This week in W.Va. history

Latest News September 15, 2024

WV Humanities Council CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Sept. 15, 1861: In the aftermath of the Battle of Carnifex Ferry, Union forces under the ...

Checking the ‘Black Box’

Latest News April 2, 2024

Two men with decidedly different political outlooks have been my go-to sources on race in America. They are Dr. Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research ...