Alabama History Podcasts

Episode 60 -- Ann Boutwell, Laura Bonner, and Doug Edgeworth, hosts of the Alabama Historical Association's 2023 annual meeting in Prattville.

Air Date: March 7, 2023

Ann Boutwell (leader in Prattville's historical and preservation community), Laura Bonner (director of the Prattauguan Museum), and Doug Edgeworth (2023 president of the Autauga County Heritage Association) discuss preparations for the April 2023 meeting of the Alabama Historical Association in Prattville. Ms. Boutwell examines the history of Prattville and Daniel Pratt, Ms. Bonner describes some of the site on the Friday afternoon tour, and Mr. Edgeworth discusses the activities of the wide-ranging Autauga County Heritage Association.

Links mentioned in the episode:

Alabama Historical Association 2023 meeting in Prattville: https://www.alabamahistory.net/meetings

Autauga County Heritage Association: https://autaugahistory.org/

Pratttaugan Museum: https://autaugahistory.org/#961b6383-ae8f-4f33-8560-cfadd1d191da

St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Prattville, AL: https://www.stmarksal.org/

Buena Vista, Prattville, AL: https://www.facebook.com/buenavistaprattville/

Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R-vs8jO4jxrK3nib_HM5ACvt4XfaDxF-xC_FcHvF6ZU/edit?usp=share_link

*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 https://www.alabamahistory.net/

Episode 59 - Cart Blackwell, curator, Mobile Carnival Museum, 2022 History Museum Award (AL Hist Assn)

Air Date: February 7, 2023

Cart Blackwell, curator at the Mobile Carnival Museum, discusses the museum, it's programs and plan of work, as well as the history of Carnival in Mobile. The museum won the 2022 History Museum Award from the Alabama Historical Association.

Links mentioned in the episode:

Mobile Carnival Museum -- https://www.mobilecarnivalmuseum.com/

History Museum of Mobile -- http://www.historymuseumofmobile.com/

Mobile Museum of Art -- https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/

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

Mobile Carnival Association -- https://mcamobile.com/

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

Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UALV3vFcsFh3YCPKa-n71SFAtg7Cnvdo1T8NBNig7zU/edit?usp=share_link

*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 https://www.alabamahistory.net/

Episode # 58

Christa Kieffer -- 2022 Coley Research Award recipient, on Happy Chandler and George Wallace

Air Date: January 9, 2023

Christa Kieffer, doctoral student in history at the University of Kentucky, discusses her dissertation project on A. B. "Happy" Chandler, who was the first pick as George Wallace's 1968 vice-presidential running mate. She also talks about her proposed article that won the CJ and Evelyn Coley Research Award from the Alabama Historical Association in 2022, "'I'm Afraid He Ain't Our Kind of Folks': George Wallace, Happy Chandler, And the Making of Modern Conservatism."

Links mentioned in the episode:

CJ and Evelyn Coley Research Award (Alabama Historical Association) -- https://www.alabamahistory.net/clinton-jackson-and-evelyn-coley-re

Dan T. Carter Research Files, c.1930-2006, Emory University -- https://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/carter777/

The Politics of Rage (Dan Carter's biography of George Wallace) -- https://lsupress.org/books/detail/the-politics-of-rage/

A.B. "Happy" Chandler Papers, University of Kentucky -- https://exploreuk.uky.edu/fa/findingaid/?id=xt72jm23br0c

George C. Wallace Collection, Alabama Department of Archives and History -- https://www.archives.state.al.us/research/finding-aids/v9868.pdf

Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky -- https://libraries.uky.edu/locations/special-collections-research-center/louie-b-nunn-center-oral-history

Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1483dSSe8UYZsQelM5AGnkMBWYZUFOcgGJlnlktxCeHY/edit?usp=share_link

*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 https://www.alabamahistory.net/

Episode # 57

Dr. Hillary Green - Hallowed Grounds Project

December 7, 2022

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“Who were these rented slaves?”

Our guest today is Dr. Hillary Green, a full professor at Davidson College, who has recently been an associate professor of history in the department of Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama. She's the author of Educational Reconstruction, African American Schools in the Urban South 1865 to 1890, published by Fordham University Press in 2016, and is the series editor of Reconstruction Reconsidered by the University of South Carolina Press. But our interest today with Dr. Green is the project she has conducted at the University of Alabama called the Hallowed Grounds Project.

