An archival exercise designed by Kate Black, Special Collections, and
graduate assistant Sheli Walker for an Appalachian Studies class on campus is
now available worldwide through the web.
“A Strike Against Starvation and Terror” explores the 1931-32 coal
miners’ strike in Bell and Harlan counties by using music, documentary film,
and primary source material from the Herndon Evans papers.
The new web site
also features conversations between Dwight Billings (Sociology and Appalachian
Studies) and Kate Black, filmed in the Breckinridge Research Room, discussing
the historical importance of the strike and modeling how to analyze and
interpret archival evidence. The site,
recently finished, is now live at https://appalachiancenter.as.uky.edu/coal-miners-strike-archive”
There is a new category on Special Collections homepage
"Teaching with Primary Sources" which leads you to the
exercise.
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