Alabama History Podcasts: Recent Episodes
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Barbering: https://www.aboc.alabama.gov/ ; University of Alabama Department of History: https://history.ua.edu/ ; University of Central Arkansas: https://uca.edu/ ; The Southern Historian: https://southernhistorian.ua.edu/ The Alabama History Podcast’s producer is Marty Olliff.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/3yemdfrj In her fourth appearance on the AHP, Laura Hill talks about her newest job – 2026-27 president of the Alabama Historical Association. She talks about the October Fall Pilgrimage to Jasper, the April 2027 annual meeting in Montgomery, the AHA Speakers Bureau, benefits of membership in the AHA, and he 20-year career with the Encyclopedia of Alabama.Air Date: July 6, 2026Links to things mentioned in the episode:Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ ; AHA Membership: https://www.alabamahistory.net/join ; Jasper, AL: https://www.jaspercity.com/ ; Montgomery, AL: https://www.montgomeryal.gov/ ; Horace King: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/horace-king/ ; Dr. Richard Bailey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bailey_(historian) ; Alabama Department of Archives and History: https://archives.alabama.gov/ ; Alabama Supreme Court Law Library: https://judicial.alabama.gov/library ; Alabama State Capitol: https://ahc.alabama.gov/alabama-state-capitol.aspx ; White House of the Confederacy: https://www.thefirstwhitehouse.com/ ; Dexter Avenue Baptist Church: https://dexterkingmemorial.org/ ; AHA Speakers Bureau: https://www.alabamahistory.net/speakersbureau ; Encyclopedia of Alabama: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/ ; APT / PBS Yellowhammer History Hunt: https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/yellowhammer-history-hunt/ ; Alabama Dept of Education Course of Study Standards: https://www.alabamaachieves.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/AS_20250110_2024-Alabama-Course-of-Study-Social-Studies_V1.0.pdf The Alabama History Podcast’s producer is Marty Olliff.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/mwz3srve Ryan L. Cole (author of The Last Adieu) and Dr. Ed Bridges (ret. Director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History) recount the 1824-1825 visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States, how his 3-month plan turned into a year-long stint as “The Nation’s Guest,” and the social and political context surrounding his tour. Bridges focuses on Lafayette’s whirlwind tour through Alabama and how lavishly the young frontier state welcomed him. The climax of Lafayette’s trip was his laying of the cornerstone for the Bunker Hill monument on June 17, 1825.Links to things mentioned in the episodeAlabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Ryan L. Cole: https://www.instagram.com/ryanlcole11/ The Last Adieu: Lafayette’s Triumphant Return, the Echoes of Revolution, and the Gratitude of the Republic – https://www.harpercollinsfocus.com/harper-horizon/last-adieu/ Overview of Lafayette’s 1824-1825 US Tour (Museum of the American Revolution): https://www.amrevmuseum.org/the-marquis-de-lafayette-s-1824-1825-united-states-tour Georges Washington de Lafayette (Lafayette’s son): https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/georges-washington-de-lafayette Auguste Levasseur (Lafayette’s secretary): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Levasseur Francis Wright (Lafayette’s protégé): https://blogs.loc.gov/manuscripts/2025/03/frances-wright-the-marquis-de-lafayette-and-visions-of-american-equality/ Bunker Hill monument: https://www.nps.gov/bost/learn/historyculture/bhm.htm Land Grant to Lafayette near Tallahassee: https://www.homesweettally.com/post/the-lafayette-land-grant-of-1825 Dr. Ed Bridges: https://www.alabamaheritage.com/authors/authors-b/edwin-c-bridges/ Lafayette’s Visit to Alabama: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/lafayettes-visit-to-alabama/Treaty of Indian Springs, 1825: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/treaty-of-indian-springs-1825 William McIntosh: https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/william-mcintosh-ca-1778-1825/ Chilly McIntosh: https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=MC029 The Federal Road and its taverns: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/taverns-on-the-old-federal-road/ Fort Mitchell, AL: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/fort-mitchell/ Old Alabama Town: https://touroldalabamatown.com/ Alabama Department of Archives and History: https://archives.alabama.gov/ USS Brandywine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Brandywine The Alabama History Podcast’s producer is Marty Olliff.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Air Date: May 4, 2026Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/bdfvsnj3 Kayla Jordan (PhD cand. University of Alabama) is a member of the Young Scholars Program of the Alabama Historical Association Speakers Bureau. She discusses her two Speakers Bureau presentations concerning ghost lore in the US South, “Control the Dead and the Dead with Control: The Social Used of Spirits in southern Ghostlore,” and “More than Ectoplasm: A Study of Civil War Memory and Southern Ghostlore.” LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODEAlabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/Alabama Historical Association Speakers Bureau: https://www.alabamahistory.net/speakersbureau University of Alabama History Department: https://history.ua.edu/ Katheryn Tucker Windham: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/kathryn-tucker-windham/ 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey: https://archive.org/details/13alabamaghostsj0000wind Mississippi State Meridian: https://www.meridian.msstate.edu/ Mississippi State: https://www.msstate.edu/ Tiya Miles' Tales from the Haunted South: https://uncpress.org/9781469636146/tales-from-the-haunted-south/ Marengo County: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/marengo-county/ Half Acre, AL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_Acre,_Alabama Bluff Hall (Museum): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/bluff-hall/ Dr. Eugene Allen Smith: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/eugene-allen-smith/ The Alabama History Podcast’s producer is Marty Olliff.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Air Date: April 6, 2026Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/mphzzxbw Dr. Mark Johnson is a member of the Alabama Historical Association Speakers Bureau Young Scholar Program that lets new voices share their work. Mark talks about his two AHA Speakers Bureau presentations – one on Alabama’s 19th century political barbecues, the other on Alabama’s 20th century barbecue industry. He also discusses his 2017 book on Alabama barbecue, his 2021 book on Black participation in public political culture 1877-1932, and his 2026 book on bacon as a commodity and food fad.LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODEAlabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Alabama Historical Association Speakers Bureau: https://www.alabamahistory.net/speakersbureau Dr. Mark A. Johnson: https://www.utc.edu/directory/tfr238-history-mark-johnson/tfr238 An Irresistible History of Alabama Barbecue: From Wood Pit to White Sauce: https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/irresistible-history-of-alabama-barbecue-an-9781467137027 Dr. Joshua Rothman: https://history.ua.edu/people/joshua-d-rothman/ Southern Foodways Alliance: https://www.southernfoodways.org/Alabama Department of Tourism: https://tourism.alabama.gov/ John T. Edge: https://www.johntedge.com/ Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877-1932: https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/R/Rough-Tactics American Bacon: The History of a Food Phenomenon: https://www.ugapress.org/9780820375403/american-bacon/ The Alabama History Podcast’s producer is Marty Olliff.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Air Date: March 2, 2026Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/ychsuj82 Catherine King of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation and Alan Samry, a Fairhope librarian and local historian, present the unusual history of Fairhope, Alabama, and descriptions of historic sites on tours that are part of the April 11-13, 2026, meeting of the Alabama Historical Association.LINKS MENTIONED IN THE EPISODEAlabama Historical Association https://www.alabamahistory.net/ City of Fairhope https://www.fairhopeal.gov/ Fairhope (EOA) https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/fairhope/ Fairhope Single Tax Corporation https://www.fairhopesingletax.com/ Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Online Archives https://fairhopesingletax.pastperfectonline.com/ Coastal Alabama Community College (Fairhope Campus) https://www.coastalalabama.edu/about/locations/fairhope/ [Earnest B.] Gaston https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/media/ernest-berry-gaston/ Henry George https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George Progress and Poverty https://archive.org/details/progresspoverty0000henr_m1z4/page/n5/mode/2up School of Organic Education (Bell Building) https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/marietta-johnson-school-of-organic-education/ Marietta Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marietta_Johnson Marie Howland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Howland Douglasville High School Heritage Museum https://cityofbayminetteal.gov/recreation/douglasville-school-of-arts-and-recreation Daphne History Museum https://www.daphneal.com/452/Daphne-History-Museum Baldwin County Training School https://historicbaldwincountytrainingschool.com/ Fairhope Castles https://fairhopecastle.com/ Dean Mosher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Mosher Frank Stewart https://sites.rootsweb.com/~alcsilve/stewart.html Fairhope Hotel and the Summit Street Inn https://mobilebaymag.com/the-restoration-of-a-historic-fairhope-hotel/ Fairhope Quaker Meeting House https://www.fairhopefriends.org/partners Roundhouse / Hermit Hut / Tolstoy Park https://tolstoypark.com/ Sonny Brewer https://www.scenic98coastal.com/posts/sonny-brewer-and-tolstoy-park The Alabama History Podcast’s producer is Marty Olliff.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Air Date: February 2, 2026Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/bdds6mak Burgin Matthews, founder and director of the Southern Music Research Center Digital Archives, talks about the Center, which received the Jeff Jakeman Digital History Award, Small Project category, from the Alabama Historical Association in April 2025. He also chats about his other projects: The Lady Muleskinner Press, his website burginmathews.com, The Lost Child Radio Program, and his two books, Doc: The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man and Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America.Links mentioned in the episode:Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ AHA Jeff Jakeman Digital History Award: https://www.alabamahistory.net/digital-history-award Southern Music Research Center: https://www.southernmusicresearch.org/Burgin Mathews website: https://burginmathews.com/Doc: The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817359591/doc/ Dr. Frank Adams (Doc Adams): https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Frank_Adams Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469676883/magic-city/ The Lost Child Radio Show: https://www.facebook.com/lostchildradioBirmingham Mountain Radio: https://bhammountainradio.com/ WBHM: https://wbhm.org/ Alabama Hip Hop 101: https://southernmusicresearch.org/collections/show/56 Alabama Humanities Alliance: https://alabamahumanities.org/ The Alabama History Podcast’s producer is Marty Olliff.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Sounds: https://www.alblackbeltheritage.com/sights-sounds Center for the study of the Black Belt (UWA): https://www.uwa.edu/university-departments/center-for-the-study-of-the-black-belt/The Alabama History Podcast’s producer is Marty Olliff.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Air Date: December 1, 2025Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/6t9d8yhs Clayton Davis, Historic Resources Manager at the Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area, discusses the National Heritage Area program, the history of the Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area, and the three heritage themes that Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area emphasizes.Links mentioned in the episode:Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area: https://msnha.una.edu/ National Heritage Area Program: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/heritageareas/index.htm National Park Service: https://www.nps.gov/index.htm University of North Alabama: https://una.edu/ Shoals Storytelling Festival: https://www.shoalsstorytelling.com/ City of Florence: https://florenceal.org/ MSNHA “Stories” Heading: https://msnha.una.edu/stories/ MSNHA River Heritage: https://msnha.una.edu/stories/river-heritage/ MSNHA Native Heritage: https://msnha.una.edu/stories/native-american-heritage/ MSNHA Music Heritage: https://msnha.una.edu/stories/music-heritage/ Florence Mound Museum: https://www.florencealmuseums.com/home/indianmoundmuseum Cane Creek Canyon: https://msnha.una.edu/sites-attractions/cane-creek-canyon-nature-preserve/ TVA: https://www.tva.com/ National Park Service American Battlefield Protection Program: https://www.nps.gov/orgs/2287/index.htm National Register of Historic Places: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/index.htm Fort Henderson: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/fort-henderson-historic-site/ United States Colored Troops: https://www.thenmusa.org/articles/united-states-colored-troops-in-the-american-civil-war/ The Alabama History Podcast’s producer is Marty Olliff.