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 ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

And after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment has called for the population ... Late last week, the Republican state attorneys general of Louisiana, Kansas, Ohio and West Virginia filed a lawsuit asking ...

“The South was still carrying the burden of the Civil War ... map there is a mirror image of the one from last November: Carter carried every single state from the old Confederacy except ...

The case was filed in U.S. District Court on Jan. 17 and also includes the attorneys general from Louisiana, West Virginia and Kansas ... Fathers and those around in the years following the Civil War ...

Nestled in the heart of West Virginia, Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park is a hidden gem that’s been quietly minding its ...

Within hours of taking office, President Donald Trump outlined in one of his many executive orders a mission to celebrate ...

Civil rights advocates ... Mr. Biden commuted on Sunday. Ms. West was serving a life sentence for drug-related convictions during the height of the war on drugs. On Sunday, as Ms. Smith grew ...

Welcome to Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park, West Virginia’s best-kept secret. Nestled in the heart of Pocahontas County ...

That, after all, is what opposition parties and civil societies are supposed to ... Vice President Mike Pence hands the West Virginia certification to staff as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ...

Born in Virginia, he labored on a family farm and in West Virginia coal mines throughout ... of enslaved people at the end of the Civil War, Woodson took action. He founded an organization ...