Special Collections at UNC Asheville

09/19/2024

We have a new set of interns for Fall 2024. Read about who they are and what they are working on below!

New Crew on Deck! It’s been quite some time since our Special Collections has created a post and today is the day we decided to change that fact. We have a new crew of interns on deck for the Fall 2024 semester. In the remainder of the blog post, we will profile each intern and include some of the...

04/17/2023

What a great way to start off Monday with some wonderful selections of Cherokee resources from the Bill and Alice Hart Collection. This is our second in a series of posts describing the collection in better detail. We hope you enjoy!

Cherokee Resources – Selections from the Bill and Alice Hart Collection This is the second in a series of articles highlighting materials in the Bill and Alice Hart Collection, which the Harts donated to UNC Asheville’s Special Collections. This article highlights works documenting the Cherokee ...

02/07/2023

We are pleased to present the first in a series of posts discussing The Bill and Alice Hart Collection, a collection representing several decades worth of materials documenting the rich culture and history of Western North Carolina and Southern Appalachia. The collection is open for viewing!

http://libjournals.unca.edu/specialcollections/hiking/hiking-in-the-smokies-selections-from-the-bill-and-alice-hart-collection/

12/02/2022

We had a fantastic set of interns in Special Collections this Fall semester! Hip-Hip Hooray!

A cheer for our student workers! Special Collections was fortunate to have three excellent students working with us this semester. History Department interns Elijah Reddick and Chandler Collins worked with us this semester, and History major Michael Dennis also worked with us. These three were remar...

11/30/2022

Check out what our intern, Elijah Reddick, worked on this Fall in the Archives. What a great collection!

The David Cohen Cartoon Collection (This post is by Elijah Reddick, a History intern who worked in Special Collections in the Fall 2022 semester. ) By Elijah Reddick The Collection Itself The majority of my internship in UNC Asheville’s Special Collections was spent working on the David Cohen Cart...

06/03/2021

The latest issue of The Appalachian Curator is live! Check it out!

A newsletter about Appalachian special collections and archives | ISSN 2642-8822

10/26/2020

Saturday was the birthday of Asheville educator Lucy S. Herring, who was born 120 years ago on October 24, 1900. Read about her legacy here:

http://libjournals.unca.edu/specialcollections/uncategorized/celebrating-asheville-educator-lucy-saunders-herring/

09/25/2020

Our Special Collections Staff continues to remain busy for the Fall semester. Check out what Assistant Archivist and Special Collections Assistant, Ashley McGhee Whittle, has been working on!

The Railroad and Incarcerated Laborer Memorial Project

07/14/2020

We’re pleased to announce publication of the Spring/Summer issue of the Appalachian Curator. This issue includes an interview with Scottish archivist Catherine MacPhee, the first part of a new update of the 1985 Archives in Appalachia survey, responses from two PhD candidates on archival research during the pandemic, our new “ask an archivist” feature, a report on ASA’s Special Collections committee, a story on the Library of Appalachian Preaching at Marshall University, what’s new in Appalachian archives, and our featured collection, ETSU’s Archives of Appalachia. Enjoy!

A newsletter about Appalachian special collections and archives | ISSN 2642-8822

06/19/2020

We have such great student workers and interns in Special Collections! Here is a feature on our student worker from last semester, Derek Whisnant, and his future plans to become an Archivist!

My name is Derek Whisnant. I’m currently a senior nearing the end of a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Spanish at UNC Asheville. Beginning my sophomore year, I had the opportunity t…

05/04/2020

Kristen Byrnes completes her Remembering the Holocaust series with a blog post about the Sharon Fahrer Holocaust Collection. Sharon is a good friend of Special Collections, and we are honored that she donated this collection.

The Sharon Fahrer Holocaust Collection While a portion of my time interning at UNCA’s Special Collections was spent transcribing the oral histories of Hilde Hoffman, Richard Braun, and John Rosenthal, I spent the majority of my internship processing the Sharon Fahrer Holocaust Collection, a brand ...