54th Annual Meeting — 2001
"Mary Celesta Johnson Weatherly: Alabama and America's Mother of the Year"
James Kuykendall, Fort Payne
"Public Lives, Private Lives: Gender and Culture in a Southern Industrial Family, 1836–1898)
Suzanne Thurman, University of Alabama in Huntsville
"Indian Removal in North Alabama: The Water Route"
Richard Sheridan, Sheffield
"Grand Fraternity of the Harassed: Reverend Earl Stallings and the Racial Conflict at First Baptist Church, Birmingham, 1961–1965"
S. Jonathan Bass, Samford University
"God's Signal Triumph: Alabama Ministers and the Titantic Disaster, April 1912"
Milton McPherson, Troy
"Rape, Race, and Justice in the Deep South: The Tommy Lee Hinds Case in North Alabama, 1978–1980"
Roger Steel, Cullman
"'We Intend to Make Your Frauds a Stench in the Nostrils of All Honest Men': The Origins of Anti-Bourbon Activism in Lawrence County"
Paul Horton, University of Northern Iowa
"'We are All Union Here': Kinship, Neighborhood and Unconditional Unionism in Alabama's Civil War"
Margaret Storey, DePaul University
"Commerce, Nationalism, and Unionism: Mobilians' Observance of the Death of U. S. Grant"
Harriet Amos-Doss, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"When Ice Was Rare: The Natural Ice Trade in Alabama to 1880"
David M. Robb, Huntsville
"Florida Broward Segrest and the Veterans Hospital of Tuskegee, Alabama"
Marlene Rickard, Samford University
"Women Undergirding a Faith Community: The St. John's Working Club in Montgomery, 1901–2001"
Elaine M. Smith, Alabama State University
"Bull Connor and the French Girls' Club: An Exercise in Alabama Populism"
James L. Baggett, Birmingham Public Library
"Academic Politics at Auburn, 1919–1928"
Dwayne Cox, Auburn University
"George D. Palmer and the Southern Association of Science and Industry"
Glynn P. Wheeler, Birmingham
"Hidden Legacy: Alabama's Early Female and African-American Doctors"
A. J. Wright, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Fort Strother — Then and Now"
Charlotte Hood and Robert Perry, Gulf Shores
"Old Southwest Humor in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Alabama"
Bert Hitchcock, Auburn University
"Rufus Payne/Hank Williams — Their Ten-Year Relationship
Alice K. Harp, Montgomery
"Two Photographers Record History" (Presidential Address)
Michael Thomason, University of South Alabama
55th Annual Meeting — 2002
"William L. Yancey on Trial for Murder"
Ralph Draughon Jr., New Orleans, Louisiana
"North Alabama's Denson Family and 'Sacred Harp' Music"
Frances Robb, Huntsville
"The Formation of the Colored Baptist Missionary Convention of Alabama"
Wilson Fallin Jr., University of Montevallo
"Resettlement Communities in Alabama: Gee's Bend Farms and Skyline Farms"
Lynne Rieff, University of North Alabama
"The Old Indian Treaty Boundary Line in Southwest Alabama and the Treaty of Mount Dexter in 1805"
David Bagwell, Mobile
"Le crayon aigre': The 1857 Diary of a Baldwin County Girl at Judson"
Winnifred Cobbs, Judson College
"Pond Spring Before the Wheelers"
Mildred Witt Caudle, Athens
"Alabama Legal History: Current Status, Structure, and Future Possibilities"
Paul M. Pruitt, University of Alabama Law Library
"Frustrated Reformer: Governor James E. Folsom's Challenge to the 1901 Constitution"
Bailey Thomson, University of Alabama School of Communications
"How did Davey Die?: The Controversial Narrative of Lt. Colonel Jose Enrique de La Pena"
Dr. Don E. Carlton, Director, The Center of American History, University of Texas, Austin
"Joseph Squire and the 1890 Geological Survey of Alabama"
James Day, University of Montevallo
"Landmarks Foundation and Old Alabama Town: A Work in Progress"
Mary Ann Neeley, Montgomery
"Sidney Lanier's Sojourn in Prattville"
A. Wayne DeLoach, Marbury
"All in a Family: The Branscombs and the Civil Rights Movement"
Norma T. Mitchell, Troy State University
"Mobile's Black Militia: Major R. R. Mims and the Gilmer's Rifles"
Beth Taylor Muskat, Putney, Vermont
"Race, Politics, and the War on Poverty, 1964–1968, in Alabama and Mississippi"
David C. Carter, Auburn University
"Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Alabama Artist on the World Scene"
