In camp at Stewarts Creek — Febry. 25th 1864 Dear Mary We did not get an opportunity to send letters at Lavergne to-day, so I have opened this to add a few lines. We have marched only 10 miles to-day … Continue reading →
Author Archives: Colleen Theisen
We are on the road at last
Head Qrs., 1st Brig., 1st Div., 11th A.C. In Camp, 11 miles South of Nashville Febry. 24th 1864 My Dear Wife We are on the road at last. We went into camp at 2 o’clock this afternoon, making a short … Continue reading →
The Boy Scouts: A Cultural History through Handbooks
What follows is a guest post from one of our student workers, Shawn Conley, an Eagle Scout and Boy Scout memorabilia collector. Since its founding more than a century ago, […]
Sign Up Now to Attend “Documenting Conscience: Preserving the Stories of Iowa Civil Rights Workers”
In 1964, a significant turning point in the U.S. Civil Rights movement occurred in what became known as the Freedom Summer. With the 50th anniversary of that momentous time approaching, […]
New from the International Dada Archives
Three major new acquisitions from Dada’s transitional period of 1919-1920 document that movement’s spread beyond its World War I origins in neutral Switzerland to the key cultural centers of Europe […]
Identifying our 4mm Miniature Book
The University of Iowa Special Collections and University Archives is home to the Charlotte Smith Collection of miniature books with more than 4,000 tiny tomes. Most perplexing has been this microscopic Bible that remained […]
Book /Archival Collections and Light Exposure
Exposing an object to light, whether it is a book or flat item, causes damage that is cumulative over the lifetime of the object. The damage done by light cannot […]
Looking Back on a Semester of New Acquisitions
Patrick Olson joined us at the beginning of last semester as a new Special Collections Librarian in charge of collections analysis and acquisitions. Patrick was most recently a rare book […]
New Evidence Confirms 1973 Movement to Rename the Field House for the Allman Brothers Band
New at the UI Archives: 1970s-era posters for events at Hancher Auditorium, the Iowa Memorial Union and the UI Fieldhouse. For a brief but intense time in 1973 and ’74 […]
Earliest Known Simon Estes Recording – Now Streaming!
Following up from our earlier announcement about the donation and digitization of the earliest known Simon Estes recording, the clip is now streaming! Read about the original donation and the […]