LibGuides: Appalachian Studies: Coal Mining History and Culture

Coal Mining History and Culture

Appalachia's last stand : the Appalachian mountains must not be sacrificed for cheap energy by Delilah F. O'Haynes
Call Number: TN291 .A67 2009 (Lees Kentucky Appalachian Collection)
Appalachian coal mines & railroads by Dixon, Thomas W.
Call Number: HE2321.C6 A64 1994
Available at Lees College Kentucky Appalachian Collection
Coal country : rising up against mountaintop removal mining by Shirley Stewart Burns, Mari-Lynn Evans, and Silas House
Call Number: TD195.C58 C614 2009 (Hazard and Lees Kentucky Appalachian Collection)
Coal towns : life, work, and culture in company towns of southern Appalachia, 1880-1960 by Shifflett, Crandall A.
Call Number: F217.A65 S54
Available at Hazard and Lees Appalachian Studies Collection
Coaltown revisited; an Appalachian notebook. by Peterson, Bill
Call Number: Hazard: HD8039.M62 U6495 -- Lees: 331.768 P485c
Available at Hazard and Lees Appalachian Studies Collection
Extracting Appalachia : images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910/1945 by Buckley, Geoffrey L.
Call Number: TN805.Z6 B83
Available at Hazard and Lees Appalachian Studies Collection
Images of Appalachian coalfields by Levy, Builder
Call Number: Hazard: HD8039.M62 U6437 -- Lees: 338.7 L668i
Available at Hazard and Lees Appalachian Studies Collection
My land is dying by Caudill, Harry M.
Call Number: TN291 .C37 1971
Available at Hazard and Lees Appalachian Studies Collection
Plundering Appalachia : the tragedy of mountaintop-removal coal mining by Tom Butler & George Wuerthner, editors
Call Number: TD195.C58 P58 2009 (Hazard and Lees Kentucky Appalachian Collection)
Something's rising : Appalachians fighting mountaintop removal by Silas House and Jason Howard
Call Number: TD195.C58 H68 2009 (Hazard and Lees Kentucky Appalachian Collection)
Pittston mentality: Manslaughter on Buffalo Creek by Bethell, Thomas N.
Call Number: 363.3 B562p
Available at Lees College Kentucky Appalachian Collection
Watches of the night by Caudill, Harry M
Call Number: Hazard: HC107.K4 C33 -- Lees: 309.17691 C371w
Available at Hazard and Lees Appalachian Studies Collection
West Virginia mine wars : an anthology by edited by David Alan Corbin
Call Number: Hazard: HD5325.M615 W47 1990 -- Lees: 331.8928 W521w
Available at Hazard and Lees Appalachian Studies Collection
Women in the mines : stories of life and work by Marat Moore
Call Number: HD6073.M6152 U65 1996 (Hazard and Lees Kentucky Appalachian Collection)
Women of coal by Randall Norris, Jean-Philippe Cypres
Call Number: HD6073.M6152 U66 1996 (Hazard and Lees Kentucky Appalachian Collection)
To Save the Land and People by Chad Montrie
Call Number: Hazard CTC - Hazard Campus - Kentucky Appalachian Coll.Hazard CTC - Hazard Campus - Kentucky Appalachian Collection TD195.S75 M56 2003
To Save the Land and People chronicles the story of surface mining opposition in the whole region, from Pennsylvania to Alabama.

Videos

Black diamonds : mountaintop removal & the fight for coalfield justice by Catherine Pancake
Call Number: TN 23.2 B553 2006 (Hazard AV)
http://www.blackdiamondsmovie.com/aboutblackdiamonds.html
Justice in the coalfields by Anne Lewis
Call Number: HD5325.M63 1989 .W4 1995 (Hazard AV)
http://appalshop.org/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=194
Bonecrusher by Produced and Directed by Michael F. Fountain
Call Number: F217.A65 B66 2009 (Hazard AV)
Deep down : a story from the heart of coal country by Jen Gilomen and Sally Rubin
Call Number: HD9547.A67 D44 2010x (Less AV)

Web Resources

Coal Controversy in Appalachia (NASA)
A perspective on the effects of coal mining from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration