Alabama History Podcasts
Podcast by Alabama Historical Association
Episodes
August 4, 2025 • 21 mins
Air Date: August 4, 2025
Donna Castellano, Executive Director of the Historic Huntsville Foundation, discusses the programs that the HHF has pursued. She discusses the Harrison Brothers Hardware store (HHF headquarters), the eleven National Historic Register nominations the HHF has made and the research projects into women’s and Black history that ensued from them, HHF walking tours, pop-up museum installations, funding, and the ...
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July 7, 2025 • 14 mins
Air date: July 7, 2025
Alabama Historical Association president for 2025-2026, Dr. Matthew Downs, discusses the AHA’s program for the upcoming year. He describes the October 24-25, 2025 Fall Pilgrimage in Guntersville and the April 9-11, 2026 annual meeting in Fairhope. Downs also talks about the importance of the Alabama Review that he edits and two AHA projects – the Speakers Bureau and the AHA Digitally Enhanced Marker map.
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June 2, 2025 • 20 mins
Air Date: June 2, 2025
Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/fk7hby52
Dr. David Chase Stephens (AU ’24), winner of the Alabama Historical Association’s 2025 Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins Award for the best dissertation in Alabama History, discusses his dissertation entitled “To Obstruct and Resist: Paradise v. Allen, Integration Efforts, and the Alabama State Troopers” (Dec. 2024). Stephens examines the strum und drang of integrating the ...
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May 5, 2025 • 17 mins
Theo Moore, founder and executive director of Hiztorical Vision Productions, discusses receiving the 2025 Jakeman Award for Digital History (large project category) from the Alabama Historical Association. He talks about his past, current, and future films; his motivations for founding Hiztorical Vision Productions; and his plans for the future – including creating a studio, museum, and event space.
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March 9, 2025 • 16 mins
Bert Harris, former president of the East Alabama Museum and the Genealogical Society of East Alabama, plus Jayson and Laura Hill, discuss Opelika’s history, tour sites, and other amenities the AHA will enjoy for its April 2025 annual meeting.
Transcript of episode: https://tinyurl.com/5a26sz5r
Links to items mentioned in the episode:
Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ ;
Opelika, AL: https://www....
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January 6, 2025 • 22 mins
Episode 81 – Dan Puckett discusses the Alabama Holocaust Commission
Air Date: January 7, 2025
Dan Puckett, chair of the Alabama Holocaust Commission, discusses the Commission’s history, mission, program of work, and future. He also talks about adding Holocaust studies to Alabama’s 2024 Social Studies Standards for K-12 education, the purposes of Holocaust education, and his 2014 book, In the Shadow of Hitler: Alabama’s Jews, th...
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December 3, 2024 • 23 mins
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/...
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November 4, 2024 • 28 mins
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 betw...
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October 8, 2024 • 19 mins
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.al...
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September 3, 2024 • 16 mins
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 progra...
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August 6, 2024 • 20 mins
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: ...
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July 23, 2024 • 22 mins
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/...
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May 20, 2024 • 24 mins
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 Associa...
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April 22, 2024 • 18 mins
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...
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March 7, 2024 • 20 mins
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...
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February 7, 2024 • 15 mins
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 pr...
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January 23, 2024 • 18 mins
Episode 70 – Dr. Katie Beasley on her 2023 SAWH Thomas Award winning article re: Alabama women and Curb Markets, 1923-1929.
Air Date: January 23, 2024
Dr. Katie Beasley, an independent scholar who recently completed her doctorate at Florida State University, discusses her article, “’I Am Planning to Buy a New Buick Coupe Next Year”: Rural Women and Alabama’s Curb Markets, 1923-1929,” Alabama Review 75, no. 2 (April 2022), for wh...
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December 6, 2023 • 21 mins
Stillman College Asst. Prof. of Music, Dr. Allison Upshaw, discusses her "creative nonfiction" project, "reframing: Narratives of African American Female Landowners in Alabama's Black Belt" that captures more about Black women who own land than what appears in records and produces their stories in a way that makes them fully human.
Links mentioned in the episode:
Stillman College: https://stillman.edu/
Alabama Department of Ar...
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November 8, 2023 • 20 mins
Episode 068 – Bertis English Recipient of the 2023 C.J. Coley Award from Alabama Historical Association
Air Date: November 8, 2023
Dr. Bertis English, professor of history at Alabama State University, discusses his book, Civil Wars, Civil Beings, and Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt: A History of Perry County (University of Alabama Press, 2020) that won the Alabama Historical Association's 2023 C.J. Coley Award for the best ...
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October 2, 2023 • 24 mins
Air Date: October 2, 2023
Dr. Tara Douglas, Ms. Tracey Thomas, and Dr. Ted Spears – members of the local arrangements committee – talk about the 2023 Alabama Historical Association Fall Pilgrimage in Sylacauga, AL. Dr. Douglas speaks on the history of Sylacauga, Ms. Thomas talks about the B. B. Comer Memorial Library as a cultural arts center and host / headquarters for the Pilgrimage, and Dr. Ted Spears tells about the marble a...
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