Alabama History Podcasts
Podcast by Alabama Historical Association
Episodes
July 6, 2026 • 12 mins
Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/3yemdfrj
In her fourth appearance on the AHP, Laura Hill talks about her newest job – 2026-27 president of the Alabama Historical Association. She talks about the October Fall Pilgrimage to Jasper, the April 2027 annual meeting in Montgomery, the AHA Speakers Bureau, benefits of membership in the AHA, and he 20-year career with the Encyclopedia of Alabama.
Air Date: July 6, 2026
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June 17, 2026 • 48 mins
Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/mwz3srve
Ryan L. Cole (author of The Last Adieu) and Dr. Ed Bridges (ret. Director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History) recount the 1824-1825 visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States, how his 3-month plan turned into a year-long stint as “The Nation’s Guest,” and the social and political context surrounding his tour. Bridges focuses on Lafayette&rsquo...
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May 4, 2026 • 15 mins
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 Ec...
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April 6, 2026 • 17 mins
Air Date: April 6, 2026
Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/mphzzxbw
Dr. Mark Johnson is a member of the Alabama Historical Association Speakers Bureau Young Scholar Program that lets new voices share their work. Mark talks about his two AHA Speakers Bureau presentations – one on Alabama’s 19th century political barbecues, the other on Alabama’s 20th century barbecue industry. He also discusses his 2017 book on...
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March 2, 2026 • 20 mins
Air Date: March 2, 2026
Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/ychsuj82
Catherine King of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation and Alan Samry, a Fairhope librarian and local historian, present the unusual history of Fairhope, Alabama, and descriptions of historic sites on tours that are part of the April 11-13, 2026, meeting of the Alabama Historical Association.
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February 2, 2026 • 21 mins
Air Date: February 2, 2026
Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/bdds6mak
Burgin Matthews, founder and director of the Southern Music Research Center Digital Archives, talks about the Center, which received the Jeff Jakeman Digital History Award, Small Project category, from the Alabama Historical Association in April 2025. He also chats about his other projects: The Lady Muleskinner Press, his website burginmathews.com, The Lost C...
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January 5, 2026 • 22 mins
Air Date: January 5, 2026
Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/3mzc5fbn
Dr. Tina Naremore Jones, Executive Director of the Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area (and Provost of the University of West Alabama), discusses the founding, history, and mission of the 19-county ABBNHA. The ABBNHA pursues four themes: Natural Resources and Early History Sites; Innovation in Education Sites; Modern Civil Rights Movement; and Artistic Ex...
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December 1, 2025 • 18 mins
Air Date: December 1, 2025
Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/6t9d8yhs
Clayton Davis, Historic Resources Manager at the Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area, discusses the National Heritage Area program, the history of the Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area, and the three heritage themes that Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area emphasizes.
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November 3, 2025 • 26 mins
Air Date: November 3, 2025
Dr. John Giggie, associate professor of history and director of the Summersell Center for the Study of the South at the University of Alabama discusses his 2024 book, Bloody Tuesday, The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa that received the Alabama Historical Association’s 2025 Clinton, Jackson and Evelyn Coley Book Award. In addition to the book and the Civil Rights Movem...
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October 6, 2025 • 21 mins
Air Date: October 6, 2025
Dr. Virginia Cain, 2023 graduate of the University of Alabama, discusses her article, “Red Mountain Ladies, How Prostitution Shaped Birmingham, Alabama, from 1871 to 1920,” published in the Alabama Review, April 2023 that won the Alabama Historical Association’s 2025 Milo Howard Award for best article in the Alabama Review in the previous two years. Dr. Cain also discusses a companion ...
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September 15, 2025 • 18 mins
Air Date: September 15, 2025
Dr. Pete Sparks, president of the Guntersville Historical Society, discusses the Alabama Historical Association Fall Pilgrimage in October 2025. He examines four highlights of Guntersville history, describes the sites on the pre-pilgrimage tours, and talks about the local buildings on the pilgrimage tour proper.
Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/254zxwpd
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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, an...
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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 M...
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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 d...
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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
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Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ ;
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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: ...
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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.
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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 experien...
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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.
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