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West Virginia’s $4.6 billion tourism industry is a treat for East Coast vacationers, from Blackwater Falls and New River Gorge to the mighty Greenbrier and,

The economy shapes the geography of America. In the 19th century, the industrial revolution spawned cities, factories, and row homes, a dense world of red

In April, 1919, Eugene V. Debs, a four-time presidential candidate, was thrown in Moundsville’s state penitentiary for making a fiery pro-socialism anti-war speech in Canton,

Just before he died of lung cancer in 1978, Belgium’s balladeer Jacques Brel recorded a song called “Mai 1940”. It was left off his last

The familiar frame of American history wraps itself around revolution and civil war; and an economy that enslaved millions of people. But we should always

Of all the people I’ve met in Appalachia doing the Moundsville project, nobody came at you with a spirit like that of Michael J. Iafrate,