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“Children of the Coal Shadow” – A haunting report about the children of the Coal Region from 1903

A gripping, harrowing story documents the lives and struggles of Coal Region children shortly after the Great Coal Strike of 1902.

A women reporter documents the lives and struggles of working class women on the outskirts of Hazleton in 1900.

This dispatch from the 1902 Coal Strike eloquently describes the battle lines as the strike entered its pivotal fifth month.

Rev. John Hensyl spoke to a packed crowd in Shenandoah's Presbyterian Church about poverty on Thanksgiving Day 1902.

On the eve of the 1902 Coal Strike, the communities of Lykens and Wiconisco were ripped by tension as residents awaited news.

An introduction to a Wynning History series about the 1902 Coal Strike in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania.

A New York Times reporter's observations about the Schuylkill County mining village of Heckscherville in 1863.

In the spring of 1863, a journalist documented the chaotic and changing situation in the Coal Region as the Civil War raged on.

"We are men and all we ask is to be treated as such," wrote the miners in a public letter published during their 1886 strike.

The leader of the United Mine Workers of America addressed the miners of the Coal Region on May 10, 1902.