The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

Admitted to the Union in 1863, West Virginia was the only state created from breaking apart from a Confederate state during the Civil War and played a key role as a border state. A West Virginia ...

Strategically, the Eastern Theater was arguably the most important battleground of the Civil War; comprising the states of Virginia, West Virginia Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the District of ...

US Supreme Court Rejects West Virginia’s Effort to Deny a 12-Year-Old Trans Girl Her Right to Play US Supreme Court Rejects West Virginia’s Effort to Deny a 12-Year-Old Trans Girl Her Right to Play ...

Famous for leading the ill-fated "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg, George Pickett was a West Point ... killed by the war's end. George Edward Pickett was raised in Richmond, Virginia, the eldest ...

BEVERLY — Two Randolph County organizations have received state grants for a pair of historical projects. The West Virginia Humanities Council recently awarded seven new minigrants, including one to ...

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) - Lori Sexton received the West Virginia History Hero Award this month for her work with the Mercer County Historical Society and her research on women during the Civil War.