Episode 2: Who Was Laura Foster?

Recommended additional reading, listening, or watching:

• "Under the Shadow of the Awful Gallows-Tree: The Murder Trials of Thomas Dula and Ann Melton as a Case Study in Gender and Power in Reconstruction Era Western North Carolina" East Tennessee State University History Department Masters thesis by Heather L. Miller.

• "North Carolina v. Thomas Dula" via State Library of North Carolina.

• The ballad of Tom Dula : the documented story behind the murder of Laura Foster and the trials and execution of Tom Dula" by John Foster West via WorldCat.

• "The Ballad of Laura Foster" by Ken Bigger via SingOut!

• The Kingston Trio's 1958 cover of "Tom Dooley" via Youtube.

• "Infectious: Tom Dooley" by Paul Slade via Planet Slade.

• "Why do we love to sing murder ballads? Tradition, feminism and bluegrass" by Miriam Jones via Overland.

Transcript: To come!

Documents:

• Census records from 1850 and 1860, showing the Foster family in Caldwell County, NC via Family Search.

• Clipping from New York Herald story from May 2, 1868 about Tom Dula's execution via Library of Congress.