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Abramson, Rudy.  2001.  “Mountaintop Removal: Necessity or Nightmare?”  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 18 (Winter): 20-24.

Adams, Sean Patrick.  2004.  Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America [Pa. and western Va.].  Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.  303 pp.

Adams, Sean Patrick.  2008.  “Warming the Poor and Growing Consumers: Fuel Philanthropy in the Early Republic’s Urban North.”  Journal of American History 95, no. 1 (June): 69-94.    Anthracite coal; Philadelphia, New York, Boston; 1800-1830s.

Aldreich, Mark.  1997.  “The Perils of Mining Anthracite: Regulation, Technology and Safety, 1870-1945.”  Pennsylvania History 64 (Summer): 361-383.

Amberg, Rob.  2007.  “I-26, Corridor of Change: Rob Amberg, Madison County, North Carolina” [multi-media photo essay].  Southern Spaces: An Interdisciplinary Journal about the Regions, Places, and Cultures of the American South.  5 June 2007.  Space, Place, and Appalachia series.  Essay sections: Interactive Map and Photo Essay | Introduction | About Madison County | The Arrival of I-26 | Recommended Resources | Overview.  http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2007/amberg/2a.htm.

Anderson, Timothy G.  2001.  “From Ravaged to Recovered: The Landscape of Southern Ohio’s Hanging Rock Region” [19th-century charcoal furnace ironmaking, boom-bust, relic landscape].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 18 (Winter): 29-33.

Angstadt, Colleen M., and John E. Benhart.  2000.  “A Review of the Iron and Steel Industry of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.”  In A Geographic Perspective of Pittsburgh and the Alleghenies: From Precambrian to Post-Industrial, eds. K. Patrick and J. Scarpaci, 164-170.  Washington, D.C.: Association of American Geographers.

Apelt, Brian.  2001.  The Corporation: A Centennial Biography of United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001.  Edited by Warren Hull.  Pittsburgh: Cathedral Publishing, University of Pittsburgh.  547 pp.

Archer, William R., and the Princeton Railroad Museum.  2007.  The Virginian Railway [Va., W.Va.; photo retrospective;  Tidewater Railway Company].  Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia.  127 pp.

Arnold, Andrew B.  2003.  “Between the Laws: Informal Definitions of Job and Property Rights in Central Pennsylvania, 1870-1884” [coal miners’ unions].  Journal of Pennsylvania History 70 (Winter): 28-54.

Arnold, Bill, and Lori Arnold, with Joyann Dwire.  2004.  Miracle at Dormel Farms: The Story of the Quecreek Mine Rescue [Somerset, Pa.; nine trapped miners; July 2002].  Somerset, Pa.: Dormel Enterprises (www.quecreekrescue.org).  126 pp.

Atkins, Joseph B.  2008.  Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.  264 pp.

Aurand, Harold W.  2002.  “The Lattimer Massacre: Who Owns History? -- An Introduction” [1897; Luzerne Co.].  Pennsylvania History 69 (Winter): 5-10.

Aurand, Harold W.  2003.  Coalcracker Culture: Work and Values in Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1835-1935.  Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press.  158 pp.

Bagdon, Philip V.  2000.   “Cass: A Short History,” 38-41; “‘Hell’s Acre’: A Visit to East Cass,” 42-44 [railroad and timber company town; today a tourist center].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 26 (Summer): 38-44.

Bagdon, Philip V.  2001.  Shay Logging Locomotives at Cass, West Virginia, 1900-60 [interviews, photographs, service profiles].  Lynchburg, Va.: TLC Publishing.  112 pp.

Bagdon, Philip V.  2002.  Meadow River Lumber Company: West Virginia’s Last Logging Railroad [Rainelle, W.Va., 1910-1970; Shay locomotives; photo history].  Lynchburg, Va.: TLC Publishing.  76 pp.

Bailey, Alfred Reno.  2005.  Cliffside: Portrait of a Carolina Mill Town [Rutherford Co., N.C., textile mill; photo-retrospective].  Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2005. 128 pp.

Bailey, Rebecca J.  2008.  Matewan Before the Massacre: Politics, Coal, and the Roots of Conflict in a West Virginia Mining Community [Mingo Co., 1895-1920].  West Virginia and Appalachia, vol. 8.  Morgantown: West Virginia University Press.  292 pp.

Baker, Bruce E.  2006.  “‘The First Anarchist that Ever Came to Atlanta’: Hiram F. Hover from New York to the New South.”  In Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction, eds. C. Green, R. Rubin, and J. Smethurst, 39-56.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan.  Labor organizing in Knoxville and piedmont N.C., S.C., Ga., 1885-90.

Baker, Pamela L.  2002.  “The Washington National Road Bill and the Struggle to Adopt a Federal System of Internal Improvement” [1830; map, tables].  Journal of the Early Republic 22 (Fall): 437-464.

Baldridge, Terry L.  2007.  Eastern Kentucky Railway [photo retrospective; 36 miles: Greenup, Carter, Lawrence Cos.].  Images of Rail.  Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia.  127 pp.

Baldwin, Fred D.  1997.  “Two Sides of the Road” [Tioga Co., Pa., road improvements].  Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 30 (Sept.-Dec.): 26-31.

Baldwin, Fred D.  1997.  “ANDROS Does the Dirty Work” [Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based REMOTEC manufactures remote-controlled robots].  Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 30 (Jan.-Apr.): 24-29.

Baldwin, Fred D.  1999.  “Summit Emphasizes Need for Transportation Connections” [Appalachian Intermodal Transportation Summit, Lexington, Ky., May 17-18].  Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 32 (May-August): 27-32.  (Eight full-page, color maps are appended covering Transportation Systems in the Appalachian Region: highway system; bus routes; freight railroads; flat car/container facilities; passenger railroads; waterways and ports; commercial airline service; general aviation service, pp. 33-40).  http://www.arc.gov/infopubs/appalach/mayaug99/summit.htm.

Baldwin, Fred D.  2001.  “Keeping the Line Open: The Mississippi Railway Cooperative” [Itawamba Co., Miss.].  Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 34 (May-August): 10-15.

Baldwin, Fred D.  2001.  “Short Line Railroads: Local Lifelines for Business” [Ohio Central Railroad System].  Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 34 (May-August): 2-9.

Banerjee, Neela.  2006. “Taking On a Coal Mining Practice as a Matter of Faith” [Christians against mountaintop removal; Hale Gap, Va.; photos].  New York Times, 28 October, 9(A).  1203 words.

Banks, Alan.  1995.  “Class Formation in the Southeastern Kentucky Coalfields, 1890-1920.”  In Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century, ed. M. Pudup, D. Billings, A. Waller, 321-346. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Banks, Alan.  2001 [1999].  “Miners Talk Back: Labor Activism in Southeastern Kentucky in 1922.”  In Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes, eds. D. Billings, G. Norman, and K. Ledford, 215-227.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  Originally published as Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes.

Barkey, Fred.  2001.  “West Virginia’s Belgian and French Glassworkers” [labor history; window-glass industry].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 27 (Summer): 28-29.

Barnes, L. Diane.  1999.  “Urban Rivalry in the Upper Ohio Valley: Wheeling and Pittsburgh in the Nineteenth Century.”  Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 123 (July): 201-226.

Barry, Dan.  2007.  “A Way of Life, Seen Through Coal-Tinted Glasses” [Logan, W.Va.]. This Land (weekly column).  New York Times, 14 January, 18(A).  954 words.

Barry, Joyce.  2001.  “Mountaineers Are Always Free? An Examination of the Effects of Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia.”  Women’s Studies Quarterly 29 (Spring-Summer): 116-130.

Barton, John, and Stephen Winick.  2006.  “‘A Big, Breezy, Wholesome, Smiling, Man’: Captain Pearl R. Nye Goes Online” [b. 1872 near Chillicothe, Oh.; lived and worked on the Ohio and Erie Canal; song lyrics, correspondence, and 75 songs to be digitized, capturing life on the canal, 1825-1913].  Folklife Center News (Library of Congress) 28, no. 3 (Summer): 13-14.  http://www.loc.gov/folklife/news/pdf/afcnews-summer-2006.pdf.

Bates, Artie Ann.  2008.  “White Opium, Black Coal, and the Appalachian Revolution” [Ky.].  Appalachian Heritage 36, no. 2 (Spring): 56-59.  Points out the overlapping entropic forces of drug addiction to Oxycontin and dependence on coal mining to generate electricity.

Battlo, Jean.  2000.  Terror of the Tug [drama; Mother Jones; 1920-21 coal strike].  Welch, W.Va.(?): McArts Publication.  95 pp.

Beamer, Glenn.  2007.  “Sustaining the Rust Belt: A Retrospective Analysis of the Employee Purchase of Weirton Steel” [W.Va.; 11,000 employees; 1983-2003].  Labor History 48, no. 3 (August): 277-299.

Beatty, Bess.  2000.  Alamance: The Holt Family and Industrialization in a North Carolina County, 1837-1900 [textile industry].  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.  248 pp.

Beauregard, Erving E.  1998.  “L. Milton Ronsheim and Strip Coal Mining in Ohio” [regulatory campaign].  Journal of Unconventional History 9 (no. 3): 16-33.

Beik, Mildred A.  1996.  The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s-1930s.  University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.  447 pp.

Beik, Mildred A.  1996.  "The UMWA and New Immigrant Miners in Pennsylvania Bituminous: The Case of Windber."  In The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?, ed. J. Laslett, 320-344.  University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Benhart, John E.  2007.  Appalachian Aspirations: The Geography of Urbanization and Development in the Upper Tennessee River Valley, 1865-1900 [capitalism; railroads; Roane and Loudon Cos.].  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.  184 pp.