Laquita Thomon, Lilburn, Georgia
"Civil War and Reconstruction in Butler County"
Michael J. Daniel, Lurleen Wallace Junior College
"German Reminiscences of Camp Aliceville"
Mary Bess Kirksey Paluzzi, Aliceville
"The Road to Ariadne: Remembering the Inauguration of William Rufus King"
Daniel Fate Brooks, Birmingham
56th Annual Meeting — 2003
"Hugo Black, Bibb Graves, the Ku Klux Klan, and the 1926 Election: Another View"
Samuel L. Webb, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"A South Alabama Trade Area Centering About Greenville, Alabama: Personal Reactions to the Underlying Materials"
William Frazer, University of Florida
"'We depend upon the Negroes for labour': Industrial Slavery in Civil War Selma"
Edwin L. Combs III, Tuscaloosa
"Johnny Mack Brown: A Media Superstar"
C. J. Coley, Jr., Alexander City
"Natural History Considerations for the Study of Alabama History"
John C. Hall, Alabama Museum of Natural History
"From Cotton Fields to Airfields: Pilot Training Bases in Alabama During World War II"
Billy J. Singleton, Thorsby
"George Washington Stone"
Ellen Garrison, Middle Tennessee State University
"Incidents of the War: The Civil War Journal of Mary Jade Chadick"
Nancy Rohr, Huntsville
"Leska Hillman Waddell and Gypsy Hall Waddell: A Farming Family in the Wiregrass"
Susan Wells Murphy, Birmingham
"Tell It All Brother, Tell It All: Humor in Southern Life"
James Cobb, University of Georgia
"NASCAR in Alabama"
Wayne Flynt, Auburn University
"Conjure in Alabama: African-American Folk Magic in the Heart of Dixie"
Jeffrey E. Anderson, Birmingham
"Women's Suffrage in the Southern Baptist Convention: The Unintended Consequences of Two Alabama Women"
C. Delane Tew, Judson College
"W. C. Oates: One-Armed Hero of the Wiregrass"
T. Larry Smith, Headland
"A Long Way from Home: Alabamians in the Air War over Europe"
Donald E. Wilson, Samford University
"Arthur Madison: The Forerunner of the Voting Rights Movement"
Gwen Patton, Trenholm State Technical College
"Mr. Roddey's Shebang: The Exploits and Misadventures of Roddey's Alabama Cavalry, 1862–1865"
Alan J. Pitts, Indian Springs
"Lessons in Self-Dignity and Self-Respect: Miss White's School, 1866–1928"
David Harmon, Montgomery
"Tragedy Strikes Cullman Physicians, circa 1900"
Sylvia Morris, Cullman
"Rolling Store of Alabama" (Presidential Address)
Billy G. Hinson, University of Mobile
57th Annual Meeting — 2004
“The Shades Valley and Shades Mountain Areas: From Wilderness to Flourishing Suburbs”
Chriss Doss, Samford University
“’Order in the Midst of Near Chaos’: Desegregating the University of Alabama Medical Center”
Tim L. Pennycuff, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Frank Hartley and Martha Fort Anderson: Exhibiting Prints for Southern Viewers and
Images of African American Communal Worship”
Lynn Williams, Auburn University
“Black Alabamians’ Response to the U. S. Declaration of War in 1917”
David Alsobrook, Clinton Presidential Library, Little Rock, Arkansas
“Convict Labor and the 1910 Lucile Prison Fire”
Charles E. Adams, Tuscaloosa
“Fractures in the Solid South: Alabama’s ‘Gold Democrats’ of 1896”
Charlie Crook, Montgomery
“Rebirth, Resettlement, and Revision: The Creation of Cullman County, Alabama in the Post Reconstruction South”
Robert Scott Davis, Wallace State College, Hanceville
“S. Z. Mitchell: An Alabama Electric Industry Pioneer”
Bill Tharpe, Birmingham
“’Pick’s Pike’: That ‘Impossible’ World War II Military Highway from Ledo, India to Kunming, China”
Williams S. Johnson, Montgomery
“’For Truth We are Searching’: Augusta Evans Wilson’s Refutation of Catholicism”
Sara S. Frear, Auburn University
“The Battle of Fredericksburg: A Confederate Victory?”
George C. Rable, University of Alabama
“The Rise of Wallaceism”
Jeff Frederick, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
“Educating Alabama’s ‘Very Ignorant’ and “Very Poor’: Reconstruction Era American Missionary Association Educators and the War for Cultural Imperialism”
Keith Hébert, Auburn University
“Racial and Gender Prejudice in Medical Training, 1938–1946, and the Response of Roy R. Kracke, M. D.”
