Global Makers: Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts is intended to encourage and support sustained, interdisciplinary consideration of the role Early Modern women played in the hands-on production of visual and material culture in the courts of Europe and Asia (c. 1400-1750). Even as significant advancements have been made regarding the study of women …
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The Civil War and Reconstruction Era was a period of great change and strife for the state of Alabama and the nation. Documents included in the office of the governor reflect this tumultuous time bringing together voices of the powerful and the powerless. Modeled after the successful Civil War Kentucky Governors Digital Documentation Edition https://civilwargovernors.org/ and the recently launched Civil War Governors of Mississippi https://cwrgm.org/ , the CWRAG will similarly create a scholarly digital …
The Italian Program in the Department of Modern Languages and Classics at The University of Alabama presents an online seminar series investigating the comic and its uses in moments or situations of trouble. The five talks in our series will variously look at how instances of tribulation, crisis, or upheaval can be examined and made sense of …
This is a digital museum to accompany Drs. Margaret Peacock and Erik L. Peterson’s forthcoming book Journal of a Pandemic Year: Death Violence, and the Illusion of American Exceptionalism (Boston MA: Beacon Press) 2022. This project allows visitors to choose a date to browse news stories, images, and daily entries written by Peacock and Peterson. Visitors …
In Spring 2021, Dr. Jeri Wieringa’s REL120 class created a course website featuring exhibits and mapping to study religion and science in the 19th century, as well as learn digital methods and metadata best practices. View Religion and Science: Creating Health in 19th Century U.S.
This project was created to showcase Dr. Daniel Levine’s Fall 2020 PSC344.001 – The Israel/Palestine Conflict course to showcase his best student projects. View PSC344
Author, spy, political propagandist, Aphra Behn (1640–1689) was one of the first English women to earn a living by her pen. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the English Civil Wars, expanding transatlantic slave trade, and settler colonialism in the Americas, Behn’s work engages with frankness and complexity a range of topics, from gender identity to political power. This podcast celebrates the 350th anniversary …
Many people, places, and events which left an impression on the University of Alabama and surrounding community have been commemorated in historical markers and plaques around the campus. This is a collection of those public accounts of our history, in both image and text. Sections include Antebellum Campus, Confederate Commemoration, University Integration, Building Names, Fraternities …
Erin O’Rourke’s Spanish 485/585 class analyzed the changes in the Spanish language through recording themselves speaking the old pronunciations and annotating their own pieces to demonstrate where changes occurred. View Bringing the Past to Life
This oral history archive has been created by students in Dr. Sarah Steinbock-Pratt’s class on the Vietnam War. The course explores the long history of the Vietnam War, beginning with early Vietnamese history and colonization. Over the course of the semester, students have explored different perspectives on the wars in Vietnam, American and Vietnamese notions of freedom …