Bethell, Thomas N.  1996.  "No Higher Calling."  [interview with Davitt McAteer, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health]  Appalachian Heritage 24 (Winter): 6-13.

Bible, Robin.  2002.  “Stringtowns: Early Logging Communities in the Great Smoky Mountains” [Elkmont, Tremont].  Forest History Today (Spring): 29-32.

Biery, Thomas A.  1999.  Chessie System, Cumberland Action [Western Md.; diesel locomotives; pictorial].  Hanover, Pa.: Railroad Press.  112 pp.

Biggers, Jeff.  2008.  “‘Clean’ Coal? Don’t Try to Shovel That” [“oxymoron”].  Washington Post, 2 March, 2(B).  882 words.   Bush administration plans to reduce carbon emissions.

Billings, Sean, and Johanna S. Billings.  2001.  “Colorful Sands: Glassmaking and the Peachblow Craze” [begun 1886; W.Va.].  Canal History and Technology Proceedings 20: 112-138.  Easton, Pa.: Canal History and Technology Press.

Birdsong, Shelley C.  1997.  “Cotton Hill Station Road and Bridge: An Example of Early Federally Funded Road Construction in Fayette County” [W.Va., Good Roads Movement].  In  Proceedings, New River Symposium, April 11-12, 1997, Glade Springs Resort, Daniels, West Virginia, 48-58.  Glen Jean, W.Va.: National Park Service.

Black, Brian.  1999.  “‘A Triumph of Individualism’: The Rule of Capture and the Ethic of Extraction in Pennsylvania’s Oil Boom” [1860s].  Pennsylvania History 66 (Autumn): 448-471.

Black, Brian.  2000.  Petrolia: The Landscape of America’s First Oil Boom [western Pa.].  Creating the North American Landscape series.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.  248 pp.

Blankenship, Sarah A.  2008.  “Cagle Saltpetre Cave in Van Buren County, Tennessee: The Archaeology of Nineteenth-Century Saltpeter Caves in the Midsouth” [gun powder; Civil War]. Chap. 13 in Cave Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands: Essays in Honor of Patty Jo Watson.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Blatz, Perry K.  1994.  Democratic Miners:  Work and Labor  Relations in the Anthracite Coal Industry, 1875-1925.  SUNY  Series in American Labor History.  Albany: State University of New York Press.  304  pp.

Blatz, Perry K.  1996.  "Workplace Militancy and Unionization: The UMWA and the Anthracite Miners, 1890-1912."  In The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?, ed. J. Laslett, 51-71.  University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Blatz, Perry K.  1999.  “Titanic Struggles, 1873-1916" [coal, steel, strikes].  In Keystone of Democracy: A History of Pennsylvania Workers, eds. H. Harris, P. Blatz, 83-148, 158-160.  Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Blatz, Perry K.  2002.  “Reflections on Lattimer: A Complex and Significant Event” [1897 massacre of 19; anthracite region].  Pennsylvania History 69 (Winter): 42-51.

Blizzard, William C.  2005.  When Miners March: The Story of Coal Miners in West Virginia [1921; Battle of Blair Mountain].  Gay, W.Va.: Appalachian Community Services.  349 pp.

Blizzard, William C.  2006.  “Son of the Struggle: A Visit with William C. Blizzard” [b. 1916; son of Bill Blizzard, UMW leader during the West Virginia Mine Wars and 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain].  Interview by C. Belmont 'Chuck' Keeney.  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 32, no. 2 (Summer): 20-25.  Sidebar, “Blair Mountain: A Brief Overview,” by Gordon Simmons, 26.

Boal, William M.  2006.  “New Estimates of Paid-up Membership in the United Mine Workers, 1902–29, by State and Province” [reconciles industry and union data].  Labor History 47, no. 4 (November): 537-546.

Bogart, Mary, and William C. Hattan.  2000.  Conquering the Appalachians: Building the Western Maryland and Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railroads through the Appalachian Mountains: Taken from the Journals, Records, and Photographs of William C. Hattan, a Civil Engineer Who Built Much of It.  Rochester, N.Y.: Railroad Research Publications.  206 pp.

Bonasso, Russell F.  2003.  Fire in the Hole [b. 1922; retrospective on coal camp life; appendix lists historic U.S. coal mine disasters, 1839-2000].  Fairmont, W.Va.: R. F. Bonasso.  194 pp.

Bone, J. H. A.  2006 [1865].  Petroleum and Petroleum Wells; What Petroleum Is, Where It Is Found, and What It Is Used For; Where to Sink Petroleum Wells, and How to Sink Them: With a Complete Guide Book and Description of the Oil Regions of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio.  2nd rev. ed.  Chicora, Pa.: Mechling Bookbindery.  Reprint, originally published: Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co.  153 pp.

Boyer, Peter J.  2002.  “Rescue at Quecreek” [Pa.; nine trapped miners].  New Yorker 78, 18 November, 56-73.

Bragg, Melody.  1998.  Window to the Past: Part IV: Southern W.Va. Mine Disasters [and other historic events].  Glen Jean, W.Va.: GEM Publications.  89 pp.

Brannon, Charles E.  2007.  “Tales of a B&O Fireman” [1947; steam locomotives; Shinnston].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 33, no. 4: 22-27.

Brattain, Michelle.  1997.  “‘A Town as Small as That’: Tallapoosa, Georgia and Operation Dixie, 1945-1950"  [Haralson Co.; textile industry].   Georgia Historical Quarterly 81 (Summer): 395-425.

Brattain, Michelle.  1997.  “Making Friends and Enemies: Textile Workers and Political Action in Post-World War II Georgia” [Floyd County].  The Journal of Southern History 63 (February): 91-138.

Brisbin, Richard A., Jr.  2002.  A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law and Resistance during the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.  350 pp.

Brook, Tom Vanden.  2006.  “Recruits Hungry for Good Jobs Head Off to Coal Mines” [W.Va.; increased demand for coal and miners; recent Sago disaster].  USA Today, 15 February, 1(B).   http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2006-02-14-miners-cover-usat_x.htm.

Brown, Edwin L., and Colin J. Davis, eds.  1999.  It Is Union and Liberty: Alabama Coal Miners and the UMW [1898-1998]. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.  184 pp.

Brown, Fred.  1995.  “Tillman Cadle:  Mountain Warrior.”  Appalachian Heritage 23 (Fall): 35-45.

Bruno, Robert.  1999.  “Everyday Constructions of Culture and Class: The Case of Youngstown Steelworkers [Ohio; 1944-1979].  Labor History 40 (May): 143-176.

Buckley, Geoffrey L.  2004.  Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910-1945 [interprets 92 photos from Smithsonian’s vast CCC archive].  Athens: Ohio University Press.  215 pp.

Buckley, Geoffrey L., and Timothy G. Anderson.  1999.  “The Consolidation Coal Company Photograph Collection, 1910-1945.”  Appalachian Journal 27 (Fall): 62-83.

Bumgarner, Matthew C.  1996.  Legacy of the Carolina & North-Western Railway.  Johnson City, Tenn.: The Overmountain Press.  190 pp.

Burdette, Cody A.  2003.  “The Section Man” [1944 Fayette Co.; warm boyhood memories of a black “maintenance of way” railroad worker].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 29 (Fall): 36-37.

Burdette, Cody A.  2004.  “The BC&G and the Last Stand of Steam” [Buffalo Creek and Gauley Railroad; 1950s Clay Co.].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 30 (Fall): 24-29.

Burns, Daniel J.  2007.  Homestead and the Steel Valley.  Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia.  127 pp.   Photo-retrospective; Monongahela Valley, Pa.

Burns, Daniel.  2006.  “Pittsburgh’s Rivers: A Glimpse into History, Travel, and Adventure” [Allegheny, Ohio, Monongahela; 18th-century to present].  Western Pennsylvania History 89, no. 1 (Spring): 12-17.

Burns, Shirley Stewart.  2007.  Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities, 1970-2004 [authoritative study].  West Virginia and Appalachia, vol. 5.  Morgantown: West Virginia. University Press.  232 pp.

Bye, Ole.  2007.  “Era Incognita: What Will Happen to Appalachia?” [essay].  Nantahala: A Review of Writing and Photography in Appalachia 3, no. 2 (Summer/Fall): Photography section.  600 words.  http://nantahalareview.org/issue3-2/photo/index.html.

Byer, Alan.  2006.  “Recalling Bob Caruthers: Last of the BC&G Steam Railroaders” [1964; Clay Co., W.Va.; “demise of the last steam-powered common carrier east of the Mississippi”].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 32, no. 4 (Winter): 10-16.  Sidebar, “Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad,” 17.

Caplinger, Michael.  1997.  Bridges Over Time: A Technological Context for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Main Stem at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia [railroad bridges; transportation].  Monograph Series. Morgantown, W.Va.: Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology, West Virginia University.

Carlisle, Fred.  1999.  “Insiders, Outsiders, and the Struggle for Community” [opposition to proposed high-voltage power line bridging W.Va. and Va.].  Appalachian Journal 26 (Spring): 240-251.

Carlton, David L., and Peter Coclanis.  2005.  “Southern Textiles in Global Context” [1860s-1960s].  In Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South, eds. S. Delfino and M. Gillespie, 151-174.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press.

Carpenter, Richard C.  2003.  A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946. Vol. 1, The Mid-Atlantic States [Pa., W.Va., Va., Md., Del., N.J., D.C.; 180 maps]. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.  297 pp.

Carson III, Homer S.  2005.  “Penal Reform and Construction of the Western North Carolina Railroad 1875-1892” [convict labor, Swannanoa tunnel, 1877-1879; tables].  Journal of Appalachian Studies 11, nos. 1-2 (Spring-Fall): 205-225.

