"Culture Wars: David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed," a round-table discussion including "David Hackett Fischer and the origins of Appalachian Culture" by Gordon B. McKinney; "Back Home and the Backcountry" by Edward J. Cowan; "Second and Third Thoughts on Albion's Seed" by Rodger Cunningham; "The Power of Culture" by Altina Waller; and a response, "Albion and Appalachia," by David Hackett Fischer.
Reviews by Jo Harris (The Wolfpen Notebooks: A Record of Appalachian Life by James Still), John C. Inscoe (Confederate Colonel and Cherokee Chief: The Life of William Holland Thomas by E. Stanley Godbold, Jr.), Charles G. Zug III (Arkansas Made: A Survey of the Decorative, Mechanical, and Fine Arts Produced in Arkansas, 1819-1870 by Swannee Bennett & William B. Worthen), Avery F. Gaskins (Revenuers and Moonshiners: Enforcing Federal Liquor Laws in the Mountain South, 1865-1900 by Wilbur R. Miller), John Edmund Stealey III (This Nest of Vipers: McCarthyism and Higher Education in the Mundel Affair, 1951-52 by Charles H. McCormick), John Lang (The Poetics of Appalachian Space Ed. by Parks Lanier, Jr.), Larry Vonalt (The Choiring of the Trees by Donald Harington), Steve Mooney (The West Virginia Mine Wars: An Anthology Ed. by David Allen Corbin), Barbara Ellen Smith (Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-1932 by Joe William Trotter, Jr.), Gary Stanton (Common Houses in America's Small Towns: The Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley by John A. Jakle, Robert W. Bastian, and Douglas K. Meyer), Conrad E. Ostwalt Jr. (God's Schools: Choice and Compromise in American Society by Melinda Bollar Wagner), Jonathan Greene (Black Mountain College: Sprouted Seeds--An Anthology of Personal Accounts Ed. by Mervin Lane), Lonn Taylor (Sense of Place: American Regional Cultures Ed. by Barbara Allen and Thomas J. Schlereth), Dennis J. Delprato & Rachel B. Harley ("Three Assorted Releases from Rounder").
Letters to the editor from George Ella Lyon, Lynn Powell, and Bob Snyder.
"Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle."
