CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — Kanawha County school textbooks were once the cause of the most violent textbook protest in U.S. history, involving vandalism, fighting and even firebombing. The 1974 ...

included a discussion of Kanawha County in a speech to the Platform Committee at the 1976 Republican National Convention. Moore, he said, recognized that the school district was using textbooks ...

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” –Ecclesiastes 1:9 A fury over the content ...

Kanawha Counties Public Library will bring back their Summer Library club. A program for all ages that encouraging the development of literacy skills in young readers. according to a press release by ...

“The Great Textbook War,” a radio documentary by former Kanawha County resident Trey Kay, won a Peabody Award in 2009 for its “thoughtful, balanced” approach to the conflict as well as an ...

The legend of a now well-publicized West Virginia monster known regionally as the 'White Thing' may have first been ...

HUNTINGTON — In the spring of 1974 a fight broke out in Kanawha County over the content of textbooks approved for use by the country’s public school students.

(WCHS/WVAH) — A Florida doctor who checked out “So You Want to Be a Doctor” from the Kanawha County Library and later became a successful plastic surgeon is returning the long overdue book ...