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Vol. 14, No. 1, 1952 October ($4.00)

• A History of Marshall College, 1850-1886, Part II by Toole, Robert
  
• Documents: Division of Documents West Virginia University by Lambert, O. D.
  
• Documents: The Legal Control of Higher Education in West Virginia by Kirby, David
  
• The West Virginia Venture: Empire Out of Wilderness by Marquess, E. Lawrence

Vol. 15, No. 4, 1954 July ($4.00)

• Banking in Fayette County, West Virginia by Donnelly, Shirley
  
• Calhoun County in World War II by Gunn, Eloise
  
• The Normal Training High School Movement in West Virginia by Woods, Roy C.
  
• Thomas Rawlings and David Hoffman: Promoters of Western Virginia Immigration by Shepperson, Wilbur S.

Vol. 17, No. 4, 1956 July ($4.00)

• A Short History of Education in West Virginia by Woods, Roy C.
  
• Documents: West Virginia Estate Settlements (Berkeley County, 1772-1815), continued from April issue by Johnston, Ross B.
  
• The Spirit of Freedom in Western Virginia After 1800 by Sheeler, John Reuben

Vol. 18, No. 2, 1957 January ($4.00)

• Documents: West Virginia Estate Settlements (Berkeley County, 1815-1850), continued from July 1956 issue by Johnston, Ross B.
  
• Petitions of Western Virginians to Their General Assembly in Richmond by Hemphill, W. Edwin
  
• The Early Empire Days of the United States by Volwiler, A. T.

Vol. 20, No. 3, 1959 April ($4.00)

• "Porte Crayon" and the Local Color Movement in West Virginia by Eby, Cecil D., Jr.
  
• John Brown -- They Had A Concern by Lord, Jeannette Mather
  
• The History of the Now Extinct Shelton College by Treanor, Edwin B.

Vol. 22, No. 3, 1961 April ($4.00) - only 1 copy

• John Brown at Harpers Ferry: A Contemporary Analysis, by Barmann, Lawrence F.
  
• An Early Geologic Map of West Virginia, by Latimer, I. S. Jr.
  
• Robert Bailey: Tiger of the Valley, by Fishwick, Marshall
  
• The Romance of a Man in Gray--Including the Love Letters of Captain James S. Peery, Forty-Fifth Virginia Infantry Regiment, C. S. A., Installment II, by Hilldrup, Robert Leroy
  
• Document: West Virginia Estate Settlements (Randolph County), abstracted by Johnston, Ross B.
  

Vol. 28, No. 1, 1966 October ($4.00)

• The Scientific Avocation of a Political Man: Harman Blennerhassett by Chakrabarty, Linda H. Heindel and Ned D. Heindel
  
• Governor William E. Glasscock and Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Bull Moose Candidacy by Casdorph, Paul Douglas
  
• Rich Mountain Revisited by Shaffer, Dallas B.
  
• A Political Biography of Henry Hatfield by Karr, Carolyn
  

Vol. 30, No. 3, 1969 April ($4.00)

• Development of Surface Mine Legislation, 1939-1967, by Bailey, Kenneth R.
  
• Statehood for West Virginia--An Illegal Act?, by Winston, Sheldon
  
• Coming of the Chemical Industry to Middle Appalachia, by Carpenter, Charles
  
• A Brief Biography of the Reverend John West Reger, D.D., by Witschey, Warren Lee
  
• Document: The Legislation of the "Old Dominion," Relative to the Capital City of West Virginia, by Baines, J. D.
  

Vol. 30, No. 4, 1969 July ($4.00) - only 1 copy

• Peter Bryan Bruin of Bath: Soldier, Judge and Frontiersman, by Coker, William S.
  
• Spencer Roane and the Property of Rights: A Post-Revolutionary View, by Horsnell, M. E.
  
• How West Virginia Became a Member of the Federal Union, a reprint, by Lewis, Virgil A.
  
• West Virginiana: Letters from a Father to his Son, by Alexander, Charles B.
  
• Hawk's Nest Coal Company Strike, January 1880, by Bailey, Kenneth R.
  
• Document: War, Death and Victory: A Note on Human Suffering (a letter from John Hall, president of West Virginia's First Constitutional Convention to ex-Governor William Dennison, of Ohio, January 25, 1861), edited by Curry, Richard O.
  

