West Virginia

<p><span class="deck">BLOOD FLOWED IN THE PERENNIALLY TROUBLESOME COALFIELDS IN 1921, WHEN THOUSANDS OF MINERS DECIDED THEIR RIGHT TO ORGANIZE WAS WORTH FIGHTING FOR</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Back in Prohibition days, the citizens of a West Virginia town decided to crack down on bootlegging and prostitution. The author remembers it well.</span></p>

<p>Elaborate earthworks engineered 2000 years ago by an impenetrably mysterious people still stand in astonishing abundance throughout the Ohio River Valley.</p>

<p><span class="deck">An idyllic river ride past the overgrown ruins of a vanished 20th-century civilization</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The strangest of all Cold War relics also offers a clue to why we won it.</span></p>

<p>Newell, West Virginia is the headquarters of Fiesta ware.</p>

<p>The noted writer and educator tells of his boyhood in the West Virginia town of Piedmont, where African Americans were second-class citizens, but family pride ran deep.</p>

<p>The late Tony Horwitz, in his own epic journey, followed in the footsteps of Frederick Law Olmsted, who traveled through the South just before the Civil War to learn about our nation in divided times. Here are some of his observations from West Virginia.</p>