May marks the anniversary of two of the most defining, but often overlooked, battles in American labor history: the Matewan ...

Well, on May 22, 1861, a man by the name of Thornsbury Bailey Brown was killed in Fetterman, Virginia (modern day Taylor County, West Virginia). According to Emerging Civil War, Brown’s death ...

Admitted to the Union in 1863, West Virginia was the only state created from breaking apart from a Confederate state during the Civil War and played a key role as a border state. NPR Stations ...

A small slice of Civil War history was on the ballot this month ... Founded in 1844, before West Virginia’s creation, the paper wrote numerous editorials calling for the plaque’s removal.

Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American ...

When the War Between the States began in 1861, Jarvis was already at work harnessing the Power of Mom. In her native Appalachia, which would become West Virginia after splitting from Virginia when ...

Benyamin Cohen interviewed historians and traveled to White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, where he toured the Greenbrier for three hours — including the secret underground bunker built for ...