Category Archives: World War II

New Finding Aids, Spring 2016, part two

Posted on February 29, 2016 by kgmatheny | Posted in: African-American History, Kate Matheny, Manuscript Collections, World War II | Tagged | Leave a comment

Last month, we shared some of dozens of finding aids that had recently gone online in Acumen. This week, the focus is on personal collections, including several related to World War II. (Click on any of the images below to see a larger … Continue reading →

The World of Camp Aliceville

Posted on January 27, 2016 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Audio, Foreign Language, Interviews, Southern History, World War II | Tagged | Leave a comment

Like hundreds of other communities in the U.S. during WWII, Aliceville, Alabama, was home to a prisoner of war camp. Between June 1943 and September 1945, Camp Aliceville saw hundreds of thousands of German soldiers come and go, a time which left an … Continue reading →

Newly Online: James B. Tipton papers

Posted on November 10, 2015 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Newly Online, Scrapbooks, Sports, UA History, World War II | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

This year for Veterans Day, we celebrate a man who was a veteran twice over during his long career in the military. Major General James B. Tipton was a pilot and pilot instructor with the United States Army Air Forces (later … Continue reading →

A Day in the Life: June 1

Posted on June 1, 2015 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Civil War, Diaries and Journals, Everyday Life, Letters, Photographs, World War I, World War II | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Here’s a slice of life from June 1st over the last 170 some-odd years, representing a cross-section of materials from the digital archive — from the serious to the silly, the magical to the mundane.

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 →

African-American Soldier Portraits

Posted on February 16, 2015 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Cool Collections, Digitization, Newly Online, Photographs, Small Collections, World War I, World War II | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Right now, in the Pearce Foyer of Gorgas Library (2nd floor, Quad side), you’ll find a pretty cool exhibit: Highlighting the collections of Rev. Wylheme Ragland of Decatur, Alabama,  A North Alabama Clergyman’s Passion for History: Preserving Black History through Words and … Continue reading →

Armed Services Editions: A quest for a complete collection

Posted on February 16, 2015 by | Posted in: Allyson Holliday, Armed Services Editions, World War II | 7 Comments

By: Allyson Holliday, complex copy-cataloger As we approach the 75th Anniversary of the entry of the United States into World War II, Hoole Library actively seeking to complete its collection of Armed Services Editions. Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., was … Continue reading →

Fins and Flippers, magazine from a local WWII pilot training program

Posted on December 11, 2014 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Cool Collections, Newspapers, UA History, World War II | Tagged , | Leave a comment

On this day in 1941 — four days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii — the U.S. officially went to war with Germany and Italy. It had already declared war on Japan. On this day in 1941, a group … Continue reading →

Featured Item from Wade Hall’s entertainment photographs collection

Posted on September 2, 2014 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Wade Hall Collection, World War II | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow Still from Kuhle Wampe (1932). Hanson Tonfilmbilder. Film-Album Number 5. Dresden, Germany, 1932. Photographic Album. Hall’s entertainment photographs (2008.030) includes an album that is comprised of over 120 photographs from more than forty films related to … 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 →