"Monongah Remembered provides an intricate look at the nation's worst coal mine disaster, weaving together the historical realities of early
20th century mining, a community devastated by the human destruction, and the ordeal of immigrant miner families. "

Paul H. Rakes, Ph.D. Historian, WVU

December 1907 was most disastrous month in U.S. coal history

November 28, 2007

Marylynne Pitz chronicles the centennial of the Monongah Disaster in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

..."The Darkest Month," an exhibition about the grim side of America's Industrial Revolution, opens Saturday at the Senator John Heinz History Center. The show, which runs through June 8, features 65 photographs, miners' artifacts, illustrations, mementos from a Hungarian miner's home life and a 10-minute video about Monongah by Argentine Productions of Mt. Lebanon...

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