Collections

Course materials subject files, and publications documenting the scholarship and research of Dr. Bruce Grindal, professor of anthropology. Subjects include cultural anthropology, human conflict, religion, and the Sisala people of Ghana, Africa.

The Calvin Patterson Research Collection contains digitized items such as articles, correspondence, and documents related to events and scholarships in memory of Calvin Patterson compiled by alumnus Tommy Warren.

This oral history interview transcript relates to the life experiences of Catherine Black, an American woman who grew up in the Great Depression and came of age during World War II. Black recounts growing up during the Great Depression, graduating college, her life on the home front, and her life after the war. She discusses raising a child when her husband was at war, living in Arkansas near a Japanese internment camp, becoming a early widow after the war, her remarrige, and her second husband's experiences as a B17 Bomber Pilot during the War.

The materials in the Charles E. Canady papers primarily relate to the subject's interest in politics. The biographical section contains published and non-published volumes significant to the subject, as well as awards and family information. The bulk of the collection contains political advertisements and news clippings ranging from local to national elections, covering a period from the early 1970s through 2014. The collection also contains documents, ephemera, and articles relating to the subject's work with U.S. Senator Lawton Chiles.