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WWII PostersArchives-document"An Introduction to Archives and History," with Joe Geiger, February 15, 2018"Jemima Boone," with Rebecca Park, March 15, 2018"Time Capsules to Our Past: Identifying and Preserving our Photographic Images," with Nat DeBruin, April 19, 2018"1968," with Jack Canfield, May 17, 2018"World War I: Honoring and Remembering Soldiers Who Gave All in the Great War," with Benjamin Woodard and Pat McClure, May 24, 2018"African American Life: A Personal Perspective," with Anna Evans Gilmer, May 31, 2018"African American Life: A Personal Perspective," with Edward Hargro, June 28, 2018"The Iraq War, 1998-2018: Quagmire in Babylon," with Joseph Wyatt and Dan Wyatt, July 12, 2018"Vanishing Act: Rediscovering the South Charleston Naval Ordnance Plant," with Kyle Warmack, July 19, 2018"African American Life: A Personal Perspective," with Sim Fryson, July 26, 2018"Charleston Beautiful on the Kanawha," with Charlie Cooper and Billy Joe Peyton, August 16, 2018"African American Life: A Personal Perspective," with Dr. R. Charles Byers, August 30, 2018"West Virginia’s Billion Dollar Man: Senator Robert C. Byrd," with C. Damien Arthur, September 4, 2018"Carter G. Woodson and the Woodson Century of Making Black Lives Matter," with Burnis R. Morris, October 18, 2018"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"Early Native Americans in West Virginia: The Fort Ancient Culture," with Darla Spencer, April 20, 2017New Gallery"Cultural Crossroads: Establishing the 17th Century Fur Trade in the Trans-Allegheny Region" with Doug Wood, June 15, 2017"Memories of the Valley 2016" with Eric Douglas, June 22, 2017"African American Life: A Personal Perspective," with Rev. Paul H. Easley, July 27, 2017"African American Life: A Personal Perspective," with Chlorine Grigsby Carter, August 31, 2017"Dupont High School Football," with Jesse Skiles, October 5, 2017"The Myths and Realities of Senator Robert C. Byrd," with David Corbin, November 2, 2017"The Norfolk and Western Railroad: Its Ohio Extension and Kenova District," with Tim Hensley, November 16, 2017"Pearl Harbor Remembered: We Were There," with Patricia McClure and George Washington High School Students, December 7, 2017"Plantation Archeology, Industrial Slavery and the Glenwood Project," with Dr. Robert F. Maslowski, January 5, 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"History of a Loudon Heights Garden Club and Neighborhood-Revisited," with Pam Harvit, February 2, 2016"Growing Up in Charleston and Other Lesser Known Facts," with Jerry Waters, March 17, 2016"Published Works of Huey Perry," with Huey Perry, April 21, 2016"Rocking the Kanawha: The Golden Age of Music in the Kanawha Valley," with Terry Lowry, May 19, 2016"African American Life: A Personal Perspective," with Joseph E. Turner, May 26, 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 Dr. Cubert Smith, June 30, 2016"African American Life: A Personal Perspective," with Gary Mays, July 28, 2016"African American Life: A Personal Perspective," with Rosa Lena Pickel, August 18, 2016"Reconstruction in West Virginia, 1865-1875: A Failure that Led to Future Mistakes," with Greg Carroll, September 15, 2016"The Wizard Clip:The History and Memory of West Virginia's Earliest Ghost Story," with Jon-Erik Gilot, October 13, 2016"Capturing Memories: How to Record Oral Histories," with Eric Douglas, October 20, 2016"Slavery and Free People of Color in Virginia," with Greg Carroll, January 6, 2015"Genealogy Research Strategies," with Randy Marcum, January 15, 2015"Land Grants in West Virginia," with Russell Rollyson, February 3, 2015"Opera in West Virginia," with Randall Reid-Smith, February 26, 2015"Underground Railroad," with Chris Saunders, March 3, 2015"The West Virginia Lobotomy Project, 1948-1955," with Dr. James Spencer, March 19, 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"Outlaws in West Virginia: War, Whiskey, and Wonder:and not a Robin Hood in Sight," with Dr. Melissa Sartore, May 5, 2015"J. Q. Dickinson Saltworks," with Carter and Nancy Bruns, May 14, 20152015 Block Speaker Series "African American Life in Charleston," with Lewis R. Smoot Sr., May 21, 2015"History of the West Virginia Supreme Court," with Rory Perry, June 2, 2015"West Virginia Songs," with John Lilly, June 18, 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"Blood in West Virginia, Brumfield