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Harold W. Aurand was born in 1940 in the borough of Danville in the anthracite coal region of northeastern Pennsylvania and remained a life-long resident of the area. He passed away in 2012 in a Danville hospital. Raised in the classic coal town of Mt. Carmel, his grandfather and father were not coal miners but owners of an ice house. Educated in local schools, he strayed slightly out of the region to attend college at Franklin and Marshall, where he majored in history, and later for doctoral studies in history at Penn State University. Subsequently he had an illustrious 35-year career as a professor and administrator at the Hazelton campus of Penn State and actively engaged in public history projects and community civic and cultural affairs. Aurand also made a mark as a prolific historian, authoring 4 books and 15 scholarly journal articles that all focused on a subject dear to him: the anthracite coal industry and the lives of anthracite coal miners. 1 A deep connection between place of origin and residence and enduring publication is rare among scholars, although for writers of fiction this is not uncommon. Aurand's deep connection to place benefitted historians who followed in his footsteps and relied on his research, as well as general readers who enjoyed his homages to the anthracite region. We now benefit anew with the digital reissuing by Temple University Press of Aurand's first book, From the Molly Maguires to the United Mine Workers: The

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