Here's the latest batch of links to just-published Alabama history and culture articles. Most of these items are from newspapers, with others from magazines and TV and radio station websites. Enjoy!
| DON NOBLE: Unlikely wonders fill impressive first novel set in Kentucky Lana Austin teaches writing at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. “Like Light, Like Music” is her first novel and it is impressive and unusual. |
| City of Montgomery Unveils Week Long Commemoration of 65th Anniversary of Montgomery Bus ... The Quest: A Historical Scavenger Hunt, December 1-7 ... can join the Alabama Department of Archives and History for a virtual history/now panel. |
Finding the last ship known to have brought enslaved Africans to America and the descendants of ...
But last February the Alabama Historical Commission gave maritime archeologist James Delgado, who helped verify the wreck, permission to take us ...
BRAUN: Civil rights heroine Rosa Parks made history 65 years ago
It was 65 years ago this week that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Parks is an icon in the U.S. civil rights ...
| Answer Man: When was Coca-Cola first bottled in Dothan? Jorgensen's book says the history of the bottling plant includes the names of two Alabama families – the Elmores and the Bellingraths – remembered ... |
| Bruce Carver Boynton, who helped spark Freedom Rides, dies at 83 It's the law,' ” he later told historian Frye Gaillard for the 2004 book “Cradle of ... his arrest and granted him a license to practice law in Alabama. AD. |
| Radicals, folklore and fantasy: Read these 8 Black women writers and poets from Alabama Both locations would serve as backdrop in Hurston's novels: “Jonah's Gourd Vine,” a semi-autobiographical book about her parents' courtship and ... |
| Movie Review: 'John Lewis: Good Trouble' ... was a teenager and his historic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 and through the seeds of his political career. |
| The story of Al Lary's 1950 season, setting an Alabama football receiving record that stood for 62 ... Alabama's record book has one anachronistic exception. When Amari Cooper broke the school's record for single-season receiving touchdowns in ... |
Descendants of enslaved Africans on last known slave ship to America hope to preserve ancestors ...
Africatown has a cemetery where some of the people who arrived on the Clotilda are buried. There have been ... Alabama plans to build a welcome center in Africatown and has promised $1 million for further excavation of the ship.
| Want an insider's look at Montgomery history? Join Richard Bailey on his upcoming tours In the 35 years since, the Montgomery native and Alabama historian says he's never given the same tour ... 20; and a Lincoln Cemetery tour on Feb. |
| Remembering CIA Officer Johnny “Mike” Spann, Killed In Afghanistan on November 25, 2001 ... Alabama, the first American killed in the Afghanistan war, on November 25, 2001. ... Spann's family established a website to honor his life, and there is a wealth of information and photos at his Arlington National Cemetery page. |
| Selma civil rights activist and attorney Bruce Boynton, who inspired Freedom Rides, dies at 83 Boynton served as Alabama's first Black special prosecutor and was the first and only ... “Selma, AL native Attorney Bruce Boynton was a Civil Rights pioneer. ... Lisa Demetropoulos Jones, executive director of the Alabama Historical ... |
| Fort Davis, Alabama Historical Marker Unveiled The marker was prepared for the Society by the Alabama Historical Commission, the State Historic Preservation Office in Montgomery, after having ... |
Arthur, Black Jack and JFK: Alabama teen and a wild, riderless horse honored slain president ... Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery as part of their service with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment -- the oldest active Infantry Regiment in the U.S. ... |
| Services for Alvin Holmes set; flags to fly at half-staff ... Alabama House of Representatives for 44 years until 2018, will be remembered at a graveside and burial service Sunday at Greenwood Cemetery ... |
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