Tag Archives: 1840’s

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 →

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 →

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 →

A Day in the Life: August 25

Posted on August 25, 2014 by kgmatheny | Posted in: African-American History, Civil War, Everyday Life, Letters, Southern History | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Archives give us a chance to look at the world in a lot of different ways, through lenses big and small. Today, we take a cross section of life on this date, August 25, across the decades. From 1840 to … 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 →