Dr. Marty Olliff serves as director of the Wiregrass Archives, located in Everett Hall at the Dothan Campus.
The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is a global historical event that continues to play out and affect our lives.
While news reports focus on the wide-scale issues caused by the pandemic, Troy University’s Wiregrass Archives is looking to the public for help preserving the day-to-day history of this ongoing crisis and its effects on everyday life.
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The fair will allow educators, alumni and individuals interested in education careers to meet representatives from schools throughout the area.
Troy University’s Dothan Campus will host a Teacher’s Fair on Tuesday, April 7, 2020, from 9-11 a.m.
The fair will be held in Malone Hall’s Harrison Room.
Educators, alumni or individuals interested in a career in education are welcome to attend.
“This is a great opportunity for our students, alumni and educators…
Dr. Marty Olliff's monthly column examines a World War 2-era military newspaper that can be found in the Wiregrass Archives at TROY's Dothan Campus.
In 2015, the Wiregrass Archives received a collection of newspapers published by the 31st “Dixie” Infantry Division beginning with issue 1, dated Jan. 10, 1941, and ending with issue 46, dated Nov. 24, 1941. Only issue 35 is missing.
A search of library and archival catalogs reveals no other holding of this camp newspaper.
The…
Dr. Aisha Johnson-Jones will deliver the first in the 2020 Spring Lecture Series at the Dothan Campus.
Troy University will play host to a lecture Feb. 18 about a key library program that gave many black Americans access to libraries.
Dr. Aisha Johnson-Jones will deliver the lecture, “The African American Struggle for Library Equality: The Untold Story of the Julius Rosenwald Fund Library Program” Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 6:30 p.m. in Sony…
