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.

Episode 041: C. Sears, D. Adan, V. Bocchino, S. Kirkland on the Avalon Plantation at UAH

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.

Episode 043: B.Hilyer, S. Davis, R. Bailey, S. Kirkland On Charles Oscar Harris

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.

Episode 044: Ben Severance, AHA President 2021-22, June 2021.

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.

Episode 047:  Jim Baggett, winner of 2020 Milo Howard Award

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.

Episode 048: Guy Hubbs, Tuscaloosa: 200 Years in the Making, 2020 AHA Coley Award Winner

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.

Episode 049: Dallas Hanbury on Local Records About Slavery in Alabama

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.

Episode 050: J. Mills Thornton on the Big Interest Cases in antebellum Alabama political history

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/

Episode 051: Melissa Young, winner of the 2022 Wiggins Dissertation Award

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

Episode 053 Rachel Hartsell On Alabama History Day

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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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Episode 054, 2022 AHA Fall Pilgrimage In Mentone

Episode # 56
Carole Ann King – Alabama Quilts, 2022 Sulzby Award Recipient
November 10, 2022
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"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 

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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 056 Carole Ann King Alabama Quilts 2022 Sulzby Award

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 059 - Cart Blackwell, Mobile Carnival Museum, 2022 AL Hist Assn Museum Award winner

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 060 Boutwell, Bonner, Edgeworth discuss the Prattville AHA Meeting April 2023

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 061 Peggy Allen Towns Recipient Of The 2022 Hamilton Award

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 062 - Brandon Jett Recipient Of The 2023 Milo Howard Award

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/

Episode 063 - Troy University McPherson - Mitchell Roundtable March 7 2023

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/

Episode 064 AHA President Ruth Truss and Sect Mark Wilson discuss Truss's 2023-24 term of office

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/

Episode 065 - Bob Friedman BBRM 2023 Digital History Prize

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 (audio file replaced May 16, 2024)

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 066--Trehub, Denault, and Bellanger On ADPNet 2023 Digital History Award

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 67 Douglas, Thomas, Spears discuss the AHA Sylacauga Pilgrimage 2023

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/

Episode 068 Bertis English on 2023 Coley Book Award

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 69 -- Allison Upshaw On Black Women And Land In AL Black Belt

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/

Episode 70 -- Katie Beasley On Her 2023 SAWH Taylor Award Winning Article

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 71 - Pete Sparks on Guntersville Historical Society, 2023 AHA Kuykendall Award Recipient

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 72 - Christine Sears and Ben Hoksbergen on AHA 2024 Meeting

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/

Episode 73 -- Allie Lopez On The AHA 2024 Coley Research Award

Episode 74 – 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 074 Reidy On Scottsboro Boys Museum

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.

Episode 001 Mary Ann Neeley, Matthew Blue, 2012 AHA Coley Award Winner

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.

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Episode 030 Laura HIll, Encyclopedia of Alabama 10th Anniversary, May 22, 2018

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.

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