Next up at the Archives Lecture: The symposium “West Virginia Women and the Right to Vote,” scheduled for March 21 in the Archives and History Library, has been postponed until further notice. We will attempt to reschedule the event at a future date.
Coming Soon:
Images from Recent Sessions:
“Order from Chaos: The Creation of West Virginia’s State Police Department,” with Aaron Parsons, March 30, 2019
“The Evolution of the West Virginia Movie Theatre,” with Kelli Shapiro, April 13, 2019
“African American Life: A Personal Perspective,” with Monique M. Chouraeshkenazi, May 11, 2019
“African American Life: A Personal Perspective,” with Betty Cardwell Spencer, June 29, 2019
“African American Life: A Personal Perspective,” with Elliot G. Hicks, July 20, 2019
“West Virginia in the Civil War Symposium,” with Richard Armstrong, Hunter Lesser, Dr. Katharine Antolini, and Terry Lowry, September 28, 2019
“Rebecca Harding Davis,” with Rebekah Karelis and Margaret Brennan, October 26, 2019
“A Veterans Day Commemorative,” with George Washington High School JROTC, November 9, 2019
Images from Previous Years:
2009
Archives and History Showcase, December 7, 2009
A Glimpse at Some Lesser Known Prominent West Virginians, by Dr. Kenneth R. Bailey, December 1, 2009
Second Scrapbooking Workshop, by Lynn Barney, September 1, 2009
Beginning Genealogy Workshop, by Susan Scouras, August 4, 2009
7th West Virginia Cavalry Descendants Reunion, July 11, 2009
Golden Horseshoe Alumni Reunion, June 19, 2009
The West Virginia National Guard, 1898-1919,” by Brian Kesterson, June 2, 2009
Put Your Family’s Memories in a Scrapbook, by Lynn Barney, May 12, 2009
2010
Digging into the Draper Collection, with Jaime Simmons, December 7, 2010
Researching Military History, with Terry Lowry, November 9, 2010
Yiayia’s Bundle: A Greek Experience in West Virginia, with Pam Makricosta, October 5, 2010
Charleston: Then & Now, with Dr. Billy Joe Peyton, September 7, 2010
Genealogy for Beginners, with Susan Scouras, August 3, 2010
Put Your Family’s Memories in a Scrapbook, with Lynn Barney, July 6, 2010
West Virginia Statehood, by Joe Geiger, speaker, June 1, 2010
Battleground West Virginia: Electing the President in 1960, May 4, 2010
The Combat Scenario: Early West Virginia Coal Mining’s Culture of Danger, by Dr. Paul H. Rakes, speaker, April 6, 2010
Going Back Before 1850: Genealogical Strategies for Early American Research, by Jaime Simmons, March 2, 2010
Digging into West Virginia’s 18th Century, Groundhog Style, by Doug Wood, February 2, 2010
Genealogy and Law: An Introduction to Some Legal Issues in Genealogical Research, by Scott Johnson, January 5, 2010
Pictures of the first meeting of the Genealogy Club on January 19, 2010
Pictures of the first meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club on April 15, 2010
Pictures of the June meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Terry Lowry, speaker
Pictures of the July meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Esther Warner, presenter
Pictures of the August meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Bryan Ward, presenter
Pictures of the September meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Greg Carroll, presenter
Pictures of the October meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Debra Basham, presenter
Pictures of the November meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Greg Carroll, presenter
Pictures of the December meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Debbie Campbell, presenter May 12, 2009
2011
West Virginia State Police: The First Two Decades, with Merle Cole, November 1, 2011
Slavery in the Ohio and Kanawha River Valleys, with Philip Sturm, October 11, 2011
History of the West Virginia State Park System, with Bob Beanblossom, September 6, 2011
