• Articles,  Featured Collections

    Featured Collection: Marshall University Archives and Special Collections, Huntington WV

    This article appeared in the Volume 2, Issue 3 Winter 2021 issue of the Appalachian Curator. Click here to view a PDF of the full issue. By Elizabeth James Founded in 1972, Marshall University Archives and Special Collections has collected materials documenting the rich history of Appalachia, especially the West Virginia and the Huntington areas, for nearly fifty years. While the archives considers all of its more than 850 collections important, standout collections include the WSAZ media archives documenting news in the greater Huntington area between 1955 and 1995, oral histories documenting Appalachian traditions and experiences, the Nelson S. Bond Collection of science fiction writings, and the records of numerous…

  • Articles

    The Library of Appalachian Preaching: A Digital-Humanities Project at Marshall University

    This article appeared in the Volume 2, Issue 1 Spring/Summer 2020 issue of the Appalachian Curator. Click here to view a PDF of the full issue. The Library of Appalachian Preaching: A Digital-Humanities Project at Marshall University Robert H. Ellison and Larry Sheret The Special Collections Department at Marshall University has a small but significant collection of sermons preached in Appalachia, or delivered elsewhere in the United States by preachers with ties to the Appalachian region. On the shelves are about 30 books published between 1865 and 1980. Some, like William Cutter Condit’s What Is My Life?, are pamphlets containing just one sermon. Others, like John R. Gilpin’s Sparks from a…

  • New Aqusitions

    What’s new in Appalachian Special Collections? 

    This article appeared in the Volume 1, Issue 1 Spring/Summer 2019 issue of the Appalachian Curator. Click here to view a PDF of the full issue. New collections in regional repositories: Appalachian State University Berea College East Tennessee State University  Marshall University Radford University University of Kentucky University of North Carolina – Asheville  University of Tennessee Virginia Tech Western Carolina University     W. L. Eury Collection, Appalachian State University Recently processed… Munsey Webb collection on the Norfolk and Western Railway, 1887-1995 – Collection of Munsey Willard Webb (1927-2006), who worked as a depot agent and telegraph operator at various railway stations between Pulaski, Virginia and Galax, Virginia. Through photographs and…

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