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 afterno ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 cond ..read more

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 Mobil ..read more

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://mentonealabam ..read more

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 episo ..read more

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.c ..read more

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 ..read more