Alabama History Podcasts

Air Date: June 2, 2025 Transcript: 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 Commission Air Date: January 7, 2025 Dan 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,_Kansas Jim 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, 2024 Ms. 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 Museum Air Date: May 20, 2024 Dr. 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_USA Southern 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, 2024 Allie 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, 2024 Dr. 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.net AHA 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 History Dr. 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, 2024 Dr. 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#3 University 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 Association Air Date: November 8, 2023 Dr. 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, 2023 Dr. 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, 2023 Aaron 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&lang=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-award Dr. 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.pdf NAACP Thalheimer Award -- https://naacp.org/find-resources/scholarships-awards-internships/awards Hammer 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 Allen Towns, winner of the Alabama Historical Association's 2022 Virginia van der Veer Hamilton Award. Air Date: April 3, 2023 Peggy Allen Towns, 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/32294344 Old Town Decatur OnCell Tour: https://msnha.oncell.com/en/old-town-decatur-281499.html Muscle 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-school Wallace 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_share Facebook – Our Story, Decatur, AL and Surrounding Areas (created by Peggy Allen 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, 2023 Ann 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-cfadd1d191da St. 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, 2023 Cart 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-award Rather 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 # 58 Christa Kieffer -- 2022 Coley Research Award recipient, on Happy Chandler and George Wallace Air Date: January 9, 2023 Christa 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-re Dan 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=xt72jm23br0c George C. Wallace Collection, Alabama Department of Archives and History -- https://www.archives.state.al.us/research/finding-aids/v9868.pdf Louie 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 # 57 Dr. Hillary Green - Hallowed Grounds Project December 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.html Hallowed Grounds Project - https://www.hngreenphd.com/the-hallowed-grounds-project.html Hallowed Grounds Tours - https://bfsa.ua.edu/hallowed-grounds-tours.html University 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-Reconsidered Association 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.edu Alabama 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/ALHistPodcast Alabama Historical Association on the web - https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Alabama Historical Association on Twitter - https://twitter.com/AL_history Alabama Historical Association on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/AlabamaHistory Alabama Historical Association on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/al_history/ Producer – Marty Olliff Associate 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 If you'd rather read the transcript, you can find it here (caveat: the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate) -- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pg2x0MuFmxprt2kw343-YtEHVmrlG8iOfxQ7kagTIP8/edit?usp=share_link _________________________________ 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. https://www.alabamahistory.net/

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. _________________________________ 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/ALHistPodcast Alabama Historical Association on the web - https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Alabama Historical Association on Twitter - https://twitter.com/AL_history Alabama Historical Association on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/AlabamaHistory Alabama Historical Association on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/al_history/

Listen to this episode: SoundCloud | Apple | Google | Stitcher ********** WELCOME TO ASSOCIATE PRODUCER LAURA MURRAY! ********** “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 ********** 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! Alabama History Podcast: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ALHistPodcast Alabama Historical Association -- Twitter: https://twitter.com/AL_history Website: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlabamaHistory Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/al_history/

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.