Snapshot: Stanley Hicks and Leonard Glenn
Mar 5, 2013
Images (clockwise from top left) : Stanley Hicks playing banjo on front porch, Leonard Glenn with homemade banjo, Stanley Hicks playing dulcimer with ...
Summers County, West Virginia Music Project
Feb 18, 2013
During the summer and fall of 1981 Appalachian State students Deborah Thompson and Randi Silnutzer traveled throughout southern West Virginia document...
"My Dear Mr. Moody..."
Feb 11, 2013
The idyllic image of the European country estate has been a recurring theme with popular literature and (more recently) in film for nearly two centuri...
Smyth County Virginia Lifetime Collection
Jan 25, 2013
For any researcher interested in the social history of Appalachia AC.321: Smyth County Virginia Lifetime Collection provides an invaluable cross-secti...
"The Tennessee School Wagon"
Jan 23, 2013
Established in 1868 by founder W. A. Lamons, the Lamons Wagon Company of Greenville, Tennessee produced quality wagons suited for "farm, freight, and ...
Appalachian Oral History Project
Jan 17, 2013
The recently reprocessed Appalachian Oral History Project Records (AC.111) offer a wealth of primary source material for researchers focused on any pe...
UPDATE: Cratis D. Williams Papers
Jan 10, 2013
Cratis D. Williams (1911-1985), widely recognized for his work The Southern Mountaineer in Fact and Fiction, a landmark study in literary representati...
Meet Trevor McKenzie!
Dec 5, 2012
The Special Collections team is pleased to welcome Trevor McKenzie as Project Archives Assistant. Trevor will be processing materials from the W...
Library Receives Prestigious NHPRC Grant
Nov 28, 2012
Special Collections has received a $112,693 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for an ambitious two-year p...