Vol. 31, No. 1, 1969 October ($4.00) - only 1 copy

• Marine T. Wickham, Master Armorer, by Rudulph, Marilou Alston
  
• Bypath to Freedom, by Steel Jr., Edward M.
  
• The Unfortunate Military Career of Henry A. Wise in Western Virginia, by Lockard, E. Kidd
  

Vol. 32, No. 4, 1971 July ($4.00) - only 1 copy, slightly damaged

• West Virginia's Image: The 1960 Presidential Primary and the National Press, by Mullen, Jay Carlton
  
• "Tell the Boys to Fall in Line," by Bailey, Kenneth R.
  
• A Frontier Store in Western Virginia, by Lewis, Clifford M.
  
• History of the Preston County Journal, by Zinn, Patricia Ann
  
• Steamboat Whistles on the Coal, by Dean, William H.
  

Vol. 33, No. 2, 1972 January ($4.00)

• Alexander Campbell's Thoughts on Slavery and Abolition by Eminhizer, Earl Eugene
  
• Booker T. Washington and the Kanawha Valley, 1875-1879 by Harlan, Louis R.
  
• Document: A Note and Documents on the Wayne County Shooting Incident During the Election Campaign of 1894 by Williams, John Alexander
  
• Educational Broadcasting in West Virginia (A Sequel) by Brawley, Harry M.

Vol. 34, No. 1, 1972 October ($4.00)

• Of Banks and Politics: The Bank and the Election of 1840 by Gilbert, Abby L.
  
• Re-evaluating John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry by Whitman, Karen
  
• The Heritage of the Frontier by Clark, Thomas D.

Vol. 34, No. 3, 1973 April ($4.00)

• R.M.T. Hunter and the Secession Crisis, 1860-1861: A Southern Plan for Reconstruction by Crow, Jeffrey J.
  
• Status and Sectionalism in West Virginia by Barns, William D.
  
• West Virginia, The "Heathen Chinee," and the "California Conspiracy" by Hammersmith, Jack L.

Vol. 34, No. 4, 1973 July ($4.00)

• Black Monongalians: A Judicial View of Slavery and the Negro in Monongalia County, 1776-1865 by Steel, Edward M., Jr.
  
• Document: Arthur I. Boreman in Fear of The Future of The New State by Woodward, Isaiah A.
  
• Status and Sectionalism in West Virginia, Part II by Barns, William D.

Vol. 35, No. 1, 1973 October ($4.00)

• Howard Sutherland's 1920 Bid for the Presidency by Casdorph, Paul Douglas
  
• The First Fifty Years of Strip Mining in West Virginia, 1916-1965 by Munn, Robert F.
  
• The Swan Ponds Manor of Thomas Sixth Lord Fairfax by Morrison, Charles
  
• The Wheeling Gazette and the Question of Greek Independence in Western Virginia, 1821-1828 by Pappas, Paul C.
  
• West Virginians with General Taylor in Mexico by Crowson, E. T.

Vol. 35, No. 2, 1974 January ($4.00) - only 1 copy

• Coal, Congress and The Courts: The Bituminous Coal Industry and the New Deal, by Longin, Thomas C.
  
• A Glimpse of Charleston in the 1890s from a Contemporary Diary, by Trotter, Margret G.
  
• A Jeffersonian's Dissent: John W. Davis and the Campaign of 1936, by Jakoubek, Robert E.
  
• Document: Jesse Waugh, West Virginian, edited by Lee, David D.
  

Vol. 35, No. 4, 1974 July ($4.00)

• Berkeley's Non-Revolution: Law and Order and the Great Railway Strike of 1877 by Doherty, William T., Jr.
  
• Peter G. Van Winkle's Vote in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson: A West Virginia as a Profile in Courage by Howard, Thomas W.
  
• The Private Papers of West Virginia's "Boy Senator," Rush Dew Holt by Coode, Thomas H. (and Riggs, Agnes M.)

Vol. 36, No. 1, 1974 October ($4.00)

• Arthurdale: An Experiment in Community Education by Beezer, Bruce G.
  