The Resurgence of Anikituhwa: Language and Cultural Revitalization among the Eastern Band Cherokee, with Travis Henline, August 2, 2011
Decorating Carr China, with Jim Mitchell, July 5, 2011
Archives and History Movie Night: Footage from the Collection, with Dick Fauss, June 7, 2011
West Virginia’s Heritage Music, with Bobby Taylor, May 3, 2011
Logging and Shortline Railroads of the Mountain State, with Lloyd Lewis, April 5, 2011
The Forgotten Battles of the Mine Wars: The Fairmont Field, with Dr. Michael Workman, March 1, 2011
African American Women’s Activism in the Mountain State, with Lois Lucas, February 1, 2011
A Primer on West Virginia Archeology, with Bob Maslowski, January 4, 2011
Pictures of the November 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Kitty Baughan Cole, presenter
Pictures of the October 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Nancy Sparks Morrison, presenter
Pictures of the September 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Alex P. Schust, presenter
Pictures of the August 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Greg Carroll, presenter
Pictures of the July 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Ken Hechler, presenter
Pictures of the June 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Carolyn Kender and Sara Prior, presenters
Pictures of the May 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with George A. Hill, presenter
Pictures of the April 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Susan Hayden, presenter
Pictures of the March 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Joetta Kuhn, presenter
Pictures of the February 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Bob Fish, presenter
Pictures of the January 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with John McClure, presenter
Audio File of the January 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with John McClure, presenter
2012
“Scratch ’em and Sue ’em,” with Dr. Kenneth Bailey, November 13, 2012
Pictures of the November 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Pat McClure, presenter
Frontier Forts, with Drs. Stephen and Kim McBride
The Archaeology of the Thornhill Estate, with Dr. Annette Ericksen
Postcards of Charleston, with Stan Bumgardner, October 2, 2012
Pictures of the October 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Greg Carroll, presenter
Paint Creek-Cabin Creek, with Ken Bailey, Fred Barkey, Paul Nyden, and Ginny Ayres, September 22, 2012
Pictures of the September 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Susan Scouras, presenter
Glass from the Mountain State: A Very Broad View of 200 Years, with Dean Six, September 4, 2012
Pictures of the August 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Joe Geiger, presenter
They’re from Here?: Artists from the Mountain State, with Jeff Pierson, August 7, 2012
Pictures of the July 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Mary Glass, presenter
Hatfield and McCoy Feud: Complex Individuals, Complex Events, with Randy Marcum, July 10, 2012
Pictures of the June 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Gilbert Casto, presenter
Old Malden, with Larry L. Rowe, June 5, 2012
Pictures of the May 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Dr. Cicero Fain, presenter
Every Blood-Stained Mile: The Building of the Norfolk and Western in West Virginia, with Jack and Kay Dickinson, May 1, 2012
Pictures of the April 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Dr. Charles Ledbetter, presenter
Presidential Whistle Stops in West Virginia, with Bob Withers, April 3, 2012
Pictures of the March 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Susan Hayden, presenter
Civil War Sites in West Virginia, with Bethany Canfield, March 6, 2012
Bobby Kennedy and West Virginia’s 1968 Presidential Primary, with Raamie Barker, February 23, 2012
