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Volume XXXVII, Number 2: Fall 2023
Harriet Camp Lounsbery, West Virginia's "Dean of Nursing", by Mary E. Johnson
West Virginia Historical Society Meeting
Recent Books Related to West Virginia
America 250
Volume XXXVII, Number 1: Spring 2023
A Tale of Two--West Virginia--Women, by Patricia Richards McClure
Volume XXXVI, Number 2: Fall 2022
The Picturesque, the Healthful, and the Quaint: Harpers Ferry and the Tourist Trade, Part 2, by Mary E. Johnson
Volume XXXVI, Number 1: Spring 2022
The Picturesque, the Healthful, and the Quaint: Harpers Ferry and the Tourist Trade, Part 1, by Mary E. Johnson
Recent Books Related to West Virginia
News from Archives and History
Volume XXXV, Number 2: Fall 2021
Nihil tam difficile: A Brief History of the 1092nd Engineer Battalion, West Virginia Army National Guard, by Merle T. Cole
Semiquincentennial
New Highway Historical Marker Book
Volume XXXV, Number 1: Spring 2021
"The War Is On Us In Earnest": The Civil War Letters of Charles T. Harrison of West Virginia, by Frederick P. Gaske
Volume XXXIV, Number 2: Fall 2020
Early Days of the Green Berets: West Virginia National Guard Special Forces, by Merle T. Cole
Volume XXXIV, Number 1: Spring 2020
"Abolish the Cigarette": West Virginia and Efforts to Restrict Cigarettes, 1891-1919, by Mary E. Johnson
Centennial of the 19th Amendment
Volume XXXIII, Number 2: Fall 2019
Did Phosgene Gas Help Kill Stonewall Jackson?, by Judy S. Jones
Volume XXXIII, Number 1: Spring 2019
A "Terrifying Spectre" -The History Behind Glade Creek Reservoir, by Merle T. Cole
Volume XXXII, Number 2: Fall 2018
Matthew M. Neely vs. West Virginia University, by Kenneth R. Bailey
Jane McColloch (1764-1849): Early Settler of the Upper Ohio Valley, by Bruce D. Bonar
Armistice Day 100 Years Ago, by Mary Johnson
Volume XXXII, Number 1: Spring 2018
Training Troopers and Their Mounts at Haywood Junction, 1922-1933, by Merle T. Cole
"Metes and Bounds": One Map Club's Story, by Merle T. Cole and Tom Sopher
Volume XXXI, Number 2: Fall 2017
Daniel Reid Ross, Soldier, Teacher and Berkeley County Doctor, Part 2, by D. Reid Ross
Solar Eclipse of 1869
Volume XXXI, Number 1: Spring 2017
Daniel Reid Ross, Soldier, Teacher and Berkeley County Doctor, Part 1, by D. Reid Ross
Important Anniversaries in United States and West Virginia History
Volume XXX, Number 2: Fall 2016
Troop 7: Culmination of the Highway Patrol Mission, by Merle T. Cole
Volume XXX, Number 1: Spring 2016
"With Each A Cross To Mark His Bed": West Virginia Goes to "The Great War," by Patricia Richards McClure and Leon Armentrout
New Database Illuminates Early Years of West Virginia State Police Organization, by Merle T. Cole
West Virginia Historical Society: A Message from the Past
Volume XXIX, Number 2: Fall 2015
Beckley Stabs: Leaders and Locales of the State Police in Beckley, 1920-1950, by Merle T. Cole
Volume XXIX, Number 1: Spring 2015
When Sadie Went to College: Morris Harvey College and Sadie Hawkins Day, by Mary E. Johnson
Volume XXVIII, Number 2: Fall 2014
Training the Troopers: Part 2, Professionalism Finds a Home on the Hill, by Merle T. Cole
Volume XXVIII, Number 1: Spring 2014
Chapman Revercomb: West Virginia's Last GOP Senator, by Michael K. Wilson
In Memoriam: William Davis Wintz (1917-2013)
Volume XXVII, Number 2: Fall 2013
Training the Troopers: Part 1, Before the Academy, 1919-1949, by Merle T. Cole and Donald R. Davis
Volume XXVII, Number 1: Spring 2013
The Notorious Nathaniel Harrison, by Kenneth R. Bailey
From the Editor: Documents on the Impeachment of Nathaniel Harrison
Volume XXVI, Number 2: Fall 2012
From Triumph to Tragedy: The "Real" Legacy of the 1942 WVU NIT
Championship Basketball Team, by Patricia Richards McClure
Anthony L. Rader and the Test Oath A Nicholas County Tale, by Kenneth R. Bailey
Volume XXVI, Number 1: Spring 2012
Thomas R. Faulkner: Who Are You?, by Stephen T. Rogers
Two James Craiks and the Early History of the Kanawha Valley, by William B. Maxwell, Esq.
