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!
New York Public Library's 10 most checked-out books of all time
Millions of books have been borrowed from the library's numerous ... themes of racial injustice and classism, the book is set in a small town in Alabama ...
[Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is one of them]
| Book Bag: 'Africaville' by Jeffrey Colvin; 'How Yiddish Changed America and How America ...
AFRICAVILLE. By Jeffrey Colvin. Amistad Press/HarperCollins. jeffreycolvin.com. Born and raised in Alabama but now living in New York City, Jeffrey ...
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| Alabama artist's sculpture on display in Chicago park
Most of the sculptures in the program are placed in front of the city's fieldhouses, structures that range from modern athletic centers to ornate historic ...
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Landmarks Foundation names Collier Neeley its full-time leader
... Old Alabama Town each year, and Landmarks is working on ways to offer them and all of its visitors a more inclusive picture of Alabama's history.
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Alabama Music Hall of Fame celebrates 30 years in 2020
TUSCUMBIA, Ala. — The Alabama Music Hall of Fame located on Highway 72 in Tuscumbia has been preserving the musical history of the state of ...
| What is the real story of Burnt Corn, Alabama?
Burnt Corn is one of Alabama's oldest settlements, although these days, it's more ... When you visit Burnt Corn today, you can take photos of historical ...
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| What is the real story of Burnt Corn, Alabama?
Burnt Corn is one of Alabama's oldest settlements, although these days, it's more ... When you visit Burnt Corn today, you can take photos of historical ...
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Alabama one of few statehouses to feature memorials to historical women
Currently, all statues of historical figures outside the Statehouse are of men, including Christopher Columbus, President William McKinley (a former ...
| Year-long celebration of women of the Voting Rights Movement begins Saturday
The Selma to Montgomery National Historical Trail (NHT) will kick off a year-long ... and the first woman to run for a congressional seat from Alabama.
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| LC Historical meeting to feature author Rickey Butch Walker
Rickey Butch Walker, a local historian and author of the Cotton was King Alabama Plantation Series, will speak at the Lawrence County Historical ...
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| Gadsden Library's Alabama City branch to be converted to all-genealogy branch
... Historical Association, located inside the Elliott Community Center, and the historic Nichols Library, run by the Northeast Alabama Historical Society.
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| George Wallace's daughter to discuss memoir
Her memoir, written with her husband, former Alabama Supreme Court ... It mingles amid history for the sake of truth, gives rise to the inspiration that ...
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Amistad Murals have new home at Talladega College
It is the latest stage in one of the largest expansions in the history of Alabama's oldest historically black college. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held ...
| Petition to rename historic Selma, Alabama bridge after Congressman John Lewis
ATLANTA — A petition is calling for a famous Alabama bridge to be renamed in honor of Rep. John Lewis. The Edmund Pettus Bridge located in ...
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New exhibit celebrates women's suffrage in Alabama
“Our exhibit takes a long view of the history of voting rights in Alabama. It profiles 19 different women who impacted voting rights in the state, from the ...
| Opinion | Methodists have dominated high offices in Alabama history
Even though there are more Baptists than Methodists in Alabama, historically Methodists have held more of the prominent political posts in the Heart of ...
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| Historic redo: More than 180 years after opening, a new chapter for Alabama's first public ...
Andrew Jackson was U.S. president and the state of Alabama was 11 years old when school commissioners in Mobile began trying to find dollars to ...
[Barton Academy in Mobile, Alabama's first public school]
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| Robertson Bank donates city history painting to historical society [UPDATED]
... celebrate its 150th year serving the citizens of West Alabama, the bank has donated the painting to the Marengo County County Historical Society.
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| 75 million-year-old sea turtle fossil in Alabama a key discovery
75 million-year-old sea turtle fossil in Alabama a key discovery ... Parham, former curator of paleontology at the Alabama Museum of Natural History.
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| Oops they did it again! UAB robins shatter Alabama natural history record with 3 more babies
A family of American robins nesting at a UAB courtyard in January 2020. The latest confirmed nesting of robins in Alabama was September 2nd, ...
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| Falcon Theatre to present 'Blues for an Alabama Sky' to ring in new year; opens January 24
Falcon Theatre's third production of its 30th anniversary season is Pearl Cleage's Blues for an Alabama Sky. The play is a brutally honest and candid ...
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| The History of the Boll Weevil and Enterprise athletics
Higginbotham would go on to become the head football coach at Enterprise High School, where he would lead the Wildcats to an Alabama Sports ...
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| Cain's Chapel celebrates 200 years
While Stringfellow highlighted the physical history of the church's buildings, ... The church will also erect an Alabama Historical Association roadside ...
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| "Mobile Under Siege: Surviving the Union Blockade" By: Paula Lenor Webb
Publisher: History Press. Pages: 142. Price: $ 21.99 (Paper). When I commenced reading “Mobile Under Siege,” I believed it would be the story of the ...
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| The 'self-flushing' latrine at this 1821 Alabama fort was ahead of its time
Fort Gaines, a military fortification built in 1821 at the tip of Dauphin Island, is known to many history buffs as the place where Admiral David Farragut, ...
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| Four decades later, Alabama 'red-headed angel' hurricane victim gets headstone in Bayou La Batre
Four decades later, Alabama 'red-headed angel' hurricane victim gets ... a concrete slab at Odd Fellows Cemetery, no headstone marking the site.
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