Links mentioned in episode:

Hallowed Grounds Project - https://hgreen.people.ua.edu/hallowed-grounds-project.html

Hallowed Grounds Project - https://www.hngreenphd.com/the-hallowed-grounds-project.html

Hallowed Grounds Tours - https://bfsa.ua.edu/hallowed-grounds-tours.html

University of Alabama - https://www.ua.edu/

Gender and RaceStudies at UA - https://grs.as.ua.edu/

Davidson College - https://www.davidson.edu/

Fordham Press - https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823270125/educational-reconstruction/

USC Press - https://uscpress.com/Reconstruction-Reconsidered

Association for African American Life and History - https://asalh.org/

Alabama Association of Historians - https://www.alabamaassochistorians.org/

Ehren Foley at USC Press - [email protected]

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

Rather read? – Here’s the link to the transcript:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lmvtx9_4hf6POADBZ0fcyh1Zo-0gaW2Qn3xQSP8tyoo/edit?usp=sharing

*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to not be 100% accurate.

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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.

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Producer – Marty Olliff

Associate Producer – Laura Murray

Episode # 56

Carole Ann King – Alabama Quilts, 2022 Sulzby Award Recipient

November 10, 2022

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"Quilts are Alabama Folk Art and History"

Today's guest is Carol Ann King, Curator at Old Alabama Town in Montgomery (Landmarks Foundation of Montgomery, Inc.) whose book, Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682-1950 (University of Mississippi Press, 2020), won the Alabama Historical Association's 2022 James Sulzby Award for best book published on the state's history in the previous two years. Ms. King discusses the decade-long community quilt survey conducted by King and her co-author, Mary Elizabeth Johnson Huff (1944-2019) – known as "Sunny" throughout the quilting community of the US Southeast that she documented throughout her career —that exposed more than 4000 historical quilts in the state. They chose over 200 to photograph and tell those stories in their lavish work.

Links mentioned in the episode:

Alabama Quilts, University of Mississippi Press -- https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/Alabama-Quilts

Old Alabama Town -- https://www.oldalabamatown.com/

Birmingham Museum of Art -- https://www.artsbma.org/

Made in Alabama: A State Legacy (at Amazon) -- https://tinyurl.com/2p8ehynd

Alabama Cultural Survey Records (Bham Museum of Art) -- https://cdm16044.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16044coll7

If you'd rather read the transcript, you can find it here (caveat: the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate) -- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pg2x0MuFmxprt2kw343-YtEHVmrlG8iOfxQ7kagTIP8/edit?usp=share_link

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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.

https://www.alabamahistory.net/

Episode # 55

Dr. Daryn Glassbrook - The Mobile Medical Museum

October 3, 2022

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The Mobile Medical Museum won the Alabama Historical Association's Historical Museum Award for 2022.

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From iron lungs to medicinal gardening and special exhibits - the Mobile Medical Museum boasts over 300 years of medical history and artifacts.

Our guest today is Dr. Daryn Glassbrook, Executive Director of the Mobile Medical Museum. Founded in 1962 by Dr. Samuel Eichold II, the Mobile Medical Museum preserves and exhibits medical artifacts and archives to commemorate Mobile's prominent place in the history of medical education and public health in the state of Alabama and the Gulf Coast. The Museum's collections and exhibitions provide the public with a broad understanding of the evolution of the art and science of health care.

Links mentioned in this episode:

University of South Alabama - https://www.southalabama.edu/

University of South Alabama Children’s and Women’s Hospital - https://www.usahealthsystem.com/locations/childrens-womens-hospital

University of Alabama at Birmingham - https://www.uab.edu/home/

Master Gardeners of Mobile County - https://mg.aces.edu/mobile/

Mobile Urban Growers - https://www.mobileurbangrowers.org/

Full Life Ahead Foundation - https://fulllifeahead.org/

Poarch Band of Creek Indians - https://pci-nsn.gov/

Mobile Medical Museum on the web - https://www.mobilemedicalmuseum.org/

Mobile Medical Museum on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MobileMedicalMuseum/

Mobile Medical Museum on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mobilemedicalmuseum/

Rather read? Here’s the link to the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ET_Gp-u9qubJ8p6ZhrokPwk-pnW5y5DM1ohcv4l19fk/edit?usp=sharing

*Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to not be 100% accurate.

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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.

Listen to the Alabama History Podcast on Apple, SoundCloud, Google and Stitcher.