Casto, James E.  1995.  Towboat on the Ohio.  Ohio River Valley Series.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  184 pp.

Casto, James E.  2004.  Southern West Virginia Coal Country [vintage postcards, historical retrospective].  Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia.  128 pp.

Chafin, Andrew.  2008.  Ordinary Hero: Sid Hatfield: The Legend of Matewan [1893-1921].  Abingdon, Va.: Mate Creek Bookworks. 145 pp.

Churchill, Ward.  2004.  “From the Pinkertons to the PATRIOT Act: The Trajectory of Political Policing in the United States, 1870 to the Present.”  CR: The New Centennial Review 4, no. 1: 1-72.

Ciotola, Nicholas P.  2007.  “The Darkest Month: Coal Mining Disasters of December 1907” [Monongah, W.Va. and Darr, Pa.].  Western Pennsylvania History 90, no. 4 (Winter 2007-08): 24-33.

Clark, Daniel J.  1997.  Like Night & Day: Unionization in a Southern Mill Town.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.  260 pp.

Clark, Paul F.  1996.  "Legacy of Democratic Reform: The Trumka Administration and the Challenge of the Eighties."  In The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?, ed. J. Laslett, 459-483.  University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Clarke, Alan R.  2006.  The Western Maryland Railway in West Virginia: The Photographs of G. H. Broadwater [maps on lining papers].  Charleston, W.Va.: Quarrier Press.  176 pp.

Clarke, Alan.  2002.  West Virginia’s Coal and Coke Railway: A B&O Predecessor [1905-1917; Charleston to Elkins].  Lynchburg, Va.: TLC Publishing.  170 pp.

Clarke, Alan.  2003.  The West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway: A Western Maryland Predecessor.  Lynchburg, Va.: TLC Publishing.  176 pp.

Clarke, Kevin.  1999.  “And Every Mountain Brought Low” [castigates mountaintop removal mining].  U.S. Catholic 64 (September): 23.

Coal-Mining ‘Dinosaurs’ Cling to Dark, Dangerous Life [AP story; Good Spring, Pa.; profiles families working their dwindling, privately-owned anthracite mines].  2004.  USA Today, 30 November.   http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-30-coal-miners_x.htm.

Cohen, Isaac.  1996.  "Monopoly, Competition, and Collective Bargaining: Pennsylvania and South Wales Compared."  In The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?, ed. J. Laslett, 395-416.  University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Cole, David.  1996.  "Logging on Forney's Creek."  [Smoky Mountains, N.C.]  Appalachian Heritage 24 (Spring): 48-55.

Cole, Wayne A.  2005.  Ghost Rails, 1850-1980. Volume 1, Abandoned Railroads, Their Industries, Last Runs, Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania.  Darlington, Pa.: ColeBooks.  144 pp.

Cole, Wayne A.  2005.  Ghost Rails. Volume II, Western Allegheny Railroad Company. Darlington, Pa.: ColeBooks.  224 pp.

Combes, Richard S.  2001.  “Aircraft Manufacturing in Georgia: A Case Study of Federal Industrial Investment” [Bell Bomber plant; Marietta, Ga.].  In The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s, ed. P. Scranton, 24-42.  Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Copeland, Claudia.  2005.  “Controversies over Redefining ‘Fill Material’ Under the Clean Water Act” [updated Feb. 2; coal mining overburden; mountaintop removal].  CRS Report for Congress RL31411.  Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.  12 pp.   http://opencrs.com/document/RL31411/.

Copeland, Claudia.  2005.  “Mountaintop Mining: Background on Current Controversies.”  CRS Report for Congress RS21421 [updated Feb. 1].  Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.  6 pp.   http://opencrs.com/document/RS21421/.

Corbin, David A.  2008.  “Coal Mining.”  In The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 11: Agriculture and Industry, 286-289.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Corso, Paola.  2008.  “Coke, Clairton, and Cancer: A Three-Decade Push for Reforms.”  Western Pennsylvania History 91, no. 1 (Spring): 40-49.   Landmark OSHA standard (1977) for lower coke emissions.  Clairton, Pa., is the largest producer of coke in the United States.

Council, R. Bruce, and Nicholas Honerkamp.  2000.  “Antebellum Iron: Bluff Furnace and the East Tennessee Iron Manufacturing Company” [1847-1860].  Tennessee Historical Quarterly 59 (Fall): 204-217.

Crandall, William “Rick,” and Richard E. Crandall.  2002.  “Revisiting the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Incident: Lessons Learned from an American Tragedy” [1930s W.Va.; 400 to 2000 silicosis deaths, majority black].  Journal of Appalachian Studies 8 (Fall): 261-283.

Crockett, Maureen. 2005.  “Follow the Coal: A Visit with Oreste Leombruno” [Italian American miner, 65; coke ovens].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 31, no. 3 (Fall): 6-13.

Crowell, Douglas L.  1997.  “Death Underground: The Millfield Mining Tragedy” [Ohio; 1930; 82 killed].  Timeline 14 (no. 5): 42-54.

Crowl, Thomas E.  2001.  “Cherry Valley’s Coke Ovens” [Register of Historic Places; Leetonia, Columbiana Co., Ohio].  Timeline: A Publication of the Ohio Historical Society 18 (July-August): 28-41.

Culvahouse, Tim, ed.  2007.  The Tennessee Valley Authority: Design and Persuasion.  New York: Princeton Architectural Press.  144 pp.   Eight essays.

Curra, Thomas M., and Greg Matkosky.  2002.  Stories from the Mines [anthracite coal; immigrants; 70 archival photos; companion documentary film (2000)].  Scranton, Pa.: University of Scranton Press.  82 pp.

Daniel, Clete.  2001.  Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States.  Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.  352 pp.

Davidson, Cameron.  2007.  “SCARFACE” [photo essay: mountaintop removal mining].  Text by Michelle Nijhuis.  Audubon 109 (March/April): 76-83.

Davies, John.  1999.  “Authority, Community, and Conflict: Rioting and Aftermath in a Late-Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania Coal Town” [1888; Shenandoah; Schuylkill Co.].  Pennsylvania History 66 (Summer): 339-363.

Davis, Robert S.  2005.  “The Story of the Georgia Marble Dynasty” [Pickens Co.; Georgia Marble Company, incorporated 1837].  Georgia History in Pictures.  Georgia Historical Quarterly 89, no. 3 (Fall): 368-388.

DeKok, David.  2000 [1986].  Unseen Danger: A Tragedy of People, Government, and the Centralia Mine Fire [Pa.; uncontrolled underground mine fire, ignited 1962].  San Jose, Calif.: ToExcel.  299 pp.  Originally published, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

DeMarchi, Jane.  1997.  Historical Mining Disasters [lists over 500 in the U.S. since 1900]. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration.  49 pp.

DiCiccio, Carmen. 1996. Coal and Coke in Pennsylvania [industrial history, 1840-1945; southwestern Pa.; bibliography].  Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.  224 pp.

Dickinson, W. Calvin, and Patrick D. Reagan.  1998.  “Business, Labor, and the Blue Eagle: The Harriman Hosiery Mills Strike, 1933-1934.”  In Tennessee History: The Land, The People, and the Culture, ed. C. Van West, 391-412.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Dickinson, W. Calvin, and Patrick D. Reagan.  1996.  “Business, Labor, and the Blue Eagle: The Harriman Hosiery Mills Strike, 1933-1934  [Roane Co., Tenn.].  Tennessee Historical Quarterly 55 (Fall): 240-255.

Dix, Keith.  1996.  "Mechanization, Workplace Control, and the End of the Hand-Loading Era."  In The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?, ed. J. Laslett, 167-200.  University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Dixon, Thomas W.  2002.  Steam Locomotive Coaling Stations and Diesel Locomotive Fueling Stations [photo-documentary].  Lynchburg, Va.: TLC Publishing.  80 pp.

Dixon, Thomas W., comp.  2007.  Chessie System Railroads in West Virginia [pictorial; locomotives; map]. Clifton Forge, Va: Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society.  64 pp.

Dotson-Lewis, Betty L.  2007.  Sago Mine Disaster: Appalachian Coalfield Stories [Jan. 2, 2006; Tallmansville, W.Va.; 12 dead, one survivor].  West Conshohocken, Pa.: Infinity Publishing.  301 pp.

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Eelman, Bruce W.  2008.  Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry: Commercial Culture in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1845-1880.  Athens: University of Georgia Press.  313 pp.

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Fones-Wolf, Ken.  2007.  Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890-1930s [labor history; W.Va.: Moundsville, Clarksburg, Fairmont].  The Working Class in American History.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press.  236 pp.

Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth, and Ken Fones-Wolf.  2003.  “Cold War Americanism: Business, Pageantry, and Antiunionism in Weirton, West Virginia.”  Business History Review 77 (Spring): 61-91.

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Fones-Wolf, Ken.  1996.  “From Craft to Industrial Unionism in the Window-Glass Industry: Clarksburg, West Virginia, 1900-1937.”  Labor History 37 (Winter, 1995-96): 28-49.

Fones-Wolf, Ken.  1999.  “An Industrial Giant Takes Shape, 1800-1872.”  In Keystone of Democracy: A History of Pennsylvania Workers, eds. H. Harris, P. Blatz, 37-74, 80-81.  Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Fones-Wolf, Ken.  2000.  “Work, Culture and Politics in Industrializing West Virginia: The Glassworkers of Clarksburg and Moundsville, 1891-1919” [7,350 employed by 1910 -- 800 more than iron and steel].  West Virginia History 58 (1999-2000): 1-23.

