March 24, 2024By Jonah Walters Los Angeles Review of Books March 21, 2024 The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized…- December 2, 2023By Lou Martin Journal of Appalachian Studies 29.2 In The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry,…
November 24, 2023By Mitch Troutman The Baffler November 14th, 2023 New York makes its waste Pennsylvania’s problem They were up there grinning,…- August 24, 2023By Mitchell K. Jones Midwestern Marx July 6th, 2023 Modern "Coal Bootleggers" in Schuylkill County". Postcard circa 1945. A bootleg…
- August 13, 2023Hundreds of angry miners crowded around the machine, several attacking it with hammers and axes. Finally, fifteen sticks of dynamite…
- August 2, 2023By Matt Witt World Wide Work July 2023 The Bootleg Coal Rebellion by Mitch Troutman (PM Press). Based on interviews…
- June 6, 2023The radical history of the Pennsylvania coal region is the subject of a new book ‘The Bootleg Coal Rebellion.’ By…
- May 20, 2023By Andrew Andrews True Review My parents grew up in what sounded to me, when we visited, like “the cold…
- February 20, 2023By Andrew Andrews True Review My parents grew up in what sounded to me, when we visited, like “the cold…
October 28, 2022By Mitch Troutman Bootleg coal towns had makeshift alert systems. When the coal companies moved against the bootleg miners, some…
October 24, 2022Told with great intimacy and compassion, Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925-1942 (PM Press, 2022)…
October 17, 2022By Mitch Troutman The bootleggers weren’t the only ones reclaiming company coal for their own. For a century or better,…
