Alabama Historical Association Podcasts

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 Expe…

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 J…

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.By Alabama Historical Association

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.By 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 …

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…

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.By Alabama Historical Association

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. T…

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 Universi…

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.By Alabama Historical Association

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.By Alabama Historical Association

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…

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.By Alabama Historical Association

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 ca…

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.By Alabama Historical Association

AHA President, 2019-20, Frazine Taylor, discusses her plans for the 2019 Pilgrimage to Wetumpka, the 2020 meeting in Florence, her book _Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama_ (NewSouth Books, 2008), and her very interesting life.By Alabama Historical Association

Tuscaloosa lawyer and author Chris McIlwain discusses his two recent books from the University of Alabama Press, _Civil War in Alabama_ (2016), and _1865 Alabama: From Civil War to Uncivil Peace_ (2017).By Alabama Historical Association

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.By Alabama Historical Association

Alabama Heritage Magazine won the 2018 Digital History Award (Large Project) from the Alabama Historical Association. Digital media editor Rebecca Minder talks about the award and the project that secured it for Alabama Heritage. The podcast featured an interview with Rebecca concerning Alabama Heritage's 30th anniversary, November 2016, Episode 20…

AHA President Valerie Burnes (2018-19) talks about the Association’s plans for its Fall Pilgrimage in Camden, its annual meeting in Tuscaloosa, and for attracting younger members. Dr. Burnes also discusses her book Visions of the Black Belt: A Cultural Survey of the Heart of Alabama, published by the University of Alabama Press in 2015.…

Author, illustrator, and graphic designer Laura Murray talks about her coloring book, _Amazing Alabama_, published in 2017 by New South Books. More information is available about Laura, _Amazing Alabama_, and her other projects at her website, https://www.lauramurraycreative.com/.By Alabama Historical Association

Dr. Chris Haveman, native of Bellingham, WA, now teaching at UWA, discusses his book Rivers of Sand: Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Ethnic Cleansing in the American South, published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2016. Chris won the 2017 AHA James F. Sulzby Award for best book on Alabama history published in the previous two years…

Author, historian, and local history entrepreneur Dale Cox talks about how the Creek War of 1814 elided into the First Seminole War, making southeast Alabama a difficult frontier even after the Treaty of Fort Jackson. He also discusses his public programming website (http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com) and online television project (http://www.t…

Center co-director and University of South Alabama professor Susan McCready talks about the mission and programs of the Center for the Study of War and Memory, particularly its organization and its public outreach programs.By Alabama Historical Association

AHA president (2017-18) David Alsobrook, discusses his book, Southside: Eufaula's Cotton Mill Village and its People, 1890-1945, published in 2017 by Mercer University Press.By Alabama Historical Association

Full Episode: Frances Robb, a leading expert in the history of photography, discusses her 2016 book _Shot in Alabama: A History of Photography, 1839-1941, and a List of Photographers_, as well as her long history with photographic history in the state. (mentions Episode 004, Andrew Nelson, Shackleford Photographs Curator, 2013).…

Dr. Steven McNair, owner of McNair Historic Preservation, Inc., talks about working as a preservation consultant and navigating the interaction among private owners, and local, state, and federal governments to preserve Alabama's built environments.By Alabama Historical Association

Rebecca Todd Minder, Digital Media Editor for _Alabama Heritage_, discusses the magazine's thirty years in business, its history, its structure, its work with the Alabama Bicentennial, and its future.By Alabama Historical Association

John Sledge discusses his book, _The Mobile River_, winner of the 2016 AHA Coley Award for best book on local history in the previous two years.By Alabama Historical Association

Sue Bass Wilson of the Covington (County) Historical Society discusses the society's programs that won the AHA's 2016 Kuykendall Award for Local History Societies.By Alabama Historical Association

