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Coal miners

Which Side Are You On?

From interviews collected in On Dark and Bloody Ground, which will be published this month by West Virginia University Press. grace jackson: In the days of prosperity, you know, those…

The battle of Crummies Creek

by Harper’s Staff,

The closing of the American mine

by Andy Yale,

Oblivion comes to a West Virginia coal town

Eccles no. 6

by Laurence Leamer,

The socialist devils of England

by Robert L. Heilbroner,

The blast in Centralia no. 5

by John Bartlow Martin,

A mine disaster no one stopped

Shenandoah, Pennsylvania

by George Ross Leighton,

The story of an anthracite town

Bootlegging coal

by Oliver Carlson,

A new industry appears on the horizon

The machine and the miner

by Carter Goodrich,

A just complaint

by Harper’s Staff,

In the earth beneath

by William Gilmore Beymer,