Category Archives: Ellie Campbell

Golden Age of Children’s Literature: Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Posted on June 9, 2014 by | Posted in: Children's Literature, Ellie Campbell, Rare Books Collection | Leave a comment

By: Ellie Campbell, JD and University of Alabama MLIS Graduate student While Maleficent is showing in movie theaters, come take a look at some rare books featuring the characters of Grimm’s Fairy Tales! The exhibition, which will be put up … Continue reading →

Princesses and Paupers: The Golden Age of Children’s Literature

Posted on June 2, 2014 by | Posted in: A.S. Williams III Collection, Book Collections, Children's Literature, Ellie Campbell, Lafcadio Hearne Collection, Rare Books Collection, Wade Hall Collection | Leave a comment

By: Ellie Campbell, JD and University of Alabama MLIS graduate student On June 10, 2014, Princesses and Paupers: The Golden Age of Children’s Literature, curated by Ellie Campbell, will be mounted in the Pearce Lobby of the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library. In … Continue reading →

Interview with Ellie Campbell, Division of Special Collections graduate assistant

Posted on May 9, 2014 by | Posted in: Armed Services Editions, Ellie Campbell, Quilts | Leave a comment

By: Ellie Campbell, JD and University of Alabama MLIS graduate student Editor’s Note: This post is part of an ongoing series profiling the graduate students who work in the Division of Special Collections. Haley Thomas was interviewed for Cool@Hoole over two … Continue reading →

Mose T

Posted on March 31, 2014 by | Posted in: Alabama Collection, Ellie Campbell, Wade Hall Collection | Leave a comment

By: Ellie Campbell, JD and University of Alabama MLIS student Mose Tolliver was a renowned folk artist from Montgomery, Alabama. “Mose T,” as his signature read, was most famous for his paintings of figures on scrap wood, generally on themes … Continue reading →

The Agrarians

Posted on February 17, 2014 by | Posted in: A.S. Williams III Collection, Ellie Campbell, Southern Literature | Leave a comment

By: Ellie Campbell, JD and University of Alabama MLIS graduate student In 1930, a group of self-designated “Twelve Southerners” published I’ll Take My Stand: the South and the Agrarian Tradition, a book of twelve essays defending what they perceived as Southern … Continue reading →

Bryce Hospital: An Introduction

Posted on December 9, 2013 by | Posted in: Alabama Collection, Ellie Campbell, Tuscaloosa | 2 Comments

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 →

Gee’s Bend at Hoole

Posted on October 28, 2013 by | Posted in: Ellie Campbell, Quilts, Wade Hall Collection | Leave a comment

By: Ellie Campbell, JD and University of Alabama MLIS graduate student The Wade Hall and Gregg Swem American Quilts Collection contains quilts from the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day that demonstrate the breadth and depth of this American … Continue reading →