{"id":1086,"date":"2014-02-17T09:30:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T15:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2014-02-17T09:30:52","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T15:30:52","slug":"interview-with-stephen-rowe-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/2014\/02\/17\/interview-with-stephen-rowe-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Stephen Rowe, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Christa Vogelius,\u00a0CLIR<\/a>\u00a0Postdoctoral Fellow<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This is the third of three posts serializing an interview between Christa Vogelius, the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in the A.S. Williams collection, and Stephen Rowe, author of\u00a0From a Love of History: The A.S. Williams III Americana Collection at the University of Alabama<\/em><\/a>. Read the first post<\/a> and the second post<\/a>\u00a0of this series.
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Books in the Williams Collection stacks<\/p><\/div>\n

Now, with the bulk of the collection that he helped to shape residing at the University of Alabama, and From a Love of History <\/i>released, Rowe is busy at work on new projects. For one, he is slowly rebuilding the collection at the Eufaula Athenaeum based on refocused priorities. When the collection moved to Tuscaloosa, Williams held back a core group of about 200 scholarly and modern editions of books on the American Revolution, as well as any materials related to Eufaula and Barbour County. In acquiring new materials, Rowe is focused primarily on these areas and relevant reference texts. He pursues materials that were priorities in the past\u2014such as manuscripts, maps, and Southern photography\u2014strictly on an \u201cad hoc basis.\u201d This smaller collection is being computer catalogued, and will, Rowe suspects, also likely end up as a part of the Williams Collection in Tuscaloosa. Rowe doesn\u2019t see any imminent end to his eight-year tenure at the Athenaeum: \u201cAs long as Steve Williams is active, he\u2019s going to keep collecting, and as long as he\u2019s collecting, he\u2019s going to want to keep the Athenaeum open, and as long as he keeps the Athenaeum open, hopefully he will want me to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to Rowe\u2019s duties in Eufaula, side projects that the heyday of collecting did not allow for have once again begun to crop up.\u00a0 He is on the road three to four times a year to acquire materials for Williams and the other collectors that he can increasingly devote attention to now that the development of the Athenaeum has slowed. Rowe is also in the final stages of completing another book manuscript that he hopes to be able to submit to a university press within the next few months. The book, a historiographic study of a Civil War battle, attempts to untangle the web of differing accounts of this event that have prevented scholars from a thorough investigation in the past, and looks in particular at how the generals involved \u201cwrote diametrically opposed accounts of everything that happened.\u201d From curation to collection to scholarship, life in small-town Alabama is anything but sleepy for Rowe: \u201cI must say, it keeps me busy\u2026I have no particular desire to move on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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