Stephen Fisher: Archiving in Memory
Oct 10, 2025
This is a guest post by Jesse Barber, former Oral History Assistant in the Special Collections Research Center.In August of 2024, Jesse Barber, a SCRC...
Appalachian State's 125th Anniversary
Sep 5, 2024
Stop by the fourth floor of the Belk Library and Information Commons and check out an exhibit featuring 125 years of Appalachian State University hist...
The Mary Emma Harris and Black Mountain College Project, Inc. Oral History collection
Mar 1, 2024
The Mary Emma Harris and Black Mountain College Project, Inc. Oral History collection (AC.564) contains the administrative and general documents of Bl...
Addition to the Appalachian Collection
Jan 18, 2024
The Special Collections Research Center has a new collection available for researchers: AC.280: Charles "Chuck" Miller papers. These papers are the pe...
William A. Bake Papers Collection Re-Processed
Mar 21, 2022
Fresh off the re-processing table are the William A. Bake papers. The finding aid for this collection has been updated to increase access and di...
Watauga College Records Collection Added!
Jan 11, 2022
The Watauga Residential College records (UA 09.12) were recently processed and are available for research in the Special Collections Research Center.W...
From the University Archives: Tintypes from the Doris Stam Collection
Jan 25, 2021
Created using the wet-plate collodion process developed by Frederick Scott Archer in 1851, tintypes were the “instant” photography of the 19th cen...
From the University Archives: The Doris Stam Collection
Oct 28, 2020
The Doris Stam collection (UA 47) consists of artifacts, correspondence, oral histories, papers, and photographs of the Bartlett, Brown, Dougherty, Sh...
Children's Author Mary E. Lyons Papers
Oct 7, 2020
The Mary E. Lyons Papers represents the work of Mary E. Lyons as an author of children’s fiction and nonfiction books. These papers include he...