West Virginia University Press is the only university press, and the largest publisher of any kind, in the state of West Virginia. A part of West Virginia University, they publish books and scholarly journals by authors around the world, with a particular emphasis on Appalachian studies, history, higher education, the social sciences, and interdisciplinary books about energy, environment, and resources. They also publish works of fiction and creative nonfiction, and collaborate on innovative digital publications, notably West Virginia History: An Open Access Reader.
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The Rope Swing: Stories
West Virginia University Press, Vandalia Press
- Copyright year: 2016
Algerian Diary
Frank Kearns and the "Impossible Assignment" for CBS News
By Gerald Davis; Foreword by Tom Fenton
West Virginia University Press
- Copyright year: 2016
The Night I Freed John Brown
West Virginia University Press, Vandalia Press
- Copyright year: 2016
Sketches of Slave Life and From and From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit
By Peter Randolph; Edited by Katherine Clay Bassard
West Virginia University Press
- Copyright year: 2016
Folk-Songs of the South
Collected Under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society
Edited by John Harrington Cox; Introduction by Alan Jabbour
West Virginia University Press
Folk-Songs of the South: Collected Under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society is a collection of ballads and folk-songs from West Virginia. First published in 1925, this resource includes narrative and lyric songs that were transmitted orally, as well as popular songs from print sources. Through 186 ballads and songs and 26 folk tunes, this collection archives a range of styles and genres, from English and Scottish ballads to songs about the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the opening of the American West, boat and railroad transportation, children’s play-party and dance music, and songs from African American singers, including post-Civil war popular music. The original introduction by Cox contains vibrant portraits of the singers he researched, with descriptions of performance style and details about personalities and attitudes. With a new introduction by Alan Jabbour, this reprint renews the importance of this text as a piece of scholarship, revealing Cox’s understanding of the workings of tradition across time and place and his influence upon folk-song research.
- Copyright year: 2013
George Washington Written Upon the Land: Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape
By Philip Levy
West Virginia University Press
- Copyright year: 2015
The Last Great Senator
Robert C. Byrd's Encounters with Eleven U.S. Presidents
By David Corbin
West Virginia University Press
- Copyright year: 2015
Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields
The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 2nd Edition
By David Corbin
West Virginia University Press
- Copyright year: 2015
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