Honoring Black History: JR Clifford, the first African-American lawyer in West Virginia
J.R. Clifford was many things, an activist, an educator, a journalist, a veteran and the first African-American lawyer in the state of West Virginia, and through the efforts of Friends of ...
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WV native, Pulitzer Prize winner Jayne Anne Phillips to headline 2025 Book Festival
Jayne Anne Phillips, Buckhannon native and 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner, will speak at the 2025 West Virginia Book Festival on ...
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Echoes of the Past: WVU's Coal Rush Night, "The Logo," and the infamous Cabin Creek Coal Strike
Echoes of the Past' is an article series exploring connections between the WVU sports, the state of West Virginia, and ...
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Middleway Advocates Channel Art, History Into Fight Against Bottling Plant
Activists in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle are promoting local history. They hope it will encourage residents to support ...
From the Statesman archives: Railroad, freedom colonies changed Austin after Civil War
The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...
West Virginia plays BYU in conference showdown
The West Virginia Mountaineers will take on conference opponent BYU. Tuesday's matchup is the first this season between the two squads.
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Union Busting - Battle of Blair Mountain - US History
Matewan, West Virginia. May 19, 1920. Police Chief Sid Hatfield sits in the town square. He's declined bribes and payoffs to help protect the coal miners of Matewan but the Baldwin Felts detective ...
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In West Virginia’s Southern Coalfields, a Grassroots ‘Jubilee’
Davis and Ware want to use the church that once divided McDowell County into miners and management to reclaim what has been ...