Fones-Wolf, Ken.  2004.  “Transatlantic Craft Migrations and Transnational Spaces: Belgian Window Glass Workers in America, 1880-1920” [craft communities: southwestern Pa., northern W.Va.].  Labor History 45 (August): 299-321.

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Friend, Daniel J.  2003.  “The Norwalk: Martinsburg’s Motor Car” [Norwalk Motor Car Company, 1912-1922].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 29 (Summer): 30-37.

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Galuszka, Peter.  1997.  “Strip-Mining on Steroids” [costs; dangers].  Business Week 17 November, 70.

Gartner, Paul.  2006.  “‘One Day More’: Activist Songwriter Elaine Purkey” [UMW organizer, teacher, public speaker].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 32, no. 2 (Summer): 14-19.

Gates, Frederick B.  2007.  “The Impact of the Western & Atlantic Railroad on the Development of the Georgia Upcountry, 1840-1860” [market-oriented capitalism].  Georgia Historical Quarterly 91, no. 2 (Summer): 169-184.

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Gillespie, Michael.  2001.  Come Hell or High Water: A Lively History of Steamboating on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.  Stoddard, Wis.: Heritage Press.  295 pp.

Gilley, Jennifer, and Stephen Burnett.  1998.  “Deconstructing and Reconstructing Pittsburgh’s Man of Steel: Reading Joe Magarac against the Context of the 20th-Century Steel Industry” [media hero; folk hero].  Journal of American Folklore 111 (Fall): 392-408.

Glass, Brent D.  1997.  “Massacre at Lattimer: An American Rite of Passage: An Interview with Michael Novak” [immigrant miners; Hazelton, Pa.; 1897].  Pennsylvania Heritage 23 (Fall): 4-13.

Godbey, Emily.  2006.  “Disaster Tourism and the Melodrama of Authenticity: Revisiting the 1889 Johnstown Flood” [1889; 2,000 killed].  Pennsylvania History 73, no. 3 (Summer): 273-315.

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Goldbeck, Christine M.  2001.  “Rivers of Steel” [southwestern Pa.; Rivers of Steel National and State Heritage Area, cultural conservation plans].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 18 (Spring): 30-34.

Goldbeck, Christine.  2003.  “Breaker Boy, Bootlegger, Bookworm, Bard” [anthracite miner Joe Machulsky, b. 1914].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 20, nos. 2-3 (Summer/Winter): 18-21.

Goldbeck, Christine.  2003.  “Going Underground” [exploring abandoned anthracite mines in northeastern Pa.].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 20 (Spring): 24-27.

Goode, James B.  1997.  Ancient Sunshine: The Story of Coal [history of mining; adolescent audience].  Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation.  96 pp.

Goodell, Jeff.  2001.  “How Coal Got It’s Glow Back” [political controversies; 2001 energy demands, prices].  New York Times Magazine, 22 July, 30-39.

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Goodell, Jeff.  2006.  “Cooking the Climate with Coal.”  Natural History 115 (May): 36-41.

Goodell, Jeff.  2006.  Big Coal: The Dirty Secret behind America’s Energy Future [“shatters the myth of cheap coal energy”].  Boston: Houghton Mifflin.  324 pp.

Goodell, Jeff.  2008.  “Big Coal’s Campaign of Lies.”  Rolling Stone, 7 August: 65-66.  U.S. Senate rejects Climate Security Act to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.

Gorn, Elliot J.  2001.  Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America [1843?-1930].  New York: Hill and Wang.  408 pp.

Gottlieb, Peter. 1999.  “Shaping a New Labor Movement, 1917-1941.” In Keystone of Democracy: A History of Pennsylvania Workers, eds. H. Harris, P. Blatz, 161-201, 211-212.  Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Gratton, Brian, and Jon Moen.  2004.  “Immigration, Culture, and Child Labor in the United States, 1880-1920.”  The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 34, no. 3 (Winter): 355-391.

Gratz, David E., and Terry E. Arbogast.  2003.  The Monongahela Railway [Monongahela River Valley, W.Va. and Pa.; photos, maps, tables].   Washingtonville, Ohio: M2FQ Publications.  212 pp.

Gray, Pamela Lee.  2002.  Ohio Valley Pottery Towns [photo-retrospective: East Liverpool, Ohio -- Wellsville, Ohio -- Beaver Area, Pennsylvania -- Chester, West Virginia -- Newell, West Virginia -- East Palestine, Ohio].  Images of America.  Chicago, Ill.: Arcadia.  128 pp.

Gray, Sam.  1997.  “I-26 and the Will of God: Introduction” [photo-essay; highway corridor; Madison Co., N.C.].  Southern Quarterly 35 (Spring): 116-127.

Gray, Sam.  2001.  “The Roads of Madison County: An Interpretive History” [construction of Interstate 26].  In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 2, ed. R. S. Brunk, 288-313.  Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services, Inc.

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Green, Chris.  2006.  “Selective Bibliography of Books, Films, and Web Sites about Coal & Central Appalachia.”  In Coal: A Poetry Anthology, ed. C. Green, 311-318 unnumbered.  Ashland, Ky.: Blair Mountain Press.  [1. About coal / 2. Accidents & safety / 3. African-American miners / 4. Black lung / 5. Buffalo Creek / 6. Coal industry / 7. Coal towns / 8. History & Culture / 9. Labor struggles: Harlan County, Kentucky / 10. Labor struggles: UMWA & Mother Jones / 11. Labor struggles: West Virginia / 12. Language / 13. Literature / 14. Song / 15. Stripmining and Mountaintop Removal / 16. Women].

Green, James R.  1996.  "'Tying the Knot of Solidarity': The Pittston Strike of 1989-1990."  In The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?, ed. J. Laslett, 513-544.  University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Green, Jerry E.  2004.  “Steubenville, Ohio, and the Nineteenth-Century Steamboat Trade” [1820s-1880s; tables].  Ohio History 113 (Winter-Spring): 18-30.   http://publications.ohiohistory.org/pdf/113WSgreen.pdf.

Hahn, Thomas Swiftwater.  1997.  The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Lock-Houses and Lock-Keepers.  Monograph series.  Morgantown, W.Va.: Institute for the History of Technology & Industrial Archaeology.  105 pp.

Hales, Peter Bacon.  1997.  Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project [social history of workers, not scientists or military; including 1940s Oak Ridge, Tenn.].  Champaign: University of Illinois Press.  448 pp.

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Hansen, Evan, et al.  2008.  The Long-Term Economic Benefits of Wind Versus Mountaintop Removal Coal on Coal River Mountain, West Virginia [Raleigh Co.; tables, maps].   Morgantown, W.Va.: Downstream  Strategies.  52 pp.

Hardy, Charles, III.  1999.  “Fish or Foul: A History of the Delaware River Basin through the Perspective of the American Shad, 1682 to the Present” [northeastern Pa.].  Pennsylvania History 66 (Autumn): 506-534.

Hargrove, Erwin C.  1994.  Prisoners of Myth:  The Leadership of  the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1990.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press.  374 pp.

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Harris, Paul.  2005.  “They Flattened This Mountaintop to Find Coal -- And Created a Wasteland: A Ravaged U.S. State is Fighting Back against Mining Bosses Who Backed Bush” [mountaintop removal].  The Observer (London), 16 January, 25.  1055 words.    http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1391483,00.html.

Harvey, Willard A., Jr.  1997.  Railroads of the Ohio Valley, 1947-1960. Book Two: Huntington, West Virginia to Cincinnati, Ohio [captioned photographs].  Telford, Pa.: Silver Brook Junction Publishing Company.  95 pp.

Haskew, Barbara S., and Robert B. Jones.  2004.  “Labor Strife in the Southern Stove Industry: Shootout at South Pittsburg” [1927; Marion Co.].  Tennessee Historical Quarterly 63 (Winter): 266-283.

Hasler, Richard.  2005.  “The Tragedy of Privatization: Moving Mountains in Appalachia, a Southern African Critique” [property rights; morality].  Journal of Appalachian Studies 11, nos. 1-2 (Spring-Fall): 95-103.

Hennen, John C., Jr.  1999.  “Putting the ‘You’ in Union” [Danie Joe Stewart, organizer; Highlands Regional Medical Center, Prestonburg, Ky.; 1975].  Journal of Appalachian Studies 5 (Fall): 227-240.

Hensley, Julia, Stephen Hensley, and Jim Kevin. 1998.  “A Forgotten Pioneer” [Edward Chalmers Huffaker of Chuckey City, Tenn.: aviation pioneer, engineer, surveyor, inventor].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 15 (Winter): 6-12.

Herod, Andrew.  1997.  “Reinterpreting Organized Labor’s Experience in the Southeast: 1947 to Present.”  Southeastern Geographer 37 (November): 214-237.

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Hicks, Enoch E.  2006.  Appalachian Legacy [b. 1931; coal mining biography; War, W.Va.].  Parsons, W.Va.: McClain Printing Co.  246 pp.

High, Mike.  1997.  The C&O Canal Companion [guidebook; 185-mile C&O Canal National Historical Park].  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.  269 pp.

High, Steven C., and David W. Lewis.  2007.  Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization.  Ithaca, N.Y.: IRL Press.  193 pp.  Chap. 3, “From Cradle to Grave: The Politics of Memory in Youngstown, Ohio,” 64-86;  Chap. 7, “King Coal: The Coal Counties of West Virginia” [brief overview], 144-148.

Hildebrand, John R.  2001.  Iron Horses in the Valley: The Valley and Shenandoah Valley Railroads, 1866-1882.  Shippensburg, Pa.: Burd Street Press. 128 pp.

Hindman, Hugh D.  2002.  Child Labor: An American History [includes chapters on coal mines, textile mills, and glass manufacturing].  Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe.  431 pp.

