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. Some articles may be behind a paywall. Enjoy!
| 'Lost Treasures of Mississippi and Alabama' focus of talk - The Dispatch - CDispatch.com He will cover historical events such as the Boaz Whitfield antebellum gold coin hoard discovered in 1926 near Demopolis, Alabama; the missing 5-foot- ... |
National Park Service Awards $2.5 Million to Preserve Alabama HBCUs
The National Park Service says it will help preserve historic buildings on the campuses of Alabama's historically Black colleges and universities.
New museum index for Black history, slavery in Shelby Co. - WBRC Good Day Alabama · Vaccine Alert Team · The Good Stuff. WBRC; 1720 Valley View Drive; Birmingham, AL 35209; (205) 322-6666. Public Inspection File. |
Alabama A&M National Park Grant will restore, renovate Carnegie Hall Library - WZDX The $500000 grant is part of a National Park Service program to help 21 preservation projects in 9 states for historic structures at HBCUs. |
Tutwiler Hall imploded at the University of Alabama - WVTM 13 The University of Alabama is imploding Julia Tutwiler Hall, a 13-story dormitory that has housed more than 50000 women since its opening in 1968. |
| Alabama Roots: The 100 greatest careers of the NFL's 102 seasons - al.com From Don Hutson to Dave Washington, the best of the NFL from Alabama high schools and colleges. |
| Group locates graves of Revolutionary War veterans - The Madison Record Menefee is buried in an old family cemetery in a wooded area of Decatur west of Pines Park on the property of North Alabama Fabricating Co., . |
| Headstone donated for grave of one-time slave in Alabama - New Canaan Advertiser The obit stated he had no survivors. On Saturday, several people gathered at Coffee's grave in Florence City Cemetery for a brief memorial service. |
| Alabama attorney Fred Gray will receive Presidential Award of Freedom from Biden The 91-year-old attorney still practices law in his Tuskegee offices, as well as in his hometown of Montgomery, where the street he grew up on was ... |
| New sculpture forged from railroad steel taps into Birmingham's history - AL.com Inception” is the creation of artist Deedee Morrison, a Birmingham native who spent about a year on the piece in time for the World Games. |
Alabama ghost towns: Lentzville | | enewscourier.com
The Lentzville Methodist Church still stands in front of the Lentzville Cemetery where John, Savilla and members of their family are buried.
| Tutwiler Hall memories: Makeout sessions, fire drills, friendships and more reader stories “I lived on the '14th'...13th floor overlooking the cemetery! My sister lived there when she attended Alabama in the late 60s and there was a 9 pm ... |
| Jesmyn Ward to receive Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction - AL.com Author once taught at an Alabama university. ... her second novel, “Salvage the Bones,” won the National Book Award for Fiction. |
| Pres. Biden Honors ASU Alumnus Gray! | Alabama State University ... lives for equality and justice for all," said Gray, in a recent interview with ASU media on the publication of his new book "Alabama v. King.". |
| A timeline of Julia Tutwiler Hall on the University of Alabama campus - Tuscaloosa News Here's a look at t |
Trowbridge's in Florence is Alabama's Oldest Ice Cream Shop | Southern Living
During that year, Texas dairy farmer Paul Trowbridge happened to stop overnight in the tiny North Alabama town of Florence on his way to a dairy ...
| The Historic AG Gaston Motel Comes Back to Life With a Coffee Shop and Exhibit The Historic A.G. Gaston Motel Comes Back to Life With a Coffee Shop and ... ALGOP to Rehear Hovey, Whatley Arguments in SD27 Contest (Alabama ... |
Ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrates restoration of historic A.G. Gaston Motel - WBRC Now, new memories and a new history can be written.” Advertisement. The A.G. Gaston Motel is the key historic site of the Birmingham Civil Rights ... |
| Hitting the Hank Williams trail in Alabama - The Washington Post In Alabama, attractions including a museum and an annual festival ... The gravesite of Williams at the Oakwood Annex Cemetery in Montgomery. |
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