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  • Recent Publications
  • Harold M. Forbes

The following is a selected list of books, dissertations, theses, and articles about West Virginia's history. Most were published during 2007, but the list includes 2006 publications not found in last year's listing. The wide variety of topics and the assorted approaches to historical documentation reflected in this bibliography indicate that interest in West Virginia's history is strong.

My intent has been to assemble a bibliography of readily accessible works that expand the availability of primary documentation for the study of the state's heritage and that provide insights into West Virginia's past and present. I have included compilations of previously unpublished photographs that have become popular methods of presenting and preserving the history of a locality or an organization. Excluded are books and journals about family and local history, which the state's many genealogical and historical societies publish, as well as most of the numerous works of biography and autobiography, found in a multitude of books, local history journals, and Goldenseal. If you are aware of any pertinent recent publication not listed here, please bring it to my attention.

Correspondence to Harold M. Forbes, West Virginia and Regional History Collection, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, WV 26506-6069.99
Adkins, Leonard M. West Virginia: An Explorer's Guide. Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 2007. 536 pp. Historically informative guide for travelers.

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Anderson, Carol. Pictorial History of Cameron, West Virginia. [Cameron?]: Carol Anderson, 2007. [122] pp. Marshall County.

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Anderson, Robert E. Civil War Recollections: General Joseph A. J. Lightburn, One of Lincoln's Best: A Tribute, An Amazing Account of This Unsung, Civil War Hero. N.p., 2007. 87 pp. Lightburn lived in Lewis County.

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Battlo, Jean. Terror of the Tug: The Battle of Matewan/the McDowell Murders: Fact and Fiction on the Coal Mining Conflicts in Southern West Virginia, 1920-21. Kimball, WV: McArts Publication, 2006. 177 pp. [End Page 99]

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Beamer, Glenn. "Sustaining the Rust Belt: A Retrospective Analysis of the Employee Purchase of Weirton Steel." Labor History 48 (Aug. 2007): 277-99.

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Boback, John M. Indian Warfare, Household Competency, and the Settlement of the Western Virginia Frontier, 1749 to 1794. PhD diss., West Virginia University, 2007. 221 pp. Influence of Indian-related violence and warfare on the living conditions and commercial and household economies of men and women who settled in the western Virginia backcountry between 1749 and 1794.

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Bodkins, Steve. Bemis & Glady, West Virginia: A History of Two Mountain Towns. Independence, WV: Steve Bodkins, 2006. 608 pp. Randolph County.

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Bolte, Jason, on behalf of the Mason County Convention and Visitors Bureau. Point Pleasant. Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2007. 127 pp.

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Bond, S. Thomas. "The Old Brick Church at Lost Creek." Goldenseal 33 (Spring 2007): 34-39. Lost Creek Seventh Day Baptist Church, southern Harrison County.

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Brescoach, Sharon Wills. The Coal Miner's Daughter or the Governor's Daughter? A Comparative Study of Media Coverage of Two Appalachian Women Politicians. PhD diss., University of Kentucky, 2006. 337 pp. Charlotte Pritt, unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor of West Virginia, and Shelley Moore Capito, daughter of former West Virginia governor Arch Moore, elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Bumgardner, Stan. "Quiet Dell Murders: West Virginia's Crime of the Century." Goldenseal 33 (Fall 2007): 54-59. Harry Powers, the "Bluebeard of Quiet Dell," was executed after he was tried and found guilty of five murders, 1931-1932.

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Burke, Dawne Raines. An American Phoenix: A History of Storer College from Slavery to Desegregation, 1865-1955. Edited by Michael Slaven. N.p., 2006. 151 pp. Edited and published version of 2004 Ph.D. thesis by Burke. African American college in Harpers Ferry.

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Burns, Shirley Stewart. Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities. West Virginia and Appalachia, v. 5. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2007. 214 pp. [End Page 100]

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Casto, James E., Doug Sheils, and Chris Koenig. 50 Years of Caring: Cabell Huntington Hospital, 1956-2006: Created to Care for the Community...

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