v. McCoy," with Brandon Kirk, July 16, 20152015 Block Speaker Series "African American Life in Charleston," with Hubert S. "Rabbit" Jones, July 23, 2015"New River Gorge Bridge," with Erin Riebe, August 4, 2015"Emancipation and Statehood in West Virginia," with Dr. Michael Woods, August 20, 20152015 Block Speaker Series "African American Life in Charleston," with Richard H. Payne, August 27, 2015"Flintlock Rifles of West Virginia," with Clarence Craigo, September 1, 2015"West Virginia's Food Heritage," with Stan Bumgardner, September 17, 2015"When Sadie Hawkins Went to College," with Mary Johnson, October 22, 2015"An American in Madras," with Karan Bali and Dick Fauss, November 5, 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"West Virginia Rosie the Riveters," with Anne Montague, November 19, 2015"The 'Other' West Virginia: Positive Images of the State from the 30s and 40s," with Betty Rivard, January 7, 2014"Parkersburg: Guardian of the Union during the Civil War," with Dr. Michael Workman, January 23, 2014"West Virginia Courthouses," with Patti Hamilton, Mike Gioulis, and Melissa Smith, February 4, 2014"Covered Bridges of West Virginia," with Terry Lively, February 20, 2014"From the Burning of Chambersburg to the Battle of Moorefield," with Rick Wolfe, March 4, 2014"Victory Loan Tour of 1945," with Dr. James Spencer, March 13, 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"The Life and Times of Collis P. Huntington," with James Casto, April 1, 2014"Monsters and Mayhem in the Mountain State," with Mike Knost, April 17"Civil War Ceredo, A Northern Experiment," with Dr. Ken Bailey, May 6, 2014"Loyalty They Always Had: The 7th WV Cavalry In the Civil War," with Steve Cunningham, May 15, 2014"Wayne County: Slavery and the Civil War," with Robert Thompson, June 3, 2014"West Virginia Scenic Trails Association," with Doug Woods and Nick Lozano, June 12, 2014"Hippie Homesteaders: Arts, Crafts, Music and Living on the Land in West Virginia," with Carter Taylor Seaton, June 19, 2014"African American Life in Charleston: A Personal Perspective," with Thomas Tyree, June 26, 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"The Riverine World," with Gerald W. Sutphin, July 17, 2014"African American Life in Charleston: A Personal Perspective Part II," with Charles H. James III, July 24, 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 III," with Barbara Hicks Lacy, August 28, 2014"Incidents of Morgan's Raid with an Account of Stovepipe Johnson's Retreat through West Virginia," with Brian Kesterson, September 2, 2014"Family Heritage Music," with Bobby Taylor, assisted by Kim Johnson and Charlie Winter, September 11, 2014"African American Life: A Personal Perspective Part IV," with James Preston Estes Sr., September 25, 2014"Thirty-Five Years Studying:and Being Part of:the History of The Greenbrier" with Dr. Robert Conte, October 7, 2014"West Virginia Voices of War: Oral Histories from West Virginia War Veterans," with Eric Douglas, November 6, 2014"The West Virginia Rosie the Riveter Program: A Model for America," with Anne Montague, November 13, 2014"Firearms throughout West Virginia's Early History," with Jim Mitchell, November 20, 2014"The Socialist Party in West Virginia," with Dr. Fred Barkey, January 8, 2013"West Virginia Death Records," with Randy Marcum, January 10, 2013"West Virginia Country Music and Goldenseal Magazine," with John Lilly, February 5, 2013"Native American Research," with Greg Carroll, February 21, 2013"The History of Charleston," with Dr. Billy Joe Peyton, March 5, 2013"The Roots of Un-civil War: The 250th Anniversary of Cornstalk's Campaign," with Doug Wood, March 14, 2013"The West Virginia State College Aviation Program--Tuskegee Airmen Connection in 'The Experiment?'," with Dr. Charles Ledbetter, April 2, 2013"Slavery in Virginia, 1619-1861," with Greg Carroll, April 11, 2013"Reconstructing Bill: The Story of Governor William C. Marland," with Russ Barbour and Dick Fauss, May 7, 2013"The Haunted History of the West Virginia Penitentiary," with Sherri Brake, May 9, 2013"Dixie's Daughters: Women and the Preservation of Confederate Memory," with Dr. Karen L. Cox, June 4, 2013"Women in Civil War West Virginia," with Mary Johnson, June 13, 2013"Rock Springs Park," with Joseph A. Comm, July 2, 2013"The Clendenin Family and the Clendenin Massacre," with Greg Clendenin, July 11, 2013"West Virginia