MORGANTOWN — As West Virginia marked another year of statehood and the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, historians, alumni and community members gathered Thursday afternoon inside the Milano Reading Room […]
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This week in W.Va. history
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.
Editorial encore: The legacy of 9/11
EDITOR’S NOTE: Today’s editorial has been adapted from one that originally published Sept. 11, 2021. The average college student has no true memory of Sept. 11, 2001. Neither do current […]
It is a remarkable thing when an entire country changes its mind
by David M. Shribman Andrew Jackson, once almost universally admired as a personification of refreshing democratic values, now is considered a prosecutor of genocide. Ulysses Grant, once portrayed as a […]
History behind John Lewis monument
by Bill Torpy If you’re talking about seismic events in American history, like the civil rights movement and the Civil War, then it’s time to unearth William Faulkner’s quote: “The […]
Reagan: The movie
The producers didn’t plan for the biopic about the life of Ronald Reagan to open so close to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, but delays caused by the pandemic […]
Women history forgot (Part 4)
“Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty?” — Inez Milholland, 1916. As we previously discussed, suffragists argued women should qualify as “persons and citizens of the United States” […]
How I cost Democrats the presidency in 1968
by Carl P. Leubsdorf As the Democrats prepare to meet next week in Chicago, I thought back to their tumultuous 1968 convention, the third of the 27 I covered. That’s […]
This week in West Virginia history
WV Humanities Council 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.
Women history forgot (Part 3)
As we’ve previously written, the women’s suffrage movement did not begin at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. More importantly, Seneca Falls influenced an entire new generation with its “Declaration […]