Pictures of the February 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Don Teter, presenter
J. R. Clifford and the Carrie Williams Case, with Tom Rodd, February 7, 2012
Pictures of the January 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Jim Mitchell, presenter
Memoirs as History: Small Town Life in West Virginia in the 1950s, with Bob Barnett, January 3, 2012
2013
“The History of Charleston: The Modern Era,” with Dr. Billy Joe Peyton, November 14, 2013
“The Battle of Charleston and the 1862 Kanawha Valley Campaign,” with Terry Lowry, November 5, 2013
“Finding Hidden Ancestors,” with Jeanne Eppley, October 10, 2013
“An Introduction to the Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex: A West Virginia Historic Site, Museum, and Research Center,” with David E. Rotenizer, October 1, 2013
“Genealogy and the Revolutionary War,” with Joetta Kuhn and Patsy Adkins, September 26, 2013
“Family History, the SAR, and Re-enacting,” with Steve Hart, September 12, 2013
“Hillside Fields: A History of Sports in West Virginia,” with Dr. Bob Barnett, September 10, 2013
“Six Voices: Six Short Stories about West Virginia Glass,” with Dean Six, Millie Coty, Dave Bush, Dane “Woody” Moore, Dottie Daugherty, and Tom Felt, August 22, 2013
“‘Don’t Cuss Me’: Saloons, Liquor, and Gunplay in West Virginia’s Early Coal Camps,” with Dr. Paul Rakes, August 8, 2013
“West Virginia Rivers, Steamboats and River Improvements,” with Gerald Sutphin, August 5, 2013
“The Clendenin Family and the Clendenin Massacre,” with Greg Clendenin, July 11, 2013
“Rock Springs Park,” with Joseph A. Comm, July 2, 2013
“Women in Civil War West Virginia,” with Mary Johnson, June 13, 2013
“Dixie’s Daughters: Women and the Preservation of Confederate Memory,” with Dr. Karen L. Cox, June 4, 2013
“The Haunted History of the West Virginia Penitentiary,” with Sherri Brake, May 9, 2013
“Reconstructing Bill: The Story of Governor William C. Marland,” with Russ Barbour and Dick Fauss, May 7, 2013
“Slavery in Virginia, 1619-1861,” with Greg Carroll, April 11, 2013
“The West Virginia State College Aviation Program–Tuskegee Airmen Connection in ‘The Experiment?’,” with Dr. Charles Ledbetter, April 2, 2013
“The Roots of Un-civil War: The 250th Anniversary of Cornstalk’s Campaign,” with Doug Wood, March 14, 2013
“The History of Charleston,” with Dr. Billy Joe Peyton, March 5, 2013
“Native American Research,” with Greg Carroll, February 21, 2013
“West Virginia Country Music and Goldenseal Magazine,” with John Lilly, February 5, 2013
“West Virginia Death Records,” with Randy Marcum, January 10, 2013
“The Socialist Party in West Virginia,” with Dr. Fred Barkey, January 8, 2013
2014
“Firearms throughout West Virginia’s Early History,” with Jim Mitchell, November 20, 2014
“The West Virginia Rosie the Riveter Program: A Model for America,” with Anne Montague, November 13, 2014
“West Virginia Voices of War: Oral Histories from West Virginia War Veterans,” with Eric Douglas, November 6, 2014
“Thirty-Five Years Studying:and Being Part of:the History of The Greenbrier” with Dr. Robert Conte, October 7, 2014
“African American Life: A Personal Perspective Part IV,” with James Preston Estes Sr., September 25, 2014
“Family Heritage Music,” with Bobby Taylor, assisted by Kim Johnson and Charlie Winter, September 11, 2014
“Incidents of Morgan’s Raid with an Account of Stovepipe Johnson’s Retreat through West Virginia,” with Brian Kesterson, September 2, 2014
“African American Life in Charleston: A Personal Perspective Part III,” with Barbara Hicks Lacy, August 28, 2014
“From Lost State to Mountain State: The State of Franklin and the Constitutionality of West Virginia Statehood,” with Kevin T. Barksdale, August 5, 2014
“African American Life in Charleston: A Personal Perspective Part II,” with Charles H. James III, July 24, 2014
