Tag Archives: UA presidents

Campus Rewind: Foster Auditorium and Coleman Coliseum

Posted on May 11, 2015 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Photographs, Scrapbooks, Sports, UA History | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

It seems like it’s impossible to write a blog post about any building on campus without talking about what came before or after. In this case, a look at Foster Auditorium led down an unexpected path — to Coleman Coliseum. But how? … Continue reading →

Campus Rewind: The President’s Mansion

Posted on June 2, 2014 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Cool Collections, Photographs, UA History | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

For this installment of Campus Rewind, check out these photos of the President’s Mansion, recently added to HistoryPin. Besides the building, you’ll see a former President, a then-current First Lady, students protesting, and students horsing around, antebellum costume (in the 1960s!), and some truly … Continue reading →

Papers of H. D. Clayton Sr., General, statesman, and UA President

Posted on February 4, 2014 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Civil War, Everyday Life, Genealogy, Letters, Newly Online, Southern History | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Over the last few months, we’ve been digitizing the papers of Henry De Lamar Clayton, Sr. As our student worker Ellyn and I see the final box of materials in sight, it seems like a good time to give an … 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 →