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Academic Articles
Welcome to our online library of scholarly articles that cover either the Battle of Blair Mountain specifically or about the issues that surrounded it. We have a few more links that we are dding content to, so stay tuned as we grow!
The Battle For Blair Mountain (2010)
Written by Brandon Nida and Michael Jesse Adkins
This peer-reviewed work discusses 1) the historical context of Blair Mountain, 2) initial analysis of archaeological findings, 3) current issues surrounding Blair Mountain, and 4) the potential for activist research to be used in contemporary social struggles.
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Internal Military Intervention in the United States (1995)
David Adams
Source: Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 32, No. 2 (May, 1995), pp. 197-211
Published by: Sage Publications, Ltd.
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Blair Mountain from the Other Side (1991)
Author: R. B. Adams
From The Goldenseal Book of the West Virginia Mine Wars
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Following the Color Line of Labor: Black Workers and the Labor Movement Before 1930 (1993)
Eric Arnesen
Radical History Review 1993(55):53-87
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Military Dictatorship in California and West Virginia (1913)
Author(s): Henry Winthrop Ballantine
Source: California Law Review, Vol. 1, No. 5 (Jul., 1913), pp. 413-426
Published by: California Law Review, Inc.
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Unionism and Productivity in West Virginia Coal Mining (1990)
Author(s): William M. Boal
Source: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 43, No. 4 (Apr., 1990), pp. 390-405
Published by: Cornell University, School of Industrial & Labor Relations
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Testing for Employer Monopsony in Turn-of-the-Century Coal Mining (1995)
Author(s): William M. Boal
Source: The RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 519-536
Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The RAND Corporation
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Privileges of Labor Unions in the Struggle for Life (1918)
Author(s): Walter Wheeler Cook
Source: The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 27, No. 6 (Apr., 1918), pp. 779-801
Published by: The Yale Law Journal Company, Inc.
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Betrayal in the West Virginia Coal Fields – Eugene V. Debs and the Socialist Party of America (1978)
Author: David Alan Corbin
Source: The Journal of American History. Vol. 64, No. 4, (Mar. 1978), pp 987-1009
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Segregation in Job Hierarchies: West Virginia Coal Mining, 1906-1932 (1984)
Author(s): Price Fishback
Source: The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Sep., 1984), pp. 755-774
Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Economic History Association
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The Economics of Company Housing: Historical Perspectives from the Coal Fields (1992)
Author(s): Price V. Fishback
Source: Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Apr., 1992), pp. 346-365
Published by: Oxford University Press
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An Alternative View of Violence in Labor Disputes in the Early 1900s The Bituminous Coal Industry, 1890-1930
Author: Price V. Fishback
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The Don Chafin Era (1991)
Author: Russel Fogelsong
From The Goldenseal Book of the West Virginia Mine Wars
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“I Thought Things Would Be Different There”: Lynching and the Black Community in Southern West Virginia, 1880-1933 (2007)
Tim Konhaus
West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, New Series,
Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 2007, pp. 25-43
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The Negro Miner in West Virginia (1936)
Author(s): James T. Laing
Source: Social Forces, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Mar., 1936), pp. 416-422
Published by: University of North Carolina Press
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Civil War in West Virginia
(1921)
Lane, Winthrop
This book is written by a noted journalist of the day who spent quite a bit of time in the coalfields covering the industrial conflicts there. It is a class work, and an artifact in itself in that an eyewitness to the event wrote it as it was occurring. You can download the high-quality PDF below, or click here to buy the book.
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The United States Army and the Return to Normalcy in Labor Dispute Interventions: The Case of the West Virginia Coal Mine Wars, 1920-1921 (1991)
Laurie, Clayton D.
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From Peasant to Proletarian: The Migration of Southern Blacks to the Central Appalachian Coalfields (1989)
Author(s): Ronald L. Lewis
Source: The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Feb., 1989), pp. 77-102Published by: Southern Historical Association
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Appalachian Restructuring in Historical Perspective: Coal, Culture, and Social Change in West Virginia (1992)
Ronald L. Lewis
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The Red Neck War of 1921: The Miners’ March and The Battle of Blair Mountain (1991)
Author: Michael Meador
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The Siege of Crooked Creek Gap (1991)
Author: Michael Meador
From The Goldenseal Book of the West Virginia Mine Wars
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William C. Blizzard Interview
Interviewer: Beth Nogay
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The Negro and the United Mine Workers of America (1943)
Author(s): Herbert R. Northrup
Source: Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 9. No. 4 (Apr. 1943), pp. 313-326
Published by: Southern Economic Association
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The Mine War of West Virginia (1922)
BY H. L. PORTER, B. E. M. ’22
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West Virginia Coal Mine Fatalities: The Subculture of Danger and a Statistical Overview of the Pre-enforcement Era (2008)
Rakes, Paul H.
West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies
New Series, Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2008
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The Gilded Age and Working-Class Industrial Communities (2006)
Paul A. Shackel and Mathew M. Palus
American Anthropologist, Vol. 108, Issue 4, pp. 828–841
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The Political Economy of Demoralization: The State and the Coalmining Industry in America and Britain between the Wars (1988)
Author(s): Barry Supple
Source: The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Nov., 1988), pp. 566-591
Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the Economic History Society
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Violence in American Labor Disputes (1966)
Philip Taft
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 1966 364: 127
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African-American Strikebreaking from the Civil War to the New Deal (1993)
Author(s): Warren C. Whatley
Source: Social Science History, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Winter, 1993), pp. 525-558
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Mountaineer Mine Wars: An Analysis of the West Virginia Mine Wars of 1912-1913 and 1920-1921 (1976)
Author(s): Hoyt N. Wheeler
Source: The Business History Review, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Spring, 1976), pp.69-91
Published by: The President and Fellows of Harvard College
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History of Labor and West Virginia Politics (2008)
Wilson, Michael K.
West Virginia Historical Society
Volume XXII, No. 2, April 2008
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DISSERTATIONS
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Faith, Power, and Conflict: Miner Preachers and the United Mine Workers of America in the Harlan County Mine Wars, 1931-1939 (2006)
Carletta A. Bush
Dissertation submitted to the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences At West Virginia University , In partial fulfillment of the requirements For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
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Law and Property in the Mountains: A political Economy of Resource Land in the Appalachian Coalfields (2008)
Johanna Marie Haas, J.D.
DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for
The Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University
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Acceptable Casualties: Power, Culture, and History in the West Virginia Coalfields, 1900-1945
Paul H. Rakes
Dissertation submitted to the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
in History