In 1921, coal miners in West Virginia took up arms in one of the largest labor uprisings in U.S. history. The Battle of Blair Mountain was a fight for workers' rights, fair wages, and freedom from ...

J.R. Clifford was many things, an activist, an educator, a journalist, a veteran and the first African-American lawyer in the ...

Strategically, the Eastern Theater was arguably the most important battleground of the Civil War; comprising the states of Virginia, West Virginia Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the District of ...

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. Winter Storms ...

Perhaps the most well-known destination in West Virginia, Harpers Ferry is more than a quaint 19th-century town. It's a National Historic Park with Civil War sites including battlefields ...

Trade wars are not necessarily good or easy to win, a West Virginia farmer told the U.S ... feeling the effects of the last trade war we had,” Larew said. He added that, “the use of tariffs ...

Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s anti-diversity, equity and inclusion executive order is prompting West Virginia State University to ...

Born on his family's estate west of Culpeper, Virginia, Ambrose Powell Hill received ... who served as a groomsman in the wedding. During the Civil War, Hill was among the highest-regarded ...