Section I:
BOOKS
ASWELL, James,
God Bless The Devil,
Federal Writers Project, University
of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1940.
BALL, Bonnie,
Melungeons: Their Origin and Kin, Overmountain Press, Johnson
City, Tennessee, 1969, revised 1992.
BERRY, Brewton,
Almost Nite (New York: Macmillan, 1963)
BIBLE, Jean Patterson,
The Melungeons, Yesterday and Today, 1975,
printed by East Tennessee Printing Company, Rogersville, Tennessee.
CALLAHAN, Jim,
Lest We Forget: The Melungeon Colony of Newman's Ridge,
Overmountain Press, Johnson City, Tennessee, 2000.
COHEN, David S.,
The Ramapo Mountain People, Rutgers University Press, New
Brunswick, New Jersey, 1974.
ELDER, Pat Spurlock,
Melungeons: Examining an Appalachian Legend,
Continuity Press, Blountville, Tennessee, 1999.
GALLEGOS, Eloy J.,
The Melungeons: The Pioneers of the Interior
Southeastern United States, 1526-1997, Villagra Press, Knoxville, 1997.
GOINS, Jack H.,
Melungeons: And Other Pioneer Families,
Rogersville, Tennessee, 2000.
GOODSPEED History of Tennessee,
Charles and Randy Elder Booksellers,
Nashville, 1887, reprinted 1972.
HALE, W. T. and D. L. Merritt,
A History of Tennessee and the Tennesseans, 2vols, Chicago 1913, Vol
1, - Chapter 16 -- The Melungeons of E. Tennessee, 179-196
HAUN, Mildred,
The Hawk's Done Gone, New York 1940 (FICTION -excellent)
HIRSCHMAN, Elizabeth,
The Last Lost Tribe in America,
Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia, 2004.
JOHNSON, Mattie Ruth,
My Melungeon Heritage: A Story of Life on Newman'sRidge,
Overmountain Press, Johnson City, Tennessee, 1997.
KENNEDY, N. Brent, with Kennedy, Robyn Vaughan,
The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People; An Untold Story
of Ethnic Cleansing in
America, Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia, 1994, revised 1997.
_____________ with Joseph M. Scolnick, Jr.,
From Anatolia to Appalachia,
Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia, 2004.
KESSLER, John S., and Ball, Donald B.,
North From The Mountains: A Folk
History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio,
Macon,
Georgia, Mercer University Press, 2001.
LANGDON, Barbara Tracy.
Melungeons: An Annotated Bibliography: References in Both Fiction and
Non Fiction Woodville, Texas:
Dogwood Press. 82 pages.
MIRA, Manuel,
The Portuguese Making of America, Portuguese-American
Historical Research Foundation, Inc, Franklin, North Carolina, 2001.
____________,
The Forgotten Portuguese: The Melungeons and Other Groups,
Portuguese-American Historical Research Foundation, Inc., Franklin,
North
Carolina, 1998.
MARCELINE, Missouri,
Hancock County, Tennessee, and Its People, 1844-1989,
Walworth Publishing Co., 1990
ROUNTREE, Helen C.,
Pocohontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four
Centuries,
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1990.
SHEPARD, Lewis,
Personal Memoirs of Lewis Shepard, L. L.M.
(Chattanooga: Privately printed, 1915), 82-90
STUART, Jesse,
Daughter of the Legend,
New York: McGraw- Hill, 1965. (FICTION)
VANDE BRAKE, Katherine,
How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia,
Macon, Georgia, Mercer University Press, 2001.
WILLIAMS, Samuel Cole,
Early Travels in the Tennessee Country 1540-1800,
Watauga Press, Johnson City, Tennessee, 1928.
WINKLER, Wayne,
Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia,
Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia, 2004.
WOOD, Karenne, and Shields, Diane,
The Monacan Indians: Our Story, Monacan
Indian Nation, Madison Heights, Virginia, 2000.
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Section II:
Melungeon Resources, Periodicals, Theses, Journals, Quarterlies,
Newspaper articles
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ADDINGTON, F.
"Mountain Melungeons Let the World Go By", Sunday Sun -- Baltimore,
July 29, 1945
ASWELL, James,
"Lost Tribes of Tennessee's Mountains", Nashville Banner, August 22,
1937
BALL, Bonnie,
"Mystery Men of the Mountains", Negro Digest, 3, Jan 1945, 39-41
_________, "Virginia's Mystery Race", Virginia State Highway Bulletin 2, No. 6, Apr 1945, 2-3
_________, "Who are the Melungeons?", Southern Literary Messenger, 3, No. 2 (June 1945), 5-7
_________, "The Melungeons", Historical Sketches by Historical Society
of Southwest Virginia, No. 2, 1966
_________, "A Vanishing Race." Mountain Life and Work.
36 (1960)39-42. Rpt. Ross County Ohio Historical Society, 1960.
BARR, Phyllis Cox, "The Melungeons of Newman's Ridge". Graduate thesis presented to the Department of English Faculty, East Tennessee State University, 1965.
