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Education

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85040989

Found in 145 Collections and/or Records:

A. S. Dickey Letter, 1869 December 12

 File — Box 4257.004: [1006214229], Folder: 37
Scope and Contents Letter from A.S. Dickey of Tipton, a college student, to his friend, talking about an accident from which the friend escaped. He also speaks of several girls who are also students and says that he is studying geometry, Latin, and grammar.
Dates: 1869 December 12

Agnes Ellen Harris Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0635
Overview Contains correspondence and records, index to student files (1930-1944), and indices to miscellaneous publications. Publication topics include agriculture, home economics, P.T.A., publishing companies, sororities, University of Alabama publications, publications of other Alabama colleges and normal schools, and out-of-state college publications.
Dates: 1919 - 1945

Alabama Association for Young Children records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0020
Abstract A collection containing meeting minutes, correspondence, the organization's constitution and by-laws, photographs, and other materials.
Dates: 1959 - 1987

Alabama Review editorial records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0051
Overview Miscellaneous correspondence, as well as copies of submitted articles (published and unpublished), of this peer-reviewed academic journal that presents the best of scholarship on the history of the state.
Dates: 1976-1987

Alabama School Libraries: a history

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0052
Overview This collection contains papers that are associated with Alabama School Libraries. This includes newspaper clippings, association newsletters, correspondence, and reports with the bulk of the materials from the 1940s.
Dates: 1930-1970

Alabama State Fair bag

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2393
Overview Paper bag made to promote the University of Alabama School of Chemistry exhibit at the Alabama State Fair in Birmingham, Alabama, September 26 - October 1, 1938.
Dates: 1938

Alice and Algernon Sydney Garnett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0561
Overview Letters written by Alice Garnett and her husband Algernon Sydney Garnett, a professor at the University of Alabama, discussing, among other things, the hardships of travel, news of the university, its professors, and their wives, the election of a new superintendent of education, and a rebellion by the University Cadets against the commandant.
Dates: 1850-1873

Alpha Epsilon Delta records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0069
Overview The Alpha Epsilon Delta collection consists of the rules, rituals, petitions, reports, and memorabilia of the University of Alabama's charter chapter of this medical honors society.
Dates: 1926-1951

American Association of University Professors, University of Alabama Chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0072
Overview A collection of meeting minutes, committee reports, correspondence, membership information, constitutions, and other material.
Dates: 1949-1975; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1960

American Association of University Women, Tuscaloosa Branch records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0073
Overview Includes the Tuscaloosa branch secretary’s notebooks, which contain the association's official correspondence, meeting minutes, by-laws, and other records that vary by year. Also includes the executive board files and scrapbooks
Dates: 1928-2002

American Society manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0154
Abstract Contains manuscript of American Society textbook written by Lee Bidgood in 1918.
Dates: 1918

Joseph Sweetman Ames physics lectures

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0077
Overview Physics lectures in form of mimeographed, bound textbook delivered in 1898-1899 to the second year students of Johns Hopkins University by Joseph S. Ames, professor of physics. Book belonged to H. A. Sayre.
Dates: 1898-1899

Ann Ayer Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0096
Abstract A manuscript of Ayers's guide for "Locating and Using Selected Genealogical Sources," written in 1972 and copyrighted in 1978.
Dates: 1972

Edmund Armes papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0086
Overview Typed correspondence and telegrams from Armes in his capacity as Birmingham, Alabama chairman of the Sewanee (University of the South) endowment campaign to area Episcopalians, seeking donations for the institution. The collection also contains newspaper clippings pertaining to the campaign, and information on fundraising events.
Dates: 1919

Bankston School: a history

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0583
Overview Recollections of Bankston School by individuals connected to this school located in Fayette County, Alabama, which opened in 1906 and closed in the mid 1970s, detailing the history of the school's building, school activities, teachers, and principals.
Dates: circa 1906-1970

Frederick A. P. Barnard letter and speech

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0113
Abstract An address to the "Gentlemen of the Erosophic Society" in 1848 at The University of Alabama and a letter to Barnard from his brother, John G. Barnard, regarding a pass for travel in 1862.
Dates: 1848, 1862

Harry V. Barnard paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0114
Abstract Condensation of a 1954 term paper titled "LaGrange College: A Historical Sketch.
Dates: 1954

Junius K. Battle commencement address text

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0124
Abstract Commencement address titled "Footprints of the Creator," delivered on July 15, 1858, at the University of Alabama.
Dates: 1858 July 15

Louise Huddleston Bendt papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3609
Overview Newspaper articles, greeting cards, photographs, school newsletters, and personal letters
Dates: 1907-1973

Benjamin Franklin Meek lecture notebook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0974
Abstract A volume of lectures, notes, and examinations by this University of Alabama professor of English literature.
Dates: 1872-1873

Benjamin T. Barret Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0117
Abstract A collection containing family correspondence, bills, receipts, clippings, and other items.
Dates: 1836 - 1921; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1900

Charles Bernier papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0143
Abstract This collection contains the correspondence of The University of Alabama's alumni association director, 1920-54, and a proposed constitution for the Alabama Alumni Association (AAUA).
Dates: 1920-1954; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1951

Beta Gamma Sigma records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0146
Abstract This collection contains an account book, receipts, and clippings pertaining to this national scholastic fraternity for commerce and business.
Dates: 1929-1944

Beta Phi Mu, Beta Kappa Chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0147
Abstract Correspondence, bank records, scrapbooks, meeting agendas, and minutes, of the University of Alabama chapter of the National Library and Information Studies honorary.
Dates: 1975-1990

