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Teacher Brings W.Va. History to Life Through Animated Videos

5/21/2021

MILTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Milton Middle School teacher is changing the way West Virginia history is taught, two minutes at a time. 

Brian Casto has taught an eighth-grade West Virginia Studies class at the school for the past four years, but has recently ventured down unfamiliar roads in order to spark his students’ curiosity about the Mountain State’s rich history through a series of animated lessons on his YouTube channel titled “West Virginia History in Two Minutes or Less.” 

In the video series, Casto uses animated characters, still photos and other graphic elements as the backdrop for topics like John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry, the Hatfield and McCoy feud, and even some West Virginia trivia on state symbols and state parks. 

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