Contacts & Contributors

Readers with questions or suggestions should write to: cwera.blog@gmail.com.

A People's Contest's contributors include:

MATT ISHAM, a post-doctoral fellow at the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center.

SEAN TRAINOR, a graduate student at Penn State Univeristy in the Department of History and Religious Stuides.

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The sesquicentennial dilemma: to educate or entertain?: Saturday's Charleston (WV) Gazette newspaper ran an article on the deep divisions in West Virginia's sesquicentennial commission which eventually…; By MATTHEW ROBERT ISHAM | Comments (0)
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