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!
| Birmingham creative duo publishes children's book 'Orange Porange' Community. Alabama's Jacqueline Allen Trimble is an educator, poet, essayist and sharer. The state supplies endless material for a writer, she says. |
| Book review: Rick Bragg returns with a collection of his short works ... as a chronicler of the working-class South with "All Over but the Shoutin'," a memoir of his northeast Alabama family. Six more books have followed, ... |
| New novel 'Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters' is as Southern, and as Gothic, as they come You don't find many dead mules or decaying plantation mansions these days, in real life or in books. Still, Alabama native Emily Carpenter proves ... |
| Graphic novel version of classic science memoir aims for new audiences ... as “one of the finest scientific memoirs ever written,” the book explores Wilson's childhood exploring nature in Alabama and the Florida panhandle. |
| LOOKING BACK AT OUR HISTORY: Zora Neale Hurston: Harlem renaissance writer I found the book distinctive for the precision she took in expressing the ... He is called Cudjo Lewis and is living at present at Plateau, Alabama, .. |
| This grave shelter in Alabama is noted for unusual size, architecture Alongside Alabama Highway 5 near Thomasville, a gate between two brick columns guards one of Alabama's historical cemeteries. Airmount ... |
| Alabama Power Foundation helps Mobile history museum preserve story of Clotilda survivors The museum, in partnership with the Alabama Historical Commission, will use the funds to help create, curate and construct the new Clotilda exhibit in ... |
| Roane State sponsors virtual showing of Playhouse production of 'Alabama Story' She portrayed Emily Wheelock Reed, director of the Alabama Public Library System who defended the children's book titled “The Rabbits' Wedding.”. |
Alabama city celebrates its 150-year-old Black cemetery
One hundred and thirty Black veterans of America's wars. Dr. Burgess Scruggs, the first licensed Black physician in Alabama. Daniel S. Brandon and ...
| Historic Gadsden cemetery erects new headstones for veterans GADSDEN, Ala. (WBRC) - Volunteers restoring a historic Black cemetery in Gadsden say they were able to restore nearly two dozen tombstones of ... |
| HBO documentary will detail snake-handling Scottsboro preacher's attempted murder case Whether it's haunted the hills of North Alabama may be debatable, but the story has had staying power — inspired books and prior true crime ... |
| Trebek's death spurs memory of Alabama woman's Jeopardy! appearance We sat in a circle of people who were majoring in history, English, and political science. When the categories were biology or chemistry, we knew we'd ... |
| PRESERVING HISTORY Robinson did the research and paperwork to have the cemetery added to the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register in May 2019. And this fall, he had a ... |
Opinion | Jim Martin: The father of modern Republican Party in Alabama
As commissioner, Martin helped create the Forever Wild land preservation program. Jim Martin has a special place in Alabama political history. See you ...
| New book shows what's left of Alabama's abandoned mines There's a secret world beneath the ground in Alabama. ... a Facebook page where they share history and photos from their weekend explorations ... |
Alabama History: Re-examined MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - In a bold move, the Alabama Department of Archives and History admitted that early on when it was first established, ... |
| Restoring headstones to remember Black veterans at historic cemetery The cemetery was listed on the Alabama Historic Register in 2013, and the City of Gadsden maintains the road to it. A historic marker placed in 2013 ... |
| Restoring headstones to remember Black veterans at historic cemetery The cemetery was listed on the Alabama Historic Register in 2013, and the City of Gadsden maintains the road to it. A historic marker placed in 2013 ... |
| New book aims to inspire wonder for Alabama's rich and diverse wildlife A new book from Hello Earth Press highlights Alabama's unique natural wonders for readers ages 9 to 12 and beyond. The debut book release is the ... |
Alabama-related 'Jeopardy!' clues from over the years
“Rose Parks changed history in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in this city.” Correct response: What is ...
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