Ep 89! John Giggie discusses his book, _Bloody Tuesday, The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa_ recipient of the AL Hist Assn 2025 Coley Book Award. John also talks about “shared authority” in community scholarship.
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New Episode! Dr. Virginia Cain discusses her Ala Historical Assn Milo Howard Award winning article, "Red Mountain Ladies: how Prostitution Shaped Birmingham, AL, 1871-1920" (Alabama Review, April 2023), and her similarly-themed dissertation. Available everywhere and here on Soundcloud.

New episode dropped! Dr. Pete Sparks clues us in on the Alabama Historical Association's October 24-25, 2025 Fall Pilgrimage to historic Guntersville. Hear his history of the town and description of the tours before and during the event. soundcloud.com/alabamahisto...

New Episode! Donna Castellano of the Huntsville Heritage Foundation discusses HHF receiving the AL Hist Assn 2025 Kuykendall Award for outstanding local historical society. soundcloud.com/alabamahisto...

New episode! Ala Historical Assn 2025-26 president Dr. Matthew Downs talks about his planned activities for the year, the Alabama Review journal, and about two AHA projects -- the Speakers Bureau and the AHA Marker Digital Enhancement Project. Available from all podcast hosts. Soundcloud here.

New episode (84): Chase Stephens, winner of the Alabama Hist Assn’s 2025 Wiggins Dissertation Award, discusses his work “To Obstruct and Resist: Paradise v. Allen, Integration Efforts, and the Alabama State Troopers” (Dec. 2024).

New episode (83): Theo Moore founder of Hiztorical Vision Productions received he 2025 Jakeman Award for Digital History from the AL Hist Assn. Theo discusses his company's documentary shorts on African American history in Alabama, why he founded HVP, and his vision of HVP's future.

New episode (83): Theo Moore founder of Hiztorical Vision Productions received he 2025 Jakeman Award for Digital History from the AL Hist Assn. Theo discusses his company's documentary shorts on African American history in Alabama, why he founded HVP, and his vision of HVP's future.

New episode (82): local historian Bert Harris with residents Jayson and Laura Hill, discuss the Alabama Historical Assn April 2025 meeting at Opelika. Harris speaks of Opelika's history, Jayson Hill describes the meeting's tour sites, and Laura Hill talks about Opelika's amenities.

For Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025 (Jan 27)

New episode dropped! Dr. Dan Puckett, prof of history at Troy Univ (AL) and chair of the Alabama Holocaust Commission, talks about the commission, the new state standards for social studies education (K-12), and his 2014 book _In the Shadow of Hitler_ soundcloud.com/alabamahisto...

Last thread on this topic!

Looking for a book on Alabama history to give as a present?

Thread 4 of 4, each highlighting 4 book-themed episodes.

Looking for a book on Alabama history to give as a present?

Thread 3 of 4, each highlighting 4 book-themed episodes.

Looking for a book on Alabama history to give as a present? Thread 2 of 4, each highlighting 4 book-themed episodes.

Looking for a book on Alabama history to give as a present?

Here's a thread on all the book authors interviewed on the Alabama History Podcast! [caveat -- this is thread 1 of 4]

Episode 80 is live! Dr. Hayden McDaniel of the AL Dept of Archives and History discusses the Alabama History Institute, a prof. dev. workshop series to advance history ed with K-12 teachers. Available through most podcast distributors & here: on.soundcloud.com/n2TPG5dwAuV4...

As an intro, here's our first episode (2012) with Mary Ann Neeley, renowned historian of Montgomery, AL, discussing her book _The Works of Matthew Blue, Montgomery's First Historian_, winner of the AL Hist Assn's Coley Book Award in 2012: on.soundcloud.com/wpRKmufERBnh...

Check out our latest episode. Dr. Isabela Morales discusses her multi-award winning book Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom (OUP 2022), about the Townsend family of Alabama -- 45 manumitted enslaved people who inherited their father-enslavers estate in 1858.

First post at Bluesky! This is a podcast about "people who conduct interesting research and do interesting things in Alabama history." Open since 2012, we have 79 episodes available here: www.alabamahistory.net/podcasts as well as under "Alabama History Podcast" at SoundCloud and most distributors.