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  1. 23h ago

    Episode 101 - Jack Ellis on the AHA 2026 Sulzby Award

    Air Date: November 2, 2026 Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/6t7yf72m Dr. Jack Ellis, professor of History emeritus at UAH, discusses his 2025 book Physicians for the People: Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870-1970. Dr. Ellis received the Alabama Historical Association’s 2026 James F. Sulzby Award for the best book on Alabama’s state history published in the previous two years. He talks about the book, the problems faced by Black doctors in equal access to health infrastructure and capital, and how they built parallel structures or pursued civil rights. Even more so, Ellis ponders the long lasting healthcare disparities by race in Alabama, the South, and the nation that continue in part because of the discrimination faced by Black physicians. Links to things mentioned in the episode: Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ ; James F. Sulzby Award: https://www.alabamahistory.net/james-f-sulzby-book-award ; Jack D. Ellis: https://www.jackdellis.com/ ; Physicians for the People, UA Press: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817361860/physicians-for-the-people/ ; Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPSS ; UAB Archives: https://library.uab.edu/locations/archives ; The Physician Legislators of France: Medicine and Politics in the Early third Republic: https://www.amazon.com/Physician-Legislators-France-Medicine-1870-1914-Cambridge/dp/0521382084 ; Beside the Troubled Waters: A Black Doctor Remembers Life, Medicine, and Civil Rights in an Alabama Town: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817357894/beside-the-troubled-waters/ ; John A. Andrew Hospital: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Andrew_Memorial_Hospital ; 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.

    Episode 101 - Jack Ellis on the AHA 2026 Sulzby Award

  2. Sep 28

    Episode 100 -- 2026 AHA Fall Pilgrimage to Jasper with Mimi Hudson and Mike Putman

    Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/4bdffnpr Air Date: September 28, 2026 Mimi Hudson, executive director for Museums and Arts with the Walker Area Community Foundation, and Mike Putman, executive director of Jasper Main Street, discuss the AHA’s October 23rd and 24th, 2026 Fall Pilgrimage to Jasper, Alabama. The talk a bit about Jasper’s history, Rep. Carl Elliot, and the Bankhead family, then the sites of the tours Jasper will host during the meeting. Links to things discussed in the episode: Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ ; Jasper, AL: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/jasper/ ; Jasper Main Street: https://jaspermainstreet.com/ ; Visit Jasper: https://www.visitjasperal.com/ ; Walker Area Community Foundation: https://www.wacf.org/ ; Carl Elliot: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/carl-elliott/ ; Tallulah Bankhead: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/tallulah-bankhead/ ; William B. Bankhead: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/william-b-bankhead/ ; Marie Bankhead Owen: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/marie-bankhead-owen/ ; Bankhead House and Heritage Center: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/bankhead-house-and-heritage-center/ ; White House on 5th Museum and Gallery: https://www.whitehouseonfifth.org/ ; Minkin Paleozoic Footprint Site: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/stephen-c-minkin-paleozoic-footprint-site/ ; 50 Mule Team – Walker County Arts Alliance: https://www.wcart.org/50-mule-team ; Sculpture Trail – Downtown Jasper: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d97fd3d6a08b4f0d80ad9271ce63fc4e ; Bankhead Heritage Council: https://www.bankheadhouse.org/heritage-council/ ; Walker County Arts Alliance: https://www.wcart.org/ ; George Lindsey: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/george-lindsey/ ; George Lindsey Film Festival at UNA: https://www.una.edu/theatre/lindsey-film-fest/index.html ; 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.

    Episode 100 -- 2026 AHA Fall Pilgrimage to Jasper with Mimi Hudson and Mike Putman

  3. Sep 7

    Episode 99 -- Sara Elizabeth Phillips on Guntersville Museum AHA 2026 Hist Museum Awd

    Air date: September 7, 2026 Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/572d8c7y Sara Elizabeth Phillips, Director of the Guntersville Museum, discusses receiving the Alabama Historical Association’s Historical Museum Award (Large Museum Category) for 2026. She talks about the history of the museum and its building, its organizational structure, its displays, and its future programming. Links to things discussed in the episode: Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ ; Alabama Historical Association Historical Museum Award: https://www.alabamahistory.net/historical-museum-award ; Guntersville Museum: https://www.guntersvillemuseum.org/ ; Guntersville Armory NRHP Listing: https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/a198fd08-d288-40de-babe-7490cdec7a96 ; “Mississippi Bill” Harris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Bill_Harris ; Lesa Carnes Shaul (Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/lshaul/ ; Midnight Cry: A Shooting on Sand Mountain: https://www.ugapress.org/9781588385819/midnight-cry/ ; TVA Making of Lake Guntersville: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/guntersville-dam-and-lake/ ; GWOT (Global War on Terrorism): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror ; Guntersville Historical Society (Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/guntersvillehistoricalsociety/ ; Harvard Extension School, Museum Studies Program: https://extension.harvard.edu/academics/programs/museum-studies-graduate-program/ 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.

