Here's the latest batch of links to just-published Alabama history and culture articles. Most of these items are from newspapers, with others from magazines and TV and radio station websites. Enjoy!
| Local history: Watertown hosted Booker T. Washington Local history: Watertown hosted Booker T. Washington ... about the connection between a historically Black university in Alabama, and a small city in ... |
| Huntsville sites herald women's suffrage Nevertheless, this mural can serve as a teaser in opening vital community conversations about the true history of Alabama's sexist and racist past. |
Monroeville, Alabama, the inspiration for 'To Kill a Mockingbird', has elected its first Black mayor
It also garnered national attention with the release of the film and book “Just Mercy” — which tells the story of Walter McMillian, a Black man from ...
'Classic Restaurants of Montgomery' a fun taste of city's past
Copies may be ordered through the Old Alabama Town website, www.oldalabamatown.com. Click on “Events” and follow through to find book ...
| Montgomery's history includes tasty tales from the culinary trail For about a hundred years — a period that began just before Alabama and ... King and Pell, who partnered for the new book “Classic Restaurants of ... |
Racism denied Auburn's first Black student a master's degree. Then, at 86, he returned.
He'd teach history — at Alabama State University, North Carolina A&T State University, Tuskegee Institute and Talladega College — until his retirement ...
Local author's book selected for national festival
The Alabama Center for the Book has selected “The Night the Forest Came to Town,” by Homewood author Charles Ghigna to be featured as the ...
Elba receives Bicentennial Legacy Award for Evergreen Cemetery Summer House
The unveiling of Elba's Alabama Legacy Project bronze marker will be held Tuesday, Sept. 1, at 10 a.m., at the Evergreen Cemetery. This will be near ...
| Who knew? Oak Mountain State Park could have been a National Park + other fun facts “Oak Mountain State Park was going to be Alabama's “Little Smoky ... First, a little bit about Lauren Muncher, who gave me a historical and natural tour ... |
| Elba City Council gives go ahead to Masonic Lodge #170 for historical marker to be placed in ... During Monday evening's meeting, Kelley said the Alabama State Archives office had approved the Lodge to receive one of its historical markers. |
After her epic debut novel on slavery's descendants, Yaa Gyasi wrote even closer to home
If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from ... to make sense of the traumas of her childhood back in Alabama: the death of her ... Combining them in one book “gave me this rich landscape in which to ...
| Pleasant Grove makes history; elects first Blacks to council Pleasant Grove makes history; elects first Blacks to council. Updated 11:23 ... Alabama Rep. Merika ... He tweeted: “In Pleasant Grove AL now. Great to ... |
| Farmland Detective Finds Grave of Youngest Civil War Soldier? (Charles Hay is also on record as an 11-year-old Confederate soldier from Alabama.) “I can't state this as historical record and I haven't been able to ... |
| Spirit of Steel: music of the Mines, Railroads and Mills of the Birmingham District The music created during this period of Alabama history provides a glimpse at the lives of the men and their families at this time. All OLLI programs are ... |
| Alabama Century & Heritage Farm Applications Due Aug. 28 The purpose of both programs is to recognize family farms that have played a significant role in Alabama's history. adai. A Century Farm is one that has ... |
A guide to Jazz in The Magic City
Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame Museum. Birmingham, The Carver Theatre, black history The Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame Museum in the historic Carver ...
| Tuscaloosa's Bamastuff Recognized in National Register of Historic Places It was a day for the history books for three Alabama properties. Literally. Three more Alabama properties were recently added to the National Register of ...
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