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West Virginia separated from Virginia during the Civil War largely because western counties opposed Virginia’s decision to join the Confederacy and because of long‑standing economic, social and politi...
The 1860 U.S. census enumerated roughly 3.95 million people held in bondage — most commonly reported as 3,953,760 or rounded to about 3.9 million . Those enslaved people were unevenly distributed by s...
West Virginia split from Virginia during the Civil War chiefly because northwestern Virginians opposed Virginia’s 1861 decision to secede from the Union and long-standing regional grievances over repr...
The assembled materials advance three intertwined claims: that John Wilkes Booth escaped death in 1865 and lived decades under assumed names, that artifacts and a disputed mummy were promoted as Booth...
Lancer’s political landscape centers on a dominant interstellar polity called Union — a revolutionary, imperfect governing body led in the setting’s present by the Third Committee — alongside rival co...
Economic and cultural divisions—mountain geography, different markets and settlement patterns, and the scarcity of slavery in the trans‑Allegheny counties—made western Virginians feel politically and ...
The creation of West Virginia on June 20, 1863, resulted from wartime political maneuvering by Unionist western Virginians who rejected Virginia’s 1861 secession, set up a “Restored Government of Virg...
Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation (effective January 1, 1863) declared enslaved people in rebelling Confederate territories to be “then, thenceforward, and forever free,” but it applied only...