 and his death in 1986. By 1954, with Henry’s help, she had written and published eight books, all, with the exception [...]
Davidson’s mentorship of Stuart latest publishing in Gifford’s continuous work
JSF's CEO & Senior Editor remains very much active in 50-year career Dr. James M. Gifford, the CEO & Senior Editor of the Jesse Stuart Foundation, has an article on Donald Davidson’s mentorship of Jesse Stuart in the current issue of the Tennessee Historical Quarterly (THQ). One of the best historical journals in the United States, the THQ is published by the Tennessee Historical Society four times a year. [...]
Donald Davidson: Jesse Stuart’s mentor, editor, and friend
This article was originally published in the Tennessee Historical Quarterly and is republished on this website with permission. Jesse Stuart (1906–1984), one of Appalachia’s most famous native sons, published more than 2,000 poems, 460 short stories, hundreds of essays, and sixty-four books describing a fast-dwindling mountain culture and the natural world that framed it. A regionalist often compared to William Faulkner for his sharp focus on a [...]