B & O Railroad Strike at Martinsburg, 1877
West Virginia's Mine Wars
Use of State Militia to Put Down Hawks Nest Coal Strike
Creation of UMW District 17
"Kanawha's Miners Organize and Demand an Advance to the Columbus Scale"
Letter From M. F. Moran to Edward Robertson, Labor Commissioner
Telegram on Wheeling Labor Conference
"United Labor of the United States Appeals to the Country to Assist the Miners in Their Struggle"
"The Debs Meeting Was A Monster"
Articles on the Tyler Window Glass Company Strike
"A Temptation to Lawlessness: Peonage in West Virginia, 1903-1908"
Special Message of Governor Dawson Concerning Cases of Peonage and Labor Conditions
"Twenty-Three Peonage Indictments Are Reported"
"Riot and Bloodshed on the City Streets" (Grafton Riot)
"Machinists Explain Their Side of the Riot of Saturday Night" (Grafton Riot)
"Barrett and Handley Held for Their Appearance Before Next Grand Jury" (Grafton Riot)
"Labor's Blue-Eyed Angel, Part One"
"Labor's Blue-Eyed Angel, Part Two"
Labor Leader Mother Jones Arrested
"'Mother Jones' Will Tell 'Em When and Where To Use Arms"
"'Mother' Jones Under Arrest"
"'Mother' Jones Arrested in City"
Sources on Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
Sources on the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike
The Bull Moose Special: Testimony of Maud Estep
The Bull Moose Special: Testimony of Bonner Hill
The Bull Moose Special: Testimony of Quinn Morton
"Committee Condemns W. Va. Mine Owners: Debs, Germer and Berger Report"
"Eugene V. Debs in West Virginia, 1913: A Reappraisal"
"Debs's Visit Challenged in Historical Interpretation"
"Star's Plant Destroyed and Its Staff Sent to Jail"
"Socialist Paper Confisacted [sic] And Five Men Arrested"
"Socialists Taken To State Capital By Guard Officers"
Testimony of W. H. Thompson and Wife Before a Subcommittee of the United States Senate
Governor Henry Hatfield Dictates End to Coal Strike
"The Death of Constable Riggs: Ethnic Conflict in Marion County in the World War I Era"
Birth of Labor Leader Fred Mooney
Retirement of UMW President John L. Lewis
"Red Men and Red Necks: The Fraternal Lodge in the Coal Fields"
"World War One and the Miners of Southern West Virginia"
"Medals For Coal Miners"
Legislative Act Prohibiting and Regulating the Employment of Minors
Comments of State Senator Elmer Hough on Child Labor Law
"'West Virginia Did The Impossible': Our New Child Labor Law"
Extract from Fifteenth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor of West Virginia, 1919-1920
"Child Labor in West Virginia"
"Mere Military Color: The State Police and Martial Law"
Matewan Massacre
Three Days Battle of the Tug
Sid Hatfield's Murder Trial
"The United States Army and the Return to Normalcy in Labor Dispute Interventions: The Case of the West Virginia Coal Mine Wars, 1920-1921"
Battle of Blair Mountain
Transcripts of Interviews for Even the Heavens Weep
Sources on Miscellaneous Coal Conflicts
"Conflict at Coal River Collieries: The UMWA vs. the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers"
"The Scotts Run Coalfield from the Great War to the Great Depression: A Study in Overdevelopment"
Sources on the Cliftonville Riot
"Three Big Mines In Local Region To Resume Operations" (Women Pickets at Owings Mine)
"Pickets Quiet at Consol Mines" (Women Pickets at Owings Mine)
"Lawyer Explains New Union Plan For Operating Coal Mines In Local Region" (Women Pickets at Owings Mine)
"Coal Miners and Their Communities in Southern Appalachia, 1925-1941, Part One"
"Coal Miners and Their Communities in Southern Appalachia, 1925-1941, Part Two"
"Strategies for Survival: Women's Work in the Southern West Virginia Coal Camps"
Widen Strike, 1952-53
Perfection Garment Company Strike, Martinsburg, 1953
Life of State AFL-CIO President Miles Stanley
Governor Hulett Smith Proposes Strip Mining Reforms
The Black Lung Strike
"Mines Are Idled Over 'Black Lung'"
"Coal Miners Sound Call of 'No Law, No Work'"
Proposed Black Lung Legislation
Report of the Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board
UMW Presidential Election
President Nixon Signs the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act
Governor Arch Moore Negotiates the End of a National Coal Strike
Mine Health and Safety Academy
"Life underground is improving for women miners with jobs"
"UMW officers encourage women" (Women Miners)
"Maternity/paternity leave to be key issue in talks" (Women Miners)
Pittston Coal Strike Ends
William Blizzard
Arnold Miller
Walter Reuther

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