Browse Exhibits (6 total)
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Called to Care: Faith-Based AIDS Responses in 1980s/1990s Alabama
An exhibit on the Faith Based AIDS responses in Alabama during the 1980s and 1990s.
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Culinary Bridges: Food, Identity, and Integration Among German Rocket Wives
The German Rocket Wives were instrumental in the Space Age, using culinary bridges to adapt and flourish in Huntsville, Alabama. Beyond their husbands' scientific achievements, these women were key to social acclimation, hosting gatherings to build community among German expatriates and American neighbors. Through cooking, they maintained cultural heritage and facilitated integration, blending German and American customs to create a hybrid identity. This project shines a light on their essential, yet often overlooked, contributions to cultural harmony during this transformative era.
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Huntsville Then and Now
Students in Reagan Grimsley's HON 101 Honors Introduction to Research course completed projects documenting how sites in Huntsville and Madison County have changed over time, using primary sources from the Southpaw Postcard Collection.
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Merchants and Mill Workers: Harrison Brothers Hardware and Huntsville Commerce, 1897-1910
In the first decade of the twentieth century, the Harrison Brothers Hardware store on South-Side Courthouse Square underwent many changes in customers and merchandise. This exhibit explores the major shifts in the Harrison Brothers' merchandise from tobacco to Queensware and from Queensware to the well-known hardware store. This exhibit also analyzes the developments in the tobacco and pottery industries in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century that affected merchants and consumers and explores the effect of the rise of the cotton mill industry in Huntsville on local businesses. The Harrison Brothers' ledgers record customer credit accounts and their daybooks record daily transactions. These books and other primary source materials from the Harrison Brothers Hardware Collection give insight into the store's operation, customer habits, and significant events in the store's history. This exhibit presents an in-depth view of Harrison Brothers and Huntsville in relation to significant developments in Huntsville at the dawn of the twentieth century. Merchants and Mill Workers offers an intricate view of Rocket City’s well-known hardware store that once sold Queensware in Cotton Mill City.
This exhibit is a project of the Historic Huntsville Museum. Visit their website here.
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UAH in London
This digital exhibit is the culmination of HON 399 Keep Calm and Research On, an Honors College Spring Break study abroad course to London. With the goal of creating a digital project around a narrow research topic related to British history and culture, each HON 399 student has chosen a topic of interest to them and conducted archival research at libraries, archives, and museums of their choice in and around London. Repositories they have visited included the British Library, the British Museum, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens Library and Archives, and Oxford University's Bodleian Library. The students have used their research to create digital projects, which include images of their chosen primary sources and a descriptive essay. Each student has also produced a research poster.
Taught by Head of Archives and Special Collections Reagan Grimsley, the course itself explores the culture of the United Kingdom through libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) and offered an introduction to research and digital scholarship skills. Each student examines the overall history and culture of the UK in stateside class meetings before embarking on the journey to London. Students investigate general trends in the development of LAMs in the UK and learned how to conduct research in some of the United Kingdom’s finest archives, libraries, and museums. As the class examines the LAM landscape, students learn about topics including aerospace history, architecture, medieval manuscripts, the lives of prominent British authors, the history of London, the history of the book, and the history of science. The course is a mixture of campus lecture and discussion with a study abroad trip to London, England during Spring Break.
HON 399, Honors College, Salmon Library, Student Projects, Study Abroad