Rivers, Steamboats and River Improvements," with Gerald Sutphin, August 5, 2013"'Don't Cuss Me': Saloons, Liquor, and Gunplay in West Virginia's Early Coal Camps," with Dr. Paul Rakes, August 8, 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, 2013Hillside Fields: A History of Sports in West Virginia," with Dr. Bob Barnett, September 10, 2013"Family History, the SAR, and Re-enacting," with Steve Hart, September 12, 2013"Genealogy and the Revolutionary War," with Joetta Kuhn and Patsy Adkins, September 26, 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"Finding Hidden Ancestors," with Jeanne Eppley, October 10, 2013"The Battle of Charleston and the 1862 Kanawha Valley Campaign," with Terry Lowry, November 5, 2013"The History of Charleston: The Modern Era," with Dr. Billy Joe Peyton, November 14, 2013Memoirs as History: Small Town Life in West Virginia in the 1950s, with Bob Barnett, January 3, 2012Pictures of the January 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Jim Mitchell, presenterJ. R. Clifford and the Carrie Williams Case, with Tom Rodd, February 7, 2012Pictures of the February 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Don Teter, presenterBobby Kennedy and West Virginia's 1968 Presidential Primary, with Raamie Barker, February 23, 2012Civil War Sites in West Virginia, with Bethany Canfield, March 6, 2012Pictures of the March 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Susan Hayden, presenterPresidential Whistle Stops in West Virginia, with Bob Withers, April 3, 2012Pictures of the April 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Dr. Charles Ledbetter, presenterEvery Blood-Stained Mile: The Building of the Norfolk and Western in West Virginia, with Jack and Kay Dickinson, May 1, 2012Pictures of the May 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Dr. Cicero Fain, presenterOld Malden, with Larry L. Rowe, June 5, 2012Pictures of the June 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Gilbert Casto, presenterHatfield and McCoy Feud: Complex Individuals, Complex Events, with Randy Marcum, July 10, 2012Pictures of the July 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Mary Glass, presenterThey're from Here?: Artists from the Mountain State, with Jeff Pierson, August 7, 2012Pictures of the August 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Joe Geiger, presenterGlass from the Mountain State: A Very Broad View of 200 Years, with Dean Six, September 4, 2012Pictures of the September 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Susan Scouras, presenterPaint Creek-Cabin Creek, with Ken Bailey, Fred Barkey, Paul Nyden, and Ginny Ayres, September 22, 2012Pictures of the October 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Greg Carroll, presenterPostcards of Charleston, with Stan Bumgardner, October 2, 2012The Archaeology of the Thornhill Estate, with Dr. Annette EricksenFrontier Forts, with Drs. Stephen and Kim McBridePictures of the November 2012 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Pat McClure, presenter"Scratch 'em and Sue 'em," with Dr. Kenneth Bailey, November 13, 2012Pictures of the January 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with John McClure, presenterPictures of the February 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Bob Fish, presenterPictures of the March 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Joetta Kuhn, presenterPictures of the April 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Susan Hayden, presenterPictures of the May 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with George A. Hill, presenterPictures of the June 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Carolyn Kender and Sara Prior, presentersPictures of the July 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Ken Hechler, presenterPictures of the August 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Greg Carroll, presenterPictures of the September 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Alex P. Schust, presenterPictures of the October 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Nancy Sparks Morrison, presenterPictures of the November 2011 meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Kitty Baughan Cole, presenterA Primer on West Virginia Archeology, with Bob Maslowski, January 4, 2011African American Women's Activism in the Mountain State, with Lois Lucas, February 