Alabama History Podcasts

Dr. Hayden McDaniel, Education Curator at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, discusses the Alabama History Institutes, annual professional development workshops for K-12 teachers.

Links discussed in the episode:

Alabama History Institute: https://archives.alabama.gov/teach-learn/professional-development/alabama-history-institutes.aspx /

Alabama Department of Archives and History: https://archives.alabama.gov/ /

Alabama Holocaust Education Center: https://ahecinfo.org/ /

Temple Beth-el: https://www.templebeth-el.net/ /

Rosenwald Schools (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/rosenwald-schools-in-alabama/ /

Booker T. Washington, “How to Build Up a Good School in the South”: https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/voices/id/4569/ /

Jesse Owens Museum: http://jesseowensmemorialpark.com/wordpress1/museum-3/ /

Alabama History Hub: http://www.archives.state.al.us/AlabamaHistoryHub.aspx /

AHI on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ALHistoryEdu/ /

AHI on X (Twitter): https://x.com/alhistoryedu /

AHI on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alhistoryedu/

Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/554suymd

*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.

The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.

Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.

Dr. Isabela Morales, author of the multi-award winning book Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom (Oxford, 2022), discusses the Townsend family of Madison County, Alabama, particularly the 45 manumitted children and nieces of Samuel Townsend who will them their freedom and his fortune. Morales speaks about the Townsends’ diaspora and how “race, place, and money” affected their experience of freedom between the Civil War and the Jim Crow Era.

Links mentioned in the episode:

Dr. R. Isabela Morales: http://www.risabelamorales.com/

Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/

James F. Sulzby Award: https://www.alabamahistory.net/james-f-sulzby-book-award

Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/happy-dreams-of-liberty-9780197531792?cc=ca&lang=en&

Hoole Special Collections Library, Univ. of Alabama: https://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/

Septimus D. Cabaniss Papers, Estate of Samuel Townsend (Hoole Lib): https://archives.lib.ua.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/73817

Wilberforce University: https://wilberforce.edu/

Leavenworth, KS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leavenworth,_Kansas

Jim Crow in Alabama: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/segregation-jim-crow/

Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum: https://www.ssaamuseum.org/

Elizabeth Dale, the “Black Widow of Hazel Green”: https://huntsvillehistorycollection.org/hhc/browse-person.php?a=person&pe=Elizabeth%20Evans%20Hall%20Dale

Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/5afmd542

*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.

The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.

Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.

Mr. Barry McNealy of Birmingham talks about receiving the Alabama Historical Association’s Virginia Van Der Veer Hamilton Award for 2024, given to a person who has significantly advanced Alabama history with the general public. Mr. McNealy is a classroom teacher, historical expert with the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum, youth leader, and tour guide.

Links mentioned in the podcast:

Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/

Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton Award: https://www.alabamahistory.net/virginia-v-hamilton-award

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute: https://www.bcri.org/

Miles College: https://www.miles.edu/

Rev. Abraham Woods, Jr.: https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Abraham_Woods_Jr

Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/fred-lee-shuttlesworth/

Ms. Rosa Parks: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/rosa-parks/

Parker High School, Birmingham: https://bhamwiki.com/w/Parker_High_School

Smithfield Community: https://bhamwiki.com/w/Smithfield_community

Dynamite Hill: https://bhamwiki.com/w/Dynamite_Hill

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/sixteenth-street-baptist-church/

“Four Little Girls” bombing: https://bhamwiki.com/w/1963_church_bombing

BCRI Legacy Youth Leadership Program: https://www.bcri.org/youth-and-families/

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: https://www.ushmm.org/

Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/alabama-christian-movement-for-human-rights-acmhr/

Boutwell Auditorium: https://bhamwiki.com/w/Boutwell_Auditorium

Nat King Cole assault and attempted kidnapping: https://bhamwiki.com/w/1956_Nat_King_Cole_assault

Father Coyle murder: https://bhamwiki.com/w/James_Coyle

Edmund Pettus Bridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Pettus_Bridge

“Bloody Sunday” (Selma, AL, 1965): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/bloody-sunday/

Juneteenth Freedom Celebration (BCRI): https://www.bcri.org/event/juneteenth2024/

“Letter From Birmingham Jail”: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/letter-from-birmingham-jail/

Miss Odessa Woolfolk: https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Odessa_Woolfolk

PEACE Birmingham: https://www.acealabama.org/peacebirmingham.html

Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/3dhb5vat

*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.