Birmingham Dental College minutes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0161
Abstract A collection of board minutes, including some organizational information.
Dates: 1893-1899

Charlie J. Black papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0167
Overview Photocopy of Black’s autobiography, “After The Fact: 20/20 Hindsight,” which covers Black’s youth in Beatrice, Monroe County, Alabama, his upbringing, education, teaching career, and political life in Washington. Also, some correspondence and newspaper articles by Black.
Dates: 1985-1987

Sarah Blue collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0177
Abstract A collection of items, most of them relative to the 1915 high school graduation of Sarah Blue of Union Springs, Alabama, including a keepsake book, “My Golden School Days.”
Dates: 1894-circa 1915

Boling Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0181
Overview Correspondence, receipts, mortgages, wills, indentures, and other materials concerning the property and affairs of the Boling and Saffold families of Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama.
Dates: 1833-1870

George Washington Boman teaching agreement

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3547
Overview Photocopied teaching and pay agreement
Dates: 1853-1859

Wade Hampton Boman teaching agreement

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3550
Overview Photocopies of his teaching and pay agreement.
Dates: 1846 February 9

Dr. Bonner letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0185
Abstract Thermo-fax copy of letter dated 19 October 1958 by Dr. Bonner to Professor James H. Newman, executive vice-president University of Alabama, summarizing Bonner's trip to England, also a brief letter dated 21 October by Newman to W.S. Hoole, to whom he forwarded Bonner's letter.
Dates: 1958

Boyd family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0194
Abstract Photocopies of various documents and letters relating to Alfred Boyd (1814-82) and his descendants as well as a typescript history of the family of Joel Willis, Sr., and a typescript paper by Bruce L. Bennett of Ohio State University titled, "Sports and Physical Education in Colonial Times."
Dates: 1816-1943; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1859

Branscomb Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4017
Overview Letters, land grants, diplomas, certificates, scrapbook, daguerreotype, and other miscellaneous documents, as well as quilts and other textiles (including a wedding dress from the early 20th century)
Dates: after 1865

Glenda Brewer research paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0208
Overview Research paper titled "Integration at the University of Alabama," submitted for seminar in African American history at the University of Alabama in 1975.
Dates: 1975

Donald Brown collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3690
Overview The Century War Book: Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (People's Pictorial Edition); Alabama Citizens' Commission on Constitutional Reform Collection; Rosenwald Schools in Kentucky, 1917-1932 Papers; and 4) Another Star is Born: Grand Opening Tuscaloosa Mercedes-Benz M-class Press Information packet.
Dates: unknown

Brown Hill School Trustees' minutes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0217
Overview Trustees' minutes, covering 1916-1924 (including parents' rolls), of this school for African American students in Loachapoka, Lee County, Alabama.
Dates: 1916-1924

Wilburt Scott Brown papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0221
Overview Copies of this University of Alabama graduate and faculty member’s dissertation with other manuscripts and documents
Dates: 1960-1992

Charles Mitchell Burford letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0231
Overview Letter written by Burford, dated 20 October 1847, from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to his brother in Summerfield [Alabama?]
Dates: 1847 October 20

Gladys King Burns papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0234
Overview Letters and other documents created and gathered while researching her thesis, "The Alabama Dixiecrat Revolt of 1948," at Auburn University.
Dates: 1948-1965

Bylaws, Policies

 Series
Scope and Contents This series contains official AAUW charters and bylaws, as well as policy information of AAUW branch organizations.
Dates: 1928-2002

Calhoun School Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0260
Overview Photocopy of the songbook "Calhoun Plantation Songs," 3rd ed. (1923) edited by Emily Hollowell, first published in 1901 to raise money for this Lowndes County, Alabama, school for African-Americans, and six postcard views of the school and students, etc.
Dates: 1891-1923

Emmett Bryan Carmichael collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0278
Overview Approximately 300 letters sent to Emmett Carmichael by "renowned Americans," primarily from prominent physicians and university administrators from Alabama.
Dates: unknown

Oliver Cromwell Carmichael collection

 Collection — Box 2356
Identifier: MSS-0279
Overview A miscellany of material relating to this University of Alabama president, including a newspaper clipping, a Carmichael writing entitled "The Function of Instinct in Education," and a scrapbook.
Dates: unknown

Peter Archibald Carmichael papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0280
Abstract A collection of this Alabama native and Louisiana State University professor's lecture notes, publications, and professional files on subjects including logic, religion, language, labor arbitration, and civil rights/segregation.
Dates: 1931-1974

Cemeteries and Local History collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0289
Overview Papers submitted for credit in University of Alabama course EXT318 “Cemeteries and Local History,” a course in the New College Life Track. The focus of the papers is on cemeteries as reflecting the history of a locale and may examine burial patterns, customs, ornamentation, or simply be an inventory of interments.
Dates: 1989 - 2009

Daniel Pinkney Christenberry commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0299
Overview A list of citations, evidently documenting Christenberry's reading, on various topics, mostly historical and literary
Dates: 1883-1911

B. F. Cochran papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0325
Abstract The texts of three of Cochran's speeches and a critical essay on the significance of Athens, Greece on later republics.
Dates: 1841

William Allen Cochrane diploma

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0327
Abstract A handwritten copy of Cochrane's University of Alabama diploma.
Dates: 1840

John Coglin absence report

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0343
Overview University of Alabama report, dated 24 December 1831, stating the absences of John Colgin for the month of December.
Dates: 1831 December 24

Jefferson Jackson Coleman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0337
Abstract Souvenirs from various events, as well as awards and honors bestowed upon Coleman, who served The University in many capacities for almost 50 years.
Dates: 1961-1974