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Tuscaloosa, AL: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/tuscaloosa/ First African Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa: http://www.firstafricanchurch.org/discover/our-history.html Reverend T.Y. Rogers: https://tavm.omeka.net/exhibits/show/african-american-history/item/50 SCLC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference Bloody Tuesday, June 4, 1964: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/tuscaloosa-campaign-and-bloody-tuesday/ Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/bloody-sunday/ James Bevel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bevel Robert (Bobby) Shelton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shelton_(Ku_Klux_Klan) Ku Klux Klan: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/ku-klux-klan-in-contemporary-alabama/ Joe Mallisham: https://tavm.omeka.net/items/show/1102 Tuscaloosa Bus Boycott, 1964: https://civilrightstuscaloosa.org/trail/stop-7/ Charles Steele: https://tavm.omeka.net/exhibits/show/african-american-history/item/736 Reverend TW Linton: https://cbn.com/article/not-selected/thomas-linton-living-saint-civil-rights-history-0 Tuscaloosa Civil Rights Trail: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/tuscaloosa-civil-rights-trail/ The Alabama History Podcast’s producer is Marty Olliff.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Air Date: October 6, 2025Dr. Virginia Cain, 2023 graduate of the University of Alabama, discusses her article, “Red Mountain Ladies, How Prostitution Shaped Birmingham, Alabama, from 1871 to 1920,” published in the Alabama Review, April 2023 that won the Alabama Historical Association’s 2025 Milo Howard Award for best article in the Alabama Review in the previous two years. Dr. Cain also discusses a companion article she published in the Tennessee Historical Quarterly about a Nashville madam, and her dissertation, “We Built These Cities on Rocks and Hos,” that compare late 19th century prostitution in Birmingham and Nashville.Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/yhfyt58t Links mentioned in the episode –Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ AHA’s Milo B. Howard Award: https://www.alabamahistory.net/milo-b-howard-award Alabama Review: https://www.alabamahistory.net/the-alabama-review Birmingham, AL: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/birmingham/ Birmingham Public Library Archives: https://www.cobpl.org/locations/central/archives/ Louise Wooster: https://bhamwiki.com/w/Louise_Wooster Nashville, TN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nashville,_Tennessee Tennessee Historical Quarterly: https://tennesseehistory.org/publications/tennessee-historical-quarterly/ The Alabama History Podcast’s producer is Marty Olliff.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Air Date: September 15, 2025Dr. Pete Sparks, president of the Guntersville Historical Society, discusses the Alabama Historical Association Fall Pilgrimage in October 2025. He examines four highlights of Guntersville history, describes the sites on the pre-pilgrimage tours, and talks about the local buildings on the pilgrimage tour proper.Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/254zxwpdLinks mentioned in the episode –Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Guntersville Historical Society: https://www.facebook.com/guntersvillehistoricalsociety/ AHP Episode 71 (SoundCloud link): https://soundcloud.com/alabamahistory/aha-071 Guntersville, AL: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/guntersville/ Marshall County, AL: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/marshall-county/ Andrew Jackson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson Treaty of New Echota, 1835: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_New_Echota Trail of Tears: https://www.nps.gov/trte/learn/historyculture/index.htm Lake Guntersville State Park: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/lake-guntersville-state-park/ Guntersville Dam and Lake: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/guntersville-dam-and-lake/ Guntersville Museum: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/guntersville-museum-cultural-center/ Cathedral Caverns State Park: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/cathedral-caverns-state-park/ Kate Duncan Smith DAR School: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/kate-duncan-smith-dar-school/ Midnight Cry: A Shooting on Sand Mountain: https://www.ugapress.org/9781588385338/midnight-cry/ Dr. Lesa Carnes Shaul: https://www.uwa.edu/news/uwa-professor-pens-true-crime-thriller-about-1950s-shooting-on-sand-mountain/ Col. Montgomery Gilbreath House: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=235551 Henry House: https://www.henryhouse1893.com/story First Presbyterian Church: https://tennesseerivervalleygeotourism.org/entries/first-presbyterian-church-guntersville/b48dc844-3322-419a-a5e1-1b5925fb66cc First United Methodist Church: https://tennesseerivervalleygeotourism.org/entries/first-methodist-church-of-guntersville/527e03cf-412a-42f0-a69a-28cf66dc9920 John Allan Wyeth: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/john-allan-wyeth/ Old Rock School: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Rock_School_(Guntersville,_Alabama)Old Post Office and DeSoto Mural: http://wpamurals.org/guntersv.htm Guntersville Railroad Depot: https://gvdepot.org/history/ The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Air Date: August 4, 2025Donna Castellano, Executive Director of the Historic Huntsville Foundation, discusses the programs that the HHF has pursued. She discusses the Harrison Brothers Hardware store (HHF headquarters), the eleven National Historic Register nominations the HHF has made and the research projects into women’s and Black history that ensued from them, HHF walking tours, pop-up museum installations, funding, and the future of the HHF.Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/4ap4c36y Links mentioned in the episode --Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ AHA James Ray Kuykendall Award: https://www.alabamahistory.net/james-ray-kuykendall-award Historic Huntsville Foundation: https://www.historichuntsville.org/ Harrison Brothers Hardware: https://harrisonbrothershardware.com/ National Register of Historic Places: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/index.htm Old Town Historic District: https://oldtownhuntsville.org/ Twickenham Historic District (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/twickenham-historic-district/ Alice Boarman Baldridge: https://www.historichuntsville.org/alice-boarman-baldridge/Six Black Women Voters: https://www.historichuntsville.org/black-suffragists/ Newspapers.com: https://www.newspapers.com/ Cornerstones of Freedom walking tour: https://huntsvillebusinessjournal.com/news/2025/05/30/cornerstones-of-history-walking-through-huntsvilles-black-business-legacy/ Footsteps to Statehood walking tour: https://www.historichuntsville.org/events/footsteps-to-statehood-a-walking-tour-through-history/ Daniel Brandon: https://cityblog.huntsvilleal.gov/brick-by-brick-constructing-the-history-of-henderson-and-daniel-brandon/ Justice for the Johnsons exhibit: https://www.historichuntsville.org/justice-for-the-johnsons/ Road to Lydia Drive exhibition: https://www.waaytv.com/news/lydia-drive-to-become-huntsvilles-first-historic-civil-rights-district/article_b3d1ca36-b10a-11ee-bad2-e3ebcceee6fb.html Heinz Hilten (Collection at UAH): http://libarchstor.uah.edu:8081/repositories/2/resources/29 Werner von Braun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff. Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Air date: July 7, 2025Alabama Historical Association president for 2025-2026, Dr. Matthew Downs, discusses the AHA’s program for the upcoming year. He describes the October 24-25, 2025 Fall Pilgrimage in Guntersville and the April 9-11, 2026 annual meeting in Fairhope. Downs also talks about the importance of the Alabama Review that he edits and two AHA projects – the Speakers Bureau and the AHA Digitally Enhanced Marker map.Transcript here: https://tinyurl.com/mw79d3msLinks mentioned in the episodeAlabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Alabama Review: https://www.alabamahistory.net/the-alabama-review Downs’s book Transforming the South: https://lsupress.org/9780807157145/transforming-the-south/ Alabama History Podcast Episode 15 (Downs on Transforming the South): https://soundcloud.com/alabamahistory/aha-015 Guntersville Historical Society: https://www.facebook.com/guntersvillehistoricalsociety/ Alabama History Podcast Episode 71 (Guntersville Historical Society): https://soundcloud.com/alabamahistory/aha-071 Lisa Shaul’s book Midnight Cry: https://ugapress.org/book/9781588385338/midnight-cry/Fairhope, AL: https://www.fairhopeal.gov/ Coastal Alabama Community College Fairhope Campus: https://www.coastalalabama.edu/about/locations/fairhope/ Explore the Eastern Shore: https://www.exploreeasternshore.com/ AHA Speakers Bureau: https://www.alabamahistory.net/speakersbureau AHA Digitally Enhanced Marker Project: https://www.alabamahistory.net/historical-markers-index Alabama Heritage Magazine: https://www.alabamaheritage.com/ Encyclopedia of Alabama: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/ Alabama Men’s Hall of Fame: https://www.samford.edu/alabama-mens-hall-of-fame/Default Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame: https://awhf.org/The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff. Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Air Date: June 2, 2025Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/fk7hby52 Dr. David Chase Stephens (AU ’24), winner of the Alabama Historical Association’s 2025 Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins Award for the best dissertation in Alabama History, discusses his dissertation entitled “To Obstruct and Resist: Paradise v. Allen, Integration Efforts, and the Alabama State Troopers” (Dec. 2024). Stephens examines the strum und drang of integrating the Alabama State Troopers by hiring and promoting Black and women officers. He examines the four major lawsuits at the heart of these efforts as well as resistance to integration that Gov. Guy Hunt dropped in the mid-1980s.Links mentioned in the episode:Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins Dissertation Award: https://www.alabamahistory.net/wiggins-dissertation-award Stephens, “To Obstruct and Resist: Paradise v. Allen, Integration Efforts, and the Alabama State Troopers”: https://etd.auburn.edu/handle/10415/9481 Paradise v. Allen / NAACP v. Allen: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/paradise-v-allen/ Alabama Department of Public Safety: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/alabama-law-enforcement-agency/ US v. Frazer (1970): https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/317/1079/1415562/ Mieth v. Dothard (1976): https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/418/1169/1602972/ Dothard v. Rawlinson (1977): https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/433/321/ Gov. George Wallace: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/george-c-wallace-1963-67-1971-79-1983-87/ Gov. Fob James: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/forrest-fob-james-jr-1979-83-1995-99/ Gov. Guy Hunt: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/guy-hunt-1987-93/ Cowie, Freedom’s Dominion: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jefferson-cowie/freedom%E2%80%99s-dominion-winner-of-the-pulitzer-prize/9781541672819/?lens=basic-books Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs.If you enjoyed this edition of the Alabama History Podcast, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Theo Moore, founder and executive director of Hiztorical Vision Productions, discusses receiving the 2025 Jakeman Award for Digital History (large project category) from the Alabama Historical Association. He talks about his past, current, and future films; his motivations for founding Hiztorical Vision Productions; and his plans for the future – including creating a studio, museum, and event space.Transcript at this link: https://tinyurl.com/vpfz6ece Links to things mentioned in the