BEALE, Calvin L., American Triracial Isolates: Their Status and
Pertinence
to Genetic Research, Eugenics Quarterly 4 (4), 187-196.
__________, An Overview of the Phenomenon of Mixed Racial Isolated
in the United States, American Anthropologist 74, 1972, 704-710.
BIBLE, Jean Patterson, "A People With an Unknown Past", Baltimore Sunday Sun Magazine, June 13, 1971
BLEAKLEY, Fred R., Appalachian Clan Mines Web Sites for Ancestral Clues, Wall Street Journal, April 14, 1997, B-1, B-5.
BURNETT, Swan M. "A Note on the Melungeons", American Anthropologist 2 (October 1889), 347
CAVENDER, Anthony P., The Melungeons of Upper East Tennessee:
Persisting
Social Identity, Tennessee Anthropologist, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 1981.
CONVERSE, Paul "The Melungeons." Southern Collegian. Dec. 1912.
DANE, J. K. , and Griessman, B. Eugene, The Collective Identity of Marginal Peoples: The North Carolina Experience, American Anthropologist 74, 694, 1972.
DAVIS, Louise, "The Mystery of the Melungeons", Nashville Tennessean Sunday Magazine, September 22, 1963
___________, "Are They Vanishing?", Nashville Tennessean Sunday Magazine, September 29, 1963
___________, "Pushing for a Happy Ending." The Nashville Tennessean Sunday Magazine. Aug 30, 1970. 12- 13
DeMARCE, Virginia Easley, "Looking at Legends - Lumbee and Melungeon", National Genealogical Society Quarterly Vol 1, #I, Mar 1993
___________________, "Verry Slitly Mixt": Tri-Racial Isolate Families of the Upper South - A Genealogical Study", Vol 80, # I, Mar 1992, National Genealogical Society Quarterly
DROMGOOLE, Will Allen,Land of the Malungeons, Nashville Sunday
American,
August 31, 1890, 10.
____________, A Strange People, Nashville Sunday American, September
15, 1890, 10.
______________, The Malungeons, The Arena, Vol. 3, March 1891, 470-479.
______________, The Malungeon Tree and Its Four Branches, The Arena, Vol.3, June 1891, 745-751.
DYKEMAN, Wilma.
Highland Home. Gov. Doc <I29.58/2:H53>---"Mahala Mullins."
Tennessee. Portland: Graphic Arts Publishing, 1979.126.
EVERETT,C. S.
Melungeon History and Myth, Appalachian Journal, Summer
1999, 358 - 404.
FETTERMAN, John,
"The Melungeons", Louisville Courier-Journal Magazine, March 30, 1969
____________, "The Mystery of Newman's Ridge", Life Magazine, June 26, 1970. Not in all editions.
FOX, Oliver.
"Trail of the Lonesome Pine Existed Only in Mind of Imaginative Author."
Bristol Herald Courier July 5, 1936.
FRANKLIN, Ben. A.
"Indians Resist Integrations in TriRacial County in North Carolina."
New York Times Sept. 13, 1870. 78.2.
GAMBLE, John.
"Mysterious E-T Mountain Clan Becoming Extinct." Knoxville News-Sentinel.
Nov. 26, 1964. 10.1.
GILBERT, William Harlan, Jr.,
Memorandum Concerning the Characteristics of
the Larger Mixed-Blood Racial Islands in the Eastern United States,
Social Forces 21 (4), May 1946, 438-477.
GLENN, Juanita,
Hancock Countians Prepare For Drama About Melungeons,
Knoxville Journal, May 1, 1969, 5.
____________, Hancock Countians Aiding Dream With Drama, Knoxville Journal, Thursday, March 11, 1971.
GROHSE,William Paul,
papers (Microfilm #501), Tennessee State Library and Archives. Melungeon
family data collected by Grohse prior to 1989.
________________, "The Land of Mystery", Hancock County Post, July 2, 1970
GUTHRIE, James L.,
Melungeons: Comparison of Gene Frequency Distributions
to those of Worldwide Populations, Tennessee Anthropologist, Vol. XV,
No.1, Spring 1990.
HALE, W. T. and D. L. Merritt,
A History of Tennessee and the Tennesseans, 2vols, Chicago 1913, Vol
1, Chapter 16 -- The Melungeons of E. Tennessee, 179-196
HARDIN, Peter,
Eugenics in Virginia, Richmond Times-Dispatch, November
26, 2000, online edition.
HENIGE, David,
Origin Traditions of American Racial Isolates: A Case of
Something Borrowed, Appalachian Journal, Spring 1984, 201-213.
___________, The Melungeons Become a Race, Appalachian Journal, Vol.
25,
No. 3, Spring 1998, 270 - 286.
___________, Henige Answers Wilson, Appalachian Journal, Vol. 25, No.
3,
Spring 1998, 297-298.
HENDERSON, Bruce.
"Unlocking Melungeon Ancestry." Charlotte Observer. 15Aug.