• Forgotten Virginian -- From British Merchant to Prominent Citizen: Thomas Rutherford, 1776-1852 by Smith, Miriam Jane
  
• The Battle of Point Pleasant: First Battle of The American Revolution by MacDonald, Kenneth R., Jr.
  
• The Other War in 1774: Dunmore's War by Kerby, Robert L.
  
• William McKinley and Railroad Workers: Insight into Political Strategy by Waksmundski, John

Vol. 36, No. 3, 1975 April ($4.00)

• Alexander Campbell: Moral Educator of the Middle Frontier by Morrison, John L.
  
• Documents: West Virginia's First Governor's Grandfather Served as Deputy Paymaster General of the Continental Army During the American Revolutionary War. Selected Bicentennial Documents. . . . by Woodward, Isaiah A.
  
• Documents: What Happened at Beverly: The Account of Andrew J. Jones by Miller, William D.
  
• Religion and Politics: Alfred E. Smith and the Election of 1928 in West Virginia by Bradford, Richard H.
  
• The Expedition of Henry Lockwood to Accomac by Crowson, E. T.
  
• West Virginia's Mentally Ill During the Civil War Era: A Case of Interstate Cooperation by Levstik, Frank R.

Vol. 36, No. 4, 1975 July ($4.00)

• Documents: Prisoner of the Confederacy: Diary of a Union Artilleryman by Jennings, Warren A.
  
• The New Deal's Arthurdale Project in West Virginia by Coode, Thomas H. (and Fabbri, Dennis E.)
  
• Women and Education in West Virginia, 1810-1909 by Vossler, Kathryn Babb

Vol. 37, No. 1, 1975 October ($4.00)

• The Sims Higher Education Cases of West Virginia: A Study of Conflict Between a State Elected Official and the Governing Boards of Public Higher Education, 1949-1957, by Jackameit, William P.
  
• Some Political Concepts of Walter Reuther, by Hy, Ronn
  
• The Shift to Republicanism: William L. Wilson and the Election of 1894, by Tull, Thomas R.
  
• Document: Henry Dana Ward: Early Diarist of the Kanawha Valley, ed. by Carpenter, Charles

Vol. 37, No. 2, 1976 January ($4.00)

• Campbell's Post-Protestantism and Civil Religion by Whitson, Mont
  
• Documents: Concerning the Carvings on the Braxton and Yarmouth Stones by Harmon, Julius Frasch
  
• Documents: The Receipt Book of Perez Drew Schrock, Constable, Hampshire County, Virginia, 1815-1830 by Humphreys, Alfred W.
  
• Politicians and Property: Taxable Holdings of Early Western Virginia Congressman, 1801-1825 by Jordan, Daniel P.
  
• The "Republican Experiment" and the Election of 1796 in Virginia by Scherr, Arthur

Vol. 37, No. 3, 1976 April ($4.00)

• Document: Revolutionary War Courts of Claims, Monongalia County by Core, Earl L.
  
• In Quest of Equality: The West Virginia Experience by Smith, Douglas C.
  
• Lee, Gates, Stephen and Morgan: Revolutionary War Generals of the Lower Shenandoah Valley by Nelson, Paul David
  
• Some Problems of the Draft in Revolutionary Virginia by Lockard, E. Kidd

Vol. 37, No. 4, 1976 July ($4.00) - only 1 copy

• A Short History of Negro Public Higher Education in West Virginia, 1890-1965 by Jackameit, William P.
  
• Alexander Campbell: Freedom Fighter of The Middle Frontier by Morrison, John L.
  
• Document: A Letter From B. F. Kelly by de Aumente, Vesta Kelly and Jones, Orton A.
  
• Washington's Farewell Address and American Commerce by Fry, Joseph A.

Vol. 38, No. 2, 1977 January ($4.00)

• A West Virginia County's Experience with the 1918 Influenza Epidemic by Doherty, William T.
  
• Adlai E. Stevenson's Campaign Visit to West Virginia by Schlup, Leonard
  
• Congressmen John George Jackson and Republican Nationalism, 1813-1817 by Brown, Stephen W.
  
• Document: Events Prior to and During the Day General George Washington Resigned as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army -- 1783 by Woodward, Isaiah A.
  