“The Riverine World,” with Gerald W. Sutphin, July 17, 2014
“Time’s Runnin’ Out: A Historical Perspective of a Movie and the Fight Against Southern West Virginia Forest Fires,” with Robert Beanblossom and Richard Fauss, July 1, 2014
“African American Life in Charleston: A Personal Perspective,” with Thomas Tyree, June 26, 2014
“Hippie Homesteaders: Arts, Crafts, Music and Living on the Land in West Virginia,” with Carter Taylor Seaton, June 19, 2014
“West Virginia Scenic Trails Association,” with Doug Woods and Nick Lozano, June 12, 2014
“Wayne County: Slavery and the Civil War,” with Robert Thompson, June 3, 2014
“Loyalty They Always Had: The 7th WV Cavalry In the Civil War,” with Steve Cunningham, May 15, 2014
“Civil War Ceredo, A Northern Experiment,” with Dr. Ken Bailey, May 6, 2014
“Monsters and Mayhem in the Mountain State,” with Mike Knost, April 17
“The Life and Times of Collis P. Huntington,” with James Casto, April 1, 2014
“A Woman’s Touch: 18th-Century Eastern Woodland Indian Women as Architects of Social Conscience and Gender Balance,” with Dianne Anestis, March 20, 2014
“Victory Loan Tour of 1945,” with Dr. James Spencer, March 13, 2014
“From the Burning of Chambersburg to the Battle of Moorefield,” with Rick Wolfe, March 4, 2014
“Covered Bridges of West Virginia,” with Terry Lively, February 20, 2014
“West Virginia Courthouses,” with Patti Hamilton, Mike Gioulis, and Melissa Smith, February 4, 2014
“Parkersburg: Guardian of the Union during the Civil War,” with Dr. Michael Workman, January 23, 2014
“The ‘Other’ West Virginia: Positive Images of the State from the 30s and 40s,” with Betty Rivard, January 7, 2014
2015
“West Virginia Rosie the Riveters,” with Anne Montague, November 19, 2015
“Honoring West Virginia Veterans: Students Write History,” with Pat McClure, George Washington High School Advanced Placement U.S. History students, and teacher Katherine Bush, November 10, 2015
“An American in Madras,” with Karan Bali and Dick Fauss, November 5, 2015
“When Sadie Hawkins Went to College,” with Mary Johnson, October 22, 2015
“West Virginia’s Food Heritage,” with Stan Bumgardner, September 17, 2015
“Flintlock Rifles of West Virginia,” with Clarence Craigo, September 1, 2015
2015 Block Speaker Series “African American Life in Charleston,” with Richard H. Payne, August 27, 2015
“Emancipation and Statehood in West Virginia,” with Dr. Michael Woods, August 20, 2015
“New River Gorge Bridge,” with Erin Riebe, August 4, 2015
2015 Block Speaker Series “African American Life in Charleston,” with Hubert S. “Rabbit” Jones, July 23, 2015
“Blood in West Virginia, Brumfield v. McCoy,” with Brandon Kirk, July 16, 2015
“‘Meanest County’ in the Nation: Hip-Pocket Ethics on the Early New River Coal Mining Frontier, 1890-1910,” with Dr. Paul Rakes, July 7, 2015
“West Virginia Songs,” with John Lilly, June 18, 2015
“History of the West Virginia Supreme Court,” with Rory Perry, June 2, 2015
2015 Block Speaker Series “African American Life in Charleston,” with Lewis R. Smoot Sr., May 21, 2015
“J. Q. Dickinson Saltworks,” with Carter and Nancy Bruns, May 14, 2015
“Outlaws in West Virginia: War, Whiskey, and Wonder:and not a Robin Hood in Sight,” with Dr. Melissa Sartore, May 5, 2015
“Make the Crooked Ways Straight and the Rough Ways Smooth: Engineering & Construction of the National Road,” with Dr. Billy Joe Peyton, April 16, 2015
“The West Virginia Lobotomy Project, 1948-1955,” with Dr. James Spencer, March 19, 2015
“Underground Railroad,” with Chris Saunders, March 3, 2015
“Opera in West Virginia,” with Randall Reid-Smith, February 26, 2015
“Land Grants in West Virginia,” with Russell Rollyson, February 3, 2015
“Genealogy Research Strategies,” with Randy Marcum, January 15, 2015
“Slavery and Free People of Color in Virginia,” with Greg Carroll, January 6, 2015
2016
