Publications   West Virginia and the Captains of Industry
                               Morgantown:  West Virginia University Press, 1976, 1998.
                                West Virginia:  A History
                                   New York:  W. W. Norton, 1976; 1986.
  Old Ties and New Attachments.
Italian-American Folklore in the West
                                 Co-edited with David Taylor;Washington DC:  Library of Congress , 1992.
 

                               West Virginia:  A History for Beginners
                                                        Charleston WV:  Appalachian Editions, 1993, 1998.
 

                         Sinking Columbus.  Contested History, Cultural

Politics, and Myth in the 1992 Quincentenary
                                      Co-authored with Stephen J. Summerhill; forthcoming. University Press of Florida
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