Part of an ongoing collaboration, this project shares the memories and reflections of African American residents of Auburn
Type: Oral history; Maps and tours; Community history Website: https://auburnpublichistory.com/black-heritage-in-auburn-al/City: AuburnCounty: LeeEmail: ejg0019@auburn.eduPhone: 334-844-4327
An oral history archive of notable Alabama attorneys, many of whom operated at the vanguard of the civil rights movement and broke racial and gender barriers in the Alabama legal community.
Type: Oral HistoryWebsite: n/aAddress: Birmingham, ALCity: BirminghamCounty: Jefferson Contact: Birmingham, ALEmail: jbrock2@ua.edu; lcappello@ua.eduPhone: 205-348-1869
The Invisible Histories Project locates, preserves, researches, and creates for local communities an accessible collection of the rich and diverse history of LGBTQ life in the Deep South. Currently, IHP collects in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. IHP acts as an intermediary between the Queer community and various institutions like universities, museums, archives, and libraries in order to preserve Southern LGBTQ histories.
Type: Oral History, Digital Humanities / digitization / Mapping, Tour(s), Training / Class / WorkshopWebsite: invisiblehistory.orgAddress: PO Box 101672City: BirminghamCounty: Jefferson Contact: PO Box 101672Email: maigen@invisiblehistory.orgPhone: 2053106638
Locates and provides more information on campus named infrastructure including buildings, rooms, and trees.
Type: Digital mapping; websiteWebsite: http://spectrum.troy.edu/formoreinfo/home.htmlCity: DothanCounty: HoustonEmail: molliff@troy.eduPhone: 334-983-6556 x21327
Websites providing information on each of 6 historical buildings on the Landmark Park Campus, triggered by QR codes at each site.
Type: Descriptive websites Website: https://www.landmarkparkdothan.com/virtual-guided-tour/Address: 430 Landmark Dr.City: DothanContact: 430 Landmark Dr.Email: laurav@landmarkparkdothan.comPhone: 334-794-3452
Type: Research / Website / Curriculum Development Website: https://civilrightsshoals.com/Address: University of North Alabama City: Florence County: LauderdaleContact: University of North Alabama Email: aquiros@una.edu and bdempsey@una.eduPhone: 256-765-4439
The African-American Descendants of the Forks of Cypress aims to reveal a history of which most people are unaware. Across the country, coast to coast, we are seeing a surge in unheralded histories being brought to life. This humbling work is being completed by independent researchers, institutions of higher education, as well as descendants of those who cultivated the country’s economic, cultural, and tried and true sustainability. The said sustainability was/is afforded by the work of enslaved labor. Florence, Alabama has an opportunity to join in the collective of those we are intentional in creating a more comprehensive learning experience via the connection to ancestral roots for descendants of the Forks.
Type: Oral History, Digital Humanities / digitization / MappingWebsite: https://www.florencealmuseums.com/landing-page/popes-tavernAddress: 203 Hermitage DriveCity: Florence County: Lauderdale Contact: 203 Hermitage DriveEmail: Historybeforeus@gmail.com Phone: 615 438 3439
Type: Survey / Interview / Website / MappingWebsite: https://hiddenspaces.org/Address: University of North Alabama City: Florence County: LauderdaleContact: University of North Alabama Email: cbarske@una.edu and bdempsey@una.eduPhone: 256-765-5028
The Pope's Tavern Remembrance Project aims to identify and humanized people enslaved in the Shoals area. We would like to remember more of the people enslaved in our area by putting their names on bricks on the walls of the exhibit. This way, their names and stories are not forgotten. Our community will be stronger for coming together in remembrance of overlooked people. Your Part: We’d like your help. We are asking classes to choose a person from the packet provided. Your class can do some research and write a paragraph about why you chose the name. Your class can then visit the exhibit and put the name on a brick. We’ll create a website where the information that each class provided will be displayed, linking it to an image of the brick in the exhibit. Process: -Pope’s Tavern provides packets with information about enslaved people. -Pope’s Tavern helps to introduce the project to schools with a presentation/workshop about the exhibit and project. -Students work as a group to choose a name from the packet. Students write about why they chose the name and what it means to them that it will be preserved. -Students visit the Museum and write the name on the brick. -The stories will be put on a website with images of the bricks
Type: Website Documentation, Curriculum Development, Digital Humanities / digitization / MappingWebsite: https://www.florencealmuseums.com/landing-page/popes-tavernAddress: 203 Hermitage Drive, Florence, AL 35360City: Florence County: Lauderdale Contact: 203 Hermitage Drive, Florence, AL 35360Email: connect@florencealmuseums.com Phone: (256) 760 6439
Type: Oral history/researchWebsite: https://projectthreadways.org/Address: Muscle Shoals National Heritage AreaCity: Florence County: LauderdaleContact: Muscle Shoals National Heritage AreaEmail: cbarske@una.edu Phone: 256-765-5028
Type: Oral history/researchWebsite: https://musictrail.una.edu/Address: Muscle Shoals National Heritage AreaCity: Florence County: LauderdaleContact: Muscle Shoals National Heritage AreaEmail: cbarske@una.eduPhone: 256-765-5028
Because the Tennessee River watershed covers a vast territory, TVA staff members are unable to protect all of these sites from being damaged or destroyed through looting or vandalism. In order to address this problem, TVA has developed a volunteerism project called A Thousand Eyes. Through this project, TVA works with local groups and communities to protect archaeological sites and preserve them for future generations. Staff members conduct cultural resources presentations and field trips in which communities have the opportunity to learn more about the protection of sites on TVA land, are encouraged to take action when they see suspicious activity (digging, unpermitted dredging, etc.).
