PBS Documentary- The Mine Wars

Coal mining is a large and important part of Appalachia and Appalachian culture. Because of that, McConnell Library’s Archives and Special Collections has gathered and preserved a wide variety of items representing it. We are lucky to have several artifacts of coal mining at this time- helmets, head lanterns, and scrip that are part […]

McConnell Library Welcomes our new Archivist!

A great big Highlander welcome goes out to Aaron Spelbring, who has recently re-joined us here in McConnell Library as our new Head of Archives and Special Collections!

Aaron comes to us most recently from the College of Charleston (South Carolina) where he was the Manager of Archival Services at the Avery Research Center […]