The Mine Wars |
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West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in.
The Mine Wars |
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What was it like to live in a company town and work in the mines? Explore photos that help tell the story.
The Mine Wars |
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Women in the early 1900s were barred from working underground in the coal mines, but their work above ground was integral to the coal camp system.
The Mine Wars |
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The daughter of an Italian immigrant who found work in the coal mines, Jean Battlo discusses her parents' stuggle to raise a family under tough conditions.
The Mine Wars |
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A coal miner and long-time West Virginia resident reflects on his time working in the mines, and his family's life in a company town.
The Mine Wars |
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Scholars discuss violence, militancy, and political struggle at the time of Mother Jones and the miners' unionization movement.
Edison |
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Thomas Edison achieved glory as the genius behind such revolutionary inventions as sound recording, motion pictures, and electric light.
Edison |
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Watch Chapter 1 of Edison.
Edison |
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With over a thousand U.S. patents to his name, Edison's famous breakthroughs are just the beginning.
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In the fall of 1922, a film crew came to West Orange, New Jersey to document Thomas Edison going about his day.
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Edison's short, silent film of famous gunslinger Annie Oakley, “Little Sureshot,” proved his kinetograph was a success.
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Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated his new invention, the telephone, at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park.
