When Miners March

By Kari LydersenIn These Times As politicians and protesters hash out perhaps the very future of our planet at the…

By Michael Klinewvgazette.comNovember 30, 2011 CHARLESTON, W.Va. —I am amazed after visiting the State Museum at the Culture Center for…

By Steve FesenmaierThe Charleston GazetteMay 26, 2010 In the history of WV, there are few books that can compare to…

By Lawrence MessinaThe Associated PressJune 5, 2010 CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A slim, steel object resembling a rusty bayonet juts out of…

By Clancy Sigal guardian.co.uk November 11, 2011 Ninety years on, the coal seams of West Virginia are a battlefield once…

By Bill KovarikAppalachian VoicesOctober 2013 It has been 50 years since Harry Caudill wrote “Night Comes to the Cumberlands,” a…

Struggle and Lose, Struggle and Win! By Ron JacobsCounterpunch Imagine yourself in a tavern or diner somewhere near Blair Mountain…

By Kari LydersenIn These Times As politicians and protesters hash out perhaps the very future of our planet at the…

By Theresa L. BurrissAppalachian HeritageSummer 2011 The recording and telling of history have proven to be troublesome for the critically-minded…

By Peter SlavinAppalachian Journal: A Regional Studies ReviewVOLUME 39, NOS. 3 & 4 (SPR/SUMMER 2012) Few significant episodes in American…