Matewan

On this West Virginia Morning, we hear about the reopening of the Mine Wars Museum in Matewan, which includes newly researched history about the labor…

Federal grants of about $10 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce were awarded to four West Virginia projects Monday to help with infrastructure…

Union leader Sam Church died in Bristol, Tennessee, on July 14, 2009, at age 72.He was a native of Matewan in Mingo County. Both of his grandfathers had…

Inside Appalachia Associate Producer Eric Douglas began his journalism career in Matewan, West Virginia nearly 30 years ago. He recently revisited the…

In her new novel, "Blood Creek", author Kimberly Collins writes about the strikes that gripped the southern West Virginia coalfields in the early 20th…

By branding southern West Virginia “Hatfield & McCoy” country, are we re-affirming negative stereotypes in Appalachia?In this week’s episode of Inside…

Labor spy C. E. Lively died in Huntington on May 28, 1962, at age 75. Lively first came to Matewan in Mingo County in 1920 and joined the union during the…

Ten folklore students from George Mason University in Virginia recently spent a week visiting central and southern West Virginia. They traveled to five…

Too many times, when stories of Appalachia are in the national spotlight, we hear shallow, shocking and grim stories. But they miss some of the most…

On this West Virginia Morning, when all was said and done this past weekend, the Secretary of State’s office reports about one in 10 voters showed up to…