Statehood politics -- West Virginia
Subject
Subject Source: Local Lc
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Matthew Tyler Foulds, Research Paper on Methodism in Western Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3976
Overview
Typescript of a paper written by Dr. Matthew Tyler Foulds titled "Enemies of the State: Political and Religious Secession in Western Virginia, 1844-1863". The paper regards the political and social influence of the Methodist Church and its various branches on the area that would become West Virginia, particularly those Methodists that supported the political and economic interests of western Virginia and, at the beginning of the Civil War, the unionist cause and statehood movement.
Dates:
2013