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…
Season 2: Episode 4 of Mine Wars Forum features Justseeds member Shaun Slifer…
These artifacts tell the story of the fight for basic human rights in the Appalachian coalfields one hundred years ago.
We’ve just re-opened in our new expanded building…
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.
A new film by Addison Post about historical memory, and how we share it.
A new series about the rebuilding of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum!
Storytelling Through Artifacts, with Notes on Aerial Bombing and the Relationship between Mining and Militarism
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…
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…