The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.

Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.

Air Date: September 3, 2024

Ms. Jasponica Florence, chair of the local arrangements committee for the AHA’s 2024 Fall Pilgrimage to Phenix City, discusses the history of Phenix City (beginning with why the city name does not have an “O”); the pre-meeting tour sites in Russell County, AL; the Pilgrimage tour sites in Phenix City (with special emphasis on the Franchise Baptist Church and South Girard School); and the special program devoted to antebellum enslaved / manumitted bridge builder and native son Horace King.

Links referenced in the interview:

Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/

Fall 2024 AHA Newsletter (download PDF): https://www.alabamahistory.net/_files/ugd/3aaf16_7bf43642929b4d948f835115a0123a4f.pdf

Phenix City (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/phenix-city/

Movie, “The Phenix City Story,” 1955: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048488/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk ; (EOA) https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/the-phenix-city-story/

Ft. Benning / Ft. Moore (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Moore

Crawford Masonic Lodge (Historical marker Database): https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=111586

Crockettsville Store Museum: https://www.citizenofeastalabama.com/news/local_history/gazebo-crockettsville-general-store-open/article_34ff6bf8-8547-5972-976a-a3518c63170b.html

Ft. Mitchell (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/fort-mitchell/

Jones Store Museum: https://www.citizenofeastalabama.com/news/local/jones-museum-smiths-station-celebrates-opening-of-historic-jones-store-museum/article_8db09708-9a9a-5a51-b6c6-7d13316995df.html

Museum of Wonder: https://museumofwonder.com/

Russell County Courthouse at Seale (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_County_Courthouse_at_Seale

Horace King (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/horace-king/

Tom Lenard’s documentary, “Horace: The Bridge Builder King” (1995-96), part I: https://youtu.be/4qQWPX3oaNU?si=eYGI1Ijsg_W663PX

Albert Patterson (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/albert-l-patterson/

Phenix City Old Post Office (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenix_City_Post_Office_Building

Russell County Courthouse (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/media/russell-county-courthouse/

South Gerard School (Historical Marker Database): https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=253870

Trinity United Methodist Church: https://www.trinityumcpc.org/

New Central Missionary Baptist Church (Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/NewCentralmbc8

Franchise Baptist Church: https://www.franchisebaptist.org/our-history/

Whitewater Rafting in Phenix City: https://alabamarecreationtrails.org/trail/chattahoochee-river-whitewater-phenix-city/

_Overcoming Twenty-Five Years of Separate but Unequal_ (iPublisher, 2021): https://www.iuniverse.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/821211-overcoming-25-years-of-separate-but-unequal

Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/3m3v6z3z

*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.

The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.

Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.

Episode 76 – Dr. Idrissa Snider discusses Alabama History Day.

Air date: August 6, 2024

Dr. Idrissa Snider, Alabama Humanities Alliance Program Coordinator, talks about the Alabama History Day and National History Day competitions, their relationship to history education, and how students, teachers, and potential judges can involve themselves with the program.

