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Since 1933 your generosity and love for West Virginia, the state and our university, provides the momentum that continues to grow its premier historical archive, the West Virginia & Regional History Center. Private giving to the WVRHC demonstrates unwavering Mountaineer spirit, passion, loyalty, and a commitment to the important research and work of our librarians, archivists, staff and students. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Your support empowers the WVRHC to create incredible opportunities. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

The WVRHC Endowment Fund and the Director\u2019s Fund, in different ways, helps us to make important collection purchases for research and classroom use, to complete the preservation work of existing donated archives and develop the presentations and exhibits that take our collections to the university and the community beyond.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
The Hughes Rare Book Endowment supports the work of our rare book preservation efforts (working with printed and manuscript books from the 1300s to the present) as well as make new purchases that enhance our knowledge of the state and build the quality of our collection. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n
Did you know that International works of great significance in our care include William Shakespeare\u2019s Four Folios; the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493, Denis Diderot\u2019s Encyclopedie, law books of Thomas Jefferson, and first editions of Austen, Dickens and Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain)?<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n
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The Robert C. Byrd Congressional Archives Endowment helps to bring our modern congressional and political papers to the public in our galleries and across the state through traveling exhibits. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n
For instance, Senator Jay Rockefeller, Governor Arch Moore, Congressman Nick Rahall are just a few of our state representatives that have impacted the national agenda and whose materials we preserve for students and researchers<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n
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The James Horner Davis Galleries (downtown) and our newest space, the WVU Museum of the Health Sciences, allow our archivists to showcase our first-hand materials and tell the intertwining story of WVU and our state as it impacts our nation. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n
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Together, with overwhelming generosity, we can meet the growing needs of preserving our history in an advanced digital age and providing an invaluable teaching resource. Please make a gift today to provide our students, researchers and neighbors with the resources to forge a better world. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n
Your spirited generosity and devotion to the WVRHC is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your past support and your future investment in the world we\u2019re forging together.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n
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If you have questions, please contact Annual Giving at AnnualGiving@wvuf.org<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n","youtube":null,"image":"https:\/\/give.wvu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-08\/WVRHC%20-Kemp%20event%20Detail%20Page.jpg","funds":[{"scalar":"","giveControl":{"scalar":"","fund":"2U054","levels":["100","250","500","1000"]},"description":null,"title":"WV & Regional History Center","showOther":"1"},{"scalar":"","giveControl":{"scalar":"","fund":"2U139","levels":["100","250","500","1000"]},"description":null,"title":"WVRHC Director\u2019s Fund ","showOther":"1"},{"scalar":"","giveControl":{"scalar":"","fund":"3L529","levels":["100","250","500","1000"]},"description":null,"title":"Robert D. Hughes Rare Book Endowment","showOther":"1"},{"scalar":"","giveControl":{"scalar":"","fund":"2W1211","levels":["100","250","500","1000"]},"description":null,"title":"WVU Museum of the Health Sciences","showOther":"1"},{"scalar":"","giveControl":{"scalar":"","fund":"3V014","levels":["100","250","500","1000"]},"description":null,"title":"Robert C Byrd Congressional Archives Endowment","showOther":"1"},{"scalar":"","giveControl":{"scalar":"","fund":"3V442","levels":["100","250","500","1000"]},"description":null,"title":"James Horner Davis Galleries","showOther":"1"}]}