Jake Wynn

The Jewish communities of Northeastern Pennsylvania had come, like so many others to the Coal Region, in waves. They arrived from the German states in...

“Like a fly in a bowl of milk, I endured those years without any notable traumas induced by my blackness. ” Charles H.

By the 1920s, Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region was already living with the consequences of decisions made far from its towns and patch villages....

In the spring of 1855, school officials in Pottsville gathered to debate a question that has echoed across centuries: how to protect their community...

On October 28, 1929, a mining engineer from the Susquehanna Collieries Company stood before the Shamokin Rotary Club in Shamokin and painted a rosy...

A crashing thunderstorm rolled across Schuylkill County on the morning of July 4, 1855. It was Independence Day in the coal capital of northeastern...

In October 1862, Irish mineworkers in the rural coal mining villages of western Schuylkill County rose up in armed opposition to Pennsylvania’s first...