U.S. Vice President JD Vance built his name on a caricature, a hillbilly morality play dressed up as sociology. His ...

A photograph of Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance. "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis," the 2016 memoir from Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, once again began flying ...

As a 10th-generation Appalachian, Ivy Brashear sees JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" as a "really one-sided and simple view of the region." In an effort to help broaden people;s view of ...

Readers are still taking the NCAA to task. They're also still singing the praises of Tennessee chancellor Donde Powman. But in a new twist, our Hillbilly culture took a hit from one of my newer ...

I was born in 1946 and raised in a Black coal mining family at the foot of Black Mountain, Kentucky’s highest peak, in Harlan County. From its summit, during my frequent hikes as a teenager, I could ...