Anne Flaherty has spent two decades researching and documenting Pennsylvania’s “Molly Maguire” conflict. She has presented papers at three ACIS meetings: the ACIS-West 2017 divisional meeting in Spokane; the ACIS 2018 national conference at University College Cork, and the ACIS 2019 national conference in Boston. Other 2019 presentations include: Kings College, Wilkes-Barre, PA; the Anthracite Heritage Museum, Scranton, PA; and the Pennsylvania Historical Association annual meeting, Indiana, PA. In 2013 Ms. Flaherty formed the Kehoe Foundation as a 501c3. Online publication of her work can be found at the blog “From John Kehoe’s Cell.” In 2023, Ms. Flaherty published the book “The Passion of John Kehoe and the Myth of the ‘Molly Maguires.'” The book has received the Anthracite History Book of the Year Award for 2025.