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!
| Birmingham Public Library Featured In Atlantic Article
Tthe Atlantic stated, "The Birmingham Public Library in Alabama has a list of ... For almost a century, a local library has guarded its city's history.".
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1918 flu pandemic killed more people than Alabama could count: Survivors said heed warnings
... stories were recorded by the Alabama Department of Archives and History ... It caused more deaths than any other illness in history, according to the ...
Some History Regarding Alabama Football Jersey Numbers
I have a longtime history with Alabama football rosters. When I joined the Alabama sports information office in 1970 my primary job was to prepare ..
| Alabama History@Home is an online window into state's past and more
Alabama History@Home is an online window into state's past and more. By Alabama NewsCenter Staff. April 2, 2020. Alabama History@Home is an ...
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| 'Whiteout': An Artist's Frank Memoir About His Family's Racist Past
This frank admission forms the introduction to “Whiteout,” a new book by ... Following a childhood in Alabama and Virginia, Merrill began his artistic ...
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| Downtown tree honors Troy history
“Deer Stand Hill in the historic downtown square in Troy was clearly a ... “We were the first chapter in Alabama to be installed at a State Assembly and ...
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| Vintage photos show 100 years of Alabama health workers
Alabama Department of Archives and History. A child receives a polio immunization shot at a clinic at Sidney Lanier High School in Montgomery in ..
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| 5 Ways Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery, 'Dean of the Civil Rights Movement,' Changed Black History
Born on Oct. 6, 1921, in Huntsville Alabama, Lowery spent his adolescence in Alabama and Chicago. After earning a bachelor's degree at Paine ...
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| “Glory Road: A Novel” By: Lauren K. Denton
Don Noble's newest book is Alabama Noir, a collection of original stories by Winston Groom, Ace Atkins, Carolyn Haines, Brad Watson, and eleven ...
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| Book Review: The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter's Journey to Reconciliation
George Wallace, four-term governor of Alabama and three-time presidential candidate, relished hypocrisy. He relished it in himself and in his enemies.
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| Civil rights leader Joseph Lowery dies at 98
In 1961, Lowery, still in Mobile at the time, was one of four Alabama pastors whose property was seized by the Alabama courts in a historic libel suit, ...
Rev. Joseph Lowery, co-founder of Southern Christian Leadership Conference, dies at 98 - Los Angeles Times
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| Last surviving African slave lived in Selma until her death in 1940, British researcher says
In May 2019, wreckage of a ship discovered in Mobile Bay was finally confirmed as the Clotilda, according to the Alabama Historical Commission.
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| The last slave ship survivor and her descendants identified
She was just two years old when she arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in July 1860, a captive aboard the infamous Clotilda, the last known slave ship to ...
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| Selma to Montgomery March: Alabama State University honors 55th anniversary of historic event ...
Alabama State University officials gathered Wednesday in front of the Capitol downtown to place a wreath at the historical marker for the Selma to ...
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| Medal of Honor recipient Bennie Adkins stricken with coronavirus
... and when he came back he was ill, and was admitted to East Alabama. ... Adkins and co-author Katie Jackson of Opelika released a book in 2018, ..
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| "Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption" By: Bryan Stevenson
The heart of this book is the story of Walter McMillian of Monroe County, Alabama. In 1986, Stevenson, in his late twenties, working at the Southern ...
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| Women's History Month: Theresa Burroughs' Greensboro Museum Preserves Alabama's Civil ...
Women's History Month: Theresa Burroughs' Greensboro Museum Preserves Alabama's Civil Rights History. March 27, 2020 @ 10:00 am • By Alabama ...
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