United States Climate Action Partnership, "A Call for Action" 2007
Johnny Cash, "Sixteen Tons," Music Video
Child Labor, Pennsylvania Coal Mines (gallery)
Blank Coal Labor Contract, 1920s
Arthur Kilgore Mine Scrip Collection
Trends in US Coal Production
Life in the Coalfield
Charles Cist Compares Cincinnati and Pittsburgh in 1841.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on steam and coal, 1860.
W. Stanley Jevons, "The Coal Question," 1865.
Lehigh Canal, 1873
William Dean Howells describes the Corliss steam engine, American Centennial Exhibition, 1876.
Allan Pinkerton, "The Mollie Maguires and the Detectives," 1877.
J. O. Davidson, “Interior of a Southern Cotton Press by Night” Harper’s Weekly, 1883.
Letter on Company Stores from M. F. Moran to Edward Robertson, Labor Commissioner, 1890
Orville H. Platt, “Invention and Advancement,” 1891.
Rev. John McDowell, "Life of a Coal Miner," 1902
Eugene Debs remembers the Molly Maguires, 1907.
Coal miners working inside the mine, 1908 (gallery)
Stonega Coal Mines and Company Camp, 1915-1930 (gallery)
Statement of Mr. J. P. Luterancik before the House Committee on Labor, April 1922
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "A Suggestion for Legislation to Create the Tennessee Valley Authority," 1933.
Two Letters to the United Mine Workers Journal
John D. Battle, Executive Secretary of the National Coal Association, Statement on Tennessee Valley Authority, 1935.
Tennessee Ernie Ford, "Sixteen Tons," (The Dinah Shore Show - 1956)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan letter to John Ehrlichman regarding carbon dioxide and climate change, 1969.
Prepared Statement of Donald L. Rasmussen, MD (Chief Pulmonary Section, Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital), and “Cigarette Smoke Worse Than Coal Dust"
The Effects of Coal Mining, Visualized: Environmental Damage
The Effects of Coal Mining, Visualized: Scope and Tools
The Effects of Coal Mining, Visualized: Social
Ronald Reagan Republican National Convention Acceptance Speech (excerpt), July 17, 1980
“‘Last Resort’ Offers Dubious Delights: Kentuckians Fight for Safe Water,” by Jerry Hardt, Mountain Life & Work, November 1983
Interview with James L. Rose
Interview with Clyde E. Goins
Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky, Summary of Major Case Activities and Litigation, 1987-1989
Coal Fields of the Conterminous United States
EPA, "Meeting Community Needs, Protecting Human Health and the Environment: Active and Passive Recreational Opportunities at Abandoned Mine Lands,” undated, circa 2001 or 2002
Interview with Carl Ray Burgess
Robert E. Murray to Michael R. Pence, "Action Plan for the Administration of Donald J. Trump," March 1, 2017
Miners with Black Lung, 1970s (gallery)
"Renewable Energy = Living Cleaner," Con Edison Advertisement, 2020