Conversations with Curators: WVU’s First African American Grads

West Virginia & Regional History Center 1549 University Ave., Morgantown

The West Virginia & Regional History Center will host a discussion on preserving the history of West Virginia University’s first African-American graduates on October 3 at 4 p.m. in the WVRHC in the Downtown Campus Library on the 6th floor. WVRHC Curator and Assistant Director Lori Hostuttler will highlight the archival materials documenting graduates Jack…

People’s U: West Virginia’s State Archives

Ohio County Public Library 52 16th Street, Wheeling

West Virginia History through Archives–Preserving the Mountain State’s Stories CLASS 1: "Materials for the Historian, an Identity for Future Generations: West Virginia’s State Archives" West Virginia’s first State Historian and Archivist, Virgil A. Lewis, stated, "Public Documents are the materials for the historian. . . . posterity can not have the means of judging, as…