Sources for Melungeon Researchers

The following sources are presented for further Melungeon information and research. I do not have copies of all of these sources nor have I reviewed all of them. Therefore, I do not make any endorsement of content of any of these sources. In closing, I encourage each of you to continue research and consideration of all theories of Melungeon origin so that you can draw your own conclusions on the mysterious Melungeons. If you have any questions, comments, or would like to submit a source or a review of any of these works, please email me.

• Addington, L. F. "Mountain Melungeons Let the World Go By." Baltimore Sun, Sunday, July 29, 1945, Section A. p. 3.
• Aswell, James. "Lost Tribes of Tennessee's Mountains." Nashville Banner, August 22, 1937.
• Ball, Bonnie S. "America's Mysterious Race." Read, Vol. 16, May, 1944, pp. 64-67.
• Ball, Bonnie. "The Melungeons." Historical Sketches by Historical Society of Southwest Virginia. No. 2, 1966.
• Ball, Bonnie S. "Mystery Men of the Mountains." Negro Digest, Vol. 3, January, 1945, pp. 39-41.
• Ball, Bonnie. The Melungeons [Notes on the Origin of a Race]. Revised. The Overmountain Press. Johnson City, Tennessee, 1992.
• Bonnie Ball, "Virginia's Mystery Race," Virginia State Highway Bulletin 2, No. 6, Apr 1945, pp. 2-3.
• Bonnie Ball, "Who Are the Melungeons?" Southern Literary Messenger, 3, No. 2, June 1945, pp. 5-7.
• Barr, Phyllis Cox. "The Melungeons of Newman's Ridge." Graduate thesis presented to the Department of English Faculty, East Tennessee State University, 1965.
• Bernstein, Carl. "Maryland's Brandywine People (We Sorts)." Washington Post, November 29, 1979.
• Berry, Brewton. Almost White. New York: Macmillan Company, 1963.
• Bible, Jean. "A People With an Unknown Past." Baltimore Sunday Sun Magazine, June 13, 1971.
• Bible, Jean Patterson. Melungeons Yesterday and Today. Sixth Printing, Mountain Press, Signal Mountain, Tennessee. 1975.
• Burnett, Swan M. "Note on the Melungeons." American Anthropologist, Vol. 2, 1889.
• Converse, Paul D. "The Melungeons." December 1912, pp. 59-69.
• Davis, Louise. "The Mystery of the Melungeons." Nashville Tennessean Sunday Magazine, September 22, 1963.
• Davis, Louise. "Are They Vanishing?" Nashville Tennessean Sunday Magazine, September 29, 1963.
• DeMarce, Virginia Easley. "Looking at Legends - Lumbee and Melungeon," National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. I, #I, March 1993.
• DeMarce, Virginia Easley. "Very Slitly Mixt: Tri-Racial Isolate Families of the Upper South - A Genealogical Study," National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 80, #I, March 1992.
• Dromgoole, Will Allen. "The Malungeons." The Arena, Vol. 3, March, 1891.
• Dromgoole, Will Allen. "The Malungeon Tree and Its Four Branches." The Arena, Vol. 3, June, 1891.
• East Tennessee Historical Society Bulletin. No. 32, 1960.
• Elder, Pat Spurlock. "Melungeons: Examining An Appalachian Legend." Continuity Press, Blountville, TN, 1999.
• Faulkner, Charles. The Old Stone Fort. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1968.
• Fetterman, John. "The Melungeons." Louisville Courier-Journal Magazine, March 30, 1969.
• Fetterman, John. "The Mystery of Newman's Ridge." Life Magazine, June 26, 1970.
• Fisher, George P. "The So-Called Moors of Delaware." Milford Herald, Milford, Delaware, June 15, 1985.
• Gallegos, Eloy J. The Spanish Pioneers in United States History, The Melungeons: The Pioneers of the Interior Southeastern United States, 1526-1997. Villagra Press. Knoxville, Tennessee, 1997.
• Gamble, John. "Melungeon Line Almost Extinct." Kingsport Times-News, Kingsport, Tennessee, Thursday, November 26, 1964.
• Gamble, John. "Mysterious E-T Mountain Clan Becoming Extinct." Raleigh News and Observer, July 11, 1971.
• Gilbert, William Harlen, Jr. , "Red Bones of Louisiana." Social Forces, May, 1946.
• Gordon, Cyrus H. "Theory That Melungeons Came From Jewish Origin." Argosy Magazine, January, 1971.
• Grant, Sandra. "They Work Here, But Their Ties Are Elsewhere." Baltimore Evening Sun, September 28, 1970.
• Grohse, William. "The Land of Mystery," Hancock County Post, July 2, 1970.
• Grohse, William Paul. "Grohse Papers." Tennessee State Library and Archives, Microfilm #501. Melungeon family data collected by Grohse prior to 1989.