• The Use and Extent of Slave Labor in the West Virginia Iron Industry: The Ante-Bellum Era by Lewis, Ronald L.

Vol. 38, No. 3, 1977 April ($4.00)

• The Depths of the Great Depression: Economic Collapse in West Virginia, 1932-1933 by Olson, James S.
  
• Unionization Struggles on Paint Creek, 1912-1913 by Sprague, Stuart Seely
  
• West Virginia's Best Known General Since "Stonewall" Jackson: John L. Hines by Peake, Louis A.

Vol. 38, No. 4, 1977 July ($4.00)

• Document: Kanawha Salines, 1835: John Geary's Letter by Young, W. Dana and Jones, Orton A.
  
• Log of The "Wee Vee:" The US Battleship West Virginia (Part I) by Smith, Myron J., Jr.
  
• Once in a Lifetime -- Wheeling Celebrates The United States Centennial: 1876 by Lawther, Dennis E.
  
• Socialist Influence in the West Virginia State Federation of Labor: The John Nugent Case by Barkey, Fred A.
  
• The McDonald Who Turned Washington Down by McDonald, William Naylor, III
  
• The New Department of Culture and History by Pyles, Rodney A.

Vol. 39, No. 1, 1977 Fall ($4.00)

• Log of the "Wee Vee": The US Battleship West Virginia, Part II, by Smith, Myron J. Jr.
  
• Race Relations and Institutional Responses in West Virginia - A History, by Smith, Douglas C.
  
• Document: Lieutenant Albert Davidson - Letters of a Virginia Soldier, ed. by Charles W. Turner

Vol. 39, Nos. 2 & 3, 1978 January-April ($8.00)

• The Freedmen's Bureau in West Virginia, by Stealey, John Edmund III
  
• Charles Ward and the James Rumsey: Regional Innovation in Steam Technology on the Western Rivers, by Parkinson, George P. Jr. and Brooks F. McCabe Jr.
  
• Racial Discrimination Against Free Blacks in Antebellum Virginia: The Case of Harry Jackson, by Bailey, Raymond C.
  
• Death, Grief and Motherhood: The Woman Who Inspired Mother's Day, by Johnson, James P.
  
• West Virginia and Mormonism's Rarest Book, by Brown, Lisle G.
  
• Matthew S. Holt: A West Virginia Individualist, by Coffey, William
  
• The 1952 West Virginia Gubernatorial Election, by Lutz, Paul F.
  
• Document: Slavery and the Republican Experiment: A View from Western Virginia in 1806, ed. by Hickey, Donald R.

Vol. 39, No. 4, 1978 July ($4.00)

• "Fort Gaddis" and the Construction of A Revolutionary War Fort at Beech Bottom, West Virginia by Carlisle, Ronald C.
  
• Michael Cresap and the Cresap Rifles by McGinn, Robert and Vaden, Larry
  
• The Education of the Thirteenth United States Chief Justice: Frederick Moore Vinson by Hatcher, John Henry

Vol. 40, No. 2, 1979 Winter ($4.00) - only 1 copy

• The Role of Black Infantry in the Expansion of the West, by Hurtt, Clarence M.
  
• A West Virginia Dilemma: Martin vs Board of Education, by Smith, Douglas C.
  
• Early Land Grants and Settlers Along Patterson Creek, by Morrison, Charles
  

Vol. 41, No. 1, 1979 Fall ($4.00)

• "One Place on this Great Green Planet Where Andrew Carnegie can't get a Monument with his Money" by Javersak, David T.
  
• John Kee and the Point Four Compromise by Hardin, William H.
  
• The Politics of World War II Science: Senator Harley M. Kilgore and the Legislative Origins of the National Science Foundation by Maddox, Robert Franklin

Vol. 41, No. 2, 1980 Winter ($4.00)

• "Grim Visaged Men" and the West Virginia National Guard in the 1912-13 Paint and Cabin Creek Strike, by Bailey, Kenneth R.
  
• Clarence W. Meadows, W. W. Trent and Educational Reform in West Virginia, by Casdorph, Paul D.
  