episode:Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Hiztorical Vision Productions: https://hiztoricalvp.org/ Crown: the County of Lowndes (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD6cQejngU4&t=1s Hobson City: From Peril to Promise (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byUHSHlieT0&t=4s Afrikan by way of American (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRfhA2DzuJg&t=9s Remembering John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital at Tuskegee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcjOu0y84Jg Georgia Documentary Film Festival: https://filmfreeway.com/GeorgiaDocumentaryFilmFestival Lanett Film Festival: https://filmfreeway.com/LanettCityFilmFestival Southern Film Festival: https://filmfreeway.com/SouthernFilmFestival Heritage House (Africatown museum): https://clotilda.com/ Tuskegee Institute Advancement League (TIAL): https://snccdigital.org/location/tuskegee-al/ Dr. Gwendolyn Patton: https://snccdigital.org/people/gwen-patton/ Sammy Younge, Jr.: https://snccdigital.org/events/murder-of-sammy-younge-snccs-statement-on-vietnam/ Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs.If you enjoyed this edition of the Alabama History Podcast, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Bert Harris, former president of the East Alabama Museum and the Genealogical Society of East Alabama, plus Jayson and Laura Hill, discuss Opelika’s history, tour sites, and other amenities the AHA will enjoy for its April 2025 annual meeting.Transcript of episode: https://tinyurl.com/5a26sz5r Links to items mentioned in the episode:Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ ; Opelika, AL: https://www.opelika-al.gov/ ; Museum of East Alabama: https://eastalabama.org/ ; Treaty of Cusseta, 1832: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/treaty-of-cusseta-1832/ ; Creek Removal: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/creek-indian-removal/ ; Montgomery and West Point Railroad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_and_West_Point_Railroad ; Rousseau’s Raid: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/rousseaus-raid/ ; Textile mills: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/textile-industry-in-alabama/ ; Norma Rae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Rae ; John Herbert Orr: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/john-herbert-orr/ ; Yoholo Micco: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/opothle-yoholo/ ; Booker T. Washington: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/booker-t-washington/ ; Booker T. Whatley, How to Make $100,000 Farming 25 Acres: https://archive.org/details/bookertwhatleysh0000what ; Spring Villa (the Penn Yonge House): https://www.opelika-al.gov/321/Spring-Villa-History ; Salem-Shotwell Bridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem-Shotwell_Covered_Bridge ; Darden House (John Wesley Darden): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/media/darden-house-in-opelika/ ; Heritage House: https://heritagehouse1913.com/about/ ; Brownfield House: https://auburnopelikaalrealestate.com/brownfield-house-in-opelika-al/ ; John Emerald Distilling Company: https://johnemeralddistilling.com/about/ ; Winston Smith T Hardware and Building Supply: https://www.smithtbuildingsupply.com/ ; Opelika Sportsplex: https://www.opelika-al.gov/391/Opelika-Sportsplex-Aquatics-Center ; Beans Mill: https://stephanielane2012.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/beans-mill/
Episode 81 – Dan Puckett discusses the Alabama Holocaust CommissionAir Date: January 7, 2025Dan Puckett, chair of the Alabama Holocaust Commission, discusses the Commission’s history, mission, program of work, and future. He also talks about adding Holocaust studies to Alabama’s 2024 Social Studies Standards for K-12 education, the purposes of Holocaust education, and his 2014 book, In the Shadow of Hitler: Alabama’s Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust (University of Alabama Press). Dr. Puckett is a professor of history at Troy University.Transcript here (caveat – possibly not 100 % accurate): https://tinyurl.com/mur9ap82 Links mentioned in this episode:Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Alabama Holocaust Commission: https://alabamaholocaustcommission.org/ Alabama Department of Archives and History: https://archives.alabama.gov/ Yom HaShoah (via Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_HaShoah Gulf Coast Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education: https://www.gcholocaustcenter.org/ Alabama Holocaust Education Center: https://ahecinfo.org/ Alabama State Department of Education Social Studies Standards (available after ca. mid-January 2025): https://www.alabamaachieves.org/acad-stand/ Birmingham Public Library Department of Archives and Manuscripts: http://www.cobpl.org/locations/central/archives/ (Book) In the Shadow of Hitler: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817381073/in-the-shadow-of-hitler/
Dr. Hayden McDaniel, Education Curator at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, discusses the Alabama History Institutes, annual professional development workshops for K-12 teachers.Links discussed in the episode: Alabama History Institute: https://archives.alabama.gov/teach-learn/professional-development/alabama-history-institutes.aspx / Alabama Department of Archives and History: https://archives.alabama.gov/ / Alabama Holocaust Education Center: https://ahecinfo.org/ / Temple Beth-el: https://www.templebeth-el.net/ / Rosenwald Schools (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/rosenwald-schools-in-alabama/ / Booker T. Washington, “How to Build Up a Good School in the South”: https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/voices/id/4569/ / Jesse Owens Museum: http://jesseowensmemorialpark.com/wordpress1/museum-3/ / Alabama History Hub: http://www.archives.state.al.us/AlabamaHistoryHub.aspx / AHI on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ALHistoryEdu/ / AHI on X (Twitter): https://x.com/alhistoryedu / AHI on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alhistoryedu/ Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/554suymd *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate. The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray. Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Dr. Isabela Morales, author of the multi-award winning book Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom (Oxford, 2022), discusses the Townsend family of Madison County, Alabama, particularly the 45 manumitted children and nieces of Samuel Townsend who will them their freedom and his fortune. Morales speaks about the Townsends’ diaspora and how “race, place, and money” affected their experience of freedom between the Civil War and the Jim Crow Era.Links mentioned in the episode:Dr. R. Isabela Morales: http://www.risabelamorales.com/ Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ James F. Sulzby Award: https://www.alabamahistory.net/james-f-sulzby-book-award Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/happy-dreams-of-liberty-9780197531792?cc=ca&lang=en& Hoole Special Collections Library, Univ. of Alabama: https://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/ Septimus D. Cabaniss Papers, Estate of Samuel Townsend (Hoole Lib): https://archives.lib.ua.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/73817 Wilberforce University: https://wilberforce.edu/Leavenworth, KS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leavenworth,_KansasJim Crow in Alabama: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/segregation-jim-crow/ Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum: https://www.ssaamuseum.org/ Elizabeth Dale, the “Black Widow of Hazel Green”: https://huntsvillehistorycollection.org/hhc/browse-person.php?a=person&pe=Elizabeth%20Evans%20Hall%20Dale Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/5afmd542 *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Mr. Barry McNealy of Birmingham talks about receiving the Alabama Historical Association’s Virginia Van Der Veer Hamilton Award for 2024, given to a person who has significantly advanced Alabama history with the general public. Mr. McNealy is a classroom teacher, historical expert with the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum, youth leader, and tour guide.Links mentioned in the podcast:Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton Award: https://www.alabamahistory.net/virginia-v-hamilton-award Birmingham Civil Rights Institute: https://www.bcri.org/ Miles College: https://www.miles.edu/ Rev. Abraham Woods, Jr.: https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Abraham_Woods_Jr Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/fred-lee-shuttlesworth/ Ms. Rosa Parks: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/rosa-parks/ Parker High School, Birmingham: https://bhamwiki.com/w/Parker_High_School Smithfield Community: https://bhamwiki.com/w/Smithfield_community Dynamite Hill: https://bhamwiki.com/w/Dynamite_Hill Sixteenth Street Baptist Church: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/sixteenth-street-baptist-church/ “Four Little Girls” bombing: https://bhamwiki.com/w/1963_church_bombing BCRI Legacy Youth Leadership Program: https://www.bcri.org/youth-and-families/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: https://www.ushmm.org/ Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/alabama-christian-movement-for-human-rights-acmhr/ Boutwell Auditorium: https://bhamwiki.com/w/Boutwell_Auditorium Nat King Cole assault and attempted kidnapping: https://bhamwiki.com/w/1956_Nat_King_Cole_assault Father Coyle murder: https://bhamwiki.com/w/James_Coyle Edmund Pettus Bridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Pettus_Bridge “Bloody Sunday” (Selma, AL, 1965): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/bloody-sunday/ Juneteenth Freedom Celebration (BCRI): https://www.bcri.org/event/juneteenth2024/ “Letter From Birmingham Jail”: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/letter-from-birmingham-jail/ Miss Odessa Woolfolk: https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Odessa_Woolfolk PEACE Birmingham: https://www.acealabama.org/peacebirmingham.html Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/3dhb5vat *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Air Date: September 3, 2024Ms. Jasponica Florence, chair of the local arrangements committee for the AHA’s 2024 Fall Pilgrimage to Phenix City, discusses the history of Phenix City (beginning with why the city name does not have an “O”); the pre-meeting tour sites in Russell County, AL; the Pilgrimage tour sites in Phenix City (with special emphasis on the Franchise Baptist Church and South Girard School); and the special program devoted to antebellum enslaved / manumitted bridge builder and native son Horace King.Links referenced in the interview:Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Fall 2024 AHA Newsletter (download PDF): https://www.alabamahistory.net/_files/ugd/3aaf16_7bf43642929b4d948f835115a0123a4f.pdf Phenix City (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/phenix-city/ Movie, “The Phenix City Story,” 1955: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048488/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk ; (EOA) https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/the-phenix-city-story/ Ft. Benning / Ft. Moore (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Moore Crawford Masonic Lodge (Historical marker Database): https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=111586 Crockettsville Store Museum: https://www.citizenofeastalabama.com/news/local_history/gazebo-crockettsville-general-store-open/article_34ff6bf8-8547-5972-976a-a3518c63170b.html Ft. Mitchell (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/fort-mitchell/ Jones Store Museum: https://www.citizenofeastalabama.com/news/local/jones-museum-smiths-station-celebrates-opening-of-historic-jones-store-museum/article_8db09708-9a9a-5a51-b6c6-7d13316995df.html Museum of Wonder: https://museumofwonder.com/ Russell County Courthouse at Seale (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_County_Courthouse_at_Seale Horace King (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/horace-king/ Tom Lenard’s documentary, “Horace: The Bridge Builder King” (1995-96), part I: https://youtu.be/4qQWPX3oaNU?si=eYGI1Ijsg_W663PX Albert Patterson (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/albert-l-patterson/ Phenix City Old Post Office (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenix_City_Post_Office_Building Russell County Courthouse (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/media/russell-county-courthouse/ South Gerard School (Historical Marker Database): https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=253870 Trinity United Methodist Church: https://www.trinityumcpc.org/ New Central Missionary Baptist Church (Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/NewCentralmbc8 Franchise Baptist Church: https://www.franchisebaptist.org/our-history/ Whitewater Rafting in Phenix City: https://alabamarecreationtrails.org/trail/chattahoochee-river-whitewater-phenix-city/_Overcoming Twenty-Five Years of Separate but Unequal_ (iPublisher, 2021): https://www.iuniverse.