Winner of the inaugural Alabama Historical Association Digital History Award for Large Projects in 2016. EOA editors Laura Hill, Claire Wilson, and Christopher Maloney discuss the past, present, and future of this informational resource.By Alabama Historical Association

Debbie Pendleton, 2015-2016 Alabama Historical Association President, discusses the 2015 Pilgrimage, 2016 Annual Meeting, and her long careers as the AHA Membership Secretary and as a senior staff member at ADAH.By Alabama Historical Association

Dr. Matthew Downs discusses his book, _Transforming the South: Federal Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1915-1960_, Louisiana State Univ. Press, 2014, that won the 2015 AHA James F. Sulzby Award for best book on state history published in the previous two years.By Alabama Historical Association

Dr. Charles Roberts discusses his article "New Deal Community-Building in the South: The Subsistence Homesteads around Birmingham, Alabama," in _The Alabama Review_ 66, no. 2 (April 2013): 83-121. Charles was a co-winner of the Alabama Historical Association's 2014 Milo B. Howard Award.By Alabama Historical Association

Dr. Kristopher Teeters discusses his article, "Albert Burton Moore and Alabama's Centennial Commemoration of the Civil War: The Rhetoric of Race, Romance, and Reunion," in _The Alabama Review_ 66, no. 2 (April 2013): 122-152. Kris was a co-winner of the Alabama Historical Association's 2014 Milo Howard Award.…

Scotty Kirkland discusses his article "Mobile and the Boswell Amendment," in _The Alabama Review_ 65, no. 3 (July 2012). Scotty was a co-winner of the Alabama Historical Association's 2014 Milo B. Howard Award.By Alabama Historical Association

Dr. Jim Day discusses his book, _Diamonds in the Rough: A History of Alabama's Cahaba Coal Fields_, published by University of Alabama Press in 2013. Day won the Alabama Historical Association's 2014 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for best local history published in the previous two years.By Alabama Historical Association

Dr. Lonnie Burnett, 2014-2015 Alabama Historical Association President, discusses his objectives for his term of office.By Alabama Historical Association

Laura Hill, Communications Editor of the online Encyclopedia of Alabama, discusses the EOA's past and future on its fifth anniversary.By Alabama Historical Association

Dr. John Kvach of UAH discusses the 2013-2014 Museum on Main Street traveling exhibit, "The Way We Worked," his role as the lead scholar, the value of oral history and public history, and his hopes for the future of Alabama History.By Alabama Historical Association

ADAH Director Steve Murray and Communications Officer Georgia Ann Hudson talk about Murray's first year on the job, the mission of ADAH, and the Museum of Alabama project.By Alabama Historical Association

Gayle Thomas, 2013-2014 Alabama Historical Association President, discusses the AHA's activities in the coming year: the fall pilgrimage to Horseshoe Bend and the annual meeting in April 2014 in Scottsboro. She also discusses Henry County Historical Group activities and her Historic Marker survey project.…

Bobby Joe Seales, President of the Shelby County Historical Society, discusses the Society's activities that garnered for it the 2012 James Ray Kuykendall Award as the outstanding local historical organization.By Alabama Historical Association

Dr. Andrew Nelson discusses the traveling exhibit he curated of photographs made by the Shackleford Family of Fayette County, AL, between 1900 and 1935. The Shacklefords were an African American rural family who ran a photography business, among other things. The photograph collection is at the Birmingham Public Library. (mentioned in Episode 022, …

Dr. Daniel Hutchinson discusses his article, "'We . . . Are The Most Fortunate of Prisoners': The Axis POW Experience at Camp Opelika during World War II" in The Alabama Review, co-winner of the Alabama Historical Association's 2012 Milo Howard Award.By Alabama Historical Association

Dr. Dan Haulman discusses his article, "The Tuskegee Airmen and the 'Never Lost a Bomber' Myth," in The Alabama Review that was a co-winner of the Alabama Historical Association's 2012 Milo Howard Award.By Alabama Historical Association