San Antonio College Library

In his clear, eminently readable style, Williams organizes the tangled strands of West Virginia's past around a few dramatic events : the battle of Point Pleasant, John Brown's insurrection in Harper's Ferry, the Paint Creek labor movement, the Hawk's Nest and Buffalo Creek disasters, and more. Williams uses these pivotal events as introductions to the larger issues of statehood, Civil War, unionism, and industrialization. Along the way, Williams...

In this first single-authored history of Virginia since the 1970s, Peter Wallenstein traces major themes across four centuries in a brisk narrative that recalls the people and events that have shaped the Old Dominion.

The Allegheny frontier, comprising the mountainous area of present-day West Virginia and bordering states, is studied here in a broad context of frontier history and national development. The region was significant in the great American westward movement, but Otis K. Rice seeks also to call attention to the impact of the frontier experience upon the later history of the Allegheny Highlands. He sees a relationship between its prolonged frontier experience...

"The culmination of a ten-year project undertaken by the West Virginia Heritage Quilt Search, this illustrated volume presents samples of more than four thousand quilts made before 1940. Among the highlights of the search are the discoveries of hand-stitched textiles largely unknown to the general public." "West Virginia Quilts and Quiltmakers is a tribute to quiltmakers in every era, but especially to the women of West Virginia's past, who communicated...