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July, 2008
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BOOK REVIEWS

Stories from the Mines. By Thomas M. Currá and Greg Matkosky (Scranton, PA: University of Scranton Press, 2007. 82 pp. Illustrations. $25.)
      Stories from the Mines is a companion text to a documentary film of the same name produced and directed by Greg Matkosky and Thomas M. Currá. The film and the book commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902. A brief history of the Pennsylvania anthracite region—with extended treatment of the 1902 strike and the establishment of the Anthracite Coal Commission as part of the bargain to end the strike—is provided along with scores of photographs, other graphics, and a useful time line that runs through the book along the margins of its right-hand pages. Stories from the Mines is intended for a popular audience; the text without footnotes is based on secondary sources and will be of little service to scholars. As a contribution to public history, the book has questionable value as well. . . .
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