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Processing the Horace Coleman Collection
By Margaret Spetz, History ’25, Spring 2023 Archives Intern Processing the Horace Coleman collection was my first task as a Mahn Center Intern during the Spring 2023 semester. Coleman was an associate English professor at Ohio University during the 1970s and ‘80s. The collection contains Coleman’s personal letters, his military records, his correspondence with publishers,…
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1970 Campus Security Records Blog Series: The Green and White Badge of Courage
By John Higgins, BA ’23, History and Political Science, Digital Initiatives Student Assistant The 1970s witnessed a thunderous start to a decade that particularly left a mark on United States college and university systems. Ohio University was no stranger to the national student movement in protest of U.S. involvement in Vietnam and various other social…
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Honoring the Legacy of Early Black Women Writers: A Faculty Roundtable
By Miriam Intrator, Special Collections Librarian, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections Honoring the Legacy of Early Black Women Writers: A Faculty Roundtable took place March 21, 2023, in Alden Library and online. The inspiration for the event was the acquisition for the rare book collection of Ohio University Libraries’ Mahn Center for Archives…