West Virginia University Press imprint: 59 books
Hillside Fields
A History of Sports in West Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
West Virginia’s championship teams at WVU and Marshall and athletic superstars like Jerry West and Mary Lou Retton are familiar to all, but few know the untold story of sports in the Mountain State. Hillside Fields: A History of Sports in West Virginia chronicles the famous athletic triumphs and...
The Backyard Brawl
Stories from One of the Weirdest, Wildest, Longest Running, and Most Instense Rivalries in College Football History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The West Virginia University Mountaineers and the University of Pittsburgh Panthers, separated by less than eighty miles of highway, have battled it out on the football field for more than one hundred years. Now, with Pitt announcing its departure from the Big East Conference to join the Atlantic...
Hippie Homesteaders
Arts, Crafts, Music and Living on the Land in West Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
It’s the 1960s. The Vietnam War is raging and protests are erupting across the United States. In many quarters, young people are dropping out of society, leaving their urban homes behind in an attempt to find a safe place to live on their own terms, to grow their own food, and to avoid a war they...
Songwriting in Contemporary West Virginia
Profiles and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Songwriting in Contemporary West Virginia: Profiles and Reflections is the first book dedicated to telling the stories of West Virginia’s extensive community of songwriters. Based on oral histories conducted by Stimeling and told largely in the songwriters’ own words, these profiles offer a...
The Rebel in the Red Jeep
Ken Hechler's Life in West Virginia Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The Rebel in the Red Jeep follows the personal and professional experiences of Ken Hechler, the oldest living person to have served in the US Congress, from his childhood until his marriage at 98 years of age.
This biography recounts a century of accomplishments, from Hechler’s introduction of...
Robert C. Byrd
Child of the Appalachian Coalfields
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This autobiography follows West Virginia senator Robert C. Byrd’s experiences from his boyhood in the early 1920s to his election in 2000, which won him an unprecedented eighth term in the Senate. Within these pages, Senator Byrd offers commentary on national and international events that occurred...
The Industrialist and the Mountaineer
The Eastham-Thompson Feud and the Struggle for West Virginia's Timber Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces. Ronald L. Lewis’s book uses this largely forgotten episode as a...
by Steven L. Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Central Appalachia is the system of linear ridges, intervening valleys, and deeply dissected plateaus that make up the rugged terrain found in western and southwestern Virginia, eastern and central West Virginia, western Maryland, and a portion of south central and southwestern Pennsylvania. Through...
Monongah
The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
New paperback edition with an introduction by Robert B. Reich
*Monongah: *The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster documents the events and conditions that led to the worst industrial accident in the history of the United States. This mining accident claimed hundreds of lives on...
by EMORY L. KEMP
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Emory Kemp is the founder and director of the Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology at West Virginia University, where he also served as a chair and professor of civil engineering and a professor of history. This collection of essays encompasses over fifty years of his...
by Peter Randolph
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This book is the first anthology of the autobiographical writings of Peter Randolph, a prominent nineteenth-century former slave who became a black abolitionist, pastor, and community leader.
Randolph’s story is unique because he was freed and relocated from Virginia to Boston, along with...
Community Effects of Leadership Development Education
Citizen Empowerment for Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Community leadership development programs are designed to increase the capacity of citizens for civic engagement. These programs fill gaps in what people know about governance and the processes of governance, especially at the local level. The work of many in this field is a response to the recognition...
Cast in Deathless Bronze
Andrew Rowan, the Spanish-American War, and the Origins of American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In 1898, when war with Spain seemed inevitable, Andrew Summers Rowan, an American army lieutenant from West Virginia, was sent on a secret mission to Cuba. He was to meet with General Calixto García, a leader of the Cuban rebels, in order to gather information for a U.S. invasion. Months later, after...
by VALERIE NIEMAN
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Darrick MacBrehon, a government auditor, wakes among the dead. Bloodied and disoriented from a gaping head wound, the man who staggers out of the mine crack in Redbird, West Virginia, is much more powerful—and dangerous—than the one thrown in. An orphan with an unknown past, he must now figure...