The following articles and essays discuss the lives and hardships of coal miners and their families in Western Pennsylvania. Many of these articles and essays were written by Dr. James P. Dougherty, Dr. Irwin M. Marcus, and Eileen Mountjoy.
Articles, essays, and websites on Bituminous Coal Mining Life in Western Pennsylvania
- Arthur Gleason and the Anglo-American Workers' Education by Dr. Irwin M. Marcus, Professor Emeritus, IUP History Department
- Recreation in the Coal Fields: The Case of Baseball by Dr. James P. Dougherty, IUP Sociology Department
- Clara Johnson: Labor Educator by Dr. Irwin M. Marcus
- Unveiling of marker recalls mine disaster that killed 44 at Clymer No. 1 by Eileen Mountjoy
- Clymer Looking Back by Eileen Mountjoy
- The Coal Strike of 1919 in Indiana County and its aftermath by Dr. Irwin Marcus, Eileen Mountjoy, and Beth O'Leary
- The CBC Community of Commodore: A New Kind of Coal Town by Eileen Mountjoy. Built in 1919, Commodore was the last company town built in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
- Common Lives of Uncommon Strength: The Women of the Coal and Coke Era of Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1880-1970. A film about the experience of women in coal mining towns by Pamela Seighman and Elaine DeFrank of the Coal and Coke Heritage Center, Penn State University Fayette, Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
- The Ernest Grays and the Summer of 1935 by Dr. Theresa McDevitt, IUP Libraries. This article talks about the African American baseball team in the coal company town of Ernest, Pennsylvania.
- The Ernest Mine Disaster of 1916 by Eileen Mountjoy
- The Ernest Mining Plant by Eileen Mountjoy
- Ernest: Life in a Mining Town by Eileen Mountjoy
- Ethnicity in the Coal Fields by Dr. James P. Dougherty
- Fiddlin' Joe Yesolivich by Eileen Mountjoy
- Frank Crosswaith: Orator, Activist, and Socialist by Dr. Irwin M. Marcus
- History of Coke by Eileen Mountjoy. Talks about how coke was made from bituminous coal for use by the steel industry in Johnstown and Pittsburgh.
- The Company Town of Iselin by Eileen Mountjoy
- The Iselin Family by Eileen Mountjoy
- Jesse Holmes: Academic and Activist by Dr. Irwin M. Marcus
- Judge Jonathan Langham by Dr. Irwin M. Marcus, Dr. James P. Dougherty, and Eileen Mountjoy
- A Legacy of Coal: The Coal Company Towns of Southwestern Pennsylvania by Margaret M. Mulrooney, Historic American Buildings Survey & Historic American Engineering Record, America's Industrial Heritage Project.
- Labor Chautauquas in the Golden Age of Worker Education by Dr. Irwin M. Marcus and Dr. Elizabeth Ricketts, a film hosted by the Friends of the IUP Libraries.
- Louis Goaziou and the Coal Strike of 1894 in Hastings, Pennsylvania by Dr. Irwin M. Marcus
- The Company Town of Lucerne by Eileen Mountjoy
- Lucius Waterman Robinsom: A Dominating Figure by Eileen Mountjoy
- Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, (1837-1930): American labor and community organizer, member of the Industrial Workers of the World, and prominent socialist.
- Mining Injuries and Fatalities in Berwind-White Coal Mining Company Mines
- Race and Ethnicity in the Northern Fields: The Early 20th Century - A Case Study by Dr. James P. Dougherty
- Remember the 1906 Strike for Union in Windber, Pennsylvania.
- The Company Town of Sagamore by Eileen Mountjoy
- Shanktown Mine Explosion in 1924 by Herb Gleditsch
- Spraggers, Sunshine Lamps: Now Part of Industry's Past by Eileen Mountjoy
- Activism among coal miners in Sykesville, Pennsylvania in 1924-1943 (audio presentation) by Dr. Irwin M. Marcus
- That Magnificent Fight For Unionism by Eileen Mountjoy
- UMWA Marker Honors Mine Workers by Eileen Mountjoy
- To Organize the Unorganized by Eileen Mountjoy
- The Company Town of Whiskey Run by Eileen Mountjoy
- William Lockyer and the Coal Strike of 1894 by Dr. Irwin M. Marcus
- The Windber Miners' Strike for Union, 1922-1923 - coal miners went on strike in Windber, Pennsylvania.
- A Woman's Day: Work and Anxiety by Eileen Mountjoy
- Yearning for Learning: Workers Education and the Labor Chautauqua by Dr. Irwin M. Marcus
