Today's Interview: Chautauqua speaker tells Appalachian history from perspective of a woman historia

Historian Jessie Wilkerson, the author of “A Women’s History of Appalachia,” is the latest Chautauqua speaker for Eastern Kentucky University. She said her latest book is a history of Appalachia from the perspective of a women’s historian.

“There's been a lot of work on the history of women and gender and Appalachia, but never a book that really kind of takes a sweep or writes a sweeping history of Appalachia from that perspective.