• Coal Men of the Smokeless Coal Fields, by Sullivan, Ken

Vol. 41, No. 4, 1980 Summer ($4.00)

• Building the Weston and Gauley Bridge Turnpike by Kemp, Emory L. and Kemp, Janet

Vol. 42, Nos. 1 & 2, 1980 Fall-1981 Winter double issue ($8.00; Nos. 1 & 2 and 3 & 4 available for $12.00 total)

• Historic Rock Carvings in the Ohio Valley by Lady, C. Lynn and Maslowski, Robert F.
  
• National American History With Regional Readjustment: The Southern Stance of Chitwood, Owsley, Nixon, and Patrick by Doherty, William T.
  
• Rear Admiral French Ensor Chadwick: Sailor and Scholar by Peake, Louis A.
  
• Report of Freedmen's Bureau Operations in West Virginia: Agents in the Eastern Panhandle by Stealey, John E., III
  
• Wheeling's German Singing Societies by Wolf, Edward C.

Vol. 42, Nos. 3 & 4, 1981 Spring-Summer double issue ($8.00; Nos. 1 & 2 and 3 & 4 available for $12.00 total)

• Herman Guy Kump and the West Virginia Fiscal Crisis of 1933 by Gatrell, A. Steven
  
• John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry and Governor Henry Alexander Wise's Letter to President James Buchanan Concerning the Invasion by Woodward, Isaiah A.
  
• Publicizing Progressivism: William M. O. Dawson by Burckel, Nicholas C.
  
• The Celebrated White Sulphur Springs of Greenbrier: Nineteenth Century Travel Accounts by Conte, Robert S.
  
• The Healing Science in the Mountain State: Some Notable Medical Personalities of West Virginia by Murphy, Robert L. and Nodyne, Kenneth R.

Vol. 43, No. 1, 1981 Fall ($4.00)

• Birth of the West Virginia State Police, 1919-1921 by Cole, Merle T.
  
• The Reconnaissance Expedition of Two French Navigators by Lewis, Clifford M.

Vol. 43, No. 2, 1982 Winter ($4.00)

• Martial Law in West Virginia and Major Davis as "Emperor of Tug River," by Cole, Merle T.
  
• Reports of Freedmen's Bureau District Officers on Tours and Surveys in West Virginia by Stealey, John Edmund, III
  
• Virginia After Appomattox: The United States Army and the Formation of Presidential Reconstruction Policy by Majeske, Penelope K.

Vol. 43, No. 3, 1982 Spring ($4.00)

• Five Tri-state Women During the Civil War: Day-to-Day Life by Lady, Claudia Lynn
  
• The Civil War Letters of Laban Gwinn: A Union Refugee by Cox, William E.

Vol. 43, No. 4, 1982 Summer ($4.00)

• A Hatfield-McCoy Feudist Pleads for Mercy in 1889 by Klotter, James C.
  
• Five Tri-state Women During the Civil War: Views on the War by Lady, Claudia Lynn
  
• Italian-American Folk Poetry in the Industrialized Appalachian Mountains by Ward, Barry J.
  
• Manuscript Collections in the Special Collections Department, Marshall University by Teel, Cora P.

Vol. 44, No. 1, 1982 Fall ($4.00)

• Chessie's Growth: Success and Failure, 1966-1973 by Bias, Charles V.
  
• In Memoriam by Pyles, Rodney A.
  
• Recent Additions to the Arthur I. Boreman Papers in the West Virginia and Regional History Collection by Effland, Anne Wallace
  
• The Civil War At Bulltown by Howe, Barbara J.

Vol. 44, No. 2, 1983 Winter ($4.00)

• Gunboats at Buffington: The U.S. Navy and Morgan's Raid, 1863 by Smith, Myron J., Jr.
  
• Ideology and Perception: Democratic and Republican Attitudes on Civil War Politics and the Statehood Movement in West Virginia by Curry, Richard O.
  
• Land Speculation in West Virginia in the Early Federal Period: Randolph County as a Specific Case by Soltow, Lee

Vol. 44, No. 3, 1983 Spring ($4.00)

• Andrew Summers Rowan and the Message From Garcia by Peake, Louis A.
  
• Helping to Hold the Fort, Elizabeth Zane at Wheeling, 1782: A Case Study in Renown by Davis, Curtis Carroll
  
• The Case of Taylor Strauder by Cresswell, Stephen

Vol. 44, No. 4, 1983 Summer ($4.00)

• The Department of Special Deputy Police, 1917-1919 by Cole, Merle T.
  
