Category Archives: Civil War

Curating the Confederacy III

Posted on April 15, 2015 by | Posted in: A.S. Williams III Collection, Amy Hildreth Chen, Civil War, Lindsay Rae Smith, Melissa Farah Young, Rachel K. Deale | Leave a comment

By: Lindsay Smith, Melissa Young, and Rachel K. Deale, History PhD students, and Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow This post is the third in a five-part series titled “Curating the Confederacy: An Interview with the curators of Making Confederates and When … Continue reading →

Curating the Confederacy II

Posted on April 14, 2015 by | Posted in: A.S. Williams III Collection, Amy Hildreth Chen, Civil War, Lindsay Rae Smith, Melissa Farah Young, Rachel K. Deale | Leave a comment

By: Lindsay Smith, Melissa Young, and Rachel K. Deale, History PhD students, and Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow This post is the second in a five-part series titled “Curating the Confederacy: An Interview with the curators of Making Confederates and … Continue reading →

Curating the Confederacy I: An Interview with the curators of Making Confederates and When this Cruel War is Over

Posted on April 13, 2015 by | Posted in: A.S. Williams III Collection, Amy Hildreth Chen, Civil War, Lindsay Rae Smith, Melissa Farah Young, Rachel K. Deale | Leave a comment

By: Lindsay Smith, Melissa Young, and Rachel K. Deale, History PhD students, and Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow On April 13, 2015, two exhibitions dedicated to Confederate imprints will open at the University of Alabama. Lindsay Smith and Melissa Farah … Continue reading →

Eyewitness to Croxton’s Raid on Tuscaloosa, April 1865

Posted on April 9, 2015 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Civil War, UA History | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Last year, we shared an in-depth post on the burning of the UA campus in the last days of the Civil War. This year, we take a look at the words of an eyewitness to the events. Basil Manly, Sr., … Continue reading →

New and Notable in Acumen, Fall ’14 – Spring ’15

Posted on April 2, 2015 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Agriculture, Civil War, Diaries and Journals, Everyday Life, Foreign Language, Letters, Newly Online, Photographs, Scrapbooks, Southern History, World War I, World War II | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

A lot has come through the digitization pipeline in the last six months or so. Here are some highlights. Diaries Martha Jane Coleman Banks commonplace book Contains diary entries, miscellaneous writings (some appear to be school related), newspaper clippings, recipes, and … Continue reading →

Guardians of Mobile Bay

Posted on March 24, 2015 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Civil War, Cool Collections, Photographs, Sheet music, Southern History | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

During the Civil War, Mobile Bay was protected by not one but two fortifications: to the west — Fort Gaines, on Dauphin Island to the east — Fort Morgan, down the beach from Gulf Shores From these strategic points, Confederate soldiers could … Continue reading →

The Acquisition History of the papers of Confederate Brigadier General Johnston

Posted on February 20, 2015 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Civil War, Manuscript Collections, Mary Bess Paluzzi, Tuscaloosa, UA Buildings, UA History | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen and Mary Bess Paluzzi Did you read our earlier post on Confederate Brigadier General Johnston’s career? If you haven’t yet, be sure to check it out to learn more about the history this collection represents.  The George … Continue reading →

Confederate Brigadier General Johnston: A newly acquired and digitized collection

Posted on February 20, 2015 by | Posted in: Ashley Bond, Civil War, Manuscript Collections, Tuscaloosa | Leave a comment

By: Ashley Bond, SLIS graduate student General Johnston was born in Hillsboro, North Carolina, on May 30, 1832. After studying at Cumberland University’s School of Law in Lebanon, Tennessee, he began his own practice in Marion, Alabama, the town where … Continue reading →

We went viral, Part II

Posted on October 29, 2014 by | Posted in: A.S. Williams III Collection, Civil War, Nancy Dupree | Leave a comment

By: Nancy DuPree, Curator of the Williams Collection Despite the excitement over the Lincoln letters covered in Monday’s post, the documents themselves appear rather ordinary. The paper has yellowed over the years, although the writing is still strong and clear. … Continue reading →

We went viral, Part I

Posted on October 27, 2014 by | Posted in: A.S. Williams III Collection, Civil War, Nancy Dupree | Leave a comment

By: Nancy DuPree, Curator of the Williams Collection On the website of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln database, a news release dated August 11, 2014 proudly headlined “New Lincoln Papers Found in the Heart of Dixie.” The article that follows announces … Continue reading →