PRESS PLAY
Find your next episode
In their own words
Podcast by Alabama Historical Association
Talks about
Podcasts like Alabama History Podcasts
History Below The Pines Presents: The Storytellers' CollectionLevi KesslerBlack Hills history, told on location.
360 VegasVegas history with a barstool pulse.
Grating the NutmegConnecticut history with national echoes.
Wise About TexasTexas history, sourced and road-tested.
Maine Historical Society - Programs PodcastMaine history, widened through public talks.
Episodes
- 1
Episode 94 -- Mark Johnson AHA Young Scholars Speaker on BBQ and Bacon
Host Marty Oliff interviews historian Mark Johnson about his research on 19th-century Alabama barbecue politics and the anti-barbecue campaigns in Madison County.
Apr 6, 2026·18m - 2
Episode 93 -- King and Samry on AHA 2026 Mtg Fairhope
Hidden gemFairhope 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.
Mar 2, 2026·21m·1 clip - 3
Episode 92 -- Burgin Mathews on 2025 AHA Jakeman Award and Southern Music Research Center
Hidden gemMarty 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.
Feb 2, 2026·22m·1 clip - 4
Episode 91 - Dr Tina Jones on Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area
Hidden gemDr.
Jan 5, 2026·22m·1 clip - 5
Episode 90 - Clayton Davis on MSNHA
Host Marty Oliff interviews Clayton Davis about the Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area and its history.
Dec 1, 2025·19m - 6
Episode 89 - Dr. John Giggie on 2025 Ala Hist Assn Coley Book Award
Hidden gemAlabama 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.
Nov 3, 2025·26m·1 clip - 7
Episode 88 - Virginia Cain on the 2025 Milo Howard Award
Hidden gemDr.
Oct 6, 2025·22m·1 clip - 8
Episode 87 - Pete Sparks on the 2025 AHA Fall Pilgrimage in Guntersville
Sep 15, 2025·19m - 9
Episode 86 - Donna Castellano, Huntsville Heritage Foundation, 2025 Kuykendall Awd
Hidden gemDonna 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.
Aug 4, 2025·22m·1 clip - 10
Episode 85 - Matthew Downs, 2025-26 AHA President
Jul 7, 2025·14m - 11
Episode 84 - Chase Stephens on 2025 AHA Wiggins Diss Awd
Jun 2, 2025·21m - 12
Episode 83 -- Theo Moore on AHA's 2025 Jakeman Digital History Award
May 5, 2025·17m - 13
Episode 82 -- Bert Harris and Jayson and Laura Hill on Opelika 2025 AHA Meeting
Mar 10, 2025·17m - 14
Episode 81 -- Dan Puckett on the Alabama Holocaust Commission
Jan 7, 2025·23m - 15
Episode 80 -- Hayden McDaniel On The Alabama History Institute
Dec 3, 2024·23m - 16
Episode 79 -- Dr. Isabela Morales On The 2024 AHA Sulzby Award
Nov 4, 2024·29m - 17
Episode 78 -- Barry McNealy On 2024 Hamilton Award
Oct 8, 2024·20m - 18
Episode 77 - Jasponica Florence On AHA 2024 Pilgrimage To Phenix City
Sep 3, 2024·16m - 19
Episode 76 Dr. Idrissa Snider On Alabama History Day
Aug 6, 2024·20m - 20
Episode 75 -- Richard Bailey, AHA President 2024-25
Jul 23, 2024·22m - 21
Episode 074 Reidy On Scottsboro Boys Museum
May 20, 2024·24m - 22
Episode 73 -- Allie Lopez On The AHA 2024 Coley Research Award
Apr 22, 2024·18m - 23
Episode 72 - Christine Sears and Ben Hoksbergen on AHA 2024 Meeting
Mar 7, 2024·21m - 24
