The following articles and essays discuss the lives and hardships of coal miners and their families in Western Pennsylvania. Many of these articles and essays were written by Dr. James Dougherty, Dr. Irwin Marcus, and Eileen Mountjoy.
Bituminous Coal Mining Life in Western Pennsylvania
- by Dr. Irwin M. Marcus, Professor Emeritus, 亚色影库 History Department
- by Dr. James P. Dougherty,亚色影库 Sociology Department
- by Dr. Irwin M. Marcus
- Unveiling of marker recalls mine disaster that killed 44 at Clymer No. 1 by Eileen Mountjoy
- Clymer Looking Back by Eileen Mountjoy
- The Coal Strike of 1919 in Indiana County and its Aftermath by Dr. Irwin Marcus, Eileen Mountjoy, and Beth O'Leary
- The CBC Community of Commodore: A New Kind of Coal Town by Eileen Mountjoy. Built in 1919, Commodore was the last company town built in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
- . A book about the experience of women in coal mining towns by Pamela Seighman and Elaine DeFrank of the Coal and Coke Heritage Center, Penn State University Fayette, Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
- by Dr. Theresa McDevitt, 亚色影库 Libraries. This article talks about the African American baseball team in the coal company town of Ernest, Pennsylvania.
- The Ernest Mine Disaster of 1916 by Eileen Mountjoy
- The Ernest Mining Plant by Eileen Mountjoy
- Ernest: Life in a Mining Town by Eileen Mountjoy
- by Dr. James P. Dougherty
- Fiddlin' Joe Yesolivich by Eileen Mountjoy
- by Dr. Irwin M. Marcus
- History of Coke by Eileen Mountjoy. Talks about how coke was made from bituminous coal for use by the steel industry in Johnstown and Pittsburgh.
- The Company Town of Iselin by Eileen Mountjoy
- The Iselin Family by Eileen Mountjoy
- by Dr. Irwin M. Marcus
- by Ron Zuzemchak
- Judge Jonathan Langham by Dr. Irwin M. Marcus, Dr. James P. Dougherty, and Eileen Mountjoy
- by Margaret M. Mulrooney, Historic American Buildings Survey & Historic American Engineering Record, America's Industrial Heritage Project
- by Eileen Mountjoy. Born in Bakerton, in Cambria County, in 1913, Archie George (Francis A. George) narrated this story in 1977 shortly before his death.
- by Dr. Irwin M. Marcus
- The Company Town of Lucerne by Eileen Mountjoy
- Lucius Waterman Robinsom: A Dominating Figure by Eileen Mountjoy
- Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, (1837-1930): American labor and community organizer, member of the Industrial Workers of the World, and prominent socialist.
- , by Susan Ferrandiz
- Mining Injuries and Fatalities in Berwind-White Coal Mining Company Mines
- by Dr. James P. Dougherty
- Remembering the 1906 Strike for Union in Windber, Pennsylvania selected readings compiled by Mildred Allen Beik (see Manuscript Group 127)
- The Company Town of Sagamore by Eileen Mountjoy
- in 1924 by Herb Gleditsch
- Spraggers, Sunshine Lamps: Now Part of Industry's Past by Eileen Mountjoy
- (audio presentation) by Dr. Irwin M. Marcus
- That Magnificent Fight For Unionism by Eileen Mountjoy
- UMWA Marker Honors Mine Workers by Eileen Mountjoy
- To Organize the Unorganized by Eileen Mountjoy
- The Company Town of Whiskey Run by Eileen Mountjoy
- by Dr. Irwin M. Marcus
- The Windber Miners' Strike for Union, 1922-1923 - coal miners went on strike in Windber, Pennsylvania.
- A Woman's Day: Work and Worry by Eileen Mountjoy