Category Archives: Newspapers

A (Leap) Day in the Life: February 29

Posted on February 29, 2016 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Civil War, Diaries and Journals, Everyday Life, Letters, Newspapers, UA History | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

It’s been a while since we did a survey of Acumen‘s contents by taking a look at just one day. There have been fewer February 29ths than other days of the year, but, as with any other snapshot view, items from that date reveal a … Continue reading →

February 1956: When the Eyes of the World Were on Us

Posted on February 9, 2016 by kgmatheny | Posted in: African-American History, Cool Collections, Newspapers, Southern History, UA History | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Sixty years ago, the first major step was made toward desegregating the University of Alabama. Autherine Lucy, a black woman from Shiloh, Alabama, was enrolled – and a few days later suspended, eventually expelled, though she had done nothing wrong. … Continue reading →

Food, Glorious Food!

Posted on June 19, 2015 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Diaries and Journals, Everyday Life, Newspapers, Scrapbooks | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

By guest blogger Alex Olkovsky, a graduate student in American Studies While many collections in our archives contain business and legal documents, there are also numerous focused on people’s daily and domestic lives. Unsurprisingly, these collections are where we can … 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 →

April 15, 1865 – A Tale of Two Cities

Posted on May 9, 2014 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Civil War, Cool Collections, Newspapers, Southern History | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.  Englishman Charles Dickens wrote that in 1859, just two years before England’s former colonies began a long and bloody civil war. I wonder if that quote came to … Continue reading →

Thought for the Day: 19th century poetry and the daily newspaper

Posted on January 14, 2014 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Newspapers | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Newspaper clippings are a common type of content in larger collections of personal or family papers. Though a lot of them help record news about the family or about important current events, many are simply interesting pieces of writing someone … Continue reading →