Category Archives: Amy Hildreth Chen

Happy Bastille Day! Introduction to Early Modern French Holdings

Posted on July 14, 2014 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, France, Rare Books Collection | Tagged | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow In honor of Bastille Day, this week Cool@Hoole will provide readers with a three-part overview of the Division of Special Collection’s French holdings. Today, early modern books will be covered; on Wednesday, the French Enlightenment will … Continue reading →

Between the pages

Posted on June 23, 2014 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Southern Literature, Wade Hall Collection | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow In September 2014, Wade Hall’s Library, an exhibition of Wade Hall’s extensive collection of books — a large portion are dedicated to Southern Literature — will be mounted in the Pearce Lobby of the … Continue reading →

There’ll be a Hot Time in the Town of Berlin

Posted on May 26, 2014 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Wade Hall Collection, World War II | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow In honor of Memorial Day, a day to remember all members of the military who died in the course of their service, this week on Cool@Hoole we are featuring two items from Wade Hall’s Collection … Continue reading →

Hoole book arts goes on the road

Posted on May 19, 2014 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Book Arts, Book Arts Collection | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow The Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee is hosting Preface: An Introduction to Artists’ Books, an exhibition largely drawn from the holdings of the W.S. Hoole Library. The show opened on March 28, 2014 and … Continue reading →

Miniature Books

Posted on April 9, 2014 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Book Collections, Miniature Books | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow Please see Cool@Hoole’s previous post on the Kate Webb Memorial Miniature Book exhibition. The history of miniature books is both long and international. Scholars date the appearance of the duodecimo (small size) book to the beginning … Continue reading →

Miniature Book exhibitions on display in Gorgas

Posted on April 7, 2014 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Book Collections, Miniature Books | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow This April and May, two miniature book exhibitions will be on display simultaneously in the Pearce Lobby of the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library: the Kate Webb Ragsdale Memorial Miniature Book Collection and the Miniature … Continue reading →

Signed first edition of Strength to Love (1963) on display

Posted on January 21, 2014 by | Posted in: A.S. Williams III Collection, Amy Hildreth Chen | Tagged | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. planned to write Strength to Love (1963), a collection of sermons, as early as 1957, but he was unable to begin writing until he was imprisoned in July 1962 … Continue reading →

Pedagogy Series: Featured Assignment

Posted on December 25, 2013 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Brooke Champagne, Composition, Pedagogy Series | Leave a comment

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 →

Tuskegee Institute display up in Gorgas during January

Posted on December 20, 2013 by | Posted in: A.S. Williams III Collection, Amy Hildreth Chen | Tagged , | Leave a comment

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 →

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

Posted on December 5, 2013 by | Posted in: Alabama Collection, Amy Hildreth Chen, Tuscaloosa, UA Buildings | 1 Comment

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 →