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/821211-overcoming-25-years-of-separate-but-unequal Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/3m3v6z3z *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Episode 76 – Dr. Idrissa Snider discusses Alabama History Day. Air date: August 6, 2024 Dr. Idrissa Snider, Alabama Humanities Alliance Program Coordinator, talks about the Alabama History Day and National History Day competitions, their relationship to history education, and how students, teachers, and potential judges can involve themselves with the program.Links mentioned in the podcast:Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Alabama Humanities Alliance: https://alabamahumanities.org/ Alabama History Day Program: https://alabamahumanities.org/program/alabama-history-day/ National History Day: https://nhd.org/en/ North Alabama AHD Ambassador Rebecca Heaton: https://alabamahumanities.org/alabama-history-day-for-teachers/ (scroll to middle of page)South Alabama AHD Ambassador Cheryl Birch: https://alabamahumanities.org/alabama-history-day-for-teachers/ (scroll to middle of page)Central Alabama AHD Ambassador Idrissa Snider: https://alabamahumanities.org/about/team/ (scroll to bottom of page)Troy University Montgomery Campus: https://www.troy.edu/about-us/montgomery-campus/index.html Rosa Parks Museum: https://troy.edu/student-life-resources/arts-culture/rosa-parks-museum/index.html Davis Theater: https://www.troy.edu/student-life-resources/arts-culture/davis-theatre/index.html Alabama Humanities Alliance Janice Riley Memorial Scholarship: https://alabamahumanities.org/program/jenice-riley-memorial-scholarship/Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/3buyerde *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Dr. Richard Bailey, AHA president for 2024-25, discusses the AHA Fall Pilgrimage to Phenix City in October 2024, the annual meeting in Opelika during April 2025, his focus on pursuing local histories, Alabama’s African American history, and the importance of recognizing the full history of the Reconstruction Era.Links to things mentioned or implied in this episode:Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ AHA Fall Pilgrimage, Phenix City, October 2024: https://www.alabamahistory.net/_files/ugd/3aaf16_7bf43642929b4d948f835115a0123a4f.pdf AHA Annual Meeting, Opelika, April 2025: https://www.alabamahistory.net/meetings Neither Carpetbaggers nor Scalawags: Black Office Holders During the Reconstruction of Alabama 1867-1878: https://ugapress.org/book/9781588381897/neither-carpetbaggers-nor-scalawags/ Reconstruction in Alabama (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/reconstruction-in-alabama/ Founding of Birmingham (Bham Wiki): https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Incorporation_of_Birmingham Public Education during Reconstruction(EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/public-education-during-the-civil-war-and-reconstruction-era/ They, Too, Call Alabama Home: African American Profiles 1800 To 1999: https://books.google.com/books/about/They_Too_Call_Alabama_Home.html?id=wHIOAQAAMAAJ Albert Patterson (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/albert-l-patterson/ Horace King (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/horace-king/ Horace: The Bridge Builder King (Tom Lenard documentary, Part 1 w/link to Part 2): You Tube https://youtu.be/4qQWPX3oaNU?si=KY8zLK_O9VRl5_d7 Auburn Marriott Opelika Resort and Spa at Grand National in Opelika: https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/csgab-auburn-marriott-opelika-resort-and-spa-at-grand-national/overview/ Dr. Clayborne Carson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayborne_Carson Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/323119/the-eyes-on-the-prize-civil-rights-reader-by-general-editors-clayborne-carson-david-j-garrow-gerald-gill-vincent-harding-darlene-clark-hine/ Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/about-papers-project Air Force Historical Research Agency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Historical_Research_Agency Alabama Bicentennial Commission: https://fortherecordalabama.blog/2021/12/16/new-in-the-adah-collections-alabama-bicentennial-commission-collection/ Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/4rt885dd*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Episode 72 – Tom Reidy on AHA 2024 Museum Award for The Scottsboro Boys MuseumAir Date: May 20, 2024Dr. Tom Reidy, executive director of The Scottsboro Boys Museum which received the Alabama Historical Association’s Museum Award for 2024, discusses the history of the infamous Scottsboro Boys case and the history and programs of the museum itself.Links to things mentioned or implied in the episode:Alabama Historical Association https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Alabama Historical Association Historical Museum Award https://www.alabamahistory.net/historical-museum-award The Scottsboro Boys Museum (1) https://www.thescottsboroboysmuseum.com/ ; (2) https://www.alabamaheritage.com/alabama-heritage-blog/the-historical-legacy-of-the-scottsboro-boys-museum ; (3) https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/scottsboro-boys-museum-and-cultural-center/ Sheila Washington https://www.npr.org/2021/02/04/964172261/remembering-sheila-washington-who-told-the-story-of-the-scottsboro-boys The Scottsboro Boys (case) https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/scottsboro-trials/ Alabama Chapter of the Communist Party USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Chapter_of_the_Communist_Party_USASouthern Worker newspaper https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/southernworker/Jackson County Sentinel newspaper https://www.newspapers.com/paper/jackson-county-sentinel/29019/The Huntsville Times newspaper https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/the-huntsville-times/ International Labor Defense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Labor_Defense Judge James Horton https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/james-horton-jr/ Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys (1976 docudrama) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074723/ Heavens Fall (2006 drama) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425094/ Samuel Leibowitz https://www.famous-trials.com/scottsboroboys/1559-leibowitz Harlem Renaissance https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/new-african-american-identity-harlem-renaissance Langston Hughes https://poets.org/poet/langston-hughes Lead Belly https://www.songhall.org/profile/Huddie_Ledbetter To Kill a Mockingbird https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/to-kill-a-mockingbird/ Nelle Harper Lee https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/harper-lee/ NAACP https://naacp.org/ Rosa Parks (and Scottsboro Boys) https://rosaparksbiography.org/bio/scottsboro-boys/ The Scottsboro Boys Act of 2023 https://www.al.com/breaking/2013/04/post_1132.html Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/29thykt5*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.
Episode 73 – Allie Lopez on the AHA 2024 Coley Research Award Air Date: April 22, 2024Allie Lopez, winner of the AHA 2024 Clinton Jackson and Evelyn Coley Research Award, discusses her proposed project, “The Injustice That Permeates: Jim Crow, Fear, And Dispossession in Rural Alabama 1930 to 1985,” and her 2024 AHA Meeting presentation on the Reverse Freedom Rides.Links to things mentioned in the episode:Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ AHA Coley Research Award: https://www.alabamahistory.net/clinton-jackson-and-evelyn-coley-re Allie Lopez webpage at Baylor University: https://history.artsandsciences.baylor.edu/person/allie-r-lopez. University of North Alabama: https://una.edu/index.html SNCC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee SCLC: https://nationalsclc.org/ CORE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Racial_Equality NAACP: https://naacp.org/ Walter Johnson: https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/walter-johnson Marisa Fuentes: https://history.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/details/346-fuentes-marisa Saidiya Hartman: https://english.columbia.edu/content/saidiya-v-hartman Black Belt of Alabama: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/black-belt-region-in-alabama/ Charles S. Johnson, Shadow of the Plantation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934): https://archive.org/details/shadowofplantati00john/page/n5/mode/1up Theodore Rosengarten, All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974): https://archive.org/details/allgodsdangersli0000shaw_t4b0 Alabama Sharecroppers Union: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/alabama-sharecroppers-union/ Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH): https://archives.alabama.gov/ Freedom Rides: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/freedom-rides/ Reverse Freedom Rider: Allie R. Lopez, “When Southern Segregationists Gave Black Residents One-Way bus Tickets North,” Time – Made By History, March 21, 2024, https://time.com/6697055/welfare-queen-stereotype-origins/. White Citizens Council: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils W. S. Hoole Special Collections, University of Alabama: https://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/ Civil Rights Struggle and the Shoals Project: https://civilrightsshoals.com/ Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/ypm5axjm *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net/
Air Date: March 7, 2024Dr. Christine Sears and Ben Hoksbergen talk about the history of Huntsville, AL, site of the 2024 meeting of the Alabama Historical Association. They also discuss the sites attendees will visit on the pre-conference and conference tours, the banquet speaker Dr. Isabel Morales, and the meeting program offerings.Links to things mentioned in the episode:Alabama Historical Association: www.alabamahistory.netAHA Spring 2024 Newsletter: https://www.alabamahistory.net/_files/ugd/3aaf16_3b018dd19cb14a379df403033346127c.pdf University of Alabama at Huntsville: https://www.uah.edu/ Huntsville (History via EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/huntsville/ Broad River Group (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/broad-river-group/ Redstone Arsenal (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/redstone-arsenal/ Marshall Space Flight Center (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/marshall-space-flight-center/Operation Paperclip: https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/project-paperclip-and-american-rocketry-after-world-war-ii Verner von Braun (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/wernher-von-braun/ Cotton Mills / Textile Industry (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/textile-industry-in-alabama/ TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority, via EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/tennessee-valley-authority-in-alabama-tva/ Rural electrification (REA): https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/econ_focus/2020/q1/economic_history WPA (Works Progress Administration): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration Sputnik: https://www.nasa.gov/history/sputnik/index.html NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration): https://www.nasa.gov/ Huntsville Revisited Museum (Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/hsvrevisitedmuseum/ Weeden House: https://www.weedenhousemuseum.com/ Episcopal Church of the Nativity: https://www.nativity-hsv.org/ Harrison Bros. Hardware: http://harrisonbrothershardware.com/ First National Bank (SAH website): https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AL-01-089-0041 Temple B’Nai Sholom: https://www.templebnaisholom.com/ Saint John AME Church (AAMU LibGuide): https://libguides.aamu.edu/c.php?g=509698&p=3590067 State Black Archives, Research Center, and Museum: https://www.aamu.edu/academics/library-learning-resources-center/state-black-archives-museum/ Alabama A&M University: https://www.aamu.edu/ Davidson Center for Space Exploration: https://www.rocketcenter.com/ Dr. R. Isabella Morales: http://www.risabelamorales.com/ Happy Dreams of Freedom: http://www.risabelamorales.com/happy-dreams-of-liberty.html Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum: https://www.ssaamuseum.org/ Princeton & Slavery Project: https://slavery.princeton.edu/ Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/52u25fjy *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net/
