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!
| Longtime Family Dollar location in downtown Birmingham slated for redevelopment
The project is expected to be reviewed by Alabama's historic commission at its next quarterly meeting. Those programs have been key to funding ...
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| Burleson building needs urgent repairs
Arthur Orr, we have received a grant from the Alabama Historical Commission for $14,200; however, in order to use this 2020 grant money, we need ...
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| New book compiles F. Scott Fitzgerald's Alabama stories
... most iconic figures of the Roaring Twenties – Alabama native Zelda Sayre and F. Scott Fitzgerald. In celebration of the Fitzgeralds, NewSouth Books ...
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| Author Morris King's new book “Millie and Mo Dream Big” is an inspiring celebration of the ...
Morris King, a native of Huntsville, Alabama with a lifelong passion for training dogs, has published his latest book “Millie and Mo Dream Big”: an ...
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| 13 Alabama African American Historic sites getting federal grants
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Thirteen African American Civil Rights Historic places in Alabama are getting funding from the National Park Service.
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| Historic former fire station is a hot property in Mobile
At the time, he had no idea of the building's history. ... Creole Fire Company, the first volunteer fire company in the state of Alabama, operated until the ...
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| Author Casey Cep to join online book discussion April 15
Some 17 years later, Lee returned to her native Alabama intending to write her own true-crime classic. She spent a year interviewing people at the trial ...
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| Veteran Comedian Vic Henley Dead at 57 After Suffering Pulmonary Embolism
Henley was a 30-plus-years comedy veteran, born and raised in Alabama. He coauthored the national best-selling book “Games Rednecks Play” with ...
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| Alabama Humanities Foundation names new leader
AHF grants help promote the appreciation and understanding of history, literature, philosophy, civics and culture throughout the state. Clark said virtually ...
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| Rep. Terri Sewell Announces $3.5M for Civil Rights Landmarks in Ala.
Securing funding to insure the preservation of crucial civil rights history throughout Alabama's 7th Congressional District has been one of Sewell's top ...
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| Alabama authorities urge people to ignore KKK-era anti-masking law
Said Flynt, “What was in Alabama history a painful episode in racism (wearing masks to cloak violence) is now urged by the state as a way of ...
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| Retired Methodist minister pens published children's book
Don, an Alabama native who has lived in Amory for several years, promoted his new book, which tells the fictional story of Queen Pernicious' love for ...
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| A Survivor of the Last US Slave Ship Lived Until 1940
Her name was Matilda McCrear. When she first arrived in Alabama in 1860, she was only two years old. By the time she died, Matilda had lived through ...
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