John W. Miller
5 posts
Communities Brace for Loss of Another Industry as Minor League Baseball Plans to Leave Appalachia
Major League Baseball’s plan to shrink its minor league system is upending a century of professional baseball in…
October 5, 2020
In Historic First, Marches Spread to More than 3,000 Towns
Young leaders like Chris Dyson from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, are organizing an unprecedented number of demonstrations in response to…
June 12, 2020
Protest and Pride: How Joe Troop’s Appalachian Roots and Queerness Created Latingrass Music
In 2017, hours after an activist was killed at a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a new bluegrass…
October 8, 2019
Telling the Story of Small-town America, without Donald Trump
When two Minnesota writers busted a star reporter for German magazine Der Spiegel for skewering their town with…
January 9, 2019
20th Century America Is Never Returning
The 1950s nirvana of unionized manufacturing jobs is gone forever, no matter how successful the Trump agenda may…
November 30, 2018