On Telling UA’s Undertold Stories
by Ashleigh Bonina and Kaylie Yaceczko Coming into Humans of UA as a course, we didn’t know quite what to expect. We knew we’d be researching in the archives, looking
It’s Lit(erary) – Literary Magazines at UA
by Kaylie Yaceczko While UA’s inaugural publication the Acheronic was only published from 1924 to 1927, literary magazines on campus did not end there. One literary magazine, Scope, began in
Rolling On the River: The University of Akron’s First Literary Magazine
by Kaylie Yaceczko From literary societies to newspapers, we have seen The University of Akron act as a beacon for literary appreciation in the late nineteenth century. As time went
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It’s All There in Black and White: Beginning Student Publications at UA
by Kaylie Yaceczko For nearly two full decades, the literary societies were the epitome of social life at The University of Akron; however, as fraternities and sororities came into the
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A Sisterhood of Akron Poets
by Kaylie Yaceczko On an average Saturday morning in 1872, the men of The University of Akron’s Greely literary society—named after Horace Greely, the founder and editor of the New-York
A War of Writers at UA
By Kaylie Yaceczko During the two decades of the University, the literary societies were the height of campus life, and some societies would have up to one total hundred members