West Virginia Humanities Council
West Virginia Humanities Council presents the 41st annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities, delivered by author, journalist, and tech humanist Cory Doctorow
University of Charleston 2300 MacCorkle Ave SE,, Charleston, West VirginiaWest Virginia Humanities Council presents the 41st annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities, delivered by author, journalist, and tech humanist Cory Doctorow. He is a 2020 inductee into the Canadian Science Fiction Hall of Fame and author of over two dozen books, including two this year: technothriller Red Team Blues, and a new work of […]
Born of Rebellion: West Virginia Statehood and the Civil War exhibit
WV State Capitol 1900 Kanawha Blvd E, Charleston, WV, United StatesThis comprehensive, large-scale experience covers sectional tensions within Virginia preceding the Civil War, the violence and chaos of the war surrounding West Virginia’s formation, and its difficult aftermath as the new state struggled to forge its destiny during Reconstruction.
West Virginia Day Open House
Join us for West Virginia Day at one of Charleston's most historic homes! Refreshments, tours of the 1836 MacFarland-Hubbard House and a living history presentation will celebrate our state's birthday and the West Virginia Humanities Council's own 50th birthday!
Finding The Singing Spruce author discussion at Taylor Books
Taylor Books 226 Capitol Street, Charleston, WV, United StatesDiscussion and Q&A with folklorist Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth, author of Finding the Singing Spruce: Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia’s Mountain Forests, available now from WVU Press. Following three craftspeople in the mountain forests of Appalachia through their processes of making instruments, Quasebarth's book considers the meanings of work, place, and creative expression in drawing music from […]
Little Lecture by Dr. Robert Miller: “The Doctrine of Discovery and Colonization in North America”
1310 Kanawha Blvd. E.On the 250th anniversary of Dunmore's War in West Virginia, legal expert and tribal judge Robert Miller, a member of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, will discuss the "doctrine of discovery's" use during the early colonization of the United States.