Volume XXV, Number 2: Fall 2011
Boyd Blynn Stutler: War Correspondent in the Pacific, 1944-1945, by Joseph N. Geiger Jr.
The First Civil War Christmas, by Kenneth R. Bailey, based on research by Donnell B. Portzline
Volume XXV, Number 1: Spring 2011
A Bibliography of Historic Archeology in West Virginia, by Robert F. Maslowski
". . . coming home to die": The brief life of Marshall S. Cornwell, by Kenneth R. Bailey
Volume XXIV, Number 2: Fall 2010
The Socialist Party in Progressive Era Ohio County, West Virginia by Christopher Price
Volume XXIV, Number 1: January 2010
Crown Patents of Lands in the Kanawha Valley by William B. Maxwell
Volume XXIII, Number 4: October 2009
Slavery in Charleston, 1830-1860 by R. Eugene Harper
Volume XXIII, Number 3: July 2009
"The Meanest Old Son-of-a-Bitch": J. R. Brockus of the West Virginia State Police by Merle T. Cole
Volume XXIII, Number 2: April 2009
Geiger New Archives Director
Volume XXIII, Number 1: January 2009
Romeo H. Freer, 1845-1913 by Kenneth R. Bailey
Volume XXII, Number 4: October 2008
West Virginia Historical Society Annual Meeting
Volume XXII, Number 3: July 2008
The Impact of the Mechanization of the Coal Industry on the Population and Economy of Twentieth Century West Virginia by Christopher Price
Volume XXII, Number 2: April 2008
History of Labor and West Virginia Politics by Michael K. Wilson
Volume XXII, Number 1: January 2008
The Marietta Manufacturing Company by Brocton Skeen
Volume XXI, Number 4: October 2007
Off the Job: A Brief Look at Recreation in the Coal Fields, 1880-1930 by Kenneth R. Bailey, Ph. D.
Volume XXI, Number 3: July 2007
The COBIA'S Toughest Battle by Larry L. Legge
Volume XXI, Number 2: April 2007
Carl G. Bachmann: West Virginia Congressional Leader by
Michael K. Wilson
Volume XXI, Number 1: January 2007
The Boyd B. Stutler Collection: Bringing John Brown's Legacy Back
to West Virginia by Stan Bumgardner
Volume XX, Number 4: October 2006
Irish Boy In America by Gerald Baughman
Volume XX, Number 3: July 2006
Grandma Moses and West Virginia by Frank Johnston
Volume XX, Number 2: April 2006
Rendered Obsolete: History of the South Charleston Naval Ordnance
and Armor Plant by Justin Salisbury
Volume XX, Number 1: January 2006
Mountain Empire by Michael K. Wilson
Volume XIX, Number 4: October 2005
Soldiers in the Strike by Virginia Wood
Volume XIX, Number 3: July 2005
West Virginia's State Parks by Robert L. Beanblossom
Volume XIX, Number 2: April 2005
Virgil's Great-Grandpa: Unravelling an Obsession by Herb W.
Depke
Volume XIX, Number 1: January 2005
"Honest, I Couldn't Make This Stuff Up" by Kenneth R. Bailey
Volume XVIII, Number 4: October 2004
The Death of Major Samuel McColloch: Historical Record and Oral
History (PDF file) by Bruce D. Bonar
Volume XVIII, Number 3: July 2004
A Lindbergh Story by Thomas O. James
Volume XVIII, Number 2:
April 2004
West Virginia's Chemical Industry (PDF
file) by Nathan Cantrell
Volume XVII, Number 4: October 2003
Photographic Essay on the West Virginia State Police in Mingo County, 1920s by Merle T. Cole
Volume XVII, Number 3: July
2003
"Mere Military Color": The State Police and
Martial Law by Merle T. Cole
Volume XVII, Number 2: April
2003
Hazel Atlas: A Home-Grown Corporation
by Joan Weiskircher
Wheeling's Athenaeum 1854-1868 by
Edward L. Phillips
Volume XVII, Number 1: January
2003
Red Men and Rednecks: The Fraternal Lodge
in the Coal Fields by Fred
Barkey
Volume XVI, Number 4: October
2002
The Cranes of Greenbrier County by
Diane Crane Benelli, C. Michael Pavesi, Charles A. Cohenour and
Kathy Cohenour
Volume XVI, Number 3: July
2002
Soldiers of the New Empire: The Gaujot
Brothers of Mingo County (Part Two) by Merle T.
