Tag Archives: medicine

Fighting Yellow Jack in Cuba

Posted on September 16, 2014 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Letters, Research, War | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Have you ever heard of yellow fever? If you haven’t, give some of the credit to Dr. William Crawford Gorgas. In the early 20th century, following up on the work of Drs. Carlos Finlay and Walter Reed and others, he employed numerous sanitation … Continue reading →

Augusta Evans Wilson, novelist and Confederate patriot

Posted on December 2, 2013 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Civil War, Letters, Southern History | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

In the 19th century, more and more women became not just occasional novel writers but full time authors. Hoole Special Collections Library houses the papers of Georgia native Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, who published nine sentimental novels, including Beulah, the … Continue reading →

WWII Letters of Capt. Sumner Danforth Davis

Posted on April 29, 2013 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Books, Small Collections, World War II | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Among our many interesting “small” collections is a book of letters from a soldier in World War II. U.S. Army Captain Sumner Danforth Davis, a doctor with the Medical Detachment of the 306th Infantry Regiment, 77th (Liberty) Division, served in … Continue reading →

Early history of the University of Alabama?

Posted on August 9, 2012 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Cool Collections, UA History | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

We’ve just loaded a box of the Manly Family papers into the transcription interface, in the hopes that YOU would like to transcribe correspondence and diaries relating to the early history of the University of Alabama. Basil Manly, Sr. (1798-1868) … Continue reading →