Pro Bike Races Return To Charleston
The 2026 USA Cycling Professional Road National Championships will take place June 16-21 on the roads of downtown Charleston.
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Battle of Matewan
Appalachia’s “Gunmen Of Capitalism” And The Matewan Massacre
This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the largest armed uprising in America since the Civil War, and a major event in West Virginia history: the Battle of Blair Mountain. The battle came in 1921, several months after the Matewan Massacre, a shootout that’s also been imm...
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsJanuary 17, 1947: Labor Lawyer Harold Houston Dies in Florida
Labor lawyer Harold Houston died in Florida on January 17, 1947, at age 74. When he was young, his parents moved from Ohio to Jackson County and then to…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsDo You Know Where the Word "Redneck" Comes From? Mine Wars Museum Opens, Revives Lost Labor History
Do You Know Where the Word "Redneck" Comes From?
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWill Heritage Help Turn Matewan Around?
As part of the West Virginia Focus Magazine project called Turn This Town Around, experts with the West Virginia Community Development HUB are helping…
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