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 ...

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

Tolson, an administrative assistant with Civil War Trails, worked with private collectors and members of West Virginia’s Jewish community to unearth details regarding the 1862 seders and Joel.

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 ...

Hayes — will be unveiled in Fayetteville, West Virginia. A corresponding ceremony, scheduled for 11 a.m. at Lovey Hope Center for the Arts, will be a reminder that “the original cast of the Civil War ...