• The Philadelphia Connection: The Foulke Meadow River Lands in the 18th and 19th Centuries by McCreesh, Carolyn D.

Vol. 46, Annual, 1985-86 ($12.00)

• "The Horrible Butcheries of West Virginia": Dan Cunningham on the Hatfield-McCoy Feud by Johnson, Ludwell H., III
  
• Arthurdale, A Social Experiment in the 1930s: Foundations, Fantasies, Furniture, and Failures by Rymer, Jeanne S.
  
• Curious Antiquity? The Grave Creek Controversy Revisited by Barnhart, Terry A.
  
• Exciting Battle and Dramatic Finish: The West Virginia Woman Suffrage Movement, Part I: 1867-1916 by Effland, Anne Wallace
  
• Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations on West Virginia History by Duncan, Richard R.
  
• Organizational Development of the West Virginia State Guard, 1942-1947 by Cole, Merle T.
  
• Sectionalism, Slavery, and Schooling in Antebellum Virginia by Hunt, Thomas C.
  
• The Black Presence in the Paint-Cabin Creek Strike, 1912-13 by Lewis, Ronald L.
  
• The Education of Col. David Bullock Harris, C. S. A., Using his West Point Letters, 1829-1835 by Turner, Charles W.
  
• William Nelson Page: Traditionalist Entrepreneur of the Virginias by Athey, Louis L.

Vol. 47, Annual, 1988 ($12.00)

• Civil War in West Virginia: Military Events in West Virginia During the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Jones, Allen W.
  
• Civil War in West Virginia: The Civil War in West Virginia by Stutler, Boyd B.
  
• Civil War in West Virginia: The Jones-Imboden Raid by Summers, Festus P.
  
• Introductory Letter by Moore, Governor Arch A., Jr.
  
• Statehood: The Makers of West Virginia by Ambler, Charles H.
  
• Statehood: The West Virginia Incident -- An Appraisal by Moore, George E.
  
• West Virginia State Histories: A Selective Review by Rice, Otis K.

Vol. 48, Annual, 1989 ($12.00)

• "Exciting Battle and Dramatic Finish" West Virginia's Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment by Effland, Anne W.
  
• A Bicentennial Look at Francis Asbury in West Virginia by Phipps, William E.
  
• A Civil War Diary From French Creek: Selections from the Diary of Sirene Bunten by Cresswell, Stephen
  
• Friend's Orebank and Keep Triste Furnace by Theriault, William D.
  
• James Rumsey and His Role in the Improvements Movement by Kemp, Emory
  
• James Rumsey and the Rise of Steamboating in the United States by Hindle, Brooke
  
• James Rumsey: Pioneer Technologist by Layton, Edwin T., Jr.
  
• S. M. Prince and Morgantown's Metal Truss Bridges, 1899-1920 by Williams, Mary K.
  
• Wilson Progressives vs. DuPont: Controversy in Building the Nitro Plant by Harper, R. Eugene

Vol. 49, Annual, 1990 ($12.00)

• "Anything But Cordial": Coeducation and West Virginia University's Early Women by Waugh, Lillian J. (and Stitzel, Judith G.)
  
• "Women's Work, Never Done": West Virginia Farm Women, 1880s-1920s by Eagan, Shirley C.
  
• A Profile of Political Activists: Women Of The West Virginia Woman Suffrage Movement by Effland, Anne Wallace
  
• Midwifery in West Virginia by Bickley, Ancella R.
  
• Preface by Blum, Carol Jean
  
• Recovery and Revision: Women's History and West Virginia by Melosh, Barbara
  
• Strategies For Survival: Women's Work In The Southern West Virginia Coal Camps by Greene, Janet W.
  
• West Virginia Women At Work: A Pictorial Sampler by Parson, Debra Harmon
  
• West Virginia Women's Organizations, 1880s-1930 or "Unsexed Termagants . . . Help the World Along" by Howe, Barbara J.
  
• Women In The Industrial Work Force In West Virginia, 1880-1945 by Hensley, Frances S.
  
