Steven Stoll and Paul Salstrom are historians. Stoll wrote Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia (2017). Salstrom’s book Appalachia’s Alternative to Mainstream America is coming out in November 2021 from The University of Tennessee Press.
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Labor
100 Years Ago, Miners Carried Out the Largest Armed Labor Uprising in U.S. History
During the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, West Virginia workers fought for their rights in a bloody campaign to unionize the coal mines.
Paul Salstrom and Steven Stoll