Episode 71 – Dr. Pete Sparks on The Guntersville Historical Society, Winner of the 2023 Kuykendall Award for Local HistoryDr. Pete Sparks, president of the Guntersville Historical Society (GHS), discusses the history of the society, its activities in the recent past and at present, and its plans for the future, including a succession plan for the current leadership to sustain the GHS’s work. The Alabama Historical Association presented its 2023 James Ray Kuykendall Award to the Guntersville Historical Society for its long record of outstanding work in local and community history.Links referenced in the episode:Alabama Historical Association https://www.alabamahistory.net/ AHA James Kuykendall Award https://www.alabamahistory.net/james-ray-kuykendall-award History of Guntersville, EOA https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/guntersville/ Guntersville Historical Society Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/guntersvillehistoricalsociety/ City of Guntersville https://guntersvilleal.org/ Guntersville Museum https://www.guntersvillemuseum.org/ The Colonel Montgomery Gilbreath House https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/media/col-montgomery-gilbreath-house/ The Matthew Culbert Cabin (from Sand Mountain Reporter) https://www.sandmountainreporter.com/news/article_2578dc50-0a00-11ed-a1a8-8f14d781a344.html Oliver Day Street Papers, 1836-1965, at ADAH https://archives-alabama-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1vpqcjv/01ALABAMA_ALMA216066200002743 Jennifer Rogers-Etcheverry https://www.kkp.film/blog/bae5jc9jp2605i68432ounw7ba47yc Mary Ben Heflin (from the Hartselle Enquirer) https://hartselleenquirer.com/2020/09/02/library-namesake-finds-truth-in-his-business/ Horseshoe Bend National Military Park https://www.nps.gov/hobe/index.htm Trail of Tears National Historic Trail https://www.nps.gov/trte/planyourvisit/alabama.htm Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: http://tinyurl.com/55y54nuj *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net/
Episode 70 – Dr. Katie Beasley on her 2023 SAWH Thomas Award winning article re: Alabama women and Curb Markets, 1923-1929.Air Date: January 23, 2024Dr. Katie Beasley, an independent scholar who recently completed her doctorate at Florida State University, discusses her article, “’I Am Planning to Buy a New Buick Coupe Next Year”: Rural Women and Alabama’s Curb Markets, 1923-1929,” Alabama Review 75, no. 2 (April 2022), for which she won the 2023 A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize from the Southern Association for Women Historians. Her work examines how rural Alabama women converted home demonstration instruction for their own purposes – making money and selling in local curb markets in the 1920s.Links mentioned in the episode:The Alabama Review https://www.alabamahistory.net/the-alabama-review Southern Association for Women Historians https://thesawh.org/A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize https://thesawh.org/prizes-and-fellowships/a-elizabeth-taylor-prize/ Auburn University Special Collections and Archives https://lib.auburn.edu/specialcollections/Finding aid to the home demonstration agent reports (ACES Records, RG 71, series 3) https://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/find-aid/071/3.htm#3University of Georgia Press https://ugapress.org/ Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: http://tinyurl.com/ybnb59ub *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net/
Stillman College Asst. Prof. of Music, Dr. Allison Upshaw, discusses her "creative nonfiction" project, "reframing: Narratives of African American Female Landowners in Alabama's Black Belt" that captures more about Black women who own land than what appears in records and produces their stories in a way that makes them fully human.Links mentioned in the episode:Stillman College: https://stillman.edu/ Alabama Department of Archives and History Statement of Recommitment: https://archives.alabama.gov/about/docs/ADAH_statement_recommitment.pdf Dr. Allison Upshaw personal website: https://allisonupshawphd.com/ Alabama Humanities Alliance grants: https://alabamahumanities.org/grants/ Alabama State Council on the Arts: https://arts.alabama.gov/ [On Heir Property] J. F. Dyer, "Heir Property: Legal and Cultural Dimensions of Collective Landownership," Alabama Agriculture Experiment Station Bulletin 667, May 2007: https://aurora.auburn.edu/bitstream/handle/11200/4107/BULL0667.pdf "reFraming: Narratives of African American Female Landowners in Alabama's Black Belt" on Prezi Video: https://prezi.com/v/view/Es7m9C77MxQoQ4yoLTuD/ "OPERAtunities": https://allisonupshawphd.com/services/ "Artivism": https://allisonupshawphd.com/artivism/ Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/bd2ztwbb *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net/
Episode 068 – Bertis English Recipient of the 2023 C.J. Coley Award from Alabama Historical AssociationAir Date: November 8, 2023Dr. Bertis English, professor of history at Alabama State University, discusses his book, Civil Wars, Civil Beings, and Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt: A History of Perry County (University of Alabama Press, 2020) that won the Alabama Historical Association's 2023 C.J. Coley Award for the best book on local history published in the previous two years. English argues that African American agency and the power of interracial citizens made the history of Perry County, AL, significantly different from the orthodox understanding of the Black Belt's history from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement as one of relentless racial strife and oppression.Links to things mentioned in the episode:Alabama Historical Association www.alabamahistory.net/AHA's Clinton Jackson Coley Award https://www.alabamahistory.net/clinton-jackson-coley-book-award Civil Wars, Civil Beings, and Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817320690/civil-wars-civil-beings-and-civil-rights-in-alabamas-black-belt/ Perry County https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/perry-county/ Marion, AL https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/marion/ Uniontown, AL https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/uniontown/ The Dunning School https://slaveryexhibits.ctl.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/williamdunning Alabama's Tragic Decade [John Witherspoon Dubose at BhamWiki] https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/John_DuBose Sarah W. Wiggins, The Scalawag in Alabama Politics https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817305574/the-scalawag-in-alabama-politics-18651881/ W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Reconstruction_in_America Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction:_America%27s_Unfinished_Revolution,_1863%E2%80%931877 Lincoln School https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/lincoln-school/ Judson College https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/judson-college/Howard College (Samford University) https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/samford-university/ Journal of African American History https://asalh.org/document/journal-of-african-american-history/ Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/3968ebuc *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net/
Air Date: October 2, 2023Dr. Tara Douglas, Ms. Tracey Thomas, and Dr. Ted Spears – members of the local arrangements committee – talk about the 2023 Alabama Historical Association Fall Pilgrimage in Sylacauga, AL. Dr. Douglas speaks on the history of Sylacauga, Ms. Thomas talks about the B. B. Comer Memorial Library as a cultural arts center and host / headquarters for the Pilgrimage, and Dr. Ted Spears tells about the marble arts and sites planned for the Pilgrimage tour.Links mentioned in the episode -- Alabama Historical Association Newsletter, Fall 2023: https://www.alabamahistory.net/_files/ugd/3aaf16_b27cfb15c77d4250a76fa87f39f21e5d.pdf Sylacauga (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/sylacauga/ Sylacauga Historical Commission: http://www.cityofsylacauga.net/historical-commission.html B. B. Comer Memorial Library: https://www.bbcomerlibrary.net/ Comer Library Foundation: https://www.bbcomerlibrary.net/foundation/ Sylacauga Arts Council: https://www.sylartsal.org/ Sylacauga Magic of Marble Festival: https://magicofmarblefestival.com/ Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage: https://ahc.alabama.gov/alabamaregister.aspx B. B. Comer (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/braxton-bragg-comer-1907-11/ Avondale Mills (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/avondale-mills/ Isabel Anderson Comer Museum (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/isabel-anderson-comer-museum-and-arts-center/ Jim Nabors (Sylacauga native, singer and actor. EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/jim-nabors/ Hodges Meteorite, 1954 (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/hodges-meteorite-strike-sylacauga-aerolite/ Dr. Wayne Flynt: https://www.alabamaacademyofhonor.org/j-wayne-flynt Douglass Crockwell (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglass_Crockwell Alabama Tourism Department: https://tourism.alabama.gov/ Alabama State Council on the Arts: https://arts.alabama.gov/ Pietrasanta, Italy (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietrasanta Blue Bell Creameries: https://www.bluebell.com/visit-blue-bell/sylacauga/ Pursell Farms: https://pursellfarms.com/ First Baptist Church of Sylacauga: https://joinfirst.net/ Rising Star Baptist Church (Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/risingstarmissionarybaptistchurch/ Sylaward Trail (Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/sylawardtrail/ Sculptor-in-residence Craigger Browne: https://canarygalleryllc.com/craigger-browne Frank Murphy (artist & sculptor): https://www.frankmurphyfineart.com/ Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/34rbunzv *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net/
Episode 66 -- Spokespeople Aaron Trehub, Chelsea Denault, and Clint Bellanger discuss ADPNet's 2023 Alabama Historical Association Digital History Award (Small Project Category)Air date: September 6, 2023Aaron Trehub (Auburn University), Chelsea Denault (Michigan Digital Preservation Network), and Clint Bellanger (ADPNet Technical Policy Committee) discuss the Alabama Digital Preservation Network, ADPNet, winner of the Alabama Historical Association's 2023 Digital History Award for small projects.ADPNet calls itself "a distributed digital preservation network for locally created digital content" built on LOCKSS ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe") software with an iteration (node) at each member institution. ADPNet began in 2006 with an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant to the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL).Links mentioned in the show:The Alabama Digital Preservation Network (ADPNet) https://adpn.org/ Alabama Historical Association Digital History Award https://www.alabamahistory.net/digital-history-award Alabama Historical Association https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL) https://www.naal.edu/ Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS) https://www.imls.gov/ Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/4wpr7nkk *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate. The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray. Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website https://www.alabamahistory.net/
Episode 65 – Bob Friedman on the Birmingham Black Radio Museum's 2023 Digital History Award (Large Project Category).
Air Date: August 3, 2023
Bob Friedman, founder and director of the Birmingham Black Radio Museum (BBRM) talks about receiving the Alabama Historical Association's 2023 Digital History Award, about the founding of the BBRM, and about his background in (and the history of) Black centered radio as a veteran talk show host and manager. He talks about singing with and interviewing many Black R&B and Gospel performers, and he tells us about Paul "Tall Paul" White, a legendary radio announcer of 1950s and 1960s Birmingham.
Links to things mentioned in the episode:
Birmingham Black Radio Museum (BBRM) https://www.thebbrm.org/
Alabama Historical Association Digital History Award https://www.alabamahistory.net/digital-history-award
Alabama Historical Association https://www.alabamahistory.net/
Alabama Department of Archives and History https://archives.alabama.gov/
Department of Archival Studies, SLIS, University of Alabama https://cis.ua.edu/academic-departments/school-of-library-information-studies/
The Carver Theater https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Carver_Theater Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame https://jazzhall.com/
Paul "Tall Paul" White http://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Tall_Paul Alabama Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame https://al-ba.com/wp2/aba-hall-of-fame-and-broadcasters-of-the-year/
"View a Radio Hero" https://www.blog.thebbrm.org/2020/04/22/a-radio-hero/
Radio Preservation Task Force of the Library of Congress [April 2023 Program] https://radiopreservation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/23-LOC-Conference-Program-FINAL.pdf
Dr. Robert Riter https://cis.ua.edu/cis-theme-staff/bob-riter/
Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript on Google Drive: https://tinyurl.com/7377xjb *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.
