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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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40 Acres and No Mule April Regional Readers book
The April Regional Readers selection is 40 Acres and No Mule by Janice Holt Giles. In the late 1940s, Janice and Henry Giles moved from Louisville, Kentucky, back to the Appalachian hill country where Henry had grown up and where his family had lived since the time of the Revolution. With their savings, the couple bought a ramshackle house and forty acres of land on a ridge top and [...]
The Trailblazing Life of Daniel Boone and How Early Americans Took to the Road
This beautiful 144-page National Geographic hardcover book was painstakingly written and illustrated by Cheryl Harness for children aged 10-14 in grades 5-9. Daniel Boone’s story is every young adventurer’s fantasy: A childhood in Pennsylvania spent hunting on lands shared with native Americans; a coming of age fighting in the French and Indian War; and the fulfillment of a life’s dream with the blazing of the Wilderness Road across the [...]
Another World combines academic expertise with first-hand perspective on Appalachian culture
As my tribute to Women’s History Month, I present a book written by my friend—and JSF Board Member—Edwina Pendarvis, a great scholar and a great person. Edwina was born in Floyd County, Kentucky. She has lived much of her life in eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. A nationally recognized authority on gifted education and talent development, she currently lives in Huntington, West Virginia, not far from Marshall University where [...]
Review: Sergeant Sandlin: Kentucky’s Forgotten Hero
Reviewed by Eliane Fowler Palencia ~ James Gifford, director of the Jesse Stuart Foundation, is always careful to set the metes and bounds of his books. Of his biography of Willie Sandlin, Kentucky’s only World War I Medal of Honor recipient, he states, “this is not a textbook, nor is it a book written for scholars. It is a popular history and inspirational biography…” (11). It is also the [...]
Getting Published
Because I have managed a non-profit publishing organization for almost forty years, I have had some strange encounters with the general public. People often simply do not understand what a publishing house does, and they confuse printing with publishing. I calmly explain that “We are not a printing company. We are a publishing house. We make and sell books. That’s what a publisher does.” In response to that, I [...]