Browse Exhibits (4 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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UAH in London 2024
This digital exhibit is the culmination of HON 399 Keep Calm and Research On, an Honors College Spring Break study abroad course to London in Spring 2024. With the goal of creating a digital project around a narrow research topic related to British history and culture, each HON 399 student chose a topic of interest to them and conducted archival research at libraries, archives, and museums of their choice in and around London. Repositories they visited included the British Library, the British Museum, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens Library and Archives, and Oxford University's Bodleian Library. The students then used their research to create digital projects, which include images of their chosen primary sources and a descriptive essay. Each student also produced a research poster.
Co-taught by Head of Archives and Special Collections Reagan Grimsley and Digital Archivist Charlie Gibbons, the course itself explored the culture of the United Kingdom through libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) and offered an introduction to research and digital scholarship skills. Each student examined the overall history and culture of the UK in stateside class meetings before embarking on the journey to London. Students investigated 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 examined the LAM landscape, students learned 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 was a mixture of campus lecture and discussion with a study abroad trip to London, England during Spring Break 2024, which left on Friday March 8, 2024 and returned on Saturday, March 16, 2024.
HON 399, Honors College, Salmon Library, Student Projects, Study Abroad