Lost Coal Country of Northeastern Pennsylvania documents the region's disappearing anthracite history, which shaped
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By the mid-1930s, Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal industry was facing a steady decline. Mining areas such as the Wyoming
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Examining the anthracite coal trade's emergence and legacy in the five counties that constituted the core of the in
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If the railroads won the Gilded Age, the coal industry lost it. Railroads epitomized modern management, high technology,
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Synthesizing the tensions between high and low politics and eastern and western regions in Pennsylvania before the Revol
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In many respects early Pennsylvania was the prototype of North American development. Its conservative defense of liberal
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During the Civil War, there were throughout the Union explosions of resistance to the war -from the deadly Draft Riots i
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Presents the story of life in a coal-mining community with the goal of enriching our understanding of community processe
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“A haunting book of rare courage.” —Clarissa Ward, CNN chief international correspondent and author of On All Fronts
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