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Coal Strip Mine in Southern Ilinois
Describes how coal is formed using a chart and great pictures.
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History Matters: Eyewitness to Murder: Recounting the Ludlow Massacre
An eyewitness account provided by an electrical engineer about the brutal Ludlow Massacre in which three women and eleven children were killed in a tent city in Ludlow, Colorado, during the height of the Colorado Coal Strike.
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United Mine Workers of America: Umwa History: The Ludlow Massacre
A brief history of the Ludlow Massacre in Colorado in 1914. Read about the thwarted attempts of coal miners to unionize.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Norbert Berkowitz
The transportation of coal through a pipeline was developed by Norbert Berkowitz. His biography and discovery are highlighted on this site by the Heritage Community Foundation.
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Kentucky Coal Education: Making Sedimentary Rocks [Pdf]
In this activity, students learn how sedimentary rocks form by making three different types.
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Kentucky Coal Education: Metamorphic Rock Activities [Pdf]
In these two activities, students learn about metamorphic rocks and how they are created.
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American Coal Foundation: Lesson Plan: Conserving Electric Energy
Lesson plan focuses on electricity use and energy consumption, while engaging students in a hands-on activity that helps them comprehend the effects of regulation and conserving energy resources.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The National Academies: Our Energy Sources: Fossil Fuels
An overview of fossil fuels used in the United States. Coal, oil and natural gas are listed with information about each energy source.
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Energy Resources Program
Find the latest research and publications on the subject of energy, in particular: oil, gas and coal resources.
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Asia Pacific Economics Blog: Mountaintop Removal Pros and Cons
Looks at the environmental and human impact of mountaintop coal mining, a practice which blasts the tops off mountains and distributes the displaced rocks and soils into the rivers and valleys below. The pros and cons of this type of...
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Mine Safety and Health Administration: Our Page for Kids
Site from the Mine Safety and Health Administration that aims at teaching children about mining, prospecting, mine safety, and what the human body needs from natural resources.
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Msha's Page for Kids: The Dirty Children
A report on the terrible conditions children had to face in the coal mines during the late 19th century.
Open Library of the Internet Archive
Open Library: Facing Death
This ebook version of G. A. Henty's Facing Death: Or, The Hero Of The Vaughan Pit; A Tale Of The Coal Mines. has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication,...
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Amdocs:ludlow Massacre, 1913: Song by Woody Guthrie
Read the words of a Woody Guthrie song giving an account of the Ludlow Massacre during the Colorado coal strikes in 1913.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: The Molly Maguires
Learn about the Molly Maguires, a secret society of Irish coal miners in Pennsylvania who led the 'Long Strike of 1875' which resulted in 20 members being unjustly hanged for murder.
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Coal Fields and Principal Industrial Centers and Ports of Great Britain, 1916
A map of Great Britain in 1916, showing the primary coal fields, centers of iron industry, ports, industrial centers, and steamship routes with distances between major ports shown.
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Web Gallery of Art: The Coal Workers
An image of "The Coal Workers", created by Claude Monet in 1875 (Oil on canvas, 53 x 64 cm).
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