• Women's Work In The West Virginia Economy by Pudup, Mary Beth

Vol. 50, Annual, 1991 ($12.00)

• "Appalachia's" Civil War Genesis: Southwest Virginia as Depicted by Northern and European Writers, 1825-1865 by Noe, Kenneth
  
• A Temptation To Lawlessness: Peonage In West Virginia, 1903-1908 by Bailey, Kenneth R.
  
• Benign Betrayal: Capitalist Intervention in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, 1890-1910 by Hennen, John
  
• John Jay Jackson, Jr.: Business, Legal and Political Activities, 1847-1859 by Baas, Jacob C., Jr.
  
• Lewis Wetzel: Warfare Tactics On The Frontier by Carroll, George
  
• Loyalties In Conflict: Union And Confederate Sentiment in Barbour County by Shaffer, John W.
  
• The Rudulph Collection Of Civil War Letters by Brook, Dan R.
  
• The United States Army And The Return To Normalcy in Labor Dispute Interventions: The Case of the West Virginia Coal Mine Wars, 1920-1921 by Laurie, Clayton D.

Vol. 51, Annual, 1992 ($12.00)

• "A Little Pregnant": The Charleston Gazette's Editorial Response to the Vietnam War, 1963-1965 by Craig Houston
  
• A Tenuous Trek: A Visual Journey Across the Mountain State
  
• Isolationism and Pacifism: Senator Rush D. Holt and American Foreign Policy by William E. Coffey
  
• Subsistence-Barter-and-Borrow Systems: An Approach to West Virginia's Economic History by Paul Salstrom
  
• War-Time Reminiscenses of James D. Sedinger, Company E, 8th Virginia Cavalry (Border Rangers)
  
• Women's Legal Rights in West Virginia, 1863-1984 by Donna J. Spindel

Vol. 52, Annual, 1993 ($12.00)

• "Committee Condemns W. Va. Mine Owners": Debs, Germer and Berger Report
  
• "The Nearly Perfect State": Governor Homer Adams Holt, the WPA Writers' Project and the Making of West Virginia: A Guide to the Mountain State by Jerry B. Thomas
  
• A Struggle for Recognition: Marshall University Students for a Democratic Society and the Red Scare in Huntington by John Hennen
  
• Conflict at Coal River Collieries: The UMWA vs. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers by Thomas J. Robertson and Ronald L. Lewis
  
• Debs's Visit Challenged in Historical Interpretation by David A. Corbin and Roger Fagge
  
• Eugene V. Debs in West Virginia, 1913: A Reappraisal by Roger Fagge
  
• Labor-Management Conflict in the Eastern Panhandle: Perfection Garment Company Battles the ILGWU by Jerra Jenrette
  
• The Death of Constable Riggs: Ethnic Conflict in Marion County in the World War I Era by Charles H. McCormick
  
• When The Socialists Ran Star City by Stephen Cresswell

Vol. 53, Annual, 1994 ($12.00)

• "I wonder whom God will hold responsible": Mary Behner and the Presbyterian Mission on Scotts Run by Christine M. Kreiser, edited by
  
• Casualties on the Homefront: Scotts Run Mining Disasters During World War II by Paul H. Rakes
  
• Health Services in a Stranded Coal Community: Scotts Run, 1920-47 by Sandra Barney
  
• On the Homefront in World War II: Soldier-Scholars at West Virginia State College by Louis E. Keefer
  
• Scotts Run: A Community in Transition by Matthew Yeager
  
• Scotts Run: An Introduction by Ronald L. Lewis
  
• The Scotts Run Coalfield From the Great War to the Great Depression: A Study in Overdevelopment by Phil Ross

Vol. 54, Annual, 1995 ($12.00)

• A Generation in Revolt: Student Dissent and Political Repression at West Virginia University by Jeffrey A. Drobney
  
• A Nineteenth-Century Mill Village: Virginius Island, 1800-60 by Mary Johnson
  
• Segregation and Integration in the Appalachian Coalfields: McDowell County Responds to the Brown Decision by Alice E. Carter
  
• The Jews of Clarksburg: Community Adaptation and Survival, 1900-60 by Deborah R. Weiner
  
• The Potts Valley Branch Railroad and Tri-State Incline Lumber Operation in West Virginia and Virginia, 1892-1932 by Will Sarvis
  
• The Tragic Fate of Guyandotte by Joe Geiger, Jr.