The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.
Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website https://www.alabamahistory.net/
Dr. Ruth Truss, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Montevallo, is the 2023-2024 president of the Alabama Historical Association. With long-time AHA Secretary Mark Wilson, she discusses her plans for her term in office, from maintaining the diversity initiatives of her predecessors to the programs for both the AHA Fall Pilgrimage (Sylacauga) and Annual Meeting (Huntsville).
Links to things mentioned in the episode: City of Sylacauga (EOA article) https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/sylacauga/ Blue Bell Parlor (Alabama Travel Website) https://alabama.travel/places-to-go/blue-bell-creameries B.B. Comer Library https://www.bbcomerlibrary.net/ Pursell Farms https://pursellfarms.com City of Huntsville (EOA article) https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/huntsville/ U.S. Space and Rocket Center https://www.rocketcenter.com/ R. Isabela Morales, Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/happy-dreams-of-liberty-9780197531792?cc=ca⟨=en& The Alabama Review https://www.alabamahistory.net/the-alabama-review Alabama Heritage https://www.alabamaheritage.com/ "The book I did with you [Marty]," The Great War in the Heart of Dixie https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817389277/the-great-war-in-the-heart-of-dixie/ Sarah Wiggins, The Journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, 1827-1835 https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817361181/the-journal-of-sarah-haynsworth-gayle-18271835/
Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/4duj5994 *Just a heads up – the transcript was generated by MS Word AI and lightly edited by Lukas Ducker and Marty Olliff. It is likely to be less than 100% accurate. The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray. Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website https://www.alabamahistory.net/
Show Notes: Episode 63 – Troy University McPherson-Mitchell Roundtable on the Clotilda and Africatown
Air date: June 7, 2023
The History and Philosophy Department at Troy University turned its annual McPherson-Mitchell Lecture in Southern History into a roundtable on the Clotilda, the last slave ship in the United States (1860), and Africatown, the community founded by the emancipated and their descendants. The participants included:
Dr. Kathryn Tucker, host and Lecturer, Troy University History & Philosophy Department
Mr. Jeremy Ellis, President of the Clotilda Descendants Association, Inc.
Mr. Ben Raines, journalist, author, and discoverer of the Clotilda wreck
Ms. Stacye Hathorn, Alabama State Archeologist
Gen. Walter Givhan, former chair of the Alabama Historical Commission
Mr. Theo Moore, principal of Hiztorical Visions Productions, a film company
Special thanks to Troy University and Troy TrojanVision for providing the audio recording of the roundtable for use as an Alabama History Podcast.
Links mentioned in the episode:
McPherson-Mitchell Lecture in Southern History https://www.troy.edu/academics/colleges-schools/college-arts-sciences/departments/history-philosophy-department/activities-clubs/mcphmitch.html
Troy University https://www.troy.edu/
Troy TrojanVision https://www.troy.edu/student-life-resources/campus-media/troy-trojanvision/index.html
Clotilda Descendants Association, Inc. https://theclotildastory.com/
Saving America's Amazon by Ben Raines https://ugapress.org/book/9781588383389/saving-americas-amazon/
The Last Slave Ship by Ben Raines https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Last-Slave-Ship/Ben-Raines/9781982136154
Alabama Historical Commission https://ahc.alabama.gov/
Hiztorical Vision Productions https://hiztoricalvp.org/ Descendant (film) by Margaret Brown https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16376494/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Afrikan by Way of American (film) https://hiztoricalvp.org/documentary/afrikan-by-way-of-american-history-of-africatown-full-documentary-hvp/
Diving with a Purpose https://divingwithapurpose.org/
Slave Wrecks Project https://global.si.edu/projects/slave-wrecks-project
Alabama State Council on the Arts https://arts.alabama.gov/
Africatown Heritage House and "Clotilda: The Exhibition at the Africatown Heritage House" https://clotilda.com/
If you'd rather read, here is the link to a transcript of the roundtable: https://tinyurl.com/3uk982cn
Disclaimer: Be aware that the transcript may not be 100 percent correct
The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.
Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website https://www.alabamahistory.net/
Air Date May 8, 2023 Dr. Brandon Jett of Florida SouthWestern State College discusses his 2023 Milo Howard Award-winning article, "'We Crave to Become a Vital Force in this Community': Police Brutality and African American Activism in Birmingham, Alabama, 1920-1945," published in the January 2022 issue of The Alabama Review. We learn this is a spin-off of his book Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South (LSU Press, 2021) that won the Florida Book Award for 2022. Links to things mentioned in the episode:AHA Milo Howard Award -- https://www.alabamahistory.net/milo-b-howard-awardDr. Brandon T. Jett website -- https://www.brandontjett.com/Wickersham Report (National Archives explainer) -- https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2021/05/04/the-national-commission-on-law-observance-and-enforcements-report-on-lawlessness-in-law-enforcement/PDF of Wickersham Report -- https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/44540NCJRS.pdfNAACP Thalheimer Award -- https://naacp.org/find-resources/scholarships-awards-internships/awardsHammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression by Robin D. G. Kelley (UNC Press, 25th anniversary publication, 2015): https://uncpress.org/book/9781469625485/hammer-and-hoe/Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South (LSU Press, 2021)-- https://lsupress.org/books/detail/race-crime-and-policing-in-the-jim-crow-south/Florida Book Award -- https://www.floridabookawards.org/ Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/ys6p2ccz*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate. The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray. Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website https://www.alabamahistory.net/
Episode 61 – Peggy Townes, winner of the Alabama Historical Association's 2022 Virginia van der Veer Hamilton Award.Air Date: April 3, 2023Peggy Townes, a historian of African American life in North Alabama and resident of Decatur, discusses the projects that led her to win the AHA's 2022 Virginia van Der Veer Hamilton Award for contributions that encourage joint endeavors and understanding among avocational and professional historians. Her projects include videos, walking tours, historical markers, books on local topics, and widespread consulting.Links to things mentioned in the episode:Morgan County Archives: https://morgancounty-al.gov/departments-services/archives/Limestone County Archives: https://limestonecounty-al.gov/departments/archives/Video, "Lift Every Voice and Sing: Decatur, Alabama's African-American Pioneers": https://vimeo.com/32294344Old Town Decatur OnCell Tour: https://msnha.oncell.com/en/old-town-decatur-281499.htmlMuscle Shoals National Heritage Area: https://msnha.una.edu/ ANHA Heart & Soul magazine: https://www.nationalheritageareas.us/heart-soul/ Alabama Historical Commission Cemetery Program: https://ahc.alabama.gov/cemeteryprogram.aspx Fort Henderson and Trinity High School: https://alabama.travel/places-to-go/fort-henderson-historic-site-and-trinity-high-schoolWallace Rayfield, Architect: https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Wallace_Rayfield Ellen Stephens Hildredth of New Decatur, see "Early Efforts," "Women's Suffrage in Alabama," Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_Alabama Peggy Allen Towns Author Page, Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Peggy-Allen-Towns/e/B00GM1V6N6%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_shareFacebook – Our Story, Decatur, AL and Surrounding Areas (created by Peggy Towns): https://www.facebook.com/groups/492907950887933/ Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/yr68ah6m *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website https://www.alabamahistory.net/
Episode 60 -- Ann Boutwell, Laura Bonner, and Doug Edgeworth, hosts of the Alabama Historical Association's 2023 annual meeting in Prattville.Air Date: March 7, 2023Ann Boutwell (leader in Prattville's historical and preservation community), Laura Bonner (director of the Prattauguan Museum), and Doug Edgeworth (2023 president of the Autauga County Heritage Association) discuss preparations for the April 2023 meeting of the Alabama Historical Association in Prattville. Ms. Boutwell examines the history of Prattville and Daniel Pratt, Ms. Bonner describes some of the site on the Friday afternoon tour, and Mr. Edgeworth discusses the activities of the wide-ranging Autauga County Heritage Association.Links mentioned in the episode:Alabama Historical Association 2023 meeting in Prattville: https://www.alabamahistory.net/meetings Autauga County Heritage Association: https://autaugahistory.org/Pratttaugan Museum: https://autaugahistory.org/#961b6383-ae8f-4f33-8560-cfadd1d191daSt. Mark's Episcopal Church, Prattville, AL: https://www.stmarksal.org/ Buena Vista, Prattville, AL: https://www.facebook.com/buenavistaprattville/ Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R-vs8jO4jxrK3nib_HM5ACvt4XfaDxF-xC_FcHvF6ZU/edit?usp=share_link*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website https://www.alabamahistory.net/
Episode 59 - Cart Blackwell, curator, Mobile Carnival Museum, 2022 History Museum Award (AL Hist Assn)Air Date: February 7, 2023Cart Blackwell, curator at the Mobile Carnival Museum, discusses the museum, it's programs and plan of work, as well as the history of Carnival in Mobile. The museum won the 2022 History Museum Award from the Alabama Historical Association.Links mentioned in the episode:Mobile Carnival Museum -- https://www.mobilecarnivalmuseum.com/History Museum of Mobile -- http://www.historymuseumofmobile.com/ Mobile Museum of Art -- https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/Alabama Department of Archives and History -- https://archives.alabama.gov/ Mobile Carnival Association -- https://mcamobile.com/Alabama Historical Association Historical Museum Award -- https://www.alabamahistory.net/historical-museum-awardRather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UALV3vFcsFh3YCPKa-n71SFAtg7Cnvdo1T8NBNig7zU/edit?usp=share_link*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website https://www.alabamahistory.net/
Episode # 58Christa Kieffer -- 2022 Coley Research Award recipient, on Happy Chandler and George WallaceAir Date: January 9, 2023Christa Kieffer, doctoral student in history at the University of Kentucky, discusses her dissertation project on A. B. "Happy" Chandler, who was the first pick as George Wallace's 1968 vice-presidential running mate. She also talks about her proposed article that won the CJ and Evelyn Coley Research Award from the Alabama Historical Association in 2022, "'I'm Afraid He Ain't Our Kind of Folks': George Wallace, Happy Chandler, And the Making of Modern Conservatism."Links mentioned in the episode:CJ and Evelyn Coley Research Award (Alabama Historical Association) -- https://www.alabamahistory.net/clinton-jackson-and-evelyn-coley-reDan T. Carter Research Files, c.1930-2006, Emory University -- https://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/carter777/The Politics of Rage (Dan Carter's biography of George Wallace) -- https://lsupress.org/books/detail/the-politics-of-rage/A.B. "Happy" Chandler Papers, University of Kentucky -- https://exploreuk.uky.edu/fa/findingaid/?id=xt72jm23br0cGeorge C. Wallace Collection, Alabama Department of Archives and History -- https://www.archives.state.al.us/research/finding-aids/v9868.pdfLouie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky -- https://libraries.uky.edu/locations/special-collections-research-center/louie-b-nunn-center-oral-history Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1483dSSe8UYZsQelM5AGnkMBWYZUFOcgGJlnlktxCeHY/edit?usp=share_link *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate. The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website https://www.alabamahistory.net/
Episode # 57Dr. Hillary Green - Hallowed Grounds ProjectDecember 7, 2022_________________________________“Who were these rented slaves?”Our guest today is Dr. Hillary Green, a full professor at Davidson College, who has recently been an associate professor of history in the department of Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama. She's the author of Educational Reconstruction, African American Schools in the Urban South 1865 to 1890, published by Fordham University Press in 2016, and is the series editor of Reconstruction Reconsidered by the University of South Carolina Press. But our interest today with Dr. Green is the project she has conducted at the University of Alabama called the Hallowed Grounds Project.Links mentioned in episode:Hallowed Grounds Project - https://hgreen.people.ua.edu/hallowed-grounds-project.htmlHallowed Grounds Project - https://www.hngreenphd.com/the-hallowed-grounds-project.htmlHallowed Grounds Tours - https://bfsa.ua.edu/hallowed-grounds-tours.htmlUniversity of Alabama - https://www.ua.edu/Gender and RaceStudies at UA - https://grs.as.ua.edu/Davidson College - https://www.davidson.edu/Fordham Press - https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823270125/educational-reconstruction/USC Press - https://uscpress.com/Reconstruction-ReconsideredAssociation for African American Life and History - https://asalh.org/Alabama Association of Historians - https://www.alabamaassochistorians.org/Ehren Foley at USC Press - foleyek@mailbox.sc.eduAlabama Department of Archives and History - https://archives.alabama.gov/Rather read? – Here’s the link to the transcript:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lmvtx9_4hf6POADBZ0fcyh1Zo-0gaW2Qn3xQSP8tyoo/edit?usp=sharing*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to not be 100% accurate._________________________________Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs.Listen to the Alabama History Podcast on Apple, SoundCloud, Google and Stitcher. If you enjoyed this edition of the Alabama History Podcast, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!Alabama History Podcast - https://twitter.com/ALHistPodcastAlabama Historical Association on the web - https://www.alabamahistory.net/Alabama Historical Association on Twitter - https://twitter.com/AL_historyAlabama Historical Association on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/AlabamaHistoryAlabama Historical Association on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/al_history/Producer – Marty OlliffAssociate Producer – Laura Murray
Episode # 56 Carole Ann King – Alabama Quilts, 2022 Sulzby Award Recipient November 10, 2022 _________________________________
"Quilts are Alabama Folk Art and History" Today's guest is Carol Ann King, Curator at Old Alabama Town in Montgomery (Landmarks Foundation of Montgomery, Inc.) whose book, Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682-1950 (University of Mississippi Press, 2020), won the Alabama Historical Association's 2022 James Sulzby Award for best book published on the state's history in the previous two years. Ms. King discusses the decade-long community quilt survey conducted by King and her co-author, Mary Elizabeth Johnson Huff (1944-2019) – known as "Sunny" throughout the quilting community of the US Southeast that she documented throughout her career —that exposed more than 4000 historical quilts in the state. They chose over 200 to photograph and tell those stories in their lavish work.
