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West Virginia Day
West Virginia Day 2023 | West Virginia is a Fixed Fact: The Making of the 35th State
1:30pm | June 20, 2023 | Milano Room, WVU Downtown Library
This year we celebrate West Virginia's 160th birthday and explore the history of West Virginia statehood.
Speaker: Dr. Scott MacKenzie, author of The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829-1872.
Dr. MacKenzie will discuss how support for slavery influenced the
founding of the state. The program will also include a short ceremony to
present Forest "Jack" Bowman with the National Society of the Daughters
of the American Revolution Historic Preservation Award.
Immediately following the program, the WVRHC will open our latest exhibit which revisits the making of West Virginia with materials from the Center's archival collections.
This is an in-person only event! It will not be recorded.
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