Robert R. Kracke, Birmingham
“Henry Wilbourne Stevens: A Connecticut Yankee Becomes an Alabama Pioneer”
Jim Lewis, Birmingham
“Birmingham: The South’s Great Symphonic City”
Robin Ethridge, Tuscaloosa
“The Life and Times of James G. Birney”
Richard Bailey, Montgomery
“’I’m Riding the Front Seat to Montgomery This Time’: The Nashville Movement and the Freedom Rides”
Derek Catsum, Minnesota State University, Mankato
“Canning the Kaiser in Alabama: The Montgomery Cooperative Canning Club, 1917–1918”
Martin T. Olliff, Troy State University Dothan
“’An Old Maid of the Much Approved Style’: Julia Zitella Cocke, Alabama Poet, Musician and Teacher”
Jennifer Beck, Birmingham
“A Turn of the Century Romance” (Presidential Address)
James W. Lee, Huntsville
58th Annual Meeting — 2005
"Alabama National Guard B-26's at the Bay of Pigs Disaster"
Lawrence A. Clayton, University of Alabama
"The Cuban Missle Crisis Alabama Connection"
Rankin A. Clinton Jr., Huntsville
"David McCampbell: Alabama's Ace of Aces"
Daniel L. Haulman, Montgomery
"The Political Career of a Connecticut Yankee in Nineteenth-Century Alabama: Charles C. Langdon, 1805–1889"
Alan S. Thompson, Shreveport, Louisiana
"Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald in Montgomery"
Anne C. Little, Montgomery
"Reconstructed Resistance in Mobile, Alabama: Civility, Civil Rights, and Black Power"
John Lyles, Phenix City
"The Whitehead Women: Three Generations of African-American Women, Their Work, and Their Lives in New South Alabama, 1870–1920"
Delia Gillis and Geraldyn R. Sanders, Central Missouri State University
"Looking to Our Own Heads, Hearts, and Consciences: The Origins and Early Years of Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church, 1829–1880"
Houston Bryan Roberson, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
"Alabama's Jewish Community During the Civil War"
Patricia Hoskins, Auburn University
"Cradle of the Confederacy to the Cradle of Freedom"
Frye Gaillard, Mobile
"All The News That's Fit, We Print"
Ed Williams, Auburn University
"Selma's Scalawag Judge: Benjamin F. Saffold"
Alston Fitts, Selma
"Policing the Wiregrass: Tobe Domingus and the Dothan Riot of 1889"
Scotty E. Kirkland, Dothan
"The Deadly 1906 Hurricane's Effects on South Mobile County, the Alabama Oyster Industry and Granddaddy Jones"
Elizabeth Hostetter, Anniston
"A Ship Called Birmingham"
Jim Noles, Birmingham
"Philip Henry Gosse, A Young British Naturalist in Alabama, 1838"
Gary Mullen, Auburn University
"A.T.M. Handey: A Nineteenth-Century Planter and Pastor in Central Alabama"
Gary P. Burton, Hope Hull
"Great Alabama Icons: Mobile's Old Cochrane and New Cochrane/Africatown Bridges as Windows on Different Worlds"
Emma J. Broussard, Louisville, Kentucky
"'Prosperity and Happiness Under Providence': Alabama State Lincoln Normal School—The United States' First Institution for the Higher Education of Negroes, 1867–1874"
Bertis English, Alabama State University
" . . . a d---d mob of scribbling women . . .": The Publishing Dominance of Nineteenth-Century Women"
Benjamin B. Williams, Auburn University at Montgomery
"T.H. Ball: The Best Alabama Historian You Never Read"
Hardy Jackson, President of the Association
59th Annual Meeting — 2006
“Fort Mims: history and Archaeology collide in the Tensaw”
Gregory A. Waselkov, University of South Alabama
“Confederate Loyalty in Civil War Alabama: Clues from Church Discipline Cases”
Harriet Amos Doss, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Everything but the Squeal: Hogs and Alabama Culture”
S. Jonathan Bass, Samford University
“’One Does Not Integrate on Sunday’: The 1963 Desegregation of the Carnegie Library of Anniston, Alabama, and its Aftermath”
Gary S. Sprayberry, Miles College
“A Park to Call their Own: The Harmon Foundation in Mobile, Alabama”
Michael W. Mansfield, Tuscaloosa
“’Partners in Literature as They Are Partners in Life’: Laura Sibley and William Stoddard McNeill”
Winifred Davidson Cobbs, Judson College
“Manslaughter by Airplane: The Strange Death of a Confederate Veteran in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1926”
Wesley P. Newton, Montgomery
“’Our Part in the Late War’: A Cherokee ‘Band of Brothers’ in the Creek War”
Susan M. Abram, Cherokee, North Carolina
“’Gateway to the World’: The Port of Mobile, 1920–1955”
Allen T. Cronenberg, Hampton, Virginia
“Byron Arnold and the Folksongs of Alabama”
