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December, 2005
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Challenge and Change in Appalachia
The Story of Hindman Settlement School

By Jess Stoddart
(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. Pp. xii, 308. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $32.00.)

Institutional histories are difficult to write well; often, they commit the mistake of telling too much of the institution's story while leaving its larger historical context vague and undeveloped. Jess Stoddart partially avoids this mistake in her examination the Hindman Settlement School in Knott County, Kentucky. The book's first four chapters, covering the years from Hindman's founding in 1902 to the beginning of the Great Depression, clearly contextualize the school within a discussion of Progressive Era reform, especially educational reform. The final three chapters, which treat the years from the Depression to the present, veer toward the narrow form of institutional history, offering us a succession of individuals, budgeting issues, building programs, and successful and unsuccessful initiatives. . . .
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