“These haunting images, with well-researched facts, figures and timelines providing context, bring the bygone era of 20th-century coal mining to life.”—Fa

Mining disasters attracted the attention of the public and the press during the twentieth century, just as they had done a few generations earlier. This interes

Death Underground: The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters examines two of the most devastating coal mine disasters in United States history since 1928.

Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, worked in those factories. What is perhaps less well known is that women also

It is now over half a century since the last coalmining disaster to affect the lives and families of people living and working on what became known as the Great