Links mentioned in the episode:
Alabama Quilts, University of Mississippi Press -- https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/Alabama-Quilts
Old Alabama Town -- https://www.oldalabamatown.com/
Birmingham Museum of Art -- https://www.artsbma.org/
Made in Alabama: A State Legacy (at Amazon) -- https://tinyurl.com/2p8ehynd
Alabama Cultural Survey Records (Bham Museum of Art) -- https://cdm16044.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16044coll7
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Episode # 55 Dr. Daryn Glassbrook - The Mobile Medical Museum October 3, 2022 _________________________________
The Mobile Medical Museum won the Alabama Historical Association's Historical Museum Award for 2022.
From iron lungs to medicinal gardening and special exhibits - the Mobile Medical Museum boasts over 300 years of medical history and artifacts.
Our guest today is Dr. Daryn Glassbrook, Executive Director of the Mobile Medical Museum. Founded in 1962 by Dr. Samuel Eichold II, the Mobile Medical Museum preserves and exhibits medical artifacts and archives to commemorate Mobile's prominent place in the history of medical education and public health in the state of Alabama and the Gulf Coast. The Museum's collections and exhibitions provide the public with a broad understanding of the evolution of the art and science of health care.
Links mentioned in this episode: University of South Alabama - https://www.southalabama.edu/ University of South Alabama Children’s and Women’s Hospital - https://www.usahealthsystem.com/locations/childrens-womens-hospital University of Alabama at Birmingham - https://www.uab.edu/home/ Master Gardeners of Mobile County - https://mg.aces.edu/mobile/ Mobile Urban Growers - https://www.mobileurbangrowers.org/ Full Life Ahead Foundation - https://fulllifeahead.org/ Poarch Band of Creek Indians - https://pci-nsn.gov/
Mobile Medical Museum on the web - https://www.mobilemedicalmuseum.org/ Mobile Medical Museum on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MobileMedicalMuseum/ Mobile Medical Museum on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mobilemedicalmuseum/
Rather read? Here’s the link to the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ET_Gp-u9qubJ8p6ZhrokPwk-pnW5y5DM1ohcv4l19fk/edit?usp=sharing *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to not be 100% accurate. _________________________________
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“Musical Mountain Stream”
Mentone, Alabama, is the site of the Alabama Historical Association’s Fall Pilgrimage on September 24th, 2022. Nestled on the brow of Lookout Mountain, Mentone is a lovely mountain town with something for just about everyone. In this episode, we are joined by long-time resident of Mentone, Holley Midgley, who tells us some of the exciting things we’ll see and do in September.
Links mentioned in episode:
Mentone, Alabama: http://mentonealabama.gov/
DeSoto Falls: https://www.alapark.com/desoto-state-park/waterfalls%5C
Little River Canyon: https://www.nps.gov/liri/index.htm
DeSoto State Park CCC Museum: https://www.alapark.com/parks/DSP-CCC-museum
DeSoto State Park: https://www.alapark.com/parks/desoto-state-park
Sallie Howard Memorial Chapel: https://visitlookoutmountain.com/sallie-howard-memorial-chapel/
_Vagabond Dreamer_ by Elizabeth Howard: https://www.amazon.com/Vagabond-Dreamer-Elizabeth-S-Howard/dp/0873971116/ref%3Dcm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
Berry College (Rome, GA): https://www.berry.edu/
Mentone Inn: https://www.mentoneinn.com/
Mentone Arts Center: https://www.mentoneartscenter.org/
Youtube Video: Mentone: Where Little River Runs: https://youtu.be/1q3ZQ2WbacU
Rather read? – Here’s the transcript (on Google Drive): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CwBKeuRpgkZIHKYy6HwRUOeQtlIuuAyD0qN6ZP7E8Fc/edit?usp=sharing
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Rachel Hartsell discusses Alabama History Day and National History Day, especially the 2023 renewal of in-person competition at Auburn University Montgomery.
Contacts for information on Alabama History Day and National History Day:
Alabama Humanities Alliance – Alabama History Day: https://alabamahumanities.org/program/alabama-history-day/
Alabama History Day, March 3, 2023, flier: https://alabamahumanities.org/app/uploads/2022/07/AHD_2023_Flyer.pdf
National History Day: https://www.nhd.org/
Also, hear Jerald Crook and student Elizabeth Rhonemus discuss Alabama History day before 2020 in episode 33: https://soundcloud.com/alabamahistory/aha033
AHA President, 2022-23, Jim Baggett is head of the Archives Department of the Birmingham Public Library.
He discusses his plans for his term in office, including the Fall Pilgrimage in Mentone, the Annual Meeting in Prattville, and increasing AHA's visibility through enhanced social media presence. Jim also introduces a new initiative, the AHA Speakers Bureau.
He appeared in Episode 47 as winner of the 2020 Milo Howard Award for his article in the July 2018 Alabama Review entitled "A Law-Abiding People: Alabama's 1901 Constitution and the Attempted Lynching of Jim Brown." (https://soundcloud.com/alabamahistory/aha-047)
Jim mentions four items available on the internet, linked here:
AHA Fall Newsletter: https://www.alabamahistory.net/newsletters
Video: "Mentone: Where the Little River Runs," YouTube, https://youtu.be/1q3ZQ2WbacU
Prattville meeting keynote speakers Cynthia Tucker and Frey Gaillard, The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance (New South Press, 2022), http://www.newsouthbooks.com/bkpgs/detailtitle.php?isbn_solid=158838456X
AHA Speakers Bureau Webpage: https://www.alabamahistory.net/speakersbureau
Independent scholar Dr. Melissa F. Young (University of Alabama, 2020)discusses her dissertation, "Magic City Jews: Integration and Public Memory, 1871-1911," for which she won the Alabama Historical Association's inaugural Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins Dissertation Award in 2022. Dr. Young also discusses her current project, the Beth-El Civil Rights Experience that you can find at this URL: https://templebeth-el.net/education/beth-el-civil-rights-experience/
J. Mills Thornton, III, discusses his article "The Big Interest Cases" in the Alabama Review, v. 73, no. 3, July 2020. The Alabama Legislature's involvement with these cases exposed and lengthened the political divide between Alabama's elites and anti-elites.
Originally interviewed and recorded by Alabama Review editor Matthew Downs on Facebook in July 2020.
Dallas Hanbury discusses his article, "Documenting Slavery at the Local Level: Montgomery County, AL; A Case Study," Alabama Review, vol. 73, no. 3, July 2020.
Originally interviewed and recorded by Alabama Review editor Matthew Downs on Facebook in July 2020.
Guy Hubbs discusses his book _Tuscaloosa: 200 Years in the Making_, winner of the 2020 Coley Award for best book in local history presented by the Alabama Historical Association.
Jim Baggett, Director of the archives at the Birmingham (AL) Public Library, discusses his 2020 Alabama Historical Association Milo B. Howard Award winning article, “’A Law Abiding People’: Alabama’s 1901 Constitution and the Attempted Lynching of Jim Brown” published in July 2018. The Howard Award goes to the best article published in The Alabama Review in the previous two years.
Mike Bunn, author and executive director of Blakeley State Park near Spanish Fort, AL, talks about hosting the 2021 Alabama Historical Association Fall Pilgrimage, the charms of Blakeley State Park, and his new book, _Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten History of the Gulf South during America's Revolutionary Era_ published by New South Books in 2021.
"Genealogists: Going Beyond Kin" is the final installment of the Alabama Historical Association's "2020 & the Future of Alabama History" FBLive series. Drs. Donna Baker and Shari Williams discuss African-American genealogy and the Beyond Kin Project (https://beyondkin.org). Originally recorded via FB Live on December 2, 2020. For more "2020 and the Future of Alabama History" podcasts, see episodes 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, and 43.
