Curated OER
Miners of the Prairie: The Days of Shaft Mining in Northern Illinois
Students explore the life and times of a coal miner in Illinois through the analysis of primary source documents and images.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Biography of America: Capital and Labor
This thirty-minute video, the seventeenth in a series on American history, examines the rocky relationship between labor, management, and industry from 1882 to 1901. You can also read the transcript, find a map of the Anthracite Strike,...
Other
American Coal Foundation: Lesson Plan: History of Coal in the u.s.
Students will learn about the history of coal mining in the United States by examining a timeline of key dates. For this two-part lesson, they will do research to discover why the coal industry is important to the economy and what types...
Other
Economic History Services: The Us Coal Industry in the Nineteenth Century
A look at the coal industry in the United States across the entire nineteenth century. Halfway through the page there is information about the advent of unions to represent the coal miners doing such a dangerous job.
Energy for Sustainable Development
Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Timelines: Coal
A short history of developments in the coal industry.