Debbie Pendleton, 2015-2016 Alabama Historical Association President, discusses the 2015 Pilgrimage, 2016 Annual Meeting, and her long careers as the AHA Membership Secretary and as a senior staff member at ADAH.

Dr. Matthew Downs discusses his book, _Transforming the South: Federal Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1915-1960_, Louisiana State Univ. Press, 2014, that won the 2015 AHA James F. Sulzby Award for best book on state history published in the previous two years.

Links:

Transforming the South - https://lsupress.org/9780807157145/transforming-the-south/

Dr. Charles Roberts discusses his article "New Deal Community-Building in the South: The Subsistence Homesteads around Birmingham, Alabama," in _The Alabama Review_ 66, no. 2 (April 2013): 83-121. Charles was a co-winner of the Alabama Historical Association's 2014 Milo B. Howard Award.

Dr. Kristopher Teeters discusses his article, "Albert Burton Moore and Alabama's Centennial Commemoration of the Civil War: The Rhetoric of Race, Romance, and Reunion," in _The Alabama Review_ 66, no. 2 (April 2013): 122-152. Kris was a co-winner of the Alabama Historical Association's 2014 Milo Howard Award.

Scotty Kirkland discusses his article "Mobile and the Boswell Amendment," in _The Alabama Review_ 65, no. 3 (July 2012). Scotty was a co-winner of the Alabama Historical Association's 2014 Milo B. Howard Award.

Dr. Jim Day discusses his book, _Diamonds in the Rough: A History of Alabama's Cahaba Coal Fields_, published by University of Alabama Press in 2013. Day won the Alabama Historical Association's 2014 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for best local history published in the previous two years.

Links:

Diamonds in the Rough - https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817386740/diamonds-in-the-rough/

Dr. Lonnie Burnett, 2014-2015 Alabama Historical Association President, discusses his objectives for his term of office.

Laura Hill, Communications Editor of the online Encyclopedia of Alabama, discusses the EOA's past and future on its fifth anniversary.

Dr. John Kvach of UAH discusses the 2013-2014 Museum on Main Street traveling exhibit, "The Way We Worked," his role as the lead scholar, the value of oral history and public history, and his hopes for the future of Alabama History.

ADAH Director Steve Murray and Communications Officer Georgia Ann Hudson talk about Murray's first year on the job, the mission of ADAH, and the Museum of Alabama project.