Hines, Elizabeth, and Michael S. Smith.  2002.  “Gold Is Where You Find It: Placer Mining in North Carolina, 1799-1849.”  Earth Sciences History 21 (no.2): 119-149.

Hinshaw, John.  2002.  Steel and Steelworkers: Race and Class Struggle in Twentieth Century Pittsburgh.  Albany: State University of New York Press.  348 pp.

Holbrook, Chris.  2007.  “From Harry Caudill to Erik Reece: A Review of Lost Mountain.”  Appalachian Journal 34, no. 2 (Winter): 228-234.  Review essay of  Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia, by Erik Reece (New York: Riverhead Books, 2006).

Holleran, Philip M.  1996.  "Explaining the Decline of Child Labor in Pennsylvania Silk Mills, 1899-1919."  Pennsylvania History 63 (Winter): 78-95.

Holleran, Philip M.  1997.  “Family Income and Child Labor in Carolina Cotton Mills.”  Social Science History 21 (Fall): 299-320.

Hoover, Robert B.  1998.  “Bridging the Past & Present: Reflections on the Western Maryland Railway” [connecting Casselman, Youghiogheny, and Upper Potomac River Valleys].  Pittsburgh History 81 (Spring): 26-38.

Howard, Walter T.  2001.  “The National Miners Union: Communists and Miners in the Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1928-1931.”  Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 125 (January-April): 91-124.

Howard, Walter T.  2002.  “‘Radicals Not Wanted’: Communists and the 1929 Wilkes-Barre Silk Mill Strikes.”  Pennsylvania History 69 (Summer): 342-366.

Howard, Walter T.  2005.  Forgotten Radicals: Communists in the Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1919-1950.   Lanham, Md.: University Press of America.  268 pp.

Howard, Walter T., ed.  2004.  Anthracite Reds.  2 vols.  New York: iUniverse.   Vol. 1: A Documentary History of Communists in Northeastern Pennsylvania during the 1920s.  Vol. 2: A Documentary History of Communists in Northeastern Pennsylvania during the Great Depression.

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Huber, Patrick.  2006.  “Red Necks and Red Bandanas: Appalachian Coal Miners and the Coloring of Union Identity, 1912-1936.”  Western Folklore 65, no. 1: 195-210.

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Huddleston, Eugene L.  2002.  Appalachian Conquest: C&O, N&W, Virginian and Clinchfield Cross the Mountains [photo-documentary; steam locomotives].  Lynchburg, Va.: TLC Publishing.  138 pp.

Hulsemann, Karsten.  2001.  “Greenfields in the Heart of Dixie: How the American Auto Industry Discovered the South.”  In The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s, ed. P. Scranton, 219-254.  Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Hydro, Vincent, Jr.  2000.  “The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company’s Mauch Chunk Railroad, Part III: Panther Creek Operations & The Switchback Railroad” [Pa.].  In Canal History and Technology Proceedings 19: 7-68.  Easton, Pa.: Canal History and Technology Press.

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Irons, Janet.  2000.  Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press.  262 pp.

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Jenkins, Chris L.  2005.  “Next Generation Moves Into the Black: As Older Va. Coal Miners Retire, Young Workers Drawn to Industry’s New Boom” [dateline: Nora, Va.; coal price doubles to nearly $60 a ton].  Washington Post, 15 August, 1(B).

Johannsen, Kristin, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, eds.  2005.  Missing Mountains: We Went to the Mountaintop but It Wasn’t There [mountaintop removal mining resistance: “essays, poems, stories, and personal testimonials by Kentuckians”].  Introduction by Silas House; afterword by Wendell Berry.  Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind.  209 pp.

Johnson, Leland, and Daniel Shaffer.  1994.  Oak Ridge National  Laboratory:  The First Fifty Years.  Knoxville: University of  Tennessee Press.  270 pp.

Johnson, Leland R., and Charles E. Parrish.  1999.  Engineering the Kentucky River: The Commonwealth’s Waterway [1836-1917; history, commerce, 14 locks and dams].  Foreword by Thomas D. Clark.  Louisville, Ky.: Louisville Engineer District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  232 pp.

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Jones, Barbara L.  2006.  Born of Fire: The Valley of Work: Industrial Scenes of Southwestern Pennsylvania [Pittsburgh industry-inspired artwork, early 20th-century; Westmoreland Museum of American Art exhibition].  Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press.  160 pp.

Jones, Bill, and Ronald L. Lewis.  2007.  “Gender and Transnationality among Welsh Tinplate Workers in Pittsburgh: The Hattie Williams Affair, 1895.”  Labor History 48, no. 2 (May): 175-194.

Jones, James Alexander (1853-1941).  2005.  Kelly’s Creek Chronicles, Kanawha County, West Virginia: The Illustrated Diary of James Alexander Jones, Coal Miner Kept during the Period, 1870 to 1939.  Edited by William Roosevelt Hudnall.  New Canton, Va.: Kelly’s Creek Publishers.  222 pp.

Jones, June.  2006.  “Whitcomb Boulder” [landmark, monstrous boulder that fell on railroad tracks from New River cliffs at Hawks Nest State Park].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 32, no. 4 (Winter): 18-19.

Jordan, Sam.  2003.  “Laying Track in Nicholas County” [1940s C&O railroad crew, racially mixed.  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 29 (Winter): 26-35.

Juravich, Tom, and Kate Bronfenbrenner.  1999.  Ravenswood: The Steelworkers’ Victory and the Revival of American Labor [W.Va. aluminum plant; 1990 labor lockout].  Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press.  245 pp.

Justice, Jack.  2002.  “A Coal Miner” [labor injustices endured by the author’s father in 1940s Ky.].  Appalachian Heritage 30 (Summer): 9-14.

Kapsch, Robert J.  2007.  The Potomac Canal: George Washington and the Waterway West [1755-1828; color reproductions of 19th-century illustrations and maps; Potomac River navigation; Shenandoah River navigation, 1790-1890].  Morgantown: West Virginia University Press.  373 pp.

Karan, Pradyumna P., ed.  2001.  Japan in the Bluegrass [automobile manufacturing plants in Ky.].  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  341 pp.

Karig, Martin Robert.  2007.  Coal Cars: The First Three Hundred Years [train freight car history, photos, specifications].  Scranton: University of Scranton Press.  420 pp.

Kaufman, Bruce E.  1997.  “The Emergence and Growth of a Nonunion Sector in the Southern Paper Industry.”  In Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995, ed. R. Zieger, 295-329.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Keeney, Charles Belmont.  2006.  “A Republican for Labor: T. C. Townsend and the West Virginia Labor Movement, 1921-1932” [1877-1940; defense counsel for Logan Co. chapter of the UMWA after the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain; Republican candidate for governor in 1932].  West Virginia History 60 (2004-2006): 1-22.

Keller, Vagel C., and Jaron Hawkins.  2008.  Underground Coal Mining in Western Maryland, 1876-1977: A Reference Guide [Allegany and Garrett Cos.].  Frostburg, Md.: Lewis J. Ort Library, Frostburg State University.  462 pp.  Contents: The coal seams of Western Maryland -- History & technology of Maryland’s underground coal mines -- Coal mines in the era before regulation (1820-1875) -- Jennings Run -- Braddock (Preston) Run -- Frostburg area -- The Upper Georges Creek Valley -- The Lower Georges Creek Valley -- The Upper Potomac Basin -- The Upper Youghiogheny Basin -- The Lower Youghiogheny Basin -- The Casselman (Castleman) Basin.  See also: supplementary volume, Coal Company Index, comp. by Sarah McIntire, 98 pp.

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Knies, Michael.  2001.  “The D&H Coal Company: New Insights from the James Archbald Papers” [1840s Pa. anthracite region; Delaware & Hudson Canal Co.; and Pennsylvania Coal Company projects].  Canal History and Technology Proceedings 20: 53-80.

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Kosola, William.  2000.  “The B&O Railroad and C&O Canal’s ‘Race up the Potomac’”  [from 1828; to Cumberland, Md.].  Pennsylvania Geographer 37 (Spring/Summer): 100-117.

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Linkon, Sherry Lee, and John Russo.  2002.  Steeltown U.S.A.: Work and Memory in Youngstown [Ohio; deindustrialization].  Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.  288 pp.

Lockard, Duane.  1998.  Coal: A Memoir and Critique.  Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.  225 pp.

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Loeb, Penny.  2004.  “Deluge Without End” [W.Va. floods: “Four years of unprecedented rainfall”... “regulators struggle to reform the logging and mining industries that bear much of the responsibility”].  Southern Exposure 32: 50-67.

Loeb, Penny.  2007.  Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal [Patricia Bragg; Pie, W.Va.].  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  306 pp.

Lopez, Steven Henry.  2004.  Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement [post-industrial Pittsburgh region; case studies].  Berkeley: University of California Press.  292 pp.

Love, Steve, and David Giffels.  1999.  Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron [tire companies; outmigrant blacks and white Appalachians].  Foreword by Rita Dove.  Ohio History and Culture.  Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press.  359 pp.

Lovelace, Jeff.  1994.  Mount Mitchell: Its Railroad and Toll Road.  Johnson City, Tenn.: Overmountain Press.  86 pp.

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Lyday, Margaret M.  2002.  “An Interdisciplinary Approach: Michael Novak’s The Guns of Lattimer” [Basic Books (1978); 1897 killings].  Pennsylvania History 69 (Winter): 71-78.

MacDonald, Samuel A.  2005.  The Agony of an American Wilderness: Loggers, Environmentalists, and the Struggle for Control of a Forgotten Forest [Allegheny National Forest, Pa.].  Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.  187 pp.

