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"A Story That Is to Them Unknown": Jim Green's Efforts to Bring the Mine Wars to a National Audience

"A Story That Is to Them Unknown": Jim Green's Efforts to Bring the Mine Wars to a National... “A Story That Is to Them Unknown”: Jim Green’s Efforts to Bring the Mine Wars to a National Audience Lou Martin ames R. Green spent several years researching and crafting the manu- J script that became The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom, which was published in 2015. In 2007, at a conference jointly organized by the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Southern Labor Studies Association at Duke University, he gave a presentation where he encouraged labor histo- rians to reach the broader public with their work. His book Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America had just been published the previous year, and he was excited by the level of interest it had generated and thought a lot about what had interested his readers, such as the book’s courtroom drama. I was lucky to be in the audience. As a graduate student I was glad to know that there were esteemed historians thinking about our role beyond the ivory tower. And afterward, my advisor Ken Fones-Wolf introduced me to Jim, who immediately asked http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies West Virginia University Press

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“A Story That Is to Them Unknown”: Jim Green’s Efforts to Bring the Mine Wars to a National Audience Lou Martin ames R. Green spent several years researching and crafting the manu- J script that became The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom, which was published in 2015. In 2007, at a conference jointly organized by the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Southern Labor Studies Association at Duke University, he gave a presentation where he encouraged labor histo- rians to reach the broader public with their work. His book Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America had just been published the previous year, and he was excited by the level of interest it had generated and thought a lot about what had interested his readers, such as the book’s courtroom drama. I was lucky to be in the audience. As a graduate student I was glad to know that there were esteemed historians thinking about our role beyond the ivory tower. And afterward, my advisor Ken Fones-Wolf introduced me to Jim, who immediately asked

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West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies – West Virginia University Press

Published: Oct 1, 2018

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