For a number of years I've been posting links to just-published Alabama history and culture articles in the "alabamahistory" group at Yahoo!Groups. Most of the articles are from newspapers, with others from magazines and TV and radio websites. You can subscribe to the emails there if you wish; I send out two or three a week along with relevant meeting announcements and so forth.
Here's the latest batch:
Historians seek marker at former Carver School
“This school is an important part of the city's history and should be ... “It is believed to be the first African American school in Alabama named in honor ...
| On this day in Alabama history: First classes held at Brewton community college
The Alabama State Board of Education (BOE) chose Brewton as the site for a junior college. A committee of Escambia County citizens recommended ...
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| Bicentennial book delves into Tuscaloosa's origin, growth
Even history professors, such as Kari Frederickson, found the University of Alabama Press book revelatory. Moving from Wisconsin in 1999 to teach at ...
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SOUTHERN MAN: Humorist and storyteller Sean Dietrich has a particular love for Alabama
This summer saw the release of his first book from a name-brand publisher, “Stars of Alabama,” from Thomas Nelson Publishers. It's a novel about a ...
| On this day in Alabama history: The latest USS Mobile brought into service
A half-century ago today, the fourth ship bearing the name of the port city of Mobile was christened for service in the US Navy. A cargo ship, the USS ...
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| Tuskegee Civil Rights Trail is dedicated
TUSKEGEE, Alabama — Friday, September 20, 2019, in the Tuskegee City Municipal Center, the 13-marker Tuskegee Civil Rights and Hi
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| GMA celebrates Bicentennial exhibit's arrival
The museum is welcoming the Alabama Bicentennial traveling exhibit titled ... Commission and the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
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On this day in Alabama history: BJCC held its first event
Though he did not leave on a jet plane, John Denver made history as the first headliner for the newly-constructed Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center ...
| Voices of Alabama illuminates civil rights history sites with storytelling
Greensboro, Alabama, isn't on the typical tourist itinerary. Located an hour from Selma and a few hours from Birmingham, it's a rural community in an ...
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| Meet the newest members of UNA's Athletic Hall of Fame
Cody was a four-year member of North Alabama's women's basketball ... fourth leading scorer in UNA women's basketball history with 1,294 points, ...
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Vines Funeral Home reveals national historic marker
LaFAYETTE — Vines Funeral Home in LaFayette was etched into history Thursday afternoon by the Alabama Historical Commission. The funeral ...
The history of Toomer's Drugs and that famous Corner
He was serving as a state senator in 1872 when the Alabama Legislature was trying to decide where to establish a land-grant college. Toomer made ...
On this day in Alabama history: Pink, AL changes its name to Kinston
Alabama lost a little of its color in 1912, as Wiregrass town of Pink changed its name. Kinston, Ala. Was originally known as Cross Trails, as it was ...
| "The Real Tarzan" author to sign books at Barnes & Noble
Some of White's many achievements — as detailed in the book — are All State high school football player, member of the University of Alabama ...
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| Air University Press unveil new bookstore in AU Library
20, 2019, on Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. ... two AU Press authors and gave attendees the opportunity to grab signed copies of their books.
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On this day in Alabama history: Author and journalist Ellen Tarry born
Ellen Tarry – one of Alabama's connections to the Harlem Renaissance – was born on this day in ... That book, written immediately after the Brown v.
| Alabama Bicentennial Commission releases cookbook
Standridge said the book is about more than just recipes it also includes stories about Alabama and all of the things that we have gone through ...
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| Your vote could help Monroeville courthouse win share of $2 million
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday afternoon announced that the Monroe County Courthouse in Monroeville has been named as one of 20 historic ...
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Alabama Legacy Moment: Nell Jackson
Alabama Public Television is producing a series of videos titled “Alabama Legacy Moments” that offer a quick history of the people, places and stories ...
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Alabama inches closer to ownership of the Clotilda
The Alabama Historical Commission is one step closer to securing ownership of the Clotilda for the state, four months after the lost slave ship was ...
| New project highlights civil rights sites in Alabama
An online, oral history presentation called "Voices of Alabama" features photos of historic sites and interviews with some of the people who worked ...
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On this day in Alabama history: Gayle Planetarium in Montgomery opens for the public
Montgomery's Gayle Planetarium opened its doors (and imaginations) on this day in 1968. At the height of the race to the moon, the facility catered to ...
| New Cullman County history book uses Wallace State collection for research
Cullman County people also appear in the collection's broader holdings on Alabama (and other states), Civil War soldiers, family history files, Native ..
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| John Mitchell fought segregation at Alabama and made football history
He hasn't exactly fallen through the cracks of college football history, but that's because the Alabama football family and all its descendants know ...
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| On this day in Alabama history: Restaurant legend John Proferis passes away
The first name in Birmingham restaurants is “John,” as in John's Restaurant. John Proferis, who died on this day in 1972, made that place a fixture on ...
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| Musical work spotlights Princess Noccalula
The work begins with the dawning of the sun over the primeval Northeast Alabama wilderness. Noccalula awakens to the familiar sound of birdsong, ...
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| On this day in Alabama history: Clarke Stallworth makes front page history
On this day in 2005, veteran reporter and columnist Clarke Stallworth completed a feat that may never be duplicated – having both the first and the last ...
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