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!
Gordon Parks, the photographer who asked: 'Do black lives matter to you?'
In Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama (below), a sleek ice-cream parlour is set against ... is Mr and Mrs Albert Thompson, pictured at home in Mobile, Alabama. ... on something more: that history lives on in the things it takes effort to see.
| Dr. Hilary N. Green explains role women played in shaping the Lost Cause Dr. Green is an associate professor of History at the University of Alabama and since 2015 she has hosted campus tours to contextualize many of the ... |
| In 1954, an Alabama woman became the first known person to be directly hit by a meteorite ... Mary Beth Prondzinski, the collections manager at the Alabama Museum of Natural History, where the meteorite is on exhibit, told Insider, “It's one of ... |
New baseball-card set reflects Alabama's place in Negro Leagues history New baseball-card set reflects Alabama's place in Negro Leagues history. Updated 9:59 PM; Today 9:59 PM. |
| The Story of the Lehman Brothers, from Bavaria to Alabama, and From the Heights to the Crash Arthur Miller's “Death of a Salesman,” published by Viking Press, was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection; Edward Albee's “Who's Afraid of Virginia ... |
| Group wants to rename California landmark named for Confederate warship CSS Alabama The rethinking of place names in light of U.S. racial history has turned to California's Alabama Hills, a distinctive high-desert formation named for a ... |
| Thomas Blanton, last surviving KKK bomber of Birmingham church, dead at 81 “Tommy Blanton is responsible for one of the darkest days in Alabama's history, and he will go to his resting place without ever having atoned for his ... |
| Selma Business Owner Steps Up to Clean Neglected Cemetery From the West Alabama Newsroom–. A Selma business owner has taken it upon himself to clean up an overgrown and neglected cemetery in Selma. |
| Don Siegelman exposes the corruption of politicized judicial system in book Arguably the most successful and promising politician in modern Alabama history, his three-decade career in public service ran afoul of Republican ... |
| ABHC's historical preservation work recognized by national organization In addition, ABHC provides an opportunity for Alabama's Baptist churches, associations and entities to have historical documents microfilmed. In 2019, ... |
Art History: North Alabama artist celebrates heritage and culture through pottery and quilts
From the north Alabama studio she shares with Margarita, her pet parakeet, Guadalupe Lanning Robinson shapes slabs of clay and pieces together ...
| The Historic Jones Store Museum of Smiths Station, Alabama Nicole Jones catches up with the Mayor of Smiths Station to take a deeper look at the history of Smiths Station, Alabama. June 25, 2020. Nicole Jones,. |
Pearson, Ann Bowling
She saw to it that Noble Hall was the first structure in Lee County to be put on the National Register of Historic Places, in 1972. The Alabama Historical ...
| A Confederate warship haunts California's Alabama Hills National Scenic Area The Western U.S., including California, is peppered with old racially tinged place names, many of them holdovers from the Gold Rush. Close to ... |
'He made us feel like we were the movement': Community remembers civil rights legend
He [Thomas Linton] was “instrumental in every major positive event that led to the end of segregation in West Alabama,” said UA history professor John Giggie.
| Archives Department acknowledges role in distorting Alabama's racial history The Alabama Department of Archives & History said in a statement today that for much of the 20th century it promoted a view of history that favored the ... |
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