• Hale, W. T. and D. L. Merritt. A History of Tennessee and the Tennesseans. Two volumes, Chicago 1913, Vol. I Chapter 16 -- The Melungeons of East Tennessee, pp. 179-196.
• Haun, Mildred. The Hawk's Done Gone. Edited by Herschel Gower. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. Reprinted 1968.
• Herberman, Maryann. "The Melungeon Mystique," Mountaineer Times, Vol. 9 No. 2, Early Fall 1994.
• Hunter, David. "Dark Mystery: Who are the Melungeons, and where did they come from?" (no further information available)
• Ivey, Saundra Keyes. "Aunt Mahala Mullins in Folklore, Fakelore, and Other Literature." Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin, Vol. XLI, No. 1, March, 1975.
• Kennedy, Brent. "The Melungeon Mystery Solved: Unraveling a Family's Heritage," Blue Ridge Country, July/August 1992, pp. 16-19.
• Kennedy, N. Brent with Robyn Vaughan Kennedy. The Melungeons The Resurrection of a Proud People An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America. Mercer University Press, Macon, GA, 1994.
• King, Lucy. "The Melungeons." The Boston Traveler, April 13, 1889, p. 6.
• Lewis, Thomas M. N., and Madeline Kneberg. Tribes That Slumber, Indians of the Tennessee Region. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1966.
• Mira, Manuel. The Forgotten Portuguese The Melungeons and Other Groups The Portuguese Making of America. The Portuguese-American Historical Research Foundation, Inc. USA, 1998.
• Morgan, James. "The Melungeons: Exotic Theories 'explain' the Origin of a Mysterious, Dwindling Hill Clan." Printed in the National Observer (published by the Wall Street Journal), April 9, 1977.
• Nassau, Michael Edward (originally published under the name of Michael Edward McGlothlen). "Melungeons and Other Mestee Groups." 1994.
• New York Times News Service. "Melungeon Colony Fading Away." Chicago Tribune, August 19, 1971.
• Nordheimer, Jon. "Mysterious Hill Folk Vanishing." New York Times, Tuesday, August 10, 1971.
• Osborne, Hampton. "Mysterious People." In "Echoes of the Hills," a column published in the Cumberland Times, Clintwood, Virginia, June 4, 1956.
• Pollitzer, W. S. and W. H. Brown. "Survey of Demography, Anthropometry, and Genetics in the Melungeons of Tennessee: An Isolate of Hybrid Origin in Process of Dissolution," Human Biology, September 1969, pp. 388-400.
• Pollitzer, William S. "The Physical Anthropology and Genetics of Marginal People of the Southeastern United States," American Anthropologist, June 1972, pp. 719-734.
• Price, Edward T. "The Melungeons: A Mixed-Blood Strain of the Southern Appalachians." The Geographical Review, Vol. 41, No. 2, April, 1951.
• Price, Edward T. "A Geographic Analysis of White-Negro-Indian Racial Mixtures in Eastern United States." Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. XLIII, June, 1953, No. 2.
• Price, Edward T. "Mixed-Blood Strain of the Southern Appalachians as to Origins, Localizations, and Persistence," PhD dissertation, University of California, 1950.
• Price, Henry R. "Melungeons: The Vanishing Colony of Newman's Ridge." Paper presented to the American Studies Association of Kentucky and Tennessee, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, March 1966.
• Rawlins, Bill. "East Tennessee Melungeons Have Past Clouded in Myth." Knoxville News-Sentinel, October 10, 1958.
• Stuart, Jesse. Daughter of the Legend. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965.
• Thomas, Zachary. "The Melungeons." Undergraduate Thesis, Department of Education, University of Tennessee.
• Wairaven, O. N., "The Melungeons of Oakdale," Manuscript G. O8 from WPA Federal Writers' Guide, McClung Historical Collection, Lawson-McGhee Library, Knoxville, TN.
• Williamson, Joel. "The New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States," New York: Free Press, 1980.
• Worden, William L. "Sons of the Legend." Saturday Evening Post. October 18, 1947.
• Zachary, Thomas. "The Melungeons," undergraduate thesis, Department of Education, University of Tennessee.
• Zuber, Leo. "The Melungeons," typewritten manuscript, #G.08, WPA Federal Writers' Guide, McClung Historical Collection, Lawson-McGhee Library, Knoxville, TN.

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