1993, 8A
HERBERMANN, Maryann,
The Melungeon Mystique, Mountaineer Times, Vol 9 No. 2, Early Fall
1994
IVEY, Saundra Keyes.
"Aunt Mahala Mullins in Folklore, Fakelore, and Other Literature."
Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 41.1 March 1975. 1-8
JUDGE, Joseph,
Between Columbus and Jamestown, Exploring Our Forgotten Century, National
Geographic, Vol. 173, No. 3, March 1988
KENNEDY, Brent N,
"The Melungeon Mystery Solved: Unraveling a Family's Heritage", Blue
Ridge Country (July August 1992), 16-19
Kingsport Times,
Melungeon Line Almost Extinct, November 26, 1964,9-C.
____________, Distinct Race of People Inhabits the Mountains of East
Tennessee, Tuesday, August 7, 1923, 1.
____________, Melungeon Drama Goes On Despite Money Problems, April 13, 1972.
Knoxville Journal,
The Melungeons: A Peculiar Race of People Living in
Hancock County, Sunday, September 28, 1890, 1.
Littel's Living Age, No. 254-31,
The Melungeons, March 1849.
McMILLAN, Hamilton.
Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony. Wilson, North Carolina: Advance
P. Jan 21, 1889
MARCELINE, Missouri
Hancock County, Tennessee, and Its People, 1844-1989, Walworth Publishing
Co., 1990
MONTELL, Lynwood,
The Coe Ridge Colony: A Racial Island Disappears,
American Anthropologist 74,710, 1972;
MORGAN, James.
"The Melungeons: Exotic Theories 'explain' the Origin of a Mysterious,
Dwindling Hill Clan." The National Observer (published by Wall Street Journal)
April 9, 1977.
NORDHEIMER, John.
"Mysterious Hill Folk Vanishing." New York Times. Aug. 10, 1971.
33+
POLLITZER, W.S and W. H. Brown,
"Survey of Demography, Anthropometry, and Genetics in the Melungeons
of Tennessee: An Isolate of Hybrid Origin in Process of Dissolution", Human
Biology 41 (September 1969), 388- 400
POLLITZER, William S. ,
"The Physical Anthropology and Genetics of Marginal People of the Southeastern
United States", American Anthropologist 74 (June 1972), 719-34
PRICE, Edward T. Jr.,
"fixed-Blood Populations of Eastern United States as to Origins, Localizations,
and Persistence", Ph.D. dissertation, University of California,
1950
_______________ , "The Melungeons: A fixed-Blood Strain of the Southern
Appalachians", The Geographical Review, vol. 41, No. 2, Apr 1951
PRICE, Henry R. ,
"Melungeons: The Vanishing Colony of Newman's Ridge", paper presented
March 1966, American Studies Association of Kentucky and Tennessee, Tennessee
Technological University, Cookeville. Reissued and published by the Hancock
County Drama Association.
RAWLINS, Bill,
"East Tennessee Melungeons Have Past Clouded in Myth", Knoxville News-Sentinel,
October 10, 1958
REED, John Shelton,
Mixing in the Mountains, Southern Cultures, Winter 1997.
SHAUB, Earl L. ed.
"Melungeons: The Mystery People of Tennessee." The Tennessee
Conservationist Aug. 1959. pp.18-19
SHEPARD, Lewis,
Personal Memoirs of Lewis Shepard, L. L.M. (Chattanooga: Privately
printed, 1915), 82-90
__________, Romantic Account of the Celebrated 'Melungeon' Case." Watson's
Magazine. v. 17 No. 1 (May 1913): pp.
34 - 40
Smithsonian Institution.
Annual Report 1948--'State Indians'
WAIRAVEN, N.
"The Melungeons of Oakdale", Manuscript G. 08 from VVTA Federal Writers'
Guide, in McClung Historical Collection, Lawson McGhee Library, Knoxville.
WEALS, Vic,
Home Folks," Knoxville Journal, July 24, 1953.
WILSON, Darlene
"The Real Trail of the Lonesome Pine." Knoxville Sentinel May
20, 1934.
___________, "Miscegenation, Melungeons, and Appalachia: A Virtual Case Study in Documentary Racism," project proposal, University of Kentucky,
_________, "A Response to Henige," Appalachian Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3,Spring 1998, 286-296.
WORDEN, William L.
"Sons of the Legend." Saturday Evening Post, October 18,
1947
YARBROUGH, Willard,
"Melungeons Ways Are Passing," Knoxville News-Sentinel,April 26, 1972,
33.
___________, "Maligned Mountain Folk May Be Topic of Drama," Knoxville News- Sentinel, January 8, 1968, 1.
___________, "Melungeon Story Revived," Knoxville News-Sentinel, June 21,1973, 25.
ZACHARY, Thomas,
"The Melungeons", Undergraduate thesis, Department of Education, University
of Tennessee.
ZUBER,Leo,
"The Melungeons", Typewritten Manuscript #G.08, W.P.A. Federal Writers'
Guide, McClung Historical Collection, Lawson-McGhee Library, Knoxville,
Tennessee.