Walking toward the Sunset is a historical examination of the Melungeons, a mixed-race group predominantly in southern Appalachia. Author Wayne Winkler reviews t

The author explores the theories surrounding the people called Melungeon, perhaps from the French word, "mélange," meaning a mixture.

This is a history of the most well-known and studied group of Melungeons in the United States, the community in the Newman's Ridge area of Hancock County, Tenne

Vande Brake surveys Appalachian fiction and finds a suprising number of Melungeon characters lurking in the pages of many Southern writers.

The unforgettable story of one woman who leaves behind her hardscrabble childhood in Alaska to travel the country via freight train—a beautiful memoir about f