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The Museum of Appalachian Labor Action

Cortese, Christopher J

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2022, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, History.
This project explores the labor history of the Appalachian region and the presence of American labor history in the museum space and in public memory. The first section is a proposal for a Museum of Appalachian Labor Action, detailing the administrative and exhibitionary organization of a museum dedicated to the labor history of the Central, North Central, and Northern Appalachia, situated in Wheeling, West Virginia. The second section, a museum exhibition design titled “The Mine Wars Experience,” attempts to tell the history of the early 20th-century labor conflict, the West Virginia Mine Wars. The final section is an essay titled “Labor in the Museum,” an overall exploration of the place American labor history occupies in the museum space and in public memory more generally.
David Steigerwald (Committee Member)
David Staley (Advisor)
138 p.

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  • Cortese, C. J. (2022). The Museum of Appalachian Labor Action [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1654261887387313

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cortese, Christopher. The Museum of Appalachian Labor Action. 2022. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1654261887387313.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cortese, Christopher. "The Museum of Appalachian Labor Action." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1654261887387313

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)