“Capturing Memories: How to Record Oral Histories,” with Eric Douglas, October 20, 2016
“The Wizard Clip:The History and Memory of West Virginia’s Earliest Ghost Story,” with Jon-Erik Gilot, October 13, 2016
“Reconstruction in West Virginia, 1865-1875: A Failure that Led to Future Mistakes,” with Greg Carroll, September 15, 2016
“African American Life: A Personal Perspective,” with Rosa Lena Pickel, August 18, 2016
“African American Life: A Personal Perspective,” with Gary Mays, July 28, 2016
“African American Life: A Personal Perspective,” with Dr. Cubert Smith, June 30, 2016
“History of Charleston, WV, As Lived By Four Families,” with Brooks F. McCabe Jr., June 7, 2016
“African American Life: A Personal Perspective,” with Joseph E. Turner, May 26, 2016
“Rocking the Kanawha: The Golden Age of Music in the Kanawha Valley,” with Terry Lowry, May 19, 2016
“Published Works of Huey Perry,” with Huey Perry, April 21, 2016
“Growing Up in Charleston and Other Lesser Known Facts,” with Jerry Waters, March 17, 2016
“History of a Loudon Heights Garden Club and Neighborhood-Revisited,” with Pam Harvit, February 2, 2016
“Geology Underlies It All: The West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey in Service to the Public for over a Century,” with Dr. Michael Ed. Hohn, January 28, 2016
“Plantation Archeology, Industrial Slavery and the Glenwood Project,” with Dr. Robert F. Maslowski, January 5, 2016
2017
“Pearl Harbor Remembered: We Were There,” with Patricia McClure and George Washington High School Students, December 7, 2017
“The Norfolk and Western Railroad: Its Ohio Extension and Kenova District,” with Tim Hensley, November 16, 2017
“The Myths and Realities of Senator Robert C. Byrd,” with David Corbin, November 2, 2017
“Dupont High School Football,” with Jesse Skiles, October 5, 2017
“African American Life: A Personal Perspective,” with Chlorine Grigsby Carter, August 31, 2017
“African American Life: A Personal Perspective,” with Rev. Paul H. Easley, July 27, 2017
“Memories of the Valley 2016” with Eric Douglas, June 22, 2017
“Cultural Crossroads: Establishing the 17th Century Fur Trade in the Trans-Allegheny Region” with Doug Wood, June 15, 2017
“African American Life: A Personal Perspective,” with Mary Lawson Booker, May 25, 2017
“Early Native Americans in West Virginia: The Fort Ancient Culture,” with Darla Spencer, April 20, 2017
“The Breaking Point Killing and Other True Cases of Murder and Malice: A West Virginia Forensic Psychologist Remembers,” with W. Joseph Wyatt, March 16, 2017
2018
“Carter G. Woodson and the Woodson Century of Making Black Lives Matter,” with Burnis R. Morris, October 18, 2018
“West Virginia’s Billion Dollar Man: Senator Robert C. Byrd,” with C. Damien Arthur, September 4, 2018
“African American Life: A Personal Perspective,” with Dr. R. Charles Byers, August 30, 2018
“Charleston Beautiful on the Kanawha,” with Charlie Cooper and Billy Joe Peyton, August 16, 2018
“African American Life: A Personal Perspective,” with Sim Fryson, July 26, 2018
“Vanishing Act: Rediscovering the South Charleston Naval Ordnance Plant,” with Kyle Warmack, July 19, 2018
“The Iraq War, 1998-2018: Quagmire in Babylon,” with Joseph Wyatt and Dan Wyatt, July 12, 2018
“African American Life: A Personal Perspective,” with Edward Hargro, June 28, 2018
“African American Life: A Personal Perspective,” with Anna Evans Gilmer, May 31, 2018
“World War I: Honoring and Remembering Soldiers Who Gave All in the Great War,” with Benjamin Woodard and Pat McClure, May 24, 2018
“1968,” with Jack Canfield, May 17, 2018
“Time Capsules to Our Past: Identifying and Preserving our Photographic Images,” with Nat DeBruin, April 19, 2018
“Jemima Boone,” with Rebecca Park, March 15, 2018
“An Introduction to Archives and History,” with Joe Geiger, February 15, 2018
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