Links mentioned in the podcast:

Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/

Alabama Humanities Alliance: https://alabamahumanities.org/

Alabama History Day Program: https://alabamahumanities.org/program/alabama-history-day/

National History Day: https://nhd.org/en/

North Alabama AHD Ambassador Rebecca Heaton: https://alabamahumanities.org/alabama-history-day-for-teachers/ (scroll to middle of page)

South Alabama AHD Ambassador Cheryl Birch: https://alabamahumanities.org/alabama-history-day-for-teachers/ (scroll to middle of page)

Central Alabama AHD Ambassador Idrissa Snider: https://alabamahumanities.org/about/team/ (scroll to bottom of page)

Troy University Montgomery Campus: https://www.troy.edu/about-us/montgomery-campus/index.html

Rosa Parks Museum: https://troy.edu/student-life-resources/arts-culture/rosa-parks-museum/index.html

Davis Theater: https://www.troy.edu/student-life-resources/arts-culture/davis-theatre/index.html

Alabama Humanities Alliance Janice Riley Memorial Scholarship: https://alabamahumanities.org/program/jenice-riley-memorial-scholarship/

Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/3buyerde

*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.

The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.

Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.

Dr. Richard Bailey, AHA president for 2024-25, discusses the AHA Fall Pilgrimage to Phenix City in October 2024, the annual meeting in Opelika during April 2025, his focus on pursuing local histories, Alabama’s African American history, and the importance of recognizing the full history of the Reconstruction Era.

Links to things mentioned or implied in this episode:

Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/

AHA Fall Pilgrimage, Phenix City, October 2024: https://www.alabamahistory.net/_files/ugd/3aaf16_7bf43642929b4d948f835115a0123a4f.pdf

AHA Annual Meeting, Opelika, April 2025: https://www.alabamahistory.net/meetings

Neither Carpetbaggers nor Scalawags: Black Office Holders During the Reconstruction of Alabama 1867-1878: https://ugapress.org/book/9781588381897/neither-carpetbaggers-nor-scalawags/

Reconstruction in Alabama (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/reconstruction-in-alabama/

Founding of Birmingham (Bham Wiki): https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Incorporation_of_Birmingham

Public Education during Reconstruction(EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/public-education-during-the-civil-war-and-reconstruction-era/

They, Too, Call Alabama Home: African American Profiles 1800 To 1999: https://books.google.com/books/about/They_Too_Call_Alabama_Home.html?id=wHIOAQAAMAAJ

Albert Patterson (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/albert-l-patterson/

Horace King (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/horace-king/

Horace: The Bridge Builder King (Tom Lenard documentary, Part 1 w/link to Part 2): You Tube https://youtu.be/4qQWPX3oaNU?si=KY8zLK_O9VRl5_d7

Auburn Marriott Opelika Resort and Spa at Grand National in Opelika: https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/csgab-auburn-marriott-opelika-resort-and-spa-at-grand-national/overview/

Dr. Clayborne Carson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayborne_Carson

Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/323119/the-eyes-on-the-prize-civil-rights-reader-by-general-editors-clayborne-carson-david-j-garrow-gerald-gill-vincent-harding-darlene-clark-hine/

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/about-papers-project

Air Force Historical Research Agency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Historical_Research_Agency

Alabama Bicentennial Commission: https://fortherecordalabama.blog/2021/12/16/new-in-the-adah-collections-alabama-bicentennial-commission-collection/

Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/4rt885dd

*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.

The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.

Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.

Episode 74 – Tom Reidy on AHA 2024 Museum Award for The Scottsboro Boys Museum

Air Date: May 20, 2024

Dr. Tom Reidy, executive director of The Scottsboro Boys Museum which received the Alabama Historical Association’s Museum Award for 2024, discusses the history of the infamous Scottsboro Boys case and the history and programs of the museum itself.

