Leading into the 1900s, operators in the West Virginia coal, timber and glass industries sent recruiters to Ellis Island, offering to pay for incoming immigrants to come to the state. The biggest immigrant groups in the state quickly became the Italians and the Irish. While in the southern part of the state, immigrants were confined to coal camps, in Northern West Virginia, they were able to spread out and form communities with like immigrants. By 1908, Marion, Harrison and Ohio County began to see a rise in activity from the Black Hand mafia. From 1908-1923 the Mafia activity led to....
PhD candidate Luke Gramith was awarded one of 65 competitive ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. This year-long fellowship given to doctoral students in the humanities during the final year of dissertation-writing, will provide Luke with $38,000 to complete his dissertation. This funding will allow Luke follow-up research in Italy and Slovenia, as well as enable him to focus on full-time dissertation writing.
Nerissa Aksamit recently received a Central European History Society Travel Grant to support her doctoral research for “Training Friends and Overseas Relief: The Friends Ambulance Unit and the Friends Relief Service in British Occupied Germany, 1939-1948” in Germany this summer.
L
indsey McNellis, Ph.D. candidate, has received the 2018 Schallek
Fellowship from the Medieval Academy of America and The Richard III Society – American
Branch (
http://www.medievalacademy.org/page/Schallek
). Supported by a gift from William B. and Maryloo Spooner Schallek, this fellowship
will support research for her dissertation, “Vi et Armis: Violence and Injury
before the Common Pleas,” for the academic year 2018-2019.
Later that week, Dr. Fones-Wolf c
hallenged the image that Senate President Mitch Carmichael created by using the
term "union bosses" to describe the strike organizers i
n an
article published by WCHS 8, a station out of Charleston, WV.
"These are not un-democratic organizations," he
said. "The NEA, AFT are both democratic organizations. They put things
to a vote. They listen to their members. So, this notion that some union bosses
are coming in telling them how to act just doesn't reflect the reality of the
situation."