Macoughtry, William O.  2006.  “‘I Like to Tell This History’: William O. Macoughtry, Jr., Recalls the Treason Trials” [author, 96, recalls 1922 trials in Charles Town, W.Va., of UMW leaders after the Battle of Blair Mountain].  Interview by Daniel J. Friend.  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 32, no. 2 (Summer): 27-31.

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Maher, Kris.  2006.  “As Demand for Coal Rises, Risky Mines Play Bigger Role” [“alarming upswing in coal mining accidents”; “rise in the number of small, undercapitalized mines”].  Wall Street Journal, 6 June, 1(A), 10(A).

Maher, Regis M.  1999.  Patches of History: The 1920s & 1930s: Heyday of Fayette County Coal & Coke in Pennsylvania [personal narratives; company towns].  Dunbar, Pa.: Stefano’s Printing.  212 pp.

Marcus, Irwin M.  2002.  “Migration, Milling, Mining: The Johnstown Heritage Discovery Center and the Windber Coal Heritage Center” [museum review].  Pennsylvania History 69 (Winter): 85-93.

Martin, Louis C.  2007.  “Tin Plate Towns, 1890-1910: Local Labor Movements and Workers’ Responses to the Crisis in the Steelworkers’ Union” [Wheeling, W.Va., and Apollo and New Castle, Pa.].  Pennsylvania History 74, no. 4 (Autumn): 492-528.

Mason, Matthew E.  1998.  “‘The Hands Here Are Disposed to be Turbulent’: Unrest Among the Irish Trackmen of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1829-1851” [Washington to Wheeling; labor riots].  Labor History 39 (August): 253-272.

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McCall, Pete.  2001.  “Getting Serious About Clean Coal.”  United Mine Workers Journal 112 (March-April): 4-8.

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McClure, William G., and Jeremy F. Plant.  2005.  Virginian Railway in Color [200 photos; 1950s-60s; Va. and southern W.Va.; eventually part of Norfolk & Western].  Scotch Plains, N.J.: Morning Sun Books.  126 pp.

McClure, William G., and Jeremy F. Plant.  2007.  Norfolk and Western Steam in Color [steam locomotive photos from various routes].  Scotch Plains, N.J.: Morning Sun Books.  128 pp.

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McCombs, Douglas.  2001.  “O is for Oil” [boom oil industry overview].  Western Pennsylvania History 84 (Fall): 26-28.

McCormick, Charles H.  1997.  Seeing Reds: Federal Surveillance of Radicals in the Pittsburgh Mill District, 1917-1921 [includes steel and coal strikes of 1919].  Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.  244 pp.

McDaniel, Lynda.  2000.  “Tourism Rides High in the Southern Alleghenies” [Pa.; bicycle tourism].  Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 33 (May-August): 26-31.

McDonough, Judith.  1997.  “Worker Solidarity, Judicial Oppression, and Police Repression in the Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Coal Miner’s Strike, 1910-11.  Pennsylvania History 64 (Summer): 384-406.

McKinney, Gary S.  2003.  Oil on the Brain: The Discovery of Oil and the Excitement of the Boom in Northwestern Pennsylvania [1859].  Chicora, Pa.: Mechling Bookbindery.  308 pp.

McKinney, Gary S.  2008.  Oil on the Brain: The Discovery of Oil and the Excitement of the Boom in Northwestern Pennsylvania, Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Venango Counties.  3rd ed.  Chicora, Pa.: Mechling Bookbindery.  512 pp.

McKinney, Gordon B.  1999.  “The Blair Committee Investigation of 1883: Industrialization in the Southern Mountains” [Birmingham, Chattanooga; capital and labor].  Appalachian Journal 26 (Winter): 150-166.

McKinney, Gordon.  2002.  “Zeb Vance and the Construction of the Western North Carolina Railroad” [1870s governor; black convict labor].  Appalachian Journal 29 (Fall 2001-Winter 2002): 58-67.

McKiven, Henry M., Jr.  1995.  Iron & Steel:  Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.  223 pp.

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McSpirit, Stephanie, Shaunna L. Scott, Sharon Hardesty, and Robert Welch.  2005.  “EPA Actions in Post Disaster Martin County, Kentucky: An Analysis of Bureaucratic Slippage and Agency Recreancy” [Oct. 2000 coal sludge flood; A. T. Massey Coal Co.].  Journal of Appalachian Studies 11, nos. 1-2 (Spring-Fall): 30-59.  Addendum: “The Commonwealth of Kentucky Releases Monies for Independent, Outside Assessment of the Martin County Watershed, May 2005,” by Stephanie McSpirit and Nina McCoy, 59-63.

Meislik, Miriam.  2008.  Historic Photos of Pittsburgh.  Nashville, Tenn.: Turner Publishing Co.  206 pp.   Archival images, 1860s to present.  See also: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh/.

Metheny, Karen Bescherer.  2007.  From the Miners’ Doublehouse: Archaeology and Landscape in a Pennsylvania Coal Company Town [Helvetia; case study; oral history].  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.  305 pp.

Metz, Lance E.  2000.  “The Prosecution of the Molly Maguires in Carbon County” [Pa.].  In Canal History and Technology Proceedings 19: 126-142.  Easton, Pa.: Canal History and Technology Press.

Metzgar, Jack.  2000.  Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered [collective bargaining history; 1950s; memoir: Johnstown, Pa.].  Philadelphia: Temple University Press.  264 pp.

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Minchin, Timothy J.  1997.  What Do We Need a Union For?: The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955   [Textile Workers Union of America].  Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies.   Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.  285 pp.

Minchin, Timothy J.  2001.  “Permanent Replacements and the Breakdown of the ‘Social Accord’ in Calera, Alabama, 1974-1999” [cement industry, labor relations, strike; Shelby Co.].  Labor History 42 (November): 371-396.

Minchin, Timothy J.  2005.  Don’t Sleep with Stevens!: The J. P. Stevens Campaign and the Struggle to Organize the South, 1963-80 [textile workers].  New Perspectives on the History of the South.  Gainesville: University Press of Florida.  239 pp.

Minchin, Timothy J.  2005.  Fighting Against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor
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Minchin, Timothy J.  2008.  “An Uphill Fight: Ernest F. Hollings and the Struggle to Protect the South Carolina Textile Industry, 1959-2005.”  South Carolina Historical Magazine 109, no. 3 (July): 187-211.

Mitchell, Broadus.  2001 [1921].  The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South.  Reprint, with a new introduction by David L. Carlton.  Southern Classics.  Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.  281 pp.  Originally published: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.

Mitchelson, Ronald L., and others.  1997.  “The Changing South: Transportation and Communications Since 1947.”  Southeastern Geographer 37 (November): 268-294.

Modell, Judith;  photographs by Charlee Brodsky.  1998.  A Town Without Steel: Envisioning Homestead [Pa. mill town; deindustrialization].  Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.  284 pp.

Montrie, Chad.  2002.  “Agriculture, Christian Stewardship, and Aesthetics: Ohio Farmers’ Opposition to Coal Surface Mining in the 1940s.”  Ohio History 111 (Winter-Spring): 44-63.

Montrie, Chad.  2003.  To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia [1960s-70s].  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.  245 pp.

Montrie, Chad. 2005. “‘To Have, Hold, Develop, and Defend’: Natural Rights and the Movement to Abolish Strip Mining in Eastern Kentucky” [1954-1977; 1960s activism].  Journal of Appalachian Studies 11, nos. 1-2 (Spring-Fall): 64-82.

Montrie, Chad.  2007.  “Continuity in the Midst of Change: Work and Environment for West Virginia Mountaineers” [19th-century to 1960s; farmer to miner to factory hand].  West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, new series, vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring): 1-22.

Montrie, Chad.  2008.  “Degrees of Separation: Nature and the Shift from Farmer to Miner to Factory Hand in Southern West Virginia.”  Chap. 4 in Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States, 71-90.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Moore, Marat.  2008.  “Chest-Messaging in the Coalfields: A Look Back at the T-Shirts of the Pittston Strike.”  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 24, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 26-28.   UMWA slogans; 1989-90 Southwest Va.: Dickenson and Russell Counties.

Moore, Toby.  2000.  “Emerging Memorial Landscapes of Labor Conflict in the Cotton Textile South” Professional Geographer 52 (November): 684-696.

Moore, Toby.  2001.  “Dismantling the South’s Cotton Mill Village System.”  In The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s, ed. P. Scranton, 114-145.  Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Morgenstern, Wes, ed.  1999.  Working on the Western Maryland Railway: A Collection of Employee Interviews [29 interviews; 1930s-1970s; Md., Pa., W.Va., Va.].  Union Bridge, Md.: Western Maryland Railway Historical Society.  176 pp.

Morrison, Roger.  1997.  “New River Lead Mines, Austinville, Va.” [1760-1996].  In  Proceedings, New River Symposium, April 11-12, 1997, Glade Springs Resort, Daniels, West Virginia, 100-109.  Glen Jean, W.Va.: National Park Service.

Morrison, Roger.  2000.  “John Marshall and the James River & Kanawha Canal” [1818].  In Proceedings, New River Symposium, April 15-16, 1999, Boone, North Carolina, 59-67.  Glen Jean, W.Va.: National Park Service.

Mosher, Anne E.  2004.  Capital’s Utopia: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916 [steel company’s model industrial town]. Creating the North American Landscape.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press.  249 pp.

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Mulcahy, Richard P.  2000.  A Social Contract for the Coal Fields: The Rise and Fall of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund [1946-1978].  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.  274 pp.

Muller, Edward K.  2006.  “The Steel Valley” [Monongahela River Valley].  In Pittsburgh and the Appalachians: Cultural and Natural Resources in a Postindustrial Age, ed. J. Scarpaci, 36-48.  Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Muller, Edward.  2000.  “The Steel Valley” [Monongahela Valley restructuring].  In A Geographic Perspective of Pittsburgh and the Alleghenies: From Precambrian to Post-Industrial, eds. K. Patrick and J. Scarpaci, 79-86. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Geographers.

