A Confederate General looks back with a critical eye
While the Civil War did not propel General Lafayette McLaws to fame as it did his comrades Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet, the archival footprints of McLaws are deep. The letters and speeches that...
View ArticlePublic Domain FAIL
What is entering the public domain in the United States? Nothing. Once again, we will have nothing to celebrate this January 1st. Not a single published work is entering the public domain this year. Or...
View ArticleThe Internets are back!
If you used a web browser yesterday you probably noticed that things were a little wonky. Wikipedia blacked out its entire English site in protest of two bills (known as SOPA and PIPA) under...
View ArticleDoes this stuff matter? Depends on who you ask
If you use any of Google's services that require a username and password you've probably seen a little heading inserted by the company noting "We’re changing our privacy policy and terms. This stuff...
View ArticleLove is in the...mail: A proposal via letter, 1878
RichmondOct 28th, 78My dear miss Bessie:On last Friday and Saturday I looked for a letter from you, & instead of going to Judge Oul’s class yesterday morning I went to the PC & was more than...
View Article150 Years Later: The Inauguration of Jefferson Davis
The Rebel Inaugural Address (Harper’s Weekly March 8, 1862)On Saturday, February 22, while the Congress, Judges, and naval and military officers of the United States were assembled in the Capitol,...
View ArticleBulletproof vests and the stigma of cowardice in the Civil War
This advertisement appeared in Harper's Weekly on March 15, 1862.The Soldier's Bullet Proof Vest has been repeatedly and thoroughly tested with Pistol Bullets at 10 paces, Rifle Bullets at 40 rods, by...
View ArticleCSA Patent Office and Rufus Randolph Rhodes
The Confederate States Patent Office began to take shape in the early months of 1861 after Jefferson Davis sent word to the Confederate Provisional Congress that the government was already receiving...
View ArticleDivided Communities: The Civil War on the Southern Home Front
A depiction of "A Rebel Guerrilla Raid in a Western Town" by the NYC-based political magazine "Harper's Weekly" in their issue from September 22, 1862. This publication can be accessed through the...
View Article150 Years Later: Battle at "The Place of Peace"
Camp near Mickey’sApril 4 1862General: The Cavalry & Infy of the enemy attacked Colo Clanton’s regiment which was posted as I before informed you about 500 or 600 yards in advance of my lines. Colo...
View ArticlePhilip M Powers' WWI Scrapbook
Wofford College received Philip Montague Powers’ scrapbook from Dick Littlejohn, but we don’t know how, where, or when he obtained it. From the scrapbook itself we were able to gather that Powers...
View ArticlePresident for a Day
WashingtonJan 24th / 45To the President of the U.S.SirMr. Aristides Welch a citizen of the State of Missouri is an applicant for the office of Purser in the Navy; I have but a slight personal...
View ArticleThe Other Adams Woman: Louisa Catherine Adams
Despite her husband’s inevitable protest, Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams applied rouge to her cheeks in their Berlin apartment. She rehearsed her defense as she admired herself in the mirror. “Do you...
View Article“The Shut Up Shelves:” Librarians as Censors in 1908
Librarians today are known as crusaders for intellectual freedom, dedicated to providing unhindered access to a wide variety of content. Their dedication was shown most dramatically in 2003, after the...
View ArticlePoet Laureate of the Lost Cause
James Ryder Randall On April 26, 1861, “My Maryland!” was published in the New Orleans Sunday Delta. James Ryder Randall (1839-1908) wrote the poem in response to the death of his friend Francis X...
View ArticleWhere are all the Chi Phi brothers?
Would all of the alums who are members of Chi Phi please stand up. Members of Chi Phi with Professor Henry Nelson Snyder, center,1896. Silence. Oh, that’s right, that fraternity hasn’t existed at...
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So, What’s an Archives? WRITTEN BY: PHILLIP STONE - NOV• 14•12 This column ran in the November issue of the South Carolina United Methodist Advocate. Archives conjure up all sorts of image, and in the...
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Maud Mary Mason, “Iris” Works in the College’s art collection are housed in the Library when not on display in the galleries or campus building. At times pieces move from one location to another for...
View ArticleThe Big News of March 1863: African-Americans fight for the Union
Harper’s Weekly was the most widely read magazine of the Civil War. It both shaped and reflected public opinion, as can be seen by the editorial “double-dealing” in the paper's treatment of...
View ArticlePermelia
This item is a receipt for the sale of 21-year-old Permelia to A.M. Holland by John Susan[?] for $1100. The full text reads: “Rec’d of A.M. Holland Eleven Hundred Dollars for a Negro Woman Named...
View ArticleCongratulations to Nikky Finney!
The Sandor Teszler Library congratulates Nikky Finney on her induction into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. Author Nikky Finney next to an excerpt of her poem "The Thinking Men" on permanent...
View ArticleSnapshots from a turn-of-the-century vacation
The two photographs below are from a photo album likely compiled by Walter M. Smith, an engineer with family ties to Spartanburg. According to the title page of the album, Mr. Smith appears to have a...
View Article"Physical Map of Palestine and the adjacent countries"
"Physical Map of Palestine and the adjacent countries" Originally uploaded by Special Collections at Wofford College A finely-detailed, hand-colored, fold-out map from John Kitto’s The Land of...
View Article"Map of the Holy Land, compiled from the best sources" 1859
"Map of the Holy Land, compiled from the best sources" 1859 Originally uploaded by Special Collections at Wofford CollegeThe fold-out map and an illustration from W.M. Thomson’s two-volume The Land and...
View Article"Map of the countries between Paris and Moscow, Shewing the Route of the...
"Map of the countries between Paris and Moscow, Shewing the Route of the French Army, in their disastrous campaign, 1813" Originally uploaded by Special Collections at Wofford CollegeVia Flickr:This is...
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