If you enjoyed this edition of the Alabama History Podcast, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!

Alabama History Podcast - https://twitter.com/ALHistPodcast

Alabama Historical Association on the web - https://www.alabamahistory.net/

Alabama Historical Association on Twitter - https://twitter.com/AL_history

Alabama Historical Association on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/AlabamaHistory

Alabama Historical Association on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/al_history/

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WELCOME TO ASSOCIATE PRODUCER LAURA MURRAY!

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“Musical Mountain Stream”

Mentone, Alabama, is the site of the Alabama Historical Association’s Fall Pilgrimage on September 24th, 2022. Nestled on the brow of Lookout Mountain, Mentone is a lovely mountain town with something for just about everyone. In this episode, we are joined by long-time resident of Mentone, Holley Midgley, who tells us some of the exciting things we’ll see and do in September.

Links mentioned in episode:

Mentone, Alabama: http://mentonealabama.gov/

DeSoto Falls: https://www.alapark.com/desoto-state-park/waterfalls%5C

Little River Canyon: https://www.nps.gov/liri/index.htm

DeSoto State Park CCC Museum: https://www.alapark.com/parks/DSP-CCC-museum

DeSoto State Park: https://www.alapark.com/parks/desoto-state-park

Sallie Howard Memorial Chapel: https://visitlookoutmountain.com/sallie-howard-memorial-chapel/

_Vagabond Dreamer_ by Elizabeth Howard: https://www.amazon.com/Vagabond-Dreamer-Elizabeth-S-Howard/dp/0873971116/ref%3Dcm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Berry College (Rome, GA): https://www.berry.edu/

Mentone Inn: https://www.mentoneinn.com/

Mentone Arts Center: https://www.mentoneartscenter.org/

Youtube Video: Mentone: Where Little River Runs: https://youtu.be/1q3ZQ2WbacU

Rather read? – Here’s the transcript (on Google Drive): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CwBKeuRpgkZIHKYy6HwRUOeQtlIuuAyD0qN6ZP7E8Fc/edit?usp=sharing

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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.

If you enjoyed this edition of the Alabama History Podcast, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode! Alabama History

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Rachel Hartsell discusses Alabama History Day and National History Day, especially the 2023 renewal of in-person competition at Auburn University Montgomery.

Contacts for information on Alabama History Day and National History Day:

Alabama Humanities Alliance – Alabama History Day: https://alabamahumanities.org/program/alabama-history-day/

Alabama History Day, March 3, 2023, flier: https://alabamahumanities.org/app/uploads/2022/07/AHD_2023_Flyer.pdf

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

Also, hear Jerald Crook and student Elizabeth Rhonemus discuss Alabama History day before 2020 in episode 33: https://soundcloud.com/alabamahistory/aha033

AHA President, 2022-23, Jim Baggett is head of the Archives Department of the Birmingham Public Library.

He discusses his plans for his term in office, including the Fall Pilgrimage in Mentone, the Annual Meeting in Prattville, and increasing AHA's visibility through enhanced social media presence. Jim also introduces a new initiative, the AHA Speakers Bureau.

He appeared in Episode 47 as winner of the 2020 Milo Howard Award for his article in the July 2018 Alabama Review entitled "A Law-Abiding People: Alabama's 1901 Constitution and the Attempted Lynching of Jim Brown." (https://soundcloud.com/alabamahistory/aha-047)

Jim mentions four items available on the internet, linked here:

AHA Fall Newsletter: https://www.alabamahistory.net/newsletters

Video: "Mentone: Where the Little River Runs," YouTube, https://youtu.be/1q3ZQ2WbacU

Prattville meeting keynote speakers Cynthia Tucker and Frey Gaillard, The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance (New South Press, 2022), http://www.newsouthbooks.com/bkpgs/detailtitle.php?isbn_solid=158838456X

AHA Speakers Bureau Webpage: https://www.alabamahistory.net/speakersbureau

Independent scholar Dr. Melissa F. Young (University of Alabama, 2020)discusses her dissertation, "Magic City Jews: Integration and Public Memory, 1871-1911," for which she won the Alabama Historical Association's inaugural Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins Dissertation Award in 2022. Dr. Young also discusses her current project, the Beth-El Civil Rights Experience that you can find at this URL: https://templebeth-el.net/education/beth-el-civil-rights-experience/