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Even a Huntsville parking lot has a past; your curiosity gets the walking-tour version.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Fairhope's writers, arts life, and historic routes frame a compact look at Baldwin County's layered past.
Fairhope lands here as a town shaped by memory, books, and a working arts culture, with the Alabama Historical Association's return in April 2026 giving the story a clear occasion.
A focused Alabama archive story finds its heart in Birmingham jazzman Doc Adams.
Alabama History Podcast uses the April 2025 Jeff Jakeman Digital History Award as a clean entry point into the Southern Music Research Center Digital Archives, a free, public, searchable online home for rescued recordings connected to the musical life of the American South.
A grounded look at the 16-year effort to connect and share Alabama Black Belt history.
This episode follows the long road to the Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area, framed through Dr. Tina Nairmore-Jones's account of a 16-year push that started with an Alabama Black Belt Commission idea in 2005 and reached federal designation in 2023.
A focused account of how Tuscaloosa's local power struggles shaped the civil-rights movement.
Tuscaloosa's June 1964 civil-rights struggle comes through as a local fight with national weight. Dr. John Gigi, whose Bloody Tuesday received the Alabama Historical Association's Clinton Jackson and Evelyn Coley Book Award in 2025, argues that the movement's force cannot be…
Virginia Kane's research places Birmingham's early growth alongside prostitution, profit, and contested respectability.
Birmingham's first decades come through as a story of ambition, labor, and the social trade that gathered around a city still being made. Marty Oliff's conversation with Dr.
Black Hills history, told on location.
Vegas history with a barstool pulse.
Connecticut history with national echoes.
Texas history, sourced and road-tested.
Maine history, widened through public talks.
Mark Johnson links 1820s Madison County political barbecues to factional battles between the Royal Party and Castor Oil Party.
Fairhope began in 1894 as a single-tax reform experiment, and Catherine King says the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation still funds parks and fire-service projects today.
Marty Oliff interviews Bergen Matthews after the Southern Music Research Center Digital Archives received the Jeff Jakeman Digital History Award Small Project Category in April 2025.
Dr.
Clayton Davis outlines the Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area, designated by Congress in 2009 across six Alabama counties.
Alabama Historical Association host Marty Oliff interviews University of Alabama historian John Gigi about Bloody Tuesday, a June 9, 1964 attack on 500 Black marchers in Tuscaloosa.
Dr.
Donna Castellano, Executive Director of the Historic Huntsville Foundation, describes the organization’s work since 1974 to preserve Huntsville places threatened by urban renewal and space-program growth.
Host Marty Oliff interviews Krista Kiefer, winner of the Coley Research Award, about her research on Happy Chandler and the making of modern conservatism.
Host Marty Oliff interviews Dr.
Host Marty Oliff interviews Carol Ann King about her award-winning book on Alabama quilts from 1682 to 1950.
Host Marty Oliff interviews Holly Midgley about the history and character of Mentone, Alabama, ahead of the Alabama Historical Association's fall pilgrimage.
A panel discussion on the future of Alabama history, focusing on the impact of racism, slavery, and segregation on historical writing and interpretation.