WVU History Department

08/28/2026

Last week seniors started their student teaching placements - we wish you a great semester! ✏️🍎

08/18/2026

08/14/2026

Congratulations, Kendall!

WVU Art in the Libraries is pleased to announce graduate student Kendall Taylor-Wright as the winner of the 2026 Graduate Student Exhibit Award! Her winning proposal, “Hollow of History: Women of West Virginia,” celebrates the lives and legacies of four trailblazing West Virginia women.

The exhibition will be on display in the Graduate Commons at the Downtown Library throughout fall 2026 and spring 2027. Taylor-Wright will also present an exhibition talk on her research during the spring 2027 semester. Additional details will be announced at a later date.

Read more on our website➡️ exlibris.lib.wvu.edu/

08/11/2026

Be sure to check out the new exhibit at the William A. Neal Museum on campus!

08/10/2026

Congratulations, WVRHC and WVU Libraries!

We are thrilled to announce that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded WVU Libraries and the History Center its seventh grant! This year's totaling $225,000 — allowing important work of digitizing newspapers published in West Virginia from 1791 to 1963 to continue.

“West Virginia has a unique and complex history that is reflected in the newspapers preserved at the WVRHC. As we honor America’s 250th anniversary and remember her history, it is especially important that West Virginia’s contributions to our nation be preserved and available for all to discover," said WVRHC Director Lori Hostuttler.

The award is part of the National Digital Newspaper Program, a collaboration between the NEH and the Library of Congress to enlist libraries and institutions around the country to create a digital database of historical United States newspapers.

Read more about the collaboration and the impact of this grant➡️ exlibris.lib.wvu.edu/news/2026/07/27/seventh-neh-grant-to-digitize-historical-newspapers

06/25/2026

Congratulations to Drs. Gorby, Hodge, and Smart who are among this year’s recipients of WVU Humanities Center Research grants!

The WVU Humanities Center is pleased to announce and celebrate the recipients of its research grants for 2026-2027. This year, the Humanities Center supported eight research projects and one team project.

06/24/2026

Thank you to WVRHC and the WVU Libraries for hosting a terrific roundtable with Dr. Kristen Bailey, Dr. Hal Gorby, Matthew Powell, David Solomon, and Dr. Jack Weaver last week! Be sure to check out the new exhibit in the History Center, "Mountaineers Are Always Free: West Virginia at 250."

https://www.dominionpost.com/2026/06/19/history-in-conversation-telling-the-mountain-states-story-as-america-turns-250/

Virginia & Regional History Center

MORGANTOWN — As West Virginia marked another year of statehood and the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, historians, alumni and community members gathered Thursday afternoon inside the Milano Reading Room […]

06/17/2026

Tomorrow!

06/04/2026

Interested in the Campus Read selected for the fall semester? Consider registering for Dr. M'bayo's Medicine and Epidemic History! It will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am.

https://enews.wvu.edu/articles/2026/05/11/-everything-is-tuberculosis-selected-as-2026-27-campus-read