    Episode 99 -- Sara Elizabeth Phillips on Guntersville Museum AHA 2026 Hist Museum Awd

  4. Aug 3

    Episode 98 Tanner Corley on AHA Frazine Taylor Awd 2026

    Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/bddjvmay Tanner Corley, PhD candidate in History at the University of Alabama, received the AHA’s 2026 Frazine Taylor Research Grant in support of his dissertation, “License to Cut Race Regulation and the Southern Beauty Industry, 1890 to 1980.” Corley discusses his thesis that barber and beautician licensing served the ostensible purpose of protecting public health but was really state-enforced, racialized job protection. He examines, also, the differences between how barbers and beauticians organized their industries and how they adapted to licensing. Air Date: August 3, 2026 Links to things mentioned in the episode: Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ ; AHA Frazine Taylor Research Grant: https://www.alabamahistory.net/taylorresearchgrant ; Tanner Corley: https://history.ua.edu/graduate-student/tanner-corley/ ; Barbers, Beauticians and Allied Industries International Association: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbers,_Beauticians_and_Allied_Industries_International_Association ; Alabama Board of Cosmetology & Barbering: https://www.aboc.alabama.gov/ ; University of Alabama Department of History: https://history.ua.edu/ ; University of Central Arkansas: https://uca.edu/ ; The Southern Historian: https://southernhistorian.ua.edu/ 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.

    Episode 98 Tanner Corley on AHA Frazine Taylor Awd 2026

  5. Jul 6

    Episode 97_Laura Hill 2026 AHA President and EOA

    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 Links to things mentioned in the episode: Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ ; AHA Membership: https://www.alabamahistory.net/join ; Jasper, AL: https://www.jaspercity.com/ ; Montgomery, AL: https://www.montgomeryal.gov/ ; Horace King: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/horace-king/ ; Dr. Richard Bailey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bailey_(historian) ; Alabama Department of Archives and History: https://archives.alabama.gov/ ; Alabama Supreme Court Law Library: https://judicial.alabama.gov/library ; Alabama State Capitol: https://ahc.alabama.gov/alabama-state-capitol.aspx ; White House of the Confederacy: https://www.thefirstwhitehouse.com/ ; Dexter Avenue Baptist Church: https://dexterkingmemorial.org/ ; AHA Speakers Bureau: https://www.alabamahistory.net/speakersbureau ; Encyclopedia of Alabama: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/ ; APT / PBS Yellowhammer History Hunt: https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/yellowhammer-history-hunt/ ; Alabama Dept of Education Course of Study Standards: https://www.alabamaachieves.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/AS_20250110_2024-Alabama-Course-of-Study-Social-Studies_V1.0.pdf 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.

    Episode 97_Laura Hill 2026 AHA President and EOA

  6. Jun 17

    Episode 96 -Ryan Cole and Ed Bridges on Lafayette in America 1824-25

    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’s whirlwind tour through Alabama and how lavishly the young frontier state welcomed him. The climax of Lafayette’s trip was his laying of the cornerstone for the Bunker Hill monument on June 17, 1825. Links to things mentioned in the episode Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Ryan L. Cole: https://www.instagram.com/ryanlcole11/ The Last Adieu: Lafayette’s Triumphant Return, the Echoes of Revolution, and the Gratitude of the Republic – https://www.harpercollinsfocus.com/harper-horizon/last-adieu/ Overview of Lafayette’s 1824-1825 US Tour (Museum of the American Revolution): https://www.amrevmuseum.org/the-marquis-de-lafayette-s-1824-1825-united-states-tour Georges Washington de Lafayette (Lafayette’s son): https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/georges-washington-de-lafayette Auguste Levasseur (Lafayette’s secretary): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Levasseur Francis Wright (Lafayette’s protégé): https://blogs.loc.gov/manuscripts/2025/03/frances-wright-the-marquis-de-lafayette-and-visions-of-american-equality/ Bunker Hill monument: https://www.nps.gov/bost/learn/historyculture/bhm.htm Land Grant to Lafayette near Tallahassee: https://www.homesweettally.com/post/the-lafayette-land-grant-of-1825 Dr. Ed Bridges: https://www.alabamaheritage.com/authors/authors-b/edwin-c-bridges/ Lafayette’s Visit to Alabama: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/lafayettes-visit-to-alabama/ Treaty of Indian Springs, 1825: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/treaty-of-indian-springs-1825 William McIntosh: https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/william-mcintosh-ca-1778-1825/ Chilly McIntosh: https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=MC029 The Federal Road and its taverns: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/taverns-on-the-old-federal-road/ Fort Mitchell, AL: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/fort-mitchell/ Old Alabama Town: https://touroldalabamatown.com/ Alabama Department of Archives and History: https://archives.alabama.gov/ USS Brandywine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Brandywine 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.

    Episode 96 -Ryan Cole and Ed Bridges on Lafayette in America 1824-25

  7. May 4

    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.

    Episode 95 -- Kayla Jordon AHA Young Scholar on Ghost Lore

  8. Apr 6

    Episode 94 -- Mark Johnson AHA Young Scholars Speaker on BBQ and Bacon

    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 Alabama barbecue, his 2021 book on Black participation in public political culture 1877-1932, and his 2026 book on bacon as a commodity and food fad. LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Alabama Historical Association Speakers Bureau: https://www.alabamahistory.net/speakersbureau Dr. Mark A. Johnson: https://www.utc.edu/directory/tfr238-history-mark-johnson/tfr238 An Irresistible History of Alabama Barbecue: From Wood Pit to White Sauce: https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/irresistible-history-of-alabama-barbecue-an-9781467137027 Dr. Joshua Rothman: https://history.ua.edu/people/joshua-d-rothman/ Southern Foodways Alliance: https://www.southernfoodways.org/ Alabama Department of Tourism: https://tourism.alabama.gov/ John T. Edge: https://www.johntedge.com/ Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877-1932: https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/R/Rough-Tactics American Bacon: The History of a Food Phenomenon: https://www.ugapress.org/9780820375403/american-bacon/ 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.

    Episode 94 -- Mark Johnson AHA Young Scholars Speaker on BBQ and Bacon
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    Alabama Historical Association
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2026
  • Episodes
    101
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