HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - On December 17, 1861 Henry Ruffner died. He was a minister and professor who denounced slavery in ...

The project included descendants, University of Virginia graduate students, historians, Rockbridge County high schoolers and a 5-year-old who dug... Virginia museum works to uncover town's history of ...

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of ...

HUNTINGTON — Milton Middle School teacher Brian Casto has been named the 2024 West Virginia History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, according to a news release ...

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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. Aug. 4, 1824: John Jay Jackson ...

As recently as a couple of years ago, most people in Brownsburg, Virginia — population 33 within the village and a few thousand around it — would proudly tell you that they didn’t have slavery in ...