About the Authors Thomas Dublin is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Binghamton and the author of When the Mines Closed: Stories of Struggles in Hard Times, an oral history of industrial decline in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. He is currently a residential fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at Yale where he is completing a book-length study of deindustrialization in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania since 1920.  [email protected] Melissa Doak is Associate Director of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Her 1999 doctoral dissertation explored women's sexual deviance and institutional psychiatry in New York City between 1890 and 1920.  [email protected] Credits and Acknowledgements Permission to reprint copyrighted text or photographs is gratefully acknowledged. Our thanks to: Anthracite Heritage Museum, Scranton, Penn. Bill Bamberger Cornell University Press Earl Dotter George Harvan Library of Congress For skilled technical assistance and programming, our thanks to: Binghamton University, State University of New York   Carol Bell   Tom Blake   Jeff Donahue   John Hagan   Stan Kauffman The Journal for MultiMedia History   Jane Ladouceur   Marianne Rahn-Erickson Our thanks also to the journal's anonymous readers and to Gerald Zahavi and Susan McCormick for outstanding editorial support throughout the conception and execution of this complex project.