Tag Archives: 1830’s

Family Connections

Posted on April 29, 2014 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Civil War, Cool Collections, Genealogy, Letters, Newly Online, Photographs, Southern History | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

With a collection as regional as the one at the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, it’s not surprising to find some occasional overlap. The Wynne Family Papers and the Meriwether Family Papers come together with the Coleman family, as you can see … Continue reading →

Newly online: materials about slave labor at UA, 1820s-1860s

Posted on March 19, 2014 by kgmatheny | Posted in: African-American History, Newly Online, Southern History, UA History | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

We know them by first name only, and there’s a good chance those are not the names they were born with. Men called William, Moses, Edwards, Patrick, Sam, Major, Quillen, Arthur, Speers, Robert, Andrew, Swindle, Peter, Erasmus, Anderson, Jack, Isaac, … Continue reading →

Hidden Gem: Travelogue of Juliet Bestor Coleman, 1833

Posted on July 18, 2013 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Cool Collections, Everyday Life, Southern History | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

While we have a lot of large, impressive digital collections in Acumen, sometimes the most interesting things come in small packages. In 1833, about thirty years before the Civil War, 24-year-old Juliet Bestor traveled from her home in Connecticut to … Continue reading →