Western Maryland Coal Talks: Podcasts

Episode #34 of Lisa Cole's regional podcast, Wildfulness, which focuses on understanding the culture of coal and it’s impact on Western Maryland.

Episode #35 of Lisa Cole's regional podcast, Wildfulness, which features guest author and historian Jim Rada. They discuss how western Maryland put up a fight during their decline.

Coal mine owner Andrew Jordon and environmental attorney Joe Lovett grew up together in Charleston, but have taken two completely different, even adversarial, paths in life. On this episode of Inside Appalachia, you'll hear “Two Tales of Coal” from the Us & Them Podcast.

Go inside the coal miners' bitter battle for dignity at the dawn of the 20th century with The Mine Wars. The struggle over the material that fueled America led to the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War and turned parts of West Virginia into a bloody war zone. Premiered on American Experience PBS on January 26, 2016.

Host Jeff Young talks with historian Chuck Keeney about his new book, "The Road to Blair Mountain," which tells the story of the effort to save the site of a bloody fight in the region's mine wars a century ago. Not only was this chapter in labor history deliberately suppressed, the mountain itself was nearly destroyed by coal mining. And we hear from a retired coal miner who now volunteers his time at a museum dedicated to reviving Appalachia's labor history.