AHA President, 2021-22, Dr. Ben Severance, is a professor of history at Auburn University Montgomery (AUM). He discusses his plans for his term as AHA president as well as his own research into US Civil War era Alabama and Tennessee.
Charles Oscar Harris was a long-time Alabama legislator and community leader during and after Reconstruction. Through genealogical research, his Black and White descendants discovered each other. With Dr. Richard Bailey, they discuss Harris's historical importance, and with Scotty Kirkland they discuss the process of securing a historical marker. This is part of the Alabama Historical Association Facebook Live series, "2020 & the Future of Alabama History. Recorded on November 17, 2020.
Emily Blewjas (Alabama Folklife Association) and Dr. Alex Covin (Alabama Women's Suffrage Centennial Committee) discuss two William G. Pomeroy Foundation funded marker programs. Scotty Kirkland (Alabama Historical Association Marker Committee) discusses the AHA's historical marker program that's operated since the 1950s.
Dr. Christine Sears (UAH History), Drew Adan (UAH Archives), Vaughn Bocchino (independent scholar), and Scotty Kirkland (chair of the Alabama Historical Association Marker Committee)talk about documenting, placing a historical marker, and involving the community in programs concerning the Avalon Plantation and its cemetery, the site of the University of Alabama at Huntsville campus. This is part of the AL Hist Assn's "2020 and the Future of Alabama History" series. It was presented on November 11, 2020 via Facebook Live.
Dr. Richard Bailey discusses the place of Black History in the history of the state, the future of Alabama History in light of COVID and BLM in 2020, and profiles of some people from his book, _They, Too, Call Alabama Home_ (https://alabamablackhistory.com/they-too-call-alabama-home-african-american-profiles-1800-1999/). Recorded October 6, 2020.
Mobile (AL) author and historian Frye Gaillard talks about racial issues in the state's history, his research and books, stories of perseverance and success, and the future of Alabama history in light of COVID and BLM during 2020. Recorded September 4, 2020.
Howard Robinson of Alabama State University Archives, Robin Brown of Cobb Memorial Archives, and Marty Olliff of the Wiregrass Archives discuss their collections as part of the Alabama Historical Association's series, 2020 & the Future of Alabama History. Recorded on FB Live, September 9, 2020.
Calvin Chappelle, site director of Alabama's Confederate Memorial Park (operated by the Alabama Historical Commission), discusses interpretation at the park in 2020 and beyond. This Alabama Historical Association FB Live presentation occurred on August 19, 2020, as part of the AHA's series, 2020 and the Future of Alabama History. See more about the park here: https://ahc.alabama.gov/properties/confederate/confederate.aspx
Dr. Wayne Flynt speaks on the Alabama Historical Association Facebook Live series, "2020 and the Future of Alabama History," July 29, 2000, about his vision of the steps Alabama should take to secure a future of equity.
Dr. David Alsobrook discusses his new book, "Presidential Archivist, A Memoir." A graduate of Auburn University, Alsobrook served at the National Archives, the Carter Materials Project, and as director of both the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton Presidential Libraries. Mercer University is the publisher.
In lieu of its 2020 convention, the AHA has hosted panel discussions on Facebook about "2020 & the Future of Alabama History." This panel of Steve Murray (director of ADAH), Dr. Tara White (Public History in Selma), and Dr. Derryn Moten (dept. chair, ASU) was recorded on July 15, 2020. They discuss how institutions concerned with Alabama history can respond to the racial justice concerns raised in 2020.
Alabama History Day coordinator Jerald Crook and multi-year winner Elizabeth Rhonemus talk about the annual Alabama History Day and National History Day competition from the perspectives of both administrator and participant.
AHA President, 2019-20, Frazine Taylor, discusses her plans for the 2019 Pilgrimage to Wetumpka, the 2020 meeting in Florence, her book _Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama_ (NewSouth Books, 2008), and her very interesting life.
Tuscaloosa lawyer and author Chris McIlwain discusses his two recent books from the University of Alabama Press, _Civil War in Alabama_ (2016), and _1865 Alabama: From Civil War to Uncivil Peace_ (2017).
EOA Communications Editor Laura Hill commemorates the 10th anniversary of online Encyclopedia of Alabama going live by describing the EOA and highlighting its reach and articles.
Alabama Heritage Magazine won the 2018 Digital History Award (Large Project) from the Alabama Historical Association. Digital media editor Rebecca Minder talks about the award and the project that secured it for Alabama Heritage. The podcast featured an interview with Rebecca concerning Alabama Heritage's 30th anniversary, November 2016, Episode 20.
AHA President Valerie Burnes (2018-19) talks about the Association’s plans for its Fall Pilgrimage in Camden, its annual meeting in Tuscaloosa, and for attracting younger members. Dr. Burnes also discusses her book Visions of the Black Belt: A Cultural Survey of the Heart of Alabama, published by the University of Alabama Press in 2015.
Author, illustrator, and graphic designer Laura Murray talks about her coloring book, _Amazing Alabama_, published in 2017 by New South Books. More information is available about Laura, _Amazing Alabama_, and her other projects at her website, https://www.lauramurraycreative.com/.
Dr. Chris Haveman, native of Bellingham, WA, now teaching at UWA, discusses his book Rivers of Sand: Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Ethnic Cleansing in the American South, published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2016. Chris won the 2017 AHA James F. Sulzby Award for best book on Alabama history published in the previous two years.
Author, historian, and local history entrepreneur Dale Cox talks about how the Creek War of 1814 elided into the First Seminole War, making southeast Alabama a difficult frontier even after the Treaty of Fort Jackson. He also discusses his public programming website (http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com) and online television project (http://www.twoegg.tv).
Center co-director and University of South Alabama professor Susan McCready talks about the mission and programs of the Center for the Study of War and Memory, particularly its organization and its public outreach programs.
AHA president (2017-18) David Alsobrook, discusses his book, Southside: Eufaula's Cotton Mill Village and its People, 1890-1945, published in 2017 by Mercer University Press.
Full Episode: Frances Robb, a leading expert in the history of photography, discusses her 2016 book _Shot in Alabama: A History of Photography, 1839-1941, and a List of Photographers_, as well as her long history with photographic history in the state. (mentions Episode 004, Andrew Nelson, Shackleford Photographs Curator, 2013).
Dr. Steven McNair, owner of McNair Historic Preservation, Inc., talks about working as a preservation consultant and navigating the interaction among private owners, and local, state, and federal governments to preserve Alabama's built environments.
Rebecca Todd Minder, Digital Media Editor for _Alabama Heritage_, discusses the magazine's thirty years in business, its history, its structure, its work with the Alabama Bicentennial, and its future.
John Sledge discusses his book, _The Mobile River_, winner of the 2016 AHA Coley Award for best book on local history in the previous two years.
Sue Bass Wilson of the Covington (County) Historical Society discusses the society's programs that won the AHA's 2016 Kuykendall Award for Local History Societies.
Winner of the inaugural Alabama Historical Association Digital History Award for Large Projects in 2016. EOA editors Laura Hill, Claire Wilson, and Christopher Maloney discuss the past, present, and future of this informational resource.
Debbie Pendleton, 2015-2016 Alabama Historical Association President, discusses the 2015 Pilgrimage, 2016 Annual Meeting, and her long careers as the AHA Membership Secretary and as a senior staff member at ADAH.
Dr. Matthew Downs discusses his book, _Transforming the South: Federal Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1915-1960_, Louisiana State Univ. Press, 2014, that won the 2015 AHA James F. Sulzby Award for best book on state history published in the previous two years.
Dr. Charles Roberts discusses his article "New Deal Community-Building in the South: The Subsistence Homesteads around Birmingham, Alabama," in _The Alabama Review_ 66, no. 2 (April 2013): 83-121. Charles was a co-winner of the Alabama Historical Association's 2014 Milo B. Howard Award.
Dr. Kristopher Teeters discusses his article, "Albert Burton Moore and Alabama's Centennial Commemoration of the Civil War: The Rhetoric of Race, Romance, and Reunion," in _The Alabama Review_ 66, no. 2 (April 2013): 122-152. Kris was a co-winner of the Alabama Historical Association's 2014 Milo Howard Award.
Scotty Kirkland discusses his article "Mobile and the Boswell Amendment," in _The Alabama Review_ 65, no. 3 (July 2012). Scotty was a co-winner of the Alabama Historical Association's 2014 Milo B. Howard Award.
Dr. Jim Day discusses his book, _Diamonds in the Rough: A History of Alabama's Cahaba Coal Fields_, published by University of Alabama Press in 2013. Day won the Alabama Historical Association's 2014 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for best local history published in the previous two years.
Dr. Lonnie Burnett, 2014-2015 Alabama Historical Association President, discusses his objectives for his term of office.
Laura Hill, Communications Editor of the online Encyclopedia of Alabama, discusses the EOA's past and future on its fifth anniversary.
Dr. John Kvach of UAH discusses the 2013-2014 Museum on Main Street traveling exhibit, "The Way We Worked," his role as the lead scholar, the value of oral history and public history, and his hopes for the future of Alabama History.
ADAH Director Steve Murray and Communications Officer Georgia Ann Hudson talk about Murray's first year on the job, the mission of ADAH, and the Museum of Alabama project.
Gayle Thomas, 2013-2014 Alabama Historical Association President, discusses the AHA's activities in the coming year: the fall pilgrimage to Horseshoe Bend and the annual meeting in April 2014 in Scottsboro. She also discusses Henry County Historical Group activities and her Historic Marker survey project.
Bobby Joe Seales, President of the Shelby County Historical Society, discusses the Society's activities that garnered for it the 2012 James Ray Kuykendall Award as the outstanding local historical organization.
Dr. Andrew Nelson discusses the traveling exhibit he curated of photographs made by the Shackleford Family of Fayette County, AL, between 1900 and 1935. The Shacklefords were an African American rural family who ran a photography business, among other things. The photograph collection is at the Birmingham Public Library. (mentioned in Episode 022, Frances Robb, Shot in Alabama, October 2017)
Dr. Daniel Hutchinson discusses his article, "'We . . . Are The Most Fortunate of Prisoners': The Axis POW Experience at Camp Opelika during World War II" in The Alabama Review, co-winner of the Alabama Historical Association's 2012 Milo Howard Award.
Dr. Dan Haulman discusses his article, "The Tuskegee Airmen and the 'Never Lost a Bomber' Myth," in The Alabama Review that was a co-winner of the Alabama Historical Association's 2012 Milo Howard Award.
Mary Ann Neeley, renowned historian of Montgomery, AL, discusses her book _Matthew Blue, Montgomery's First Historian_ (Montgomery: NewSouthPress, 2010), winner of the Alabama Historical Association's Clinton J. Coley Award for Best Local History Book, 2012.