{"id":1829,"date":"2014-10-27T08:15:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T13:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2014-10-27T14:18:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T19:18:31","slug":"we-went-viral-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/2014\/10\/27\/we-went-viral-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"We went viral, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Nancy DuPree, Curator of the Williams Collection<\/p>\n

\"AbeLincoln\"<\/a>

Abraham Lincoln, from President Abraham Lincoln’s Quickstep<\/em>, a piece of sheet music from our collections and available through Acumen<\/p><\/div>\n

On the website of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln<\/a> database,\u00a0a news release dated August 11, 2014 proudly headlined \u201cNew Lincoln Papers Found in the Heart of Dixie<\/a>.\u201d The article that follows announces the addition of\u00a0 digitized images of two hitherto unknown Lincoln letters to the Papers project, which is sponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois. The originals of those letters are held by the A. S. Williams III Americana Collection<\/a>\u00a0on the third floor of Gorgas Library<\/a> at the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n

News of these letters reached the Lincoln Library through the good offices of several alumni of the University of Alabama Department of History and the book, From a Love of History<\/a>,<\/em> by Stephen Rowe (University of Alabama Press, 2013).\u00a0 Rowe\u2019s book contains a photograph and a description of one of the letters, and Robert Ritzer, alumnus of the University of Alabama history department and professor of history at the University of West Alabama, immediately recognized its importance.\u00a0 He contacted another alum, Christian McWhirter, an editor at the Lincoln Library, who after conversations with Nancy DuPree, curator, and Mary Bess Paluzzi, Dean of Special Collections, \u00a0came to Tuscaloosa to examine the letters and to have them digitized.<\/p>\n

The story attracted some interest, including a print news release; an article\u00a0in Tuscaloosa News<\/a>;\u00a0and several television news segments, including WVUA<\/a>, FOX6WBRC, NBC Chicago<\/a>, CBS Atlanta<\/a>, and ABC 33\/40. The actual letters were on exhibit for a week and were viewed by a number of visitors. The Collection continues to exhibit copies of the letters, though the originals are kept in a vault for security and protection from strong lights. Copies of the letters, alongside journalists’ accounts of the find, can also be seen in a small exhibition called “We Went Viral!” on the second floor of\u00a0Capstone Village<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, come back to read more about the letters themselves!<\/p>\n

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