Appalachia 

 

https://www.arc.gov/appalachian_region/theappalachianregion.asp

 

https://www.appalachianwild.org

 

 

Greenbrier Valley, WV

 

https://greenbrierwv.com/about-gbv/history

 

 

Coal Mining History

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK531861/

 

https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1349

 

https://www.wvminewars.com/history

 

 

Significant Coal Disasters 

 

https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/13/us/u-s-mine-disasters-fast-facts/index.html

 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/forgotten-matewan-massacre-was-epicenter-20th-century-mine-wars-180963026/

 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-1897-massacre-pennsylvania-coal-miners-morphed-galvanizing-crisis-forgotten-history-180971695/

 

 

Coal Mining Canaries

 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/story-real-canary-coal-mine-180961570/

 

 

Mining Hats and Lamps

 

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/mining-lights-and-hats

 

 

Black lung

 

https://www.lung.org/lung-health-and-diseases/lung-disease-lookup/pneumoconiosis/

 

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/discovering-epidemic-severe-black-lung-disease-appalachia/