Cumberland Gap versus South Pass: The East or West in Frontier History

1972 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Jo Tice Bloom
Keyword(s):  
Cumberland Gap

DNA Evidence for a Colonial Jewish Settlement in Appalachia

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-116
Author(s):  
Elizabeth C. Hirschman ◽  
James A. Vance ◽  
Jesse D. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Mountainous Region ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Dna Evidence ◽  
Dna Database ◽  
Jewish Settlement ◽  
Central Appalachia ◽  
Cumberland Gap

Using a 5,000-person DNA database from the Cumberland Gap Region of Appalachia, we document the presence of a Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jewish settlement in Central Appalachia. The settlement may have begun as early as the mid-sixteenth century with the Pardo Expedition and been substantially supplemented from the early seventeenth century onward with Jewish colonists from England, Scotland, and Wales. Additional persons found in this mountainous region show DNA origins from Southeastern Europe, North Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. Thus the region may have served as a refuge for non-white, non-Christian persons arriving in Colonial North America.

Through the Cumberland Gap

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris Betts
Keyword(s):  
Cumberland Gap

scholarly journals Serosurvey of arthropod-borne diseases among shelter dogs in the Cumberland Gap Region of the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Patterson ◽  
Matthew Tanhauser ◽  
Paul Schmidt ◽  
Dawn Spangler ◽  
Charles Faulkner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Shelter Dogs ◽  
Cumberland Gap

scholarly journals Leptospiral shedding and seropositivity in shelter dogs in the Cumberland Gap Region of Southeastern Appalachia

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. e0228038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn Spangler ◽  
Daniel Kish ◽  
Brittney Beigel ◽  
Joey Morgan ◽  
Karen Gruszynski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shelter Dogs ◽  
Cumberland Gap

From Apprenticeship to Profession, Nathaniel Shaler and the First Summer School of Geology

1985 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-53
Author(s):  
Ivan Zabilka
Keyword(s):  
High School Teachers ◽  
Summer School ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Field Education ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Summer Schools ◽  
Cumberland Gap

The Harvard-Kentucky Geological Survey Summer Schools in 1875 and 1876 represent a significant turning point in the method of educating geologists. The transition from apprenticeship to group field experience originated in the fertile mind of N. S. Shaler, Harvard Professor and Director of the Kentucky Geological Survey. By means of the first summer school of geology Shaler influenced high school teachers, formed the standard patter for field education, and promoted the careers of several late nineteenth century geologists. The rigors of the site and the need to avoid damaging the work of the Kentucky Geological Survey forced the end of the school at Cumberland Gap, but in two short summers the course of geological education permanently changed.

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