Robert Halli, University of Alabama
“Mining for Meaning in Southern Stories”
Rheta Grimsley Johnson, Iuka, Mississippi
“Family, Faith, and Liberty: The Motivations of Later-Enlisting Alabama Confederate Soldiers”
Kenneth W. Noe, Auburn University
“Eugene Allen Smith: Wayfarer and Family man”
Aileen Henderson, Brookwood
“Educational Opportunities for Women in Antebellum Alabama”
Susan M. Enzweiler, Montgomery
“The Rhetoric of Romance, Unity, and Race: Alabama’s Centennial Commemoration of the Civil War”
Kristopher A. Teters, Northport
“Race, Religion, and the Rise of the Modern Republican Party”
Glenn Feldman, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Christian Primitivism and Southern Race relations: Competing Theological Visions in the Selma to Montgomery March”
Barclay Key, Gainesville, Florida
“The Legends of Burnt Corn: Revisiting the First Battle of the Creek War of 1813–1814”
Robert P. Collins, Birmingham
“’Food Will Win the War’: The Alabama Food Administration in World War I”
Angela Jill Cooley, Hueytown
“The Defense of the Tombigbee and Alabama Rivers, 1861–1865”
Sidney H. Schell, Mobile
“Chata Imissa: A Choctaw Offering” (Presidential Address)
Jaqueline A. Matte
60th Annual Meeting — 2007
“Slave Life in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama”
Anthony Gene Carey, Auburn University
“The Deep South’s ‘Liberal’ Island?: Ordering the Alabama Frontier, 1819–1821”
Thomas Chase Hagood, Florence
“A Sacred Circle: Evangelical Ministers and Family in Antebellum Alabama”
Charity Rakestraw, Tuscaloosa
“Pellagra in the South: An Alabama Perspective”
Michael A. Flannery, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“The Experience of Creek Indian Removal”
Christopher D. Haveman, Bellingham, Washington
“’Prey for us all’: The Confederate War letters of B. F. Porter, 11th Alabama”
Ellen Williams, Leroy
“Alabama’s ‘Open-Arms’ Courthouses”
Delos D. Hughes, Washington and Lee University
“Ann Hodges and the Day the Star Fell”
John Hall, Black Belt Museum
“Photographs of Black Alabamians in the Antebellum and reconstruction Eras”
Frances Robb, Huntsville
“Alabama History: the Songs and the Literature”
Kate Campbell and Wayne Flynt
“’Woman as I am’: An Incomplete Life of Susan Dowdell Lipscomb”
Lan Lipscomb, Troy University Montgomery
“Academic Purpose and Command at Auburn, 1872–1902”
Dwayne Cox, Auburn University
“Judge Richard Busteed and the Alabama Klan Trials of 1872”
Chris McIlwaine, Tuscaloosa
“The Quiet Death of the ‘Monkey Law’ in Alabama”
Donna Cox, Tuscaloosa
“The Serviceman: Rabbi Milton Graffman and Temple Emanu-El’s Response to World War II”
Dan J. Puckett, Wetumpka
“Al Smith and the Election of 1928 in Alabama”
W. Jason Wallace, Samford University
“’We are the Most Fortunate of Prisoners’: The Axis POW Experience at Opelika during World War II”
John D. Hutchison, Hanceville
“It Began with a Bootlegger: One rural Alabama Community’s Departure for the Industrial North”
Christopher Swindle, Northport
“Alas, Askelon: Crover C. Hall Jr. and the Montgomery Advertiser Strike Back at the ‘Northern’ Press during the Montgomery Bus Boycott”
Judith Elizabeth Sheppard, Auburn University
“Lost Treasure: The Birmingham Steel Series of Artist Roderick D. Mackenzie” (Presidential Address)
Marlene Hunt Rikard
61st Annual Meeting — 2008
“Helen Keller and Washington National Cathedral as ‘America’s Westminster Abbey’”
David R. Bains, Samford University
“The Effects of the Civil War on Upper-Class Women in Lauderdale County, Alabama”
April D. Folden, Tennessee Valley Historical Society
“Alabamians in German Stalags in World War II”
Donald E. Wilson, Samford University
“Iconographic Resources at the Eufaula Athenaeum”
Stephen Rowe, Eufaula Athenaeum
“Choctaw/Chichasaw Delegation Debates of 1811”
Treva Dean, University of Alabama
“Responding to Terrorism: A. B. Moore’s Alabama Volunteer Corps, 1859–61”
Alan J. Pitts, Indian Springs
“Alabama’s Adopted Confederate: The Propaganda Mission of Henry Hotze”
Lonnie Burnett, University of Mobile
“Music of the Mines”
Karen Utz, Curator, Sloss Furnaces
“Henry Ford is Coming to Town: His Quest to Lease Wilson Dam, 1921–24”
Clint Cvacho, University of Alabama, Birmingham
“Not All the Lamps Are Out: The Southern Scene and Alabama”
William Eiland, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
“You Can’t Make this Stuff Up”
Cassandra King, Fripp Island, S.C.
