Appalachian History

125 reasons you’ll get sent to the lunatic asylum

What constituted insanity to West Virginia authorities in the late Victorian era? You might be surprised. We were!

William E. Carpenter shot these 8×10 glassplate photographs at the scene of a fire set during a robbery in Freemansburg, WV.

“Sadie Hawkins Day” featured a footrace in which the unmarried girls pursued the town’s most eligible bachelors.

I wonder how she really felt about her sister being her step-mother? About her father being her brother-in-law?

Neal Thompson, author of “Driving with the Devil,” gives a quick overview of the wild world of early moonshiners and stock car drivers.