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!
| Restored greyhound bus unveiled for Freedom Rides' 60th anniversary ... against racial segregation in 1961 — was unveiled at the Alabama Historical Commission's Freedom Rides Museum in downtown Montgomery. |
| Two rare plant species discovered at Oak Mountain State Park ... he was planning to take part in a survey for a tree found only in Alabama. ... understand the range and natural history of the Alabama sandstone oak, ... |
| A visit to Mobile and historic Battle House From personal experience dining in the Mobile area, I can assure visitors this restaurant has the best food and service in coastal Alabama! Using the ... |
| Want a history lesson? Here are 5 more of Birmingham's oldest businesses 1. Walter Schoel Engineering · Location: 1001 22nd Street South, Birmingham, Alabama 35205 · Website | Facebook | Contact ... |
UAB's Dr. Selwyn Vickers named president of the American Surgical Association
Dr. Selwyn Vickers, University of Alabama at Birmingham's dean of the ... He is the third Black president in the association's history, and the second ...
| Omaha Beach hero Ray Lambert dies aged 100 Originally from Alabama, SSG Lambert speaks about his time in Bridport in ... SSG Lambert requested that his ashes be buried at Arlington National ... |
| Hoover historians celebrate new grave markers at Birmingham cemetery “It was a rustic resort then,” Langley said. Hale had built his wealth when Alabama's first major industrialist, Daniel Pratt, founder of Prattville and Pratt ... |
| Huntsville City launches sixth annual Historic Preservation Month Blake Art & History Center, Alabama State Black Archives, the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville Museum of Art, and Burritt on the Mountain. “ . |
| Mount Hope featured prominently in Jack Smith's book, “Moments in Time, An Autobiography, Sort of” He later earned an M.A. degree in Journalism from the University of Alabama in 1975. Smith retired from Auburn University Cooperative Extension ... |
| US, UK, Barbadian authors up for Women's Prize for fiction The six-book shortlist includes American author Brit Bennett's tale of twins who take ... a story of African immigrants in Alabama by Ghanaian-American writer Yaa Gyasi. ... It was the books, and whether the books spoke to us.”. |
| History forgot about these Black soldiers of WWII. Now, a group is making its mission to remember ... He recalled it in the book he eventually wrote with Mieke, “From Alabama to Margraten.” The French woman said to Wiggins, then a 19-year-old first ... |
A history of care: Local author traces growth of medicine in metro Birmingham
A new book from a Vestavia Hills publisher pays tribute to pioneering ... Yetta Samford, who was chairman of the board of the University of Alabama ...
| See art & poetry by local students at The Green Book Project, April 29 “We are thrilled to collaborate for a second year with Bush Hills STEAM Academy, Jefferson County Memorial Project, and the Alabama State Council on ... |
| Alabama artist looks to change the narrative with monument to 'mothers of gynecology' Each time Michelle Browder's history tour, More than Tours, reaches the statue of Sims on the steps of the Alabama capitol, she can only think of the ... |
| Re-enactors work to preserve the story of the battleship USS Alabama Several times a year, Living History re-enactors in World War II uniforms board the battleship USS Alabama and the submarine USS Drum on Mobile ... |
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