Kickstarting a Graphic Novel About the West Virginia Mine Wars
August 13, 2024
PM Press and Working Class History are fundraising to launch a new graphic novel about the West Virginia Mine Wars!
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Museum From Below
Justseeds member Shaun Slifer works as the Creative Director at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, an independent people's history museum in the heart of the Appalachian coalfields. The "Museum From Below" channel gathers his thoughts on the process of building this museum and the complex stories that he helps to tell within those walls. 
Building an Exhibit on Recent Teacher’s Strikes in West Virginia
September 27, 2023
“We were still educating. We were showing our kids how to stand up for themselves to a bully.”
Courage in the Hollers: New Video + Interview in Jacobin
December 13, 2022
The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum just dropped this video documenting their new project creating two public monuments to the Battle of Blair Mountain!
Monument Lab’s Re:Generation Roundtable ft. Shaun Slifer
August 6, 2022
Mercedes Dorame, Tomiko Meeks, Andrea Roberts, and Justseeds’ own Shaun Slifer discuss their public memory work…
Courage in the Hollers: The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum + Monument Lab
May 31, 2022
We’re developing a series of community-created public monuments within the rural Applahacian landscape that memorialize the power of cross-racial, multi-ethnic solidarity.
Making the Archaeology of the Battle of Blair Mountain Public
September 10, 2021
Between 2006 and 2009, several archaeological surveys explored remote spots along Spruce Fork Ridge in southern West Virginia, where the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain occurred…
Shaun Slifer Interviewed on Mine Wars Forum
July 28, 2021
Season 2: Episode 4 of Mine Wars Forum features Justseeds member Shaun Slifer…
New Online Exhibit at West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
February 17, 2021
These artifacts tell the story of the fight for basic human rights in the Appalachian coalfields one hundred years ago.
Here’s a peek inside the new West Virginia Mine Wars Museum!
September 12, 2020
We’ve just re-opened in our new expanded building…
Deep Time and Class Struggle in the Museum
April 1, 2020
Draw a line from forests of giant, sporulating trees to highways built on exhausted strip mines and waste slurry impoundment lakes bursting to drown whole human communities.
New Documentary: Matewan, History From Below
February 26, 2020
A new film by Addison Post about historical memory, and how we share it.
A Museum, From Below
January 22, 2020
A new series about the rebuilding of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum!
Thoughts on Working as an Artist in a History Museum: Creating a New Exhibition at the WV Mine Wars Museum
June 4, 2019
Storytelling Through Artifacts, with Notes on Aerial Bombing and the Relationship between Mining and Militarism
Building a Replica Tent at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
August 22, 2016
Over at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, we’ve just launched the first issue of our new print newsletter, In These Hills. Chuck Keeney, founding museum board member and the…
Museums From Below: Interview with Shaun Slifer
October 20, 2015
This summer, right on the heels of the public opening of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, Zach Furness (author: One Less Car, editor: Punkademics) set up a long-form email interview with…
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