{"id":26297,"date":"2024-02-27T16:05:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T21:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=26297"},"modified":"2024-02-27T16:12:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T21:12:49","slug":"marshall-to-present-born-of-rebellion-traveling-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2024\/02\/marshall-to-present-born-of-rebellion-traveling-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall to present \u2018Born of Rebellion\u2019 traveling exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Marshall University\u2019s Drinko Library is presenting a traveling art exhibit that explores the origins of the Mountain State.<\/p>\n<p>Born of Rebellion: West Virginia Statehood and the Civil War is on display through March 18 during library hours and is the new flagship history exhibit from the West Virginia Humanities Council, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the creators of the West Virginia Encyclopedia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a complete revitalization of an exhibit the Council first released in 2005, and toured again during the Sesquicentennial,\u201d said Kyle Warmack, program officer for the Humanities Council. \u201cThe original was fantastic but focused narrowly on the legal question of statehood. This time, we widen the lens to include a kaleidoscope of West Virginia perspectives. 2024 is the 50th anniversary of the Council\u2019s founding, so it felt appropriate to return all the way to the state\u2019s roots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One way to do that was by digging into the stories of individuals around the state, he said. The exhibit\u2019s section titles are drawn from the diary of Upshur County teenager Sirene Bunten, who was only 16 when West Virginia achieved statehood in 1863.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe original diary is part of West Virginia Wesleyan College\u2019s collections,\u201d Warmack said. \u201cExperiencing this history feels different when reading the inner observations of a young girl who loses two brothers to the war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other quotes and experiences were drawn from the recollections of soldiers and civilians across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Born of Rebellion was made possible with funding from American Water and the NEH\u2019s \u201cA More Perfect Union\u201d initiative, as well as support from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History. For more information, contact Kacy Lovelace <a href=\"mailto:kacy.lovelace@marshall.edu\">kacy.lovelace@marshall.edu<\/a>, or visit<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\"> www.marshall.edu\/library<\/a>. Full tour information can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/wvhumanities.org\">wvhumanities.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall University\u2019s Drinko Library is presenting a traveling art exhibit that explores the origins of the Mountain State. Born of Rebellion: West Virginia Statehood and the Civil War is on display through March 18 during library hours and is the new flagship history exhibit from the West Virginia Humanities Council, the state affiliate of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26300,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26297\/revisions\/26300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}