Recent Publications

Evidence of the enduring interest in West Virginia’s history, culture, and lifeways is the unabated publication of books, journal articles, theses, and dissertations about these topics. This bibliography includes citations for readily accessible works published in 2009 and 2010. In addition to the historical and cultural resources listed here, much more can be found in the books and journals from county and regional historical societies and genealogical societies, in works of historical fiction, in the state’s lifestyle magazines, and within the periodicals of professional and avocational organizations. The steady production of research, writing, and publishing is indicative of our abiding interest in the heritage of West Virginia and its people. If you are aware of significant books or articles that are not listed here, please bring them to my attention.

Abraham, Michael. The Spine of the Virginias: Journeys along the Border between Virginia and West Virginia.Blacksburg, VA: Pocahontas Press, 2010. 418 pp.

Antonik, John. Roll Out the Carpet: 101 Seasons of West Virginia University Basketball.Foreword by Rod Thorn. Afterword by Bob Huggins. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2010. 276 pp. Profusely illustrated.

Archer, Bill. “On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers.” Goldenseal36 (Summer 2010): 40–46. The Cline family of Mingo and Fayette Counties performed bluegrass music from the 1930s to the 1990s. Their band, the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2009.

Armstrong, David. Blue Steel, Timber, and Steam: A Scrapbook of Tales from Boom-Era Allegheny. Elkins, WV: David Armstrong, 2010. 143 pp. Railroads and logging in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Baldridge, Terry L. Huntington.Then and Now. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2010. 95 pp. Photographs comparing historical images with contemporary views.

Barnett, Bob. Growing Up in the Last Small Town: A West Virginia Memoir.Ashland, KY: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2010. 252 pp. Newell, West Virginia, in the 1950s.

———. “Rise and Fall of the Newell Park Zoo.” Goldenseal36 (Summer 2010): 26–32. The short-lived Hancock County zoo was established in 1906 and deserted within a decade.

Bell, Shannon Elizabeth. “‘There Ain’t No Bond in Town Like There Used to Be’: The Destruction of Social Capital in the West Virginia Coalfields.” Sociological Forum24 (September 2009): 631–57. Erosion of trust and safety within a Boone County community due to population loss and the dismantling of unionized coal mining by an antiunion coal company.

Bell, Shannon Elizabeth, and Yvonne A. Braun. “Coal, Identity, and the Gendering of Environmental Justice Activism in Central Appalachia.” Gender and Society24 (December 2010): 794–813. Relationship of gender to environmental justice activism.

Bell, Shannon Elizabeth, and Richard York. “Community Economic Identity: The Coal Industry and Ideology Construction in West Virginia.” Rural Sociology75 (March 2010): 111–43.

Blizzard, William C. When Miners March.Edited by Wess Harris. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2010. 407 pp. West Virginia Mine Wars, 1897–1921; the Battle of Blair Mountain; and the treason trial of Bill Blizzard.

Block, Stanley A., ed. Marble Mania.2nd ed. Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2010. 240 pp. Includes manufacturers in Ohio and West Virginia.

Bolte, Jason, and Mason County Convention and Vistors Bureau. Mason County.Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2010. 127 pp. Black and white photographs.

Bowman, John R. A Pictorial History of Wheeling and Ohio River Steamboats. Wheeling, WV: John R. Bowman, 2009. 370 pp. Steamboats on the Upper Ohio River from the 1850s to 1940s.

Brisbin, Richard A., Jr. A Strike like No Other Strike: Law and Resistance during the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989–1990.Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2010. 350 pp. Reprint of first edition published in 2002 by Johns Hopkins University Press. Strike by United Mine Workers of America against Pittston Coal Group and its subsidiaries in Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Brown, Vickie Osborne. Mountain Midwife: Life and Times of Isabella Brown Neal. Charleston, WV: Mountain Memories Books, 2010. 150 pp. Fictionalized biography of a Clay County woman (1879–1956) who delivered about 3,000 babies.

Bruggeman, Seth C. “The Shenandoah River Gundalow: Reusable Boats in Virginia’s...