Vol. 55, Annual, 1996 ($12.00)

• Betty Zane, Lydia Boggs, and Molly Scott: The Gunpowder Exploits at Fort Henry by William Hintzen
  
• Bringing Modern Medicine to the Mountains: Scientific Medicine and the Transformation of Health Care in Southern West Virginia, 1880-1910 by Sandra Barney
  
• Loyalty and Civil Liberty in Fayette County During the Civil War by Lou Athey
  
• Senator Harley M. Kilgore and Japan's World War II Business Practices by Robert F. Maddox
  
• The First West Virginia Infantry
  
• The Raid on Piedmont and the Crippling of Franz Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley by Richard R. Duncan

• An "Ever Present Bone of Contention": The Heyward Shepherd Memorial by Mary Johnson
• Booster Ethos: Community, Image, and Profit in Early Clarksburg by L. Diane Barnes
• Hugh Paul Taylor, Historian and Mapmaker by David Scott Turk
• Persecution and Acceptance: The Strange History of Discrimination against Married Women Teachers in West Virginia by Robert J. O'Brien
• "Manufactured History": Re-Fighting the Battle of Point Pleasant
• Deaths at the West Virginia Colored Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Denmar
• An Appeal for Future Generations: West Virginia Historical Records Strategic Plan

• Shannondale Springs by William D. Theriault
• Acclaim, Blame, and Civil War Memory: The Case of the Kidnapping of Two Union Generals by Thomas F. Curran
• Middle Man for Peace: Senator Stephen B. Elkins and the Spanish-American War by M. A. Michael
• "Alive to the Work": West Virginia State Board of Embalmers, 1899-1933 by Kenneth R. Bailey
• Fritz Merrick: Parkersburg Rebel with a Cause by Fred Barkey
• Jehovah's Witnesses and the Castor Oil Patriots: A West Virginia Contribution to Religious Liberty by Chuck Smith
• Doctus et Ductor: President Smith and Army ROTC at Marshall College by Merle T. Cole and Donald R. Davis
• "Please tell the President . . . only an absolute dictatorship will save us": Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression in West Virginia, August 1933 by Jerry Bruce Thomas

• "Work, Culture and Politics in Industrializing West Virginia: The Glassworkers of Clarksburg and Moundsville, 1891-1919," by Ken Fones-Wolf
• "Senator Peter G. Van Winkle and the Andrew Johnson Impeachment Trial: A Comprehensive View," by Philip Sturm
• "Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920: A Round Table"
  • Introduction by Paul Salstrom
  • Summary by Ronald L. Lewis
  • Comments by Altina Waller
  • Comments by John Alexander Williams
  • National Forests as the New Appalachian Commons by Chris Bolgiano
  • Response by Ronald L. Lewis
• "West Virginia's Militia and Home Guard in the Civil War," introduced and compiled by Mary E. Johnson and Joe Geiger Jr.
• Introduction
• Militia and Home Guard Soldiers
• Barbour County
• Boone County
• Braxton County
• Brooke County

• "In Memoriam: Dr. Robert Franklin Maddox, 1942-2002"
• "An Affair of Outposts: Edward Johnson, the Army of the Northwest, and the Battle of Allegheny Mountain," by Eddie Woodward
• "The John Brown/Boyd B. Stutler Collection Database"
• "Report on the Meadow River Lumber Company of Rainelle, W. Va.," by Andrew H. Larson, May 2, 1916
• "'I Will Write You a Few Lines': World War I Letters of the Greenlee Family"

• "In Memoriam: Dr. Otis K. Rice, 1919-2003"
• "A Republican for Labor: T. C. Townsend and the West Virginia Labor Movement, 1921-1932," by C. Belmont Keeney
• "Bringing the Classics to the Ohio Valley: The Huntington Federal Music Project Orchestra, 1936-1942," by Travis D. Stimeling
• "An Earnest Appeal," by Virgil A. Lewis
• "'There's nothing new, everything is old today': Looking Back on One Hundred Years of West Virginia Archives and History," by Mary E. Johnson
• "Hardy's Union Militia in the Civil War: Letters from the West Virginia Adjutant General's Papers"

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