Dates

• Majority of material found within 1900 - 2019

Extent

43 boxes Linear Feet (James (Jim) Dougherty grew up in rural Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, in the small former coal mining village of Bigler, a community of 800 people. His father raised four children and worked in a local brickyard. After graduating from Clearfield High School, James Dougherty attended Mercyhurst College and later graduated from Clarion University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Liberal Arts. He went onto work as a VISTA Volunteer for two years and then enrolled in the Sociology MA Program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). James Dougherty started teaching as an instructor in the Sociology Department in 1979, and produced several documentaries, organized nationally recognized conferences (The Industrial North, 1982 received coverage in the New York Times), presented papers and gave presentations at international, national, state, and local academic conferences, edited two books, and has written many articles. He organized a number of oral history/visual ethnography field schools that took students into many the local coal mining towns in Indiana and Cambria counties to conduct qualitative research. Dougherty also worked for the US National Park Service as a historian and ethnographer and secured $120,000 in grants to IUP for research and organizing educational programs in and outside of the classroom. After teaching and graduating from IUP, James Dougherty enrolled in the University of Buffalo’s doctoral program in American Studies, a program that focused on Women’s Studies, Native American Studies, Latin American Studies, African American Studies and Working Class Studies. As part of his graduate assistantship, Dougherty taught master level courses to students that were incarcerated at a maximum security prison near Buffalo, New York. After earning his PhD from the State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo, Dr. Dougherty taught in the Sociology Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) where he has taught traditional and non-traditional students. His research interests and areas of expertise include Appalachian Studies, working class culture, globalization, and social change. He was also the founding director of the Center for Northern Appalachian Studies at IUP, which opened in 2007. In 2012, he chaired the Appalachian Studies Association’s national conference that was hosted by IUP through the guidance of the IUP Center for Northern Appalachian Studies. As a result, the IUP Northern Appalachian Folk Festival (NAFF) was organized and has taken place in Indiana, Pennsylvania, since 2013. His teaching methods have included lectures, the use of popular cultural forms (music and film), in-class work assignments, and critical thinking sessions. In introductory classes, Dr. Dougherty evaluated students based upon their performances on quizzes and objective exams. His upper level courses were more writing intensive through the use of blue book essay exams, “position papers” assignments, and group work on oral presentation projects as part of the assessment process. In addition to engaging students in the classroom, Dr. Dougherty also involved them in research and educational projects on campus and in the community. Through the Appalachian Teaching Project they worked on projects that promoted economic sustainability in our region. He was the faculty advisor to the student group “IUP Voices for Peace” which showed students films, hosted speakers, attended conferences, rallies, erected public displays on the campus grounds, and conducted research for the development of a “Peace Studies” program. His scholarly interests are diverse and reflect a broad investigation of how social change, particularly industrialization and deindustrialization have affected the United States. The James Dougherty Collection contains field notes, oral history interviews, and research projects many of which were related to courses taught by Dr. James Dougherty for the Sociology Department at IUP between 1983 and 2010. A significant portion of this collection is relevant to 20th century American history, and the culture of Western Pennsylvania with particular emphasis on the coal and steel industry in the Monongahela (Mon) Valley and Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Most of the research materials and audio/visual recordings in the collection date from the 1980s to 2010. The collection includes materials that reflect Dr. James Dougherty’s documentation of political activism and protest movements as well as his research interests in historic preservation, coal culture, industry, labor and unionization, Northern Appalachia, and field work germane to the Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission (SPHPC) including: Manuscript Group 74 Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) Materials; Manuscript Group 75 Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission (SPHPC) Records; and Manuscript Group 76 Folklife Division of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission (SPHPC). Other significant manuscript collections in the IUP Special Collections and University Archives that are either reflected in this archival collection or contain similar research materials include: Manuscript Group 5 George Swetnam; Manuscript Group 15 Clarence Stephenson; Manuscript Group 17 Elbert Hubbard; Manuscript Group 30 Local History Project (Oral History Interviews); Manuscript Group 39 Committee to save John Sutton Hall (IUP); Manuscript Group 40 John Brophy (UMWA); Manuscript Group 44 Records of the Indiana County Central Labor Council; Manuscript Group 46 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local Union 459; Manuscript Group 49 Sylvester Garret (Labor Arbitration); Manuscript Group 51 Rochester & Pittsburgh (R&P) Coal Company Records; Manuscript Group 52 United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) District 2; Manuscript Group 55 UMWA Publications; Manuscript Group 57 Alternative and Radical Publications; Manuscript Group 61 Gabriel N. Alexander (Labor Arbitration); Manuscript Group 62 UMWA Local Union 1397 (donated by Mike Stout); Manuscript Group 66 UMWA District 5; Manuscript Group 67 UMWA District 3; Manuscript Group 71 Coal Company Payroll Ledgers; Manuscript Group 77 Publications of the U.S. Bureau of Mines; Manuscript Group 79 UMWA Local Union 617 (Barnesboro, Pennsylvania); Manuscript Group 81 Barnes & Tucker Coal Company; Manuscript Group 82 Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union; Manuscript Group 83 Penn Run & Russell Coal Company Employment Records; Manuscript Group 86 Andrew Surma (coal miner); Manuscript Group 91 Joan Schrock Phillipi (coal miner); Manuscript Group 92 Political History Files of Mike Stout; Manuscript Group 94 R&P Coal Company Media Collection; Manuscript Group 98 Florence Costantino (coal mining); Manuscript Group 99 William H. Sylvis Collection (Sylvis Society and the International Iron Molders’ Journal); Manuscript Group 100 Myron L. Joseph (Labor Arbitration); Manuscript Group 106 Edward Chaszar (human rights); Manuscript Group 108 Anthracite Board of Conciliation; Manuscript Group 109 UMWA District 25; Manuscript Group 111 L. Blaine Grube (coal mining); Manuscript Group 112 Wilmore Real Estate Company (Berwind-White Coal Mining Company); Manuscript Group 116 Irwin Marcus Collection (unionization); Manuscript Group 119 Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology (SPA); Manuscript Group 123 Charles McCollester Broadsides (alternative and radical culture); Manuscript Group 125 UMWA District 4; Manuscript Group 126 Eli Rock (Labor Arbitration); Manuscript Group 127 Mildred Beik (oral history interviews with miners and coal culture); Manuscript Group 132 Pittsburg & Shawmut Railroad Company; Manuscript Group 138 McKeage Lumber Company; Manuscript Group 139 Chris Reese and Denise Weber Coal Miners Collection; Manuscript Group 141 Oscar W. Nestor (coal mining); Manuscript Group 148 W.H. Hughes Coal Company; Manuscript Group 149 Oral History Interview Project of the Women at IUP; Manuscript Group 150 International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU); Manuscript Group 152 World Religions Class Assignments about September 11, 2001; Manuscript Group 163 Fernand Fisel (Holocaust Survivor); Manuscript Group 164 John Busovicki Collection (coal mining); Manuscript Group 166 Donald McPherson Collection (Labor Arbitration); Manuscript Group 167 Elayne Musial Busovicki Collection (Polish Heritage and Monongahela Valley); Manuscript Group 169 Theodore Spewock (coal miner); and Manuscript Group 173 Indiana Glass and the Glass Companies of Indiana, Pennsylvania. )

Language of Materials

English