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Myers, Edward J.  1998.  “Night Trains Are Forever” [O. Winston Link’s photographs of steam locomotives].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 15 (Winter): 13-16.

Nance, Karen N. Cartwright.  2003.  “Oscar Cartwright, Sr.: A West Virginia CIO Organizer” [Congress of Industrial Organizations; 1930s-40s].  In Great Kanawha Valley Chemical Heritage, Symposium Proceedings, May 3, 2003, Institute, West Virginia, comp. Lee R. Maddex, 65-77.  Morgantown, W.Va.: Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology.

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Noe, Kenneth.  1994.  Southwest Virginia's Railroad:  Modernization  and the Sectional Crisis.  Champaign: University of Illinois  Press.  221 pp.

Norwood, Stephen H.  2002.  Strikebreaking & Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.  328 pp.

Nyden, Paul J.  1997.  “Coal Companies Abandon Workers Comp” [award-winning article reprinted from W.Va.’s Charleston Gazette].  Southern Exposure 25 (Spring/Summer): 39-41.

Nyden, Paul J.  2007.  “Rank-and-File Rebellions in the Coalfields, 1964-80.”  Monthly Review 58, no. 10 (March): 38-53.  Topics include: 1969 Black Lung Strike; “Jock” Yablonski and “Tony” Boyle; Miners for Democracy; mine tragedies in Ky. and W.Va.; UMW president Arnold Miller; McDowell County, W.Va.; A. T. Massey Coal’s union busting; 1989 Pittston strike; coal town life; political involvement of coal operators; and absentee ownership.

Nystrom, Eric.  2007.  “Miner, Minstrel, Memory: Or, Why the Smithsonian has Bill Keating’s Pants” [authenticity issue; anthracite miner troubadour, 1886-1964].  Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography 131, no. 1 (January): 81-101.

Olwell, Russell B.  2004.  At Work in the Atomic City: A Labor and Social History of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.  165 pp.

Olwell, Russell.  1998.  “Help Wanted for Secret City: Recruiting Workers for the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1942-1946.”  Tennessee Historical Quarterly 58 (Spring): 52-69.

Olwell, Russell.  2004.  At Work in the Atomic City: A Labor and Social History of Oak Ridge, Tennessee [1940s; Manhattan Project].  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.  165 pp.

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Oppegard, Tony.  1996.  "Mine Safety and the Right Wing's Agenda."  Appalachian Heritage 24 (Spring): 5-9.

Orr, John W.  2001.  Set Up Running: The Life of a Pennsylvania Railroad Engineman, 1904-1949.  University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.  376 pp.

Outland, Robert B.  2004.  Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South [pine tar, pitch, turpentine; N.C., S.C., Ga.; 17th-20th centuries; forced labor].  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.  352 pp.

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Papa, Carrie, ed.  2004.  A Mile Deep and Black as Pitch: An Oral History of the Franklin and Sterling Hill Mines [Sussex Co., N.J.].  Blacksburg, Va.: McDonald & Woodward.  378 pp.

Parks, Richard.  2007.  “In Search of Western Pennsylvania’s Stone Iron Furnaces” [profiles of several of 135 still visible].  Western Pennsylvania History 90, no. 1 (Spring): 36-41.

Parrish, Charles E., and Leland R. Johnson.  1997.  “Engineering the Kentucky River: A Disastrous Debut” [Carrollton to Beattyville].  Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 95 (Autumn): 369-394.

Parrish, Charles E., and Leland R. Johnson.  1998.  “J. Stoddard Johnston Versus the Army Engineers on Canalization of the Kentucky River” [1880-1917; 14 dams; 255 miles].  Filson Club History Quarterly 72 (January): 3-23.

Patton, Randall L.  1997.  “‘A World of Opportunity . . . Within the Tufting Empire?’: Labor Relations in North Georgia’s Carpet Industry, 1960-1975.”  Georgia Historical Quarterly 81 (Summer): 426-451.

Patton, Randall L.  1998.  “Textile Organizing in a Sunbelt South Community: Northwest Georgia’s Carpet Industry in the Early 1960s” [Dalton, Ga.; TWUA failed campaign].  Labor History 39 (August): 291-309.

Patton, Randall L.  2002.  Shaw Industries: A History [dominant carpet mfr.; Dalton, Ga.; interviews]. University of Georgia Press.  217 pp.

Patton, Randall L., with David B. Parker.  1999.  Carpet Capital: The Rise of a New South Industry [tufted carpet industry; northwest Ga.].  Athens: University of Georgia Press.  341 pp.

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Peresie, Jennifer L.  1997.  “Crusader With a Camera: Lewis Hine and His Battle Against Child ‘Slavery’” [photographs; coal and textile industries].  Pennsylvania Heritage 23 (Summer): 4-13.

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Platania, Joseph.  1999.  “The Elusive Jarvis-Huntington: Early Automobiles of West Virginia” [1912; W.Va.-built].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 25 (Fall): 42-46.

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Rakes, Paul H.  2008.  “West Virginia Coal Mine Fatalities: The Subculture of Danger and a Statistical Overview of the Pre-enforcement Era” [graphs, 1897-1989].  West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, new series, 2, no. 1 (Spring): 1-26.

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Reece, Erik.  2005.  “Death of a Mountain: Radical Strip Mining and the Leveling of Appalachia” [mountaintop removal, Lost Mountain, Ky.; excerpt, forthcoming book].  Harper’s Magazine 310 (April): 41-60.

Reece, Erik.  2006.  “Harlan County Blues” [indicts industrial and government safety policies in recent Sago, W.Va, and Harlan Co., Ky., miner deaths; reissue of 1976 documentary “Harlan County U.S.A.”].  Nation, 17 July, 5-8.

Reece, Erik.  2006.  “Who Killed the Miners?” [W.Va.; January death toll numbers 16 at Sago and Alma mines].  Nation, 27 February, 5-8.

Reece, Erik.  2006.  Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia [mountaintop removal; Perry Co., Ky., 2003-2004].Foreword by Wendell Berry; photographs by John J. Cox.  New York: Riverhead Books.  250 pp.

Rees, Jonathan. 1997. “Homestead in Context: Andrew Carnegie and the Decline of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers” [1880-90s].  Pennsylvania History 64 (Autumn): 509-533.

Rees, Jonathan.  2004.  Managing the Mills: Labor Policy in the American Steel Industry during the Nonunion Era.  Lanham, Md.: University Press of America.  298 pp.

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Rhodes, Rick.  2008.  The Ohio River: In American History: Along with the Allegheny, Monongahela, Kanawha, Muskingum, Kentucky, Green and Wabash Rivers.  Photographs and sketches by Rick Rhodes; edited by Bill Byrnes.  St. Petersburg, Fla.: Heron Island Guides.  224 pp.   Abridged, updated version of 2007 edition.

Ribble, Rufus, George A. Bragg, Morgan G. Bragg, and Melody Bragg.  2005.  West Virginia Coalfield Photography 1900-2005: Panoramic Photography [500 historical images].  Beaver, W.Va.: GEM Publications.  184 pp.

Richards, John Stuart.  2002.  Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region [Pa.; pictorial retrospective].  Images of America.  Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia. 128 pp.

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Robertson, Scott.  2006.  “The Tennessee Valley Authority in the Twenty-First Century: It’s Not Easy Being Green” [power generation switch; table].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 22, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 27-29.

Roscigno, Vincent J., and William F. Danaher.  2004.  The Voice of Southern Labor: Radio, Music, and Textile Strikes, 1929-1934.  Social Movements, Protest, & Contention, vol. 19.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.  216 pp.  [cf. earlier studies: Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (1987), and Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike (1995)].

Rose, James D.  2001.  Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism.  The Working Class in American History.  Champaign: University of Illinois Press.  284 pp.

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Rotenstein, David S.  1997.  “Leather Bound: Nineteenth-Century Leather Tanners in Allegheny City.”  Pittsburgh History 80 (Spring): 32-47.

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Schust, Alex P., and David R. Goad.  2006.  Coalwood: A History of the West Virginia Mining Communities of Coalwood, Caretta, and Six [McDowell Co.].  Harwood, Md.: Two Mule Publishing Co.  394 pp.

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Shapiro, Karin A.  1998.  A New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896.  Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.  333 pp.

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Shnayerson, Michael.  2008.  Coal River.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  321 pp.   Southern W.Va. mountaintop removal mining; grassroots Coal River Mountain Watch v. Massey Energy’s CEO, Don Blankenship.

Shogan, Robert.  2004.  The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America’s Largest Labor Uprising [1921, W.Va. mine wars].  Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.  304 pp.

Silverman, Sharon Hernes.  1998.  “A Blast from the Past: Cornwall Iron Furnace” [18th-century National Historic Landmark; Lebanon Co., Pa.].  Pennsylvania Heritage 24 (Spring): 20-31.

Silverman, Sherman E.  2000.  “The Persistence of Mount Savage, Maryland: An Historical Geography” [coal and railroad town].  In A Geographic Perspective of Pittsburgh and the Alleghenies: From Precambrian to Post-Industrial, eds. K. Patrick and J. Scarpaci, 10-16.  Washington, D.C.: Association of American Geographers.

Silverman, Sherman E.  2000.  “Brownsville, PA., and Brockport, NY: A Contrast in Town Development as Influenced by Transportation” [19th century; Monongahela Valley, Pa.; Erie Canal, N.Y.].  Pennsylvania Geographer 38 (Spring/Summer): 57-93.

