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!
| OTD in Weather History: The Enigma Tornado Outbreak of 1884 The Alabama Weather Blog From North Alabama to North Carolina, temperatures were in the 40s and 50s. Official weather forecasts for the Gulf States called for “local rains” ... |
| 'White Lies': Season 2 of podcast revisits historic 1991 Alabama prison riot - al.com AL.com Titled “The Men on the Roof,” hosts Chip Brantley and Andrew Beck Grace spend the season revisiting the story of an Alabama prison riot in 1991 ... |
| Poet Laureate of Alabama tells TROY students she hopes to inspire others to write Troy Today - Troy University Jones, who is 32-years old, has made Alabama history by being both the ... Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley Jones visited with students at TROY in ... |
| Loxcil Tuck, longest serving woman mayor in Alabama history, dies at 89 - CBS 42 CBS 42 Loxcil Tuck, who served as mayor of the city of Tarrant for 16 years and was the longest serving female mayor in Alabama history, has died. |
| Making the Hank Williams Pilgrimage to Montgomery | Saving Country Music Saving Country Music However, in 2001 the Alabama Historical Association erected a plaque at the front for the cemetery commemorating Rufus Payne, ... |
Somerville woman works to preserve a piece of American history - WHNT.com
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The building on Terry Lynn Circle, known as St. John Elementary to some, is just one of hundreds in Alabama. “It's in really bad shape, but you can ...
| Art Exhibit Opening: History of Birmingham Rock & Roll - WBRC WBRC Craig Legg's History of Birmingham Rock & Roll Exhibit(Craig Legg) ... |
| Historic Alabama civil rights city faces long recovery from tornado - CBS 42 CBS 42 In a Selma neighborhood — a few blocks from the starting point of the 1965 voting rights marches — the path of a January tornado remains clear. |
| New Museum Honors Those On America's Final Slave Ship - Forbes Forbes A new museum in Alabama commemorates the slaves who were brought on the ... Alabama Historical Commission, the History Museum of Mobile and other ... |
| Fred Gray to discuss landmark legal case, hold book signing - WSFA WSFA The medal is on display at the Alabama Department of Archives & History, where Gray has served as a trustee for 20 years. |
| Remember the signs of the times - The Troy Messenger The Troy Messenger The Troy Masonic Temple, built in 1892, was named to Alabama's 2013 “Places in Peril” list by the Alabama Historical Commission and the Alabama ... |
Guthrie's "Blues for an Alabama Sky" sheds perspective on Harlem Renaissance CBS News They are cast in a new play at the Guthrie Theatre that is fiction, yet historic, offering an often untold perspective on Black history during the ... |
Old Town in Decatur serves as forgotten African American history - WHNT.com WHNT.com “We just have such a rich history here and it's my passion to share our stories.” Old Town Decatur was the first of two cities in Alabama to organize ... |
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