Cole
Volume XVI, Number 2: April
2002
Soldiers of the New Empire: The Gaujot
Brothers of Mingo County (Part One) by Merle T.
Cole
Volume XVI, Number 1: January
2002
World War One and the Miners of Southern
West Virginia by April D.
Wolfe
Volume XV, Number 4: October
2001
The Collapse of the Silver Bridge by
Chris LeRose
Volume XV, Number 3: July
2001
Coal Miners and Their Communities in
Southern Appalachia, 1925-1941 (Part Two) by Rhonda Janney
Coleman
Volume XV, Number 2: April
2001
Coal Miners and Their Communities in
Southern Appalachia, 1925-1941 (Part One) by Rhonda Janney
Coleman
Volume XV, Number 1: January
2001
Confederate Soldiers: Why Did They Enlist?
(Part Two) by Michael Baxter
Shock
Volume XIV, Number 4: October
2000
Confederate Soldiers: Why Did They Enlist?
(Part One) by Michael Baxter
Shock
Volume XIV, Number 3: June
2000
Thurmond: The Rise and Fall of a Coal
City by Jessica M. Fair
Volume XIV, Number 2: April
2000
Two Hundred Years in the Telling by Dr.
Barbara Smith
Volume XIV, Number 1: January
2000
The Role of the River in the Development of
West Virginia Commerce by Steve
Kenwolf
Volume XIII, Number 4: October 1999
Volume XIII, Number 3: July
1999
Booker Taliaferro Washington by Julie
Minter
Volume XIII, Number 2: April
1999
John Brown: Road of an Abolitionist by
Rebecca McPhail
Samples
Volume XIII, Number 1: January
1999
Helvetia: Little Switzerland by Sara
Akers
A Chronicle of the Life of Harman
Blennerhasset by Michael
Burke
Volume XII, Number 4: October
1998
A History of Whitewater Rafting in West
Virginia by Armand
Gruspe
Volume XII, Number 3: July
1998
A Brief History of the Disciples of Christ
in West Virginia by Terrance
Hamm
Volume XII, Number 2: April
1998
Hawks' Nest by Jennifer Jordan
Book Review: Ohio County (WV)
Index
Volume XII, Number 1: January
1998
Dr. Cyrus Alexander Rupert, 1810 -
1891 by Don M. Rupert and W. T. Lawrence
West Virginia "Firsts" by Kate
Quinn
Volume XI, Number 4: November
1997
Upshur County Historical Society Hosts
Annual Meeting
Labor's Blue-Eyed Angel, Part II by
Claude A. Frazier, M.D. and F. K.
Brown
Volume XI, Number 3: August
1997
Labor's Blue-Eyed Angel, Part I by
Claude A. Frazier, M.D. and F. K.
Brown
Volume XI, Number 2: April
1997
The West Virginia Turnpike: "88 Miles of
Miracle" by Christopher R.
Monday
Volume X, Number 4 & Volume XI,
Number 1: January 1997
Folk Medicine by Peggy S. Fisher
The Short Unhappy Life of William Seymour
Douglass -- Part II by Frederick
Nolan
Volume X, Number 3: October
1996
Annual Meeting Held in Mineral County,
September 14 & 15
The Short Unhappy Life of William Seymour
Douglass -- Part I by Frederick
Nolan
Volume X, Number 2: June
1996
West Virginia History on the Internet
by Stan Bumgardner and Chris Kreiser
West Virginia National Guard 2nd Regiment
(Organized in Southern West
Virginia)
Volume IX, Number 4 & Volume X,
Number 1: March 1996
"Thy Brother's Blood": Capital Punishment in
West Virginia by Stan Bumgardner and Christine Kreiser
Letter from West Virginia Penitentiary
warden to the House of Delegates, concerning use of the
electric chair, January 23,
1905