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• - Offers detailed information on the state's history, outlines the documents available in the State Archives, and provides assistance in conducting genealogical research.
  
• - A history of Mount Hope, West Virginia with numerous historic photographs of the coal mines, railroads, and people that helped develop the town during the late-1800's.
  
• - Includes a timeline of women's history, selected short biographies, and links to additional readings on women's history.
  
• - Detailed examination of women's rights in West Virginia from WV History Journal.
  
• - Includes 35 notable West Virginia women.
  
• - Article from the West Virginia History Journal.
  
• - Includes Kinfolk, Pop Troy's Anthology and Reclaimed Memories. Features memories, folklore, history and stories of the early 1900's around Creston, Elizabeth and Parkersburg.
  
• - Approximately one hundred community histories were published in Morgantown in the 1920s and 30s. The West Virginia State Archives library currently holds fifty-eight of these histories, which are presented here.
  
• - West Virginia in the Civil War, from cityNet.
  
• - A general West Virginia time-line that incorporates a long history of labor strife.
  
• - General information on the collection and library schedule.
  
• - Personal page of former Beckley native, now a teacher in Florida. Includes famous people of the state, chronology of events, origins of place names and census records.
  
• - Online West Virginia history and genealogy from the American Local History Network.
  
• - Offers detailed information on the state's history, outlines the documents available in the State Archives, and provides assistance in conducting genealogical research.
  
• - West Virginia: A History for Beginners is more than a list of boring names, dates and places.