History Professor Ian Hartman publishes article in most recent 'Journal of Southern History'

Assistant Professor of History Ian Hartman's new article, "West Virginia Mountaineers and Kentucky Frontiersmen: Race, Manliness, and the Rhetoric of Liberalism in the Early 1960s," appears in the most recent issue of the Journal of Southern History. On the fiftieth anniversary of Lyndon Johnson's signing of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, this article challenges historians to consider more deeply the ways that liberals mobilized the mythology of the Mountain South and its people (Kentucky and West Virginia, specifically) to build consensus around the policies that culminated in the War on Poverty.

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