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Coal Culture Bibliography

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  1. Departments
  2. IUP Special Collections and University Archives
  3. Coal Culture and Industrial Heritage Projects
  4. Mining History Resources
    1. History of Coke
    2. Spraggers and Sunshine Lamps
    3. History Lectures by Dr. Irwin Marcus
  5. Coal Culture: People, Lives, and Stories
    1. A Woman's Day: Work and Worry
    2. Ernest: Life in a Mining Town
    3. Fiddlin' Joe Yesolivich
    4. Iselin Family
    5. Lucius Waterman Robinson: A Dominating Figure
    6. Mary Harris Jones
  6. Unions and Mining
    1. The Coal Strike of 1919 in Indiana County and its Aftermath
    2. That Magnificent Fight For Unionism
    3. To Organize the Unorganized
    4. The Windber Miners' Strike for Union in 1922-1923
    5. UMWA Marker Honors Mine Workers
    6. Remembering the 1906 Strike for Union in Windber, Pennsylvania
    7. Primary Sources about the Windber Miners' Strike for Union in 1922-1923
  7. Mines and Company Towns
    1. Clymer Looking Back
    2. The CBC Community of Commodore: A New Kind of Coal Town
    3. Ernest Mining Plant
    4. The Company Town of Iselin
    5. The Company Town of Lucerne
    6. The Company Town of Sagamore
    7. The Company Town of Whiskey Run
    8. Norvelt and Penn-Craft, Pennsylvania
    9. Photographs of Eureka Mine No. 37 at Windber, Pennsylvania
  8. A Dangerous Life
    1. Unveiling of marker recalls mine event that killed 44 at Clymer No. 1
    2. The Ernest Mine Disaster of 1916
    3. Mining Injuries and Fatalities in the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company Mines
  9. Coal Culture Background
  10. Coal Culture Lesson Plans
  11. Coal Culture Timeline
  12. Coal Culture Bibliography
  13. Coal Culture Acknowledgments
  14. Pennsylvania Coal Culture Exhibit
  15. Pennsylvania Coal Culture Resources
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The resources listed below will help identify and locate collections about Pennsylvania coal culture including publications and websites.Many collections represent the bituminous coal fields of Western Pennsylvania.

Bibliography

  • A Reference Guide to Resources on Coal Mining and Associated Materials in Central and Western Pennsylvania by Dr. James P. Dougherty
  • Pennsylvania County Histories in the IUP Special Collections and University Archives
  • Coal Culture Collections Housed in the IUP Special Collections and University Archives
  • Oral History Interviews Available at the IUP Special Collections and University Archives
  • Unpublished Sources Available at the IUP Special Collections and University Archives

Related Websites

  • Coal and Coke Heritage Center
  • Coal and Coke Resource Analysis
  • McIntyre, Pennsylvania: The Everyday Life of a Coal Mining Company Town, 1910-1947
  • The Early History of Heilwood, Pennsylvania by Ron Kuzemchak
  • Farther Along: Faces of the Great Migration, 1914-1950 presentation about the migration of African Americansto Indiana County, Pennsylvania
  • Farther Along: Faces of the Great Migration, 1914-1950(film)
  • African Americansin Indiana County, Pennsylvania
  • Bibliography of the History of Coal Mining in Pennsylvania Catholic University of America
  • Nanty-Glo Tri-Area Historical Society and Liberty Museum
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