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

West Virginia Independence Hall. Travis Henline, site manager for West Virginia Independence Hall, talked about the history of the building which started as the Wheeling Custom Ho ...

Rivalries are the lifeblood of college football. But their history is often inextricably intertwined with the history of our ...

The unabashed xenophobia is no doubt thanks, in part, to Donald Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric. The president has recently ...

West Virginia's capital moved back and forth from Wheeling to Charleston several times before Charleston became the permanent capital city in 1885. Tour guide Alexander Griffith explained the history ...

Virginia is granting more than $3.9 million to protect 621 acres of lands where Civil War battles raged, including two sites in Henrico County and one in Dinwiddie County.

U.S. citizens living in the states from census counts that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons ...

In the early months of the American Revolution, Daniel Morgan and his soldiers raced north to join the Continental Army during the so-called Beeline March ...

Charles Bettisworth was born in King George County, Va., on Nov. 23(4), 1754. He enlisted in the Continental Army when only 18 years of age, three years after the battle ...