This article appeared in the Volume 2, Issue 1 Spring/Summer 2020 issue of the Appalachian Curator. Click here to view a PDF of the full issue. The Library of Appalachian Preaching: A Digital-Humanities Project at Marshall University Robert H. Ellison and Larry Sheret The Special Collections Department at Marshall University has a small but significant collection of sermons preached in Appalachia, or delivered elsewhere in the United States by preachers with ties to the Appalachian region. On the shelves are about 30 books published between 1865 and 1980. Some, like William Cutter Condit’s What Is My Life?, are pamphlets containing just one sermon. Others, like John R. Gilpin’s Sparks from a…