Links to things mentioned or implied in the episode:

Alabama Historical Association https://www.alabamahistory.net/

Alabama Historical Association Historical Museum Award https://www.alabamahistory.net/historical-museum-award

The Scottsboro Boys Museum (1) https://www.thescottsboroboysmuseum.com/ ; (2) https://www.alabamaheritage.com/alabama-heritage-blog/the-historical-legacy-of-the-scottsboro-boys-museum ; (3) https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/scottsboro-boys-museum-and-cultural-center/

Sheila Washington https://www.npr.org/2021/02/04/964172261/remembering-sheila-washington-who-told-the-story-of-the-scottsboro-boys

The Scottsboro Boys (case) https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/scottsboro-trials/

Alabama Chapter of the Communist Party USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Chapter_of_the_Communist_Party_USA

Southern Worker newspaper https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/southernworker/

Jackson County Sentinel newspaper https://www.newspapers.com/paper/jackson-county-sentinel/29019/

The Huntsville Times newspaper https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/the-huntsville-times/

International Labor Defense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Labor_Defense

Judge James Horton https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/james-horton-jr/

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys (1976 docudrama) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074723/

Heavens Fall (2006 drama) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425094/

Samuel Leibowitz https://www.famous-trials.com/scottsboroboys/1559-leibowitz

Harlem Renaissance https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/new-african-american-identity-harlem-renaissance

Langston Hughes https://poets.org/poet/langston-hughes

Lead Belly https://www.songhall.org/profile/Huddie_Ledbetter

To Kill a Mockingbird https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/to-kill-a-mockingbird/

Nelle Harper Lee https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/harper-lee/

NAACP https://naacp.org/

Rosa Parks (and Scottsboro Boys) https://rosaparksbiography.org/bio/scottsboro-boys/

The Scottsboro Boys Act of 2023 https://www.al.com/breaking/2013/04/post_1132.html

Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/29thykt5

*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.

The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.

Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net.

Episode 73 – Allie Lopez on the AHA 2024 Coley Research Award

Air Date: April 22, 2024

Allie Lopez, winner of the AHA 2024 Clinton Jackson and Evelyn Coley Research Award, discusses her proposed project, “The Injustice That Permeates: Jim Crow, Fear, And Dispossession in Rural Alabama 1930 to 1985,” and her 2024 AHA Meeting presentation on the Reverse Freedom Rides.

Links to things mentioned in the episode:

Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/

AHA Coley Research Award: https://www.alabamahistory.net/clinton-jackson-and-evelyn-coley-re

Allie Lopez webpage at Baylor University: https://history.artsandsciences.baylor.edu/person/allie-r-lopez.

University of North Alabama: https://una.edu/index.html

SNCC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee

SCLC: https://nationalsclc.org/

CORE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Racial_Equality

NAACP: https://naacp.org/

Walter Johnson: https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/walter-johnson

Marisa Fuentes: https://history.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/details/346-fuentes-marisa

Saidiya Hartman: https://english.columbia.edu/content/saidiya-v-hartman

Black Belt of Alabama: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/black-belt-region-in-alabama/

Charles S. Johnson, Shadow of the Plantation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934): https://archive.org/details/shadowofplantati00john/page/n5/mode/1up

Theodore Rosengarten, All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974): https://archive.org/details/allgodsdangersli0000shaw_t4b0

Alabama Sharecroppers Union: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/alabama-sharecroppers-union/

Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH): https://archives.alabama.gov/

Freedom Rides: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/freedom-rides/

Reverse Freedom Rider: Allie R. Lopez, “When Southern Segregationists Gave Black Residents One-Way bus Tickets North,” Time – Made By History, March 21, 2024, https://time.com/6697055/welfare-queen-stereotype-origins/.

White Citizens Council: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils

W. S. Hoole Special Collections, University of Alabama: https://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/

Civil Rights Struggle and the Shoals Project: https://civilrightsshoals.com/

Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/ypm5axjm

*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.

The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.

Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net/

Air Date: March 7, 2024

Dr. Christine Sears and Ben Hoksbergen talk about the history of Huntsville, AL, site of the 2024 meeting of the Alabama Historical Association. They also discuss the sites attendees will visit on the pre-conference and conference tours, the banquet speaker Dr. Isabel Morales, and the meeting program offerings.