Simon, Bryant.  1998.  A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.  345 pp.

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Sleight-Brennan, Sandra.  2002.  “Appalachia’s Vanishing Mountains” [mountaintop removal overview].  Contemporary Review 281 (October): 232-235.

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Smith, Barbara.  1998.  “Glory Days for Grafton: Building the Tygart Dam” [Tygart River; 1934-1938].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Winter): 32-36.

Smith, Barbara.  1999.  “‘I Know Them All’: Monongah’s Faithful Father Briggs” [91-year-old patron of fallen miners at site of nation’s worst mine disaster in 1907].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 25 (Winter): 21-24.

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Solomon, Brian.  2008.  Railroads of Pennsylvania: Your Guide to Pennsylvania’s Historic Trains and Railway Sites.  St. Paul, Minn.: Voyageur Press.  160 pp.   Pt. 1: Anthracite Country; Pt. 3: Through the Mountains; map; color photos.

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Spadaro, Jack.  2007.  “Interview with Jack Spadaro: On Being a Whistleblower for Mine Safety and Health” [2003 demotion; Martin Co., Ky., slurry spill cover-up].  Interview by Annie Bryant, Phil Jamison, Carl Jenkins, Susan Pepper, and Leila Weinstein, with Patricia D. Beaver.   Appalachian Journal 34, nos. 3-4 (Spring/Summer): 326-350.

Spangler, Patricia.  2008.  The Hawks Nest Tunnel: An Unabridged History.  Proctorville, Oh.: Wythe-North Publishing.  264 pp.   Union Carbide Corporation; 1936; Gauley Mountain, W.Va.; Congressional investigation; interviews; media coverage; hundreds of African American worker deaths from silicosis.

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Stankowski, Edward F.  2004.  Memory of Steel [biography: Pittsburgh, 1980s steel industry collapse].  Lima, Ohio: Wyndham Hall Press.  122 pp.

Starnes, Richard D.  2003.  “Creating a ‘Variety Vacationland’: Tourism Development in North Carolina.”  In Southern Journeys: Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South, ed. R. Starnes, 138-153.  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

Starnes, Richard D.  2003.  “‘A Conspicuous Example of What is Termed the New South’: Tourism and Urban Development in Asheville, North Carolina, 1880-1925.”  North Carolina Historical Review 80 (January): 52-80.

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Stealey, John Edmund, III, ed.  2000.  Kanawhan Prelude to Nineteenth-Century Monopoly in the United States: The Virginia Salt Combinations [history of salt industry in Va. (W.Va.); reprints 19 documents of incorporation, 1817-1851].  Richmond: Virginia Historical Society.  133 pp.

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Stepenoff, Bonnie.  1999.  Their Father’s Daughters: Silk Mill Workers in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1880-1960.  Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press.   199 pp.

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Swope, Christopher.  2006.  “The Battles of Blair Mountain.”  Preservation 58, no. 3: 34-39.    Logan Co., W.Va.; anti-strip mining initiative; National Historic Landmark nomination, 2002.

Taft, Michael.  2004.  “George Korson: Pioneer Collector of Industrial Folklore” [1927-1967: Pa. coal miners; field recordings].  Folklife Center News (Library of Congress) 26, no. 1 (Winter): 6-8.   http://www.loc.gov/folklife/news/news-text-winter2004.html.

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Tedesco, Marie.  2006.  “Claiming Public Space, Asserting Class Identity, and Displaying Patriotism: The 1929 Rayon Workers’ Strike Parades in Elizabethton, Tennessee” [American Bemberg and American Glanzstoff plants].  Journal of Appalachian Studies 12, no. 2 (Fall): 55-87.

Teter, Betsy Wakefield, ed.  2002.  Textile Town: Spartanburg County, South Carolina [history, 1816 to present].  Spartanburg, S.C.: Hub City Writers Project.  346 pp.

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Turcott, Jean Whitford.  2000.  “‘The Vortex of Party Strife’: The Funding Debate and Construction of the New York and Erie Railroad, 1832-1851” [N.Y.’s southern tier Appalachian counties].  In Canal History and Technology Proceedings 19: 91-125.  Easton, Pa.: Canal History and Technology Press.

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Warren, Kenneth.  2001.  Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001 [Pa.].  Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.  405 pp.

Warren, Kenneth.  2001.  Wealth, Waste, and Alienation: Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry [Pa.].  Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.  297 pp.

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Withers, Bob.  2004.  “Grafton’s B&O Station: Revisiting a Railroad Treasure” [built 1911; railroad hub].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 30 (Fall): 10-15.

Withers, Bob.  2007.  “The Caboose Man: A Visit with Jim Mullins of Madison” [b. 1932; Chesapeake and Ohio Railway; builds small-scale replicas].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 33, no. 4 (Winter): 16-21.

Withers, Bob.  2007.  The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia [photo retrospective].  Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia.  127 pp.

Withers, Bob.  2008.  “The Cardinal and Its Rolling History Lesson.”  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 34, no. 4 (Winter): 24-31.   Amtrak train; New River Gorge.

Withers, Bob.  2008.  “The Duke of Prince: Ticket Agent Marvin Plumley.”  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 34, no. 4 (Winter): 32-37.   Fayette County, New River Gorge; 40-year railroad career.

Wolensky, Kenneth C.  2000.  “A Working Class Haven in the Pocono Mountains: Unity House -- ILGWU” [International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union].  In Canal History and Technology Proceedings 19: 69-90.  Easton, Pa.: Canal History and Technology Press.

Wolensky, Kenneth C.  2005.  “The No. 9 Mine and Wash Shanty Museum, Lansford, Pennsylvania” [interprets anthracite coal mining culture].  Pennsylvania History 72, no. 4 (Autumn): 531-534.

Wolensky, Kenneth C., and Robert P. Wolensky.  1999.  “Min Matheson and the Wyoming Valley District of the ILGWU” [organizing; International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union].  In Keystone of Democracy: A History of Pennsylvania Workers, eds. H. Harris, P. Blatz, 265-269.  Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Wolensky, Kenneth C., Nicole H. Wolensky, and Robert P. Wolensky.  2002.  Fighting for the Union Label: The Women’s Garment Industry and the ILGWU in Pennsylvania [International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union; deindustrialization of the anthracite region; Wyoming Valley Oral History Project].  University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.  275 pp.

Wolensky, Robert P.  1997.  “Those Men Killed Up at Knox” [1959 mine disaster; Luzerne Co., Pa.].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 14 (Winter): 17-19.

Wolensky, Robert P., and Kenneth C. Wolensky.  1998.  “Disaster — or Murder? — in the Mines” [1959; 12 die when flooding Susquehanna River pours into Luzerne Co., Pa. mine].  Pennsylvania Heritage 24 (Spring): 4-11.

Wolensky, Robert P., Kenneth C. Wolensky, and Nicole H. Wolensky.  2005.  Voices of the Knox Mine Disaster: Stories, Remembrances, and Reflections of the Anthracite Coal Industry’s Last Major Catastrophe, January 22, 1959.  Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.  268 pp.

Wolensky, Robert P., Kenneth C. Wolensky, and Nicole H. Wolensky. 1999.  The Knox Mine Disaster, January 22, 1959: The Final Years of the Northern Anthracite Industry and the Effort to Rebuild a Regional Economy.  Harrisburg, Pa.: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.  164 pp.

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Wolfe, Hugh, and Ed Wolfe.  2001.  Appalachian Coal Hauler: The Interstate Railroad’s Mine Runs and Coal Trains [photo-documentary].  Lynchburg, Va.: TLC Publishing.  160 pp.

Wolfe, Margaret Ripley.  1999.  “The Towns of King Coal” [company towns, 1890s to 1930s].  Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 97 (Spring): 189-201.

Wollman, David H., and Donald R. Inman.  1999.  Portraits in Steel: An Illustrated History of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation [Pittsburgh].  Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press.  331 pp.

Woodrum, Robert H.  2005.  “The Rebirth of the UMWA and Racial Anxiety in Alabama, 1933-1942” [murder of black coal miner Jack Bloodworth, 1942].  Alabama Review 58, no. 4 (October): 243-281.

Woomer, Warren.  2003.  “Institute Goes to War: The Buna-S Synthetic Rubber Story” [W.Va.; WWII].  In Great Kanawha Valley Chemical Heritage, Symposium Proceedings, May 3, 2003, Institute, West Virginia, comp. Lee R. Maddex, 49-64.  Morgantown, W.Va.: Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology.

Workers Champion Employee Ownership in Western North Carolina [Canton paper mill; Champion International].  Southern Exposure 27 (Summer): 11.

Workman, Michael E.  2000.  “The Kay Moor Mine, 1901-1962: A Case Study of Underground Mechanization in the Bituminous Coal Fields of Southern West Virginia.”  In Canal History and Technology Proceedings 19: 143-179.  Easton, Pa.: Canal History and Technology Press.

Worley, Howard V.  2006.  West Side Belt Railroad [1800-1928; history, photos, maps].  Pittsburgh Railroad History, no. 3 [The Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway and Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway are the first two books in this series].  Saxonburg, Pa.: Howdy Productions.  159 pp.

Wymard, Ellie.  2007.  Talking Steel Towns: The Men and Women of America’s Steel Valley [1892-1980s; interviews].  Pittsburgh, Pa.: Carnegie Mellon University Press.  96 pp.

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Zieger, Robert H.  1997.  “From Primordial Folk to Redundant Workers: Southern Textile Workers and Social Observers, 1920-1990.”  In Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995, ed. R. Zieger, 273-294.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Zipper, Carl.  2001.  “The Bush Energy Policy and Appalachia: Back to the Coal Mines?”  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 18 (Winter): 15-19.