Tag Archives: history

New Book on Bootleg Mining

August 18, 2022 · by · in Uncategorized

Interview with author Mitch Troutman on miners who seized an industry

Book Review: Remembering Lattimer

December 18, 2018 · by · in Hazleton, Immigration, Uncategorized · 1 Comment

Review of Paul A. Shackel’s “Remembering Lattimer”

The Quiet, Brave Battle

December 4, 2018 · by · in Uncategorized

Fighting Spanish flu inside Schuylkill County’s prison

Labor Violence and the Industrialization of Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1871-1902

August 15, 2018 · by · in Uncategorized · 2 Comments

“Labor wars ultimately stemmed from the internal contradictions of industrial capitalism”

Pennsylvania Dress Factory

April 10, 2018 · by · in Uncategorized · 2 Comments

NEPA’s overlooked textile industry, poeticized

Linking Histories of Resistance

March 20, 2018 · by · in Uncategorized · 1 Comment

How Pennsylvania anthracite miners shaped worker organizing in Colorado

Anthracite Music: An Interview with Jay Smar

August 1, 2017 · by · in Immigration, Lists, Uncategorized · 1 Comment

Coal mining is dead, but its folk music is still kicking

Shenandoah’s ‘Hyphenated Catholics’

April 10, 2017 · by · in Uncategorized · 2 Comments

Coal Region Catholics have long had to straddle ethnic divides

Anthracite Heroes: “Big Mary”

April 3, 2017 · by · in history, interviews, labor / work · 1 Comment

Big Mary’s legacy reminds us of women’s heroic leadership in the mining era