Episode 71 - Pete Sparks on Guntersville Historical Society, 2023 AHA Kuykendall Award Recipient
Feb 7, 2024·16m - 25
Episode 70 -- Katie Beasley On Her 2023 SAWH Taylor Award Winning Article
Jan 23, 2024·19m - 26
Episode 69 -- Allison Upshaw On Black Women And Land In AL Black Belt
Dec 6, 2023·22m - 27
Episode 068 Bertis English on 2023 Coley Book Award
Nov 8, 2023·21m - 28
Episode 67 Douglas, Thomas, Spears discuss the AHA Sylacauga Pilgrimage 2023
Oct 2, 2023·24m - 29
Episode 066--Trehub, Denault, and Bellanger On ADPNet 2023 Digital History Award
Sep 6, 2023·26m - 30
Episode 065 - Bob Friedman BBRM 2023 Digital History Prize
Aug 3, 2023·26m - 31
Episode 064 AHA President Ruth Truss and Sect Mark Wilson discuss Truss's 2023-24 term of office
Jul 5, 2023·20m - 32
Episode 063 - Troy University McPherson - Mitchell Roundtable March 7 2023
Jun 7, 2023·1h 10m - 33
Episode 062 - Brandon Jett Recipient Of The 2023 Milo Howard Award
May 8, 2023·21m - 34
Episode 061 Peggy Allen Towns Recipient Of The 2022 Hamilton Award
Apr 3, 2023·22m - 35
Episode 060 Boutwell, Bonner, Edgeworth discuss the Prattville AHA Meeting April 2023
Mar 7, 2023·21m - 36
Episode 059 - Cart Blackwell, Mobile Carnival Museum, 2022 AL Hist Assn Museum Award winner
Feb 7, 2023·15m - 37
Episode 58 Christa Kieffer, 2022 Coley Research Awardee
Host Marty Oliff interviews Krista Kiefer, winner of the Coley Research Award, about her research on Happy Chandler and the making of modern conservatism.
Jan 9, 2023·20m - 38
Episode 057 Hilary Green, The Hallowed Ground Project
Host Marty Oliff interviews Dr.
Dec 6, 2022·27m - 39
Episode 056 Carole Ann King Alabama Quilts 2022 Sulzby Award
Host Marty Oliff interviews Carol Ann King about her award-winning book on Alabama quilts from 1682 to 1950.
Nov 10, 2022·26m - 40
Episode 055 Daryn Glassbrook, Mobile Medical Museum, 2022 AHA Museum Award Winner
Oct 3, 2022·18m - 41
Episode 054, 2022 AHA Fall Pilgrimage In Mentone
Host Marty Oliff interviews Holly Midgley about the history and character of Mentone, Alabama, ahead of the Alabama Historical Association's fall pilgrimage.
Sep 7, 2022·21m - 42
Episode 053 Rachel Hartsell On Alabama History Day
Aug 16, 2022·12m - 43
Episode 052 Jim Baggett, AHA President 2022 - 23
Jul 15, 2022·16m - 44
Episode 051: Melissa Young, winner of the 2022 Wiggins Dissertation Award
Jun 13, 2022·17m - 45
Episode 050: J. Mills Thornton on the Big Interest Cases in antebellum Alabama political history
May 17, 2022·16m - 46
Episode 049: Dallas Hanbury on Local Records About Slavery in Alabama
Apr 20, 2022·15m - 47
Episode 048: Guy Hubbs, Tuscaloosa: 200 Years in the Making, 2020 AHA Coley Award Winner
Oct 26, 2021·26m - 48
Episode 047: Jim Baggett, winner of 2020 Milo Howard Award
Sep 9, 2021·15m - 49
Episode 046: Mike Bunn talks Blakeley Park and Fourteenth Colony
Aug 9, 2021·15m - 50
Episode 045: Genealogists: Going Beyond Kin with Drs. Donna Baker and Shari Williams
A panel discussion on the future of Alabama history, focusing on the impact of racism, slavery, and segregation on historical writing and interpretation.
Jul 6, 2021·37m