Monthly Archives: December 2013

Pedagogy Series: The Empty Heart of Mary Dees

By: Sarah Smylie, first-year undergraduate at The University of Alabama Editor’s Note: This post is the third in a six-part series highlighting innovative special collections pedagogy. Read an interview with Sarah Smylie’s instructor, Brooke Champagne, or view this paper’s assignment prompt … Continue reading

Pedagogy Series: Featured Assignment

By: Brooke Champagne, English instructor at The University of Alabama, and Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow at the W.S. Hoole Library Editor’s Note: This post is the second of a six-part series highlighting innovative special collections pedagogy. Read an interview with … Continue reading

Pedagogy Series Kick-Off: Interview with Brooke Champagne

By: Brooke Champagne, English instructor at The University of Alabama Editor’s Note: This post is the first of a six-part series highlighting innovative special collections pedagogy. Brooke Champagne, an instructor of English at The University of Alabama, taught two sections of … Continue reading

Tuskegee Institute display up in Gorgas during January

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow “From a Love of History: Exploring the A.S. Williams III Americana Collection” will be back on display in January 2014 in the Pearce Lobby of the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library. The items selected for … Continue reading

‘Tis the Season to be Jolly

Here are a few photo selections from our digital archives of people gathered during this Holiday Season. Happy Holidays to you and yours!

Recent Acquisition: James McClung Sieg journal

By: Nancy Dupree, Ph.D, Curator of the A.S. Williams III Americana Collection Editor’s Note: The James McClung Sieg journal currently is on display in the reading room of the W.S. Hoole Library. Visit these reading room display cases for a … Continue reading

Symbols of liberty

The Wade Hall Sheet Music collection features a great deal of music from the first two decades of the 20th century, especially music related to World War I. Maybe because America took so long to enter the war, it seems … Continue reading

Bryce Hospital: An Introduction

By: Ellie Campbell, JD and University of Alabama MLIS graduate student In 1861, Bryce Hospital opened in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The hospital provided for the care of the mentally ill in Alabama, and was inspired by the ideas and activism of Dorothea … Continue reading

Tuscaloosa, The Nineteenth Century City (HY 300) Film Debuts

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow This semester, History professor Dr. Sharony Green taught “The Nineteenth Century City” (HY 300) about the development of urban culture in the United States. As a final class project, her students developed a film … Continue reading

Augusta Evans Wilson, novelist and Confederate patriot

In the 19th century, more and more women became not just occasional novel writers but full time authors. Hoole Special Collections Library houses the papers of Georgia native Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, who published nine sentimental novels, including Beulah, the … Continue reading