Bibliographic References
Cometti, Elizabeth and Festus Summers. The Thirty-Fifth
State. Morgantown: West Virginia University Library, 1966. 671
pp.
Forbes, Harold. West Virginia History: A Bibliography and
Guide to Research. Morgantown: West Virginia University
Libraries, 1980. 359 pp.
Lewis, Ronald and John Hennen. West Virginia: Documents in
the History of a Rural-Industrial State. Dubuque, IA:
Kendall-Hunt Publishing Company, 1991. 371 pp.
Lewis, Ronald and John Hennen. West Virginia History: Critical Essays on the Literature. Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt Publishing Company, 1993. 247 pp.
Chronology
Clagg, Sam. West Virginia Historical Almanac. Parsons:
McClain Printing Company, 1975. 172 pp.
Shetler, Charles and Michael M. Reynolds. Milestones of West
Virginia History: Some Events of Importance in the Development of
the Mountain State. Parsons: McClain Printing Company,
1966.
Theriault, Bill. Explorer: West Virginia History Database. Jefferson County Module. Charleston: West Virginia Division of Culture and History, 1997.
Vexler, Robert I. Chronology and Documentary Handbook of the State of West Virginia. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 1979. 150 pp.
Encyclopedias
Comstock, Jim. The West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.
Richwood: Jim Comstock, 1976. 25 Volumes.
Conley, Phil. The West Virginia Encyclopedia. Charleston: West Virginia Publishing Company, 1929. 1,052 pp.
General Histories
Ambler, Charles Henry and Festus P. Summers. West Virginia:
The Mountain State. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1958.
584 pp.
Callahan, James Morton. Semi-Centennial History of West
Virginia. Charleston: Semi-Centennial Commission, 1913. 594
pp.
Lewis, Virgil. History and Government of West Virginia.
New York: American Book Company, 1904. 408 pp.
Morgan, John G. West Virginia Governors, 1863-1980. Charleston: Charleston Newspaper, 1980. 558 pp.
Posey, Thomas Edward. The Negro Citizen of West Virginia.
Institute: Press of West Virginia State College, 1934. 119
pp.
Rice, Otis K. and Stephen W. Brown. West Virginia: A History. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993. 344 pp.
Wade, Howard P. Black Gold and Black Folk: A Case Study of
McDowell County, West Virginia's Black Migrants, 1890-1940.
Coral Gables, FL: by the author, 1990. 280 pp.
Williams, John Alexander. West Virginia: A Bicentennial
History. New York: Norton, 1976. 212 pp.
Place Names
Districts and Place Names in West Virginia, from
The New Descriptive Atlas of West Virginia.
Place Names in West Virginia. Compiled by Mary M. Jenkins.
West Virginia Gazetteer of Physical and Cultural Place Names. West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, 1986. 809 pp.
Antebellum/Settlement
De Hass, Wills. History of the Early Settlement and Indian
Wars of Western Virginia. Parsons: McClain Printing Company,
1960. 416 pp.
Hale, John Peter. Trans-Allegheny Pioneers: Historical
Sketches of the First White Settlements West of the Alleghenies,
1748 and After. Charleston: Kanawha Valley Publishing Company,
1931. 340 pp.
Johnston, David E. A History of Middle New River Settlements
and Contiguous Territory. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc.,
1988. 532 pp.
Lambert, Oscar D. Pioneer Leaders of Western Virginia.
Parkersburg: The Scholl Printing Company, 1935. 226 pp.
Rice, Otis K. The Allegheny Frontier: West Virginia
Beginnings, 1730-1830. Lexington: University Press of
Kentucky, 1970. 438 pp.
Withers, Alexander Scott. Chronicles of Border Warfare. Parsons: McClain Printing Company, 1961. 447 pp.
Statehood
Ambler, Charles. Sectionalism in Virginia from
1776-1861. New York: Russell & Russell, 1964. 366
pp.
Curry, Richard Orr. A House Divided: A Study of Statehood
Politics and the Copperhead Movement in West Virginia.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1964. 203 pp.
Moore, George Ellis. A Banner in the Hills: West Virginia's
Statehood. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1963. 256
pp.
Morgan, John. West Virginia is Born. Charleston: West
Virginia Department of Finance, 1969. 106 pp.
Parker, Granville. The Formation of the State of West Virginia. Wellsburg: Glass & Son, 1875. 482 pp.
Civil War
Dickinson, Jack L. Tattered Uniforms and Bright
Bayonets. Huntington: Marshall University Library Associates,
1995. 431 pp.
Lang, Theodore F. Loyal West Virginia From 1861 to
1865. Huntington: Blue Acorn Press, 1998. 386 pp.
McKinney, Tim. Robert E. Lee and the 35th Star.
Charleston: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1990. 144
pp.
McKinney, Tim. West Virginia Civil War Almanac.
Charleston: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1998. 581
pp.
Shetler, Charles. West Virginia Civil War Literature: An
Annotated Bibliography. Morgantown: West Virginia University
Library, 1963. 184 pp.
