Southeast Ohio History Center Lecture Series - War Correspondence of the Hocking Valley Coal Strike

Public lecture · November 25, 2025

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Presenter explains using the Library of Congress 'Chronicling America' newspaper archives to reconstruct daily experience of the 1884 Hocking Valley strike and why newspapers offer searchable, contemporaneous accounts.

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A public lecture presenting primary-source newspaper research into the 1884 Hocking Valley coal strike, focused on the Snake Hollow Mine Riot of Aug. 31–Sept. 1, 1884, describing events, casualties, militia response and the strike's aftermath.

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