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Episode 95 -- Kayla Jordon AHA Young Scholar on Ghost Lore
Air Date: May 4, 2026
Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/bdfvsnj3
Kayla Jordan (PhD cand. University of Alabama) is a member of the Young Scholars Program of the Alabama Historical Association Speakers Bureau. She discusses her two Speakers Bureau presentations concerning ghost lore in the US South, “Control the Dead and the Dead with Control: The Social Used of Spirits in southern Ghostlore,” and “More than Ectoplasm: A Study of Civil War Memory and Southern Ghostlore.”
LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/
Alabama Historical Association Speakers Bureau: https://www.alabamahistory.net/speakersbureau
University of Alabama History Department: https://history.ua.edu/
Katheryn Tucker Windham: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/kathryn-tucker-windham/
13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey: https://archive.org/details/13alabamaghostsj0000wind
Mississippi State Meridian: https://www.meridian.msstate.edu/
Mississippi State: https://www.msstate.edu/
Tiya Miles' Tales from the Haunted South: https://uncpress.org/9781469636146/tales-from-the-haunted-south/
Marengo County: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/marengo-county/
Half Acre, AL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_Acre,_Alabama
Bluff Hall (Museum): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/bluff-hall/
Dr. Eugene Allen Smith: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/eugene-allen-smith/
The Alabama History Podcast’s producer is Marty Olliff.
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.
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Air Date: May 4, 2026
Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/bdfvsnj3
Kayla Jordan (PhD cand. University of Alabama) is a member of the Young Scholars Program of the Alabama Historical Association Speakers Bureau. She discusses her two Speakers Bureau presentations concerning ghost lore in the US South, “Control the Dead and the Dead with Control: The Social Used of Spirits in southern Ghostlore,” and “More than Ectoplasm: A Study of Civil War Memory and Southern Ghostlore.”
LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/
Alabama Historical Association Speakers Bureau: https://www.alabamahistory.net/speakersbureau
University of Alabama History Department: https://history.ua.edu/
Katheryn Tucker Windham: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/kathryn-tucker-windham/
13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey: https://archive.org/details/13alabamaghostsj0000wind
Mississippi State Meridian: https://www.meridian.msstate.edu/
Mississippi State: https://www.msstate.edu/
Tiya Miles' Tales from the Haunted South: https://uncpress.org/9781469636146/tales-from-the-haunted-south/
Marengo County: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/marengo-county/
Half Acre, AL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_Acre,_Alabama
Bluff Hall (Museum): https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/bluff-hall/
Dr. Eugene Allen Smith: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/eugene-allen-smith/
The Alabama History Podcast’s producer is Marty Olliff.
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.