Alabama History Podcasts

Full Episode: Frances Robb, a leading expert in the history of photography, discusses her 2016 book _Shot in Alabama: A History of Photography, 1839-1941, and a List of Photographers_, as well as her long history with photographic history in the state. (mentions Episode 004, Andrew Nelson, Shackleford Photographs Curator, 2013). Links: Shot in Alabama - https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817388782/sho...

Dr. Steven McNair, owner of McNair Historic Preservation, Inc., talks about working as a preservation consultant and navigating the interaction among private owners, and local, state, and federal governments to preserve Alabama's built environments.

Rebecca Todd Minder, Digital Media Editor for _Alabama Heritage_, discusses the magazine's thirty years in business, its history, its structure, its work with the Alabama Bicentennial, and its future.

John Sledge discusses his book, _The Mobile River_ (USouthCarolina Press, updated edition 2024), winner of the 2016 AHA Coley Award for best book on local history in the previous two years. Links: The Mobile River (2024 updated edition) - https://uscpress.com/The-Mobile-River-updated-edition

Sue Bass Wilson of the Covington (County) Historical Society discusses the society's programs that won the AHA's 2016 Kuykendall Award for Local History Societies.

Winner of the inaugural Alabama Historical Association Digital History Award for Large Projects in 2016. EOA editors Laura Hill, Claire Wilson, and Christopher Maloney discuss the past, present, and future of this informational resource.

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.

Gayle Thomas, 2013-2014 Alabama Historical Association President, discusses the AHA's activities in the coming year: the fall pilgrimage to Horseshoe Bend and the annual meeting in April 2014 in Scottsboro. She also discusses Henry County Historical Group activities and her Historic Marker survey project.

Bobby Joe Seales, President of the Shelby County Historical Society, discusses the Society's activities that garnered for it the 2012 James Ray Kuykendall Award as the outstanding local historical organization.

Dr. Andrew Nelson discusses the traveling exhibit he curated of photographs made by the Shackleford Family of Fayette County, AL, between 1900 and 1935. The Shacklefords were an African American rural family who ran a photography business, among other things. The photograph collection is at the Birmingham Public Library. (mentioned in Episode 022, Frances Robb, Shot in Alabama, October 2017)

Dr. Daniel Hutchinson discusses his article, "'We . . . Are The Most Fortunate of Prisoners': The Axis POW Experience at Camp Opelika during World War II" in The Alabama Review, co-winner of the Alabama Historical Association's 2012 Milo Howard Award.

Dr. Dan Haulman discusses his article, "The Tuskegee Airmen and the 'Never Lost a Bomber' Myth," in The Alabama Review that was a co-winner of the Alabama Historical Association's 2012 Milo Howard Award.

Mary Ann Neeley, renowned historian of Montgomery, AL, discusses her book _Matthew Blue, Montgomery's First Historian_ (Montgomery: NewSouthPress, 2010), winner of the Alabama Historical Association's Clinton J. Coley Award for Best Local History Book, 2012. Links: The Works of Matthew Blue: https://ugapress.org/book/9781588380319/the-works-of-matthew-blue/ Transcript from Google Drive: https://do...