Monday, June 1, 2020

Alabama History & Culture News: June 1 edition




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!



Tuskegee Airmen Nurse Second Lt. Irma “Pete” Cameron Dryden Celebrates 100th Birthday
“The Tuskegee Airmen were not the only ones making history at Tuskegee Army Air Field (TAAF) in Tuskegee, Alabama, during the 1940s,” read a ...

A Southern Vanguard
Mary Stanton's new book, Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930–1950, helps recover this history through the story of one of the ...

What do you know about Birmingham's Quinlan Castle? Its history might surprise you.
By the year 1998, it was included on the Places in Peril list of the Alabama Historical Commission. Beginning in 1999, there were varying proposals of ...


Alabama quarterback Joe Namath poses with an Orange Bowl football at practice ... In 1963, Alabama went 9-2, losing to Florida and Auburn by a total of six ... after her husband's funeral at Elmwood Cemetery in Birmingham on Jan.

DON NOBLE: Children's book shows power of humanitarian spirit
Irene Latham is one of Alabama's foremost poets and the author of the novel “Leaving Gee's Bend,” and many picture books for children.


Book Reviews — Alabama missionary Addie Cox 'lit a fire' with stories from China
She also wrote a book about the history of Woman's Missionary Union — “We've A Story to Tell (125 Years of WMU) Woman's Missionary Union.”.

Book Reviews — Alabama missionary Addie Cox 'lit a fire' with stories from China
Other books on missionary work. Many more books are available detailing the stories of missionary heroes, including those by Alabama's own Rosalie ...


Can you name Alabama's 10 Natural Wonders? See how a movement was born
Much of the data and research for his book came from his initial work on the Natural Wonders Campaign. Developing Natural Wonders Champions. Yes ...

Lord Remember Me: Archiving Alabama's Folklife
Food for Thought 2012. 2 / 12 Alabama Department of Archives & History · 54:58. Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Alabama in the Civil ...

Public Library Highlights The History Of Nursing In Alabama
Public Library Highlights The History Of Nursing In Alabama. In the early days of Birmingham, hospitals and infirmaries were being established and so ...

Maigen Sullivan awarded the 2020 Society of American Archivists Innovator Award for Invisible ...
... preserve and make accessible the LGBTQ history of the Deep South. ... collections of LGBTQ historical documents from Alabama, dating from 1912 ...

"The Cat Man of Aleppo" By: Irene Latham and Karim Shamsi-Basha
Irene Latham is one of Alabama's foremost poets and the author of the novel “Leaving Gee's Bend,” and many picture books for children. Her co-author ...

ALABAMA CEMETERY LAWS AND LEGISLATION
Existing laws concerning the use, care and protection of cemeteries are ... to Alabama's cemeteries, including penalties for desecrating grave sites.


Book review: 'Overturning Brown'
The founding director of the Alabama Civil Liberties Union, Suitts began his career as a staff writer for the Selma Project. A longtime adjunct professor at ...

Journey by the Book: Travel to Alabama and Portugal From the Comfort of Home
Photography books allow readers to visit the Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama (clockwise from top left), as well as Fatima ...

Perdido Vineyards the first winery to open in Alabama since prohibition
PERDIDO, Ala. (WKRG)- Today is National Wine Day and there is one winery in Baldwin County that holds an authentic history. When prohibition ...

Alabama's Pop Culture Museum is a Wonderland of Nostalgia
You can email Hollis1963@aol.com or call 205-648-6110 to book your visit! Featuring old board games, lunch boxes, classic cartoon characters and ...

Mullen publishes first novel
“I would place this book squarely somewhere between Southern Gothic, tragedy, coming of age, black humor and satire. The basic premise of the novel ...
[Tristan Mullen, "Freddie and Andrew", set in Demopolis

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