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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.

Irvin Schwartz looked forward to 1944 as being the year that he hoped would see the end of World War II.

A look at the perspectives of the mine workers of far western Schuylkill County as the 1902 coal strike began.

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.