The remote valleys of West Virginia resound with the echoes of history. The Mountain State was birthed by the cataclysm of a
Civil War, a disunion presaged by John Brown’s raid at
Harpers Ferry. The earliest twangs of
country music sound from hills and hollers that eavesdropped on
ten-thousand years of unrecorded speech. Read the transcript of West Virginia history, from the inauguration of Mother’s Day in
Grafton to the aftershocks of the
Silver Bridge disaster in our catalogue of West Virginia history books.