Here's the latest batch of links to just-published Alabama history and culture articles. Most of these articles are from newspapers, with others from magazines and TV and radio station websites. Enjoy!
| Alabama's 200 years in 200 images: To the moon and back
Tasked with bringing America to the forefront of that race was Dr. Wehrner von Braun, a technological genius who came to Alabama after developing ...
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Book highlighting beauty, stories of historic Auburn structures to be released on Jan. 15
Auburn is well known as a college town and as a historic Southern village in central Alabama. The architecture that presently constitutes Auburn's built ...
| New species of fossil shark named for beloved Birmingham volunteer
A new species of fossil shark from southern Alabama has been discovered, a team of scientists led by Jun Ebersole, director of Collections at the ...
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| Author Tim Dorsey to speak at New Smyrna Beach Regional Liubrary
The new book is set for release on Jan. 7. A former newspaper reporter and editor in Alabama and Florida, Dorsey has published 21 humorous crime ...
[Dorsey attended AU & edited the university newspaper, also worked for the Montgomery Advertiser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Dorsey]
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| The year's most memorable book-to-film releases
The movie: Much like the book, the bulk of the adaptation directed by Destin Daniel Cretton ("Short Term 12") centers on Alabama death row inmate ...
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| Alabama's 200 years in 200 images: Freedom fighting from Iwo Jima to Selma
... class of African American pilots in history of the United States to get their wings at the advanced fly school on March 7, 1942 at Tuskegee, Alabama.
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| A decade of women's history in Alabama
The 2010s brought historic gains for women in Alabama, including the Equal Pay Act. 2018 was deemed the “Year of the Woman,” by many national ...
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Alabama's population: 1800 to the modern era
Alabama was a sparsely populated wilderness by the time the first census was taken ... Only one Alabama locale of 1830 — the town of Mobile — qualifies as .... and was collected by the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
| “I NEVER FELT LIKE QUITTING” SAYS 80-YEAR-OLD WHO BECOMES ALABAMA A&M ...
In early December 2019, Donzella Washington made history at Alabama A&M University by becoming the oldest person to graduate from the school.
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| Meet the new ancient shark species found in southern Alabama
The Red Mountain Expressway's exposed rock showcases 190 million years of history, more than any other road cut in America! You can find fossils ...
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| 'Just Mercy': An Earnest, Effective Legal Drama
It tells the true story of Stevenson's efforts to free a poor black man in Alabama, Walter McMillian, who spent six years on death ... of the original case, but writer-director Destin Daniel Cretton (adapting the book with co-writer Andrew ...
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Gardendale resident amasses 40000 postcards of Birmingham, Jeffco
“I bought a book for a dollar, and it had a postcard. ... Avenue North and 18th Street, showing the Lyric Theatre before the Alabama Theatre was built.
| 'Chasing The Bear' is worth your time
It was both fun and interesting for me to read Lars Anderson's newest book Chasing ... This book is a fun, interesting, entertaining and informative read. ... of the Year Bruce Arians told about his first tenure at Alabama under Bryant.
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| Longtime Walker College leader dies at 98
... he received a master's degree from the University of Alabama in 1951. ... Services will follow at noon at the church with burial at Oak Hill Cemetery.
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| BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY To Ring In 2020 At Falcon Theatre
The play is a brutally honest and candid examination of an array of issues--including race, gender, sexuality, and cultural intolerance--in the historical ...
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| UA sculpture professor influences future generations
The ceramics foundry on the University of Alabama campus is the hottest place to be most days as UA faculty and students use fire to sculpt and cast ...
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| Quilters sew, share Underground Railroad history
She found the tattered quilt in Montgomery, Alabama, while killing time and was somehow drawn to the familiar pattern she had seen before.
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| 'Just Mercy' Review: Echoes of Jim Crow on Alabama's Death Row
Bryan Stevenson's “Just Mercy” is a painful, beautiful, revelatory book, the kind of reading experience that can permanently alter your understanding of ...
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| When Alabama's Mardi Gras was a New Year's celebration
Alabama Department of Archives and History. The grave of Michael Krafft, founder of the nation's first Mardi Gras mystic society, in Magnolia Cemetery ...
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| Checking out cemetery 'grave shelters'
If it hadn't been for several internet writings, I would never have learned about Alabama's “graveyard” history and grave shelters in particular
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