Links to things mentioned in the episode:

Alabama Historical Association: www.alabamahistory.net

AHA Spring 2024 Newsletter: https://www.alabamahistory.net/_files/ugd/3aaf16_3b018dd19cb14a379df403033346127c.pdf

University of Alabama at Huntsville: https://www.uah.edu/

Huntsville (History via EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/huntsville/

Broad River Group (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/broad-river-group/

Redstone Arsenal (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/redstone-arsenal/

Marshall Space Flight Center (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/marshall-space-flight-center/

Operation Paperclip: https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/project-paperclip-and-american-rocketry-after-world-war-ii

Verner von Braun (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/wernher-von-braun/

Cotton Mills / Textile Industry (EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/textile-industry-in-alabama/

TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority, via EOA): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/tennessee-valley-authority-in-alabama-tva/

Rural electrification (REA): https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/econ_focus/2020/q1/economic_history

WPA (Works Progress Administration): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration

Sputnik: https://www.nasa.gov/history/sputnik/index.html

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration): https://www.nasa.gov/

Huntsville Revisited Museum (Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/hsvrevisitedmuseum/

Weeden House: https://www.weedenhousemuseum.com/

Episcopal Church of the Nativity: https://www.nativity-hsv.org/

Harrison Bros. Hardware: http://harrisonbrothershardware.com/

First National Bank (SAH website): https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AL-01-089-0041

Temple B’Nai Sholom: https://www.templebnaisholom.com/

Saint John AME Church (AAMU LibGuide): https://libguides.aamu.edu/c.php?g=509698&p=3590067

State Black Archives, Research Center, and Museum: https://www.aamu.edu/academics/library-learning-resources-center/state-black-archives-museum/

Alabama A&M University: https://www.aamu.edu/

Davidson Center for Space Exploration: https://www.rocketcenter.com/

Dr. R. Isabella Morales: http://www.risabelamorales.com/

Happy Dreams of Freedom: http://www.risabelamorales.com/happy-dreams-of-liberty.html

Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum: https://www.ssaamuseum.org/

Princeton & Slavery Project: https://slavery.princeton.edu/

Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/52u25fjy

*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.

The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.

Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net/

Episode 71 – Dr. Pete Sparks on The Guntersville Historical Society, Winner of the 2023 Kuykendall Award for Local History

Dr. Pete Sparks, president of the Guntersville Historical Society (GHS), discusses the history of the society, its activities in the recent past and at present, and its plans for the future, including a succession plan for the current leadership to sustain the GHS’s work. The Alabama Historical Association presented its 2023 James Ray Kuykendall Award to the Guntersville Historical Society for its long record of outstanding work in local and community history.

Here's a link to the transcript: http://tinyurl.com/55y54nuj

Links referenced in the episode:

Alabama Historical Association https://www.alabamahistory.net/

AHA James Kuykendall Award https://www.alabamahistory.net/james-ray-kuykendall-award

History of Guntersville, EOA https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/guntersville/

Guntersville Historical Society Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/guntersvillehistoricalsociety/

City of Guntersville https://guntersvilleal.org/

Guntersville Museum https://www.guntersvillemuseum.org/

The Colonel Montgomery Gilbreath House https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/media/col-montgomery-gilbreath-house/

The Matthew Culbert Cabin (from Sand Mountain Reporter) https://www.sandmountainreporter.com/news/article_2578dc50-0a00-11ed-a1a8-8f14d781a344.html

Oliver Day Street Papers, 1836-1965, at ADAH https://archives-alabama-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1vpqcjv/01ALABAMA_ALMA216066200002743

Jennifer Rogers-Etcheverry https://www.kkp.film/blog/bae5jc9jp2605i68432ounw7ba47yc

Mary Ben Heflin (from the Hartselle Enquirer) https://hartselleenquirer.com/2020/09/02/library-namesake-finds-truth-in-his-business/

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park https://www.nps.gov/hobe/index.htm

Trail of Tears National Historic Trail https://www.nps.gov/trte/planyourvisit/alabama.htm

Here's a link to the transcript: http://tinyurl.com/55y54nuj

*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.

The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray.

Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net/