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Exploring the history of Pennsylvania’s Coal Region

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Letters from War: Irvin Schwartz’s World War II correspondence with the West Schuylkill Press-Herald

A Schuylkill County native’s letters from the Second World War.

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Recent Posts

  • The completion of Williamstown Tunnel – 1873
  • A letter from General James Gavin to a friend in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania – 1943
  • A visit to the Coal Region in the summer of 1873 – The Atlantic Magazine
  • “Destination Unknown” – An upsetting photograph and an American war relief effort in 1940
  • Ukrainian Relief Day in Schuylkill County in 1917 and where you can donate today
  • “In the Depths of a Coal Mine” – Stephen Crane’s 1894 visit to Pennsylvania’s Coal Region

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