1, 2011The Forgotten Battles of the Mine Wars: The Fairmont Field, with Dr. Michael Workman, March 1, 2011Logging and Shortline Railroads of the Mountain State, with Lloyd Lewis, April 5, 2011West Virginia's Heritage Music, with Bobby Taylor, May 3, 2011Archives and History Movie Night: Footage from the Collection, with Dick Fauss, June 7, 2011Decorating Carr China, with Jim Mitchell, July 5, 2011The Resurgence of Anikituhwa: Language and Cultural Revitalization among the Eastern Band Cherokee, with Travis Henline, August 2, 2011History of the West Virginia State Park System, with Bob Beanblossom, September 6, 2011Slavery in the Ohio and Kanawha River Valleys, with Philip Sturm, October 11, 2011West Virginia State Police: The First Two Decades, with Merle Cole, November 1, 2011Pictures of the December meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Debbie Campbell, presenter May 12, 2009Pictures of the November meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Greg Carroll, presenterPictures of the October meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Debra Basham, presenterPictures of the September meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Greg Carroll, presenterPictures of the August meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Bryan Ward, presenterPictures of the July meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Esther Warner, presenterPictures of the June meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club, with Terry Lowry, speakerPictures of the first meeting of the Evening Genealogy Club on April 15, 2010Pictures of the first meeting of the Genealogy Club on January 19, 2010Genealogy and Law: An Introduction to Some Legal Issues in Genealogical Research, by Scott Johnson, January 5, 2010Digging into West Virginia's 18th Century, Groundhog Style, by Doug Wood, February 2, 2010Going Back Before 1850: Genealogical Strategies for Early American Research, by Jaime Simmons, March 2, 2010The Combat Scenario: Early West Virginia Coal Mining's Culture of Danger, by Dr. Paul H. Rakes, speaker, April 6, 2010Battleground West Virginia: Electing the President in 1960, May 4, 2010West Virginia Statehood, by Joe Geiger, speaker, June 1, 2010Put Your Family's Memories in a Scrapbook, with Lynn Barney, July 6, 2010Genealogy for Beginners, with Susan Scouras, August 3, 2010Charleston: Then & Now, with Dr. Billy Joe Peyton, September 7, 2010Yiayia's Bundle: A Greek Experience in West Virginia, with Pam Makricosta, October 5, 2010Researching Military History, with Terry Lowry, November 9, 2010Digging into the Draper Collection, with Jaime Simmons, December 7, 2010Put Your Family's Memories in a Scrapbook, by Lynn Barney, May 12, 2009Second Scrapbooking Workshop, by Lynn Barney, September 1, 2009The West Virginia National Guard, 1898-1919," by Brian Kesterson, June 2, 2009Golden Horseshoe Alumni Reunion, June 19, 20097th West Virginia Cavalry Descendants Reunion, July 11, 2009Beginning Genealogy Workshop, by Susan Scouras, August 4, 2009A Glimpse at Some Lesser Known Prominent West Virginians, by Dr. Kenneth R. Bailey, December 1, 2009Archives and History Showcase, December 7, 2009"A Veterans Day Commemorative," with George Washington High School JROTC, November 9, 2019"Rebecca Harding Davis," with Rebekah Karelis and Margaret Brennan, October 26, 2019"West Virginia in the Civil War Symposium," with Richard Armstrong, Hunter Lesser, Dr. Katharine Antolini, and Terry Lowry, September 28, 2019"African American Life: A Personal Perspective," with Elliot G. Hicks, July 20, 2019"African American Life: A Personal Perspective," with Betty Cardwell Spencer, June 29, 2019"African American Life: A Personal Perspective," with Monique M. Chouraeshkenazi, May 11, 2019"The Evolution of the West Virginia Movie Theatre," with Kelli Shapiro, April 13, 2019"Order from Chaos: The Creation of West Virginia’s State Police Department," with Aaron Parsons, March 30, 2019Archives ExhibitMarkersBlack History Lecture - Black History and the Courts with Olubunmi Kusimo - FrazierBill KelleyJamie's Last DayCivil War MedallionsNew River Elementary visits WV Archives Jan 23rd and Feb 11thHoot Owl 20182018 Legislative Interns visit Archives Group 1Kanawha Salt Works- Historical DocumentsSistersville MarkerJohn Morgan Trial DocumentsMapsArchives PresentationsArchives
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