Stutler, Boyd. West Virginia in the Civil War.
Charleston: Education Foundation, 1966. 304 pp.
Summers, Festus P. The Baltimore and Ohio in the Civil War. Gettysburg: Stan Clark Military Books, 1993. 304 pp.
Civil War Campaigns
Haselberger, Fritz. Yanks From the South: The First Land
Campaign of the Civil War, Rich Mountain, West Virginia.
Baltimore: Past Glories, 1987. 323 pp.
Lowry, Terry. The Battle of Scary Creek: Military Operations
in the Kanawha Valley, April-July 1861. Charleston: Pictorial
Histories Publishing Company, 1982. 178 pp.
Lowry, Terry. Last Sleep: The Battle of Droop Mountain,
November 6, 1863. Charleston: Pictorial Histories Publishing
Company, 1996. 302 pp.
Lowry, Terry. September Blood: The Battle of Carnifex
Ferry. Charleston: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company,
1985. 168 pp.
McKinney, Tim. Robert E. Lee at Sewell Mountain: The West
Virginia Campaign. Charleston: Pictorial Histories Publishing
Company, 1990. 148 pp.
Zinn, Jack. R. E. Lee's Cheat Mountain Campaign. Parsons: McClain Printing Company, 1974. 234 pp.
Coal Mining
Corbin, David. Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal
Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922.
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1981. 294 pp.
Dix, Keith. What's a Coal Miner to Do?: The Mechanization of Coal Mining. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. 258 pp.
Dix, Keith. Work Relations in the Coal Industry: The Hand-loading Era, 1880-1930. Morgantown: Institute for Labor Studies, 1977. 127 pp.
Goldenseal History of the Mine Wars. Charleston:
Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1991. 103 pp.
Lane, Winthrop D. Civil War in West Virginia. New York:
Arno, 1969. 128 pp.
Lee, Howard. Bloodletting in Appalachia: the Story of West
Virginia's Four Major Mine Wars and Other Thrilling Incidents of
Its Coal Fields. Morgantown: West Virginia University, 1969.
216 pp.
Moore, Marat. Women in the Mines. New York: Twayne
Publishers, 1996. 337 pp.
Savage, Lon. Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia
Mine War, 1920-21. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,
1990. 195 pp.
Trotter, Joe William. Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1990. 290 pp.
Industry
Hennen, John. The Americanization of West Virginia: Creating
a Modern Industrial Society, 1916-1925. Lexington, KY:
University Press of Kentucky, 1996. 217 pp.
Rasmussen, Barbara. Absentee Landowning & Exploitation
in West Virginia, 1760 - 1920. Lexington, KY: University Press
of Kentucky, 1994. 222 pp.
Stealey, John E. III. The Antebellum Kanawha Salt Business
& Western Markets. Lexington, KY: University Press of
Kentucky, 1993. 261 pp.
Thoenen, Eugene David. History of the Oil and Gas Industry in West Virginia. Charleston: Education Foundation, 1964. 429 pp.
Thomas, Jerry. An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the
Great Depression. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky,
1998. 316 pp.
Williams, John Alexander. West Virginia and the Captains of Industry. Morgantown: West Virginia University Library, 1976. 352 pp.
Military
Lewis, Virgil. The Soldiery of West Virginia. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1972. 227 pp.
Timber
Clarkson, Roy B. On Beyond Leatherbark: The Cass Saga.
Parsons: McClain Printing Company, 1990. 671 pp.
Clarkson, Roy B. Tumult On the Mountains: Lumbering in West Virginia, 1770-1920. Parsons: McClain Printing Company, 1964. 410 pp.
Lewis, Ronald L. Transforming the Appalachian Countryside:
Railroads Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia,
1880-1920. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina
Press, 1998. 348 pp.
Waller, Altina L. Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860 - 1900. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. 313 pp.
Women's Studies
Missing Chapters: West Virginia Women in History. Charleston: West Virginia Women's Commission, 1983. 124 pp.
Missing Chapters II: West Virginia Women in History. Charleston: West Virginia Women's Commission, 1986. 207 pp.
Young Adults
Conley, Phil and William Doherty. West Virginia
History. Charleston: Education Foundation, 1974. 494
pp.
Doherty, William. West Virginia: Our Land--Our People. Charleston: West Virginia Historical Educational Foundation, 1990. 308 pp.
Marsh, Carole. The Hard-to-Believe-but-True! Book of West
Virginia History, Trivia, Mystery, Legend, Lore & More.
Decatur, GA: Gallopade Publishing Group, 1990, 35 pp.
Soupart, Sylvia.Stories of West Virginia for Boys and Girls. Morgantown: West Virginia University, 1934. 150 pp.
Williams, John Alexander. West Virginia: A History of
Beginners. Charleston: Appalachian Editions, 1993. 278
pp.
Williams, Tony L. West Virginia: Our State. Charleston: West Virginia Historical Educational Foundation, 1990. 276 pp.
See also West Virginia History Table of Contents By Subject.