“Emory O. Jackson, the Voice of Black Birmingham”
Mary Stanton, New York City
“Gathering the Alabama Saints to Zion”
Mary Ella Engel, Western Carolina University
“The Reconstruction Ku Klux Klan, A Social Profile”
Michael Fitzgerald and Adam Lozeau, St. Olaf College
“Bear Creek, Nickajack, and Alabama’s Northern Boundaries”
David Robb, Huntsville Museum of Art
“Divided Loyalties: Politics, Regionalism, and the Creation of Houston County”
Scotty E. Kirkland, University of South Alabama
“The Stones Talk: Returning from the Trail of Tears”
George Makowski and Zach Stanfield, University of North Alabama
“The Life and Times of captain Arthur Henley Keller”
Richard C. Sheridan, Sheffield City Historian
“Press Coverage and Civil Rights: the Albany Movement and the Birmingham Demonstrations Considered”
Zac Peterson, University of Alabama, Birmingham
“Background to Birmingham: Southern Appalachian Gold Minding and Iron Making as a Precursor to Industrial Alabama”
G. Richard Wright, Waleska, Georgia, and Kenneth Wheeler, Reinhardt College
“Car Fights and Coffins: Stories of Alabama Courthouses” (Presidential Address)
Anne Herbert Feathers
62nd Annual Meeting — 2009
“’Every Man Should Consider his own Conscience’: Alabamian’s Reactions to Lincoln’s Assassination,”
Harriet E. Amos Doss, University of Alabama, Birmingham
“William Lowndes Yancey and the Rights of Women”
Henry M. McKiven Jr., University of South Alabama
“Hood’s ‘Yellow Hammers’”
Ben H. Severance, Auburn University Montgomery
“Banquet Menus of Early Birmingham”
Kelsey Scouten Bates, Birmingham Public Library
“A Star on Field and Film: Alabama’s Johnny Mack Brown”
Ken Gaddy, Paul W. Bryant Museum
“The Rise and Decline of Alabama’s Redneck Riviera”
Harvey H. Jackson, Jacksonville State University
“Preserving Local African American History: Hunter Chapel AME Zion Church, Tuscaloosa, Alabama”
Amber Baker, Lauren Trimm, and Danielle Kidwell, University of Alabama
“The History of Bryce Hospital: Start to Stickney”
H. Stephen Davis, Bryce Hospital
“Abraham Lincoln’s Alabama Kin during Wartime”
Stephen Berry, University of Georgia
“The Most Famous ‘Good Roads’ Woman in the United States: Alma Rittenberry of Birmingham”
Marty Olliff, Troy University, Dothan Campus
“Lonesome and Dry as a Bone: William Logan Martin and the Enforcement of Alabama’s Prohibition Law, 1915–1917”
S. Jonathan Bass, Samford University
“Mobile’s Political Colossus: Mayor Patrick J. Lyons, 1849–1921”
David E. Alsobrook, Museum of Mobile
“’In the Midst of Life we are in Death’: Women, Religion, and Death in Civil War Alabama”
Jennifer Ann Newman, Auburn University
“I Ain’t no Lady. I’m a Newspaper Woman’: The Career of Hazel Brannon Smith”
Wendy reed, University of Alabama Center for Public Television and Radio
“Emma Jones of Mobile and the Alabama-China Connection”
J. Barry Vaughn, University of Alabama
“Bringing Culture to Life: The Moundville Archaeological Project”
William F. Bomar, Moundville Archaeological Park
“Battle for the Southern Frontier: The Creek War and the War of 1812”
Mike Bunn, Columbus (GA) Museum, and Clay Williams, Old Capitol Museum
“The Mayan Diaspora Comes to Alabama”
Ciro Sepulveda, Oakwood University
“Alabama, we will Fight for Thee: The Initial Motivations of Later-Enlisting Confederates” (Presidential Address)
Kenneth W. Noe, Auburn University
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