Type: Training / Class / WorkshopWebsite: www.tva.com/thousandeyes Address: 1028 South Court StreetCity: Florence County: LauderdaleContact: 1028 South Court StreetEmail: culturalresources@tva.govPhone: Katie Fillers, 800-548-4005
This project, a collaboration with Klein Arts and Culture, presents and contextualizes the collections of Peter Datcher, keeper of one the largest collections of a Black agricultural family in Alabama.
Type: Oral history; digital humanities; digital mapping; digital exhibitionWebsite: https://auburnpublichistory.com/360-tour-of-the-datcher-history-house/City: HarpersvilleCounty: ShelbyEmail: ejg0019@auburn.eduPhone: 334-844-4327
Type: Survey / RegistrationWebsite: https://ahc.alabama.gov/slavedwellingsurvey.aspxAddress: 468 S. Perry StreetCity: MontgomeryCounty: MontgomeryContact: 468 S. Perry StreetEmail: Evelyn.Causey@ahc.alabama.govPhone: 334-230-2696
Type: Survey / RegistrationWebsite: https://ahc.alabama.gov/hurricanemichaelgrants.aspxAddress: 468 S. Perry StreetCity: MontgomeryCounty: MontgomeryContact: 468 S. Perry StreetEmail: Hannah.Garmon@ahc.alabama.govPhone: 334-230-2644
In 2020 the Montgomery County Archives (MCA) (AL.), Mississippi State University, University of Mississippi, Delta State University, Columbus-Lowndes Public Library (MS.), and the Natchez Historical Foundation received $340,424 in grant funding from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission for a three-year project to digitize pre-Civil War legal records that document enslaved people for a project titled “The Lantern Project.” The end result of the project will be a web portal of the digitized and transcribed records. The records and their accompanying data will also be added to the Digital Library on American Slavery at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
Type: Digital Humanities / digitization / MappingWebsite: https://www.montgomeryprobatecourtal.gov/divisions/archivesAddress: 101 South Lawrence StreetCity: MontgomeryCounty: MontgomeryContact: 101 South Lawrence StreetEmail: dallashanbury@mc-ala.orgPhone: 3348327173
This interpretive plan will focus on the experiences of the enslaved at the site and urban slavery in Montgomery. This plan will facilitate public programing and tours to bring awareness to this rare resource within Alabama.
Type: Tour(s)Website: https://www.oldalabamatown.com/Address: 230 North Hull Street Montgomery 36104City: MontgomeryCounty: MontgomeryContact: 230 North Hull Street Montgomery 36104Email: education@oldalabamatown.comPhone: 334-240-4617
This interdisciplinary effort seeks to reconstruct the events of Selma's "Bloody Sunday" through oral histories and complex, reconstructive digital scans.
Type: Oral history; Digital humanities; Digital scanning and mappingCity: SelmaCounty: Dallas
The Cahaba Homestead Heritage Foundation, Inc., was founded in March 2021, and the group's historian, Gary Lloyd, is working on a book about the history, heritage and people from the historic Cahaba Project in Trussville, Alabama.
Type: Oral History, Website Documentation, Tour(s)Website: www.cahabaheritage.orgAddress: 5294 Drew RunCity: TrussvilleCounty: Jefferson Contact: 5294 Drew RunEmail: Gary.Lloyd87@gmail.comPhone: 205-790-0127
As a historian from the South who teaches at the University of Alabama, I deliberately engage the public and often do so with my students who regularly use Tuscaloosa as a "lab" to learn more about our shared past.
Type: Oral History, Website Documentation, Training / Class / WorkshopWebsite: https://sharonygreenpublichistory.wordpress.com/Address: University of Alabama Department of History PO Box 870212City: TuscaloosaCounty: TuscaloosaContact: University of Alabama Department of History PO Box 870212Email: sagreen1@ua.eduPhone: 205-348-7100
Flow Tuscaloosa draws from the successful restoration of Hurricane Creek, a Tuscaloosa natural resource, to inspire protection of the Black Warrior River and its tributaries and to bring attention to the unique history and ecology of our watershed. The project hopes to inspire environmental stewardship through art-making: we’re hosting a series of lantern-building workshops, a community lantern parade (May 21 2022), and artist exhibitions in the spring and summer of 2022 (June-August 2022. See our full calendar and FAQ page for more information.
Type: Training / Class / WorkshopWebsite: flowtuscaloosa.comAddress: TuscaloosaCity: TuscaloosaCounty: TuscaloosaContact: TuscaloosaEmail: jbrock2@ua.edu Phone: 205-348-1869
The Tuscaloosa Civil Rights History & Reconciliation Foundation seeks to bring about positive change and reconciliation through collecting, preserving, and telling the stories of the important struggle for civil rights in Tuscaloosa.
Type: Oral History, Curriculum Development, Digital Humanities / digitization / Mapping, Tour(s)Website: https://civilrightstuscaloosa.org/Address: Tuscaloosa, AL City: TuscaloosaCounty: Tuscaloosa Contact: Tuscaloosa, AL Email: sbridges@retiree.ua.eduPhone: n/a
Part of an ongoing collaboration, this project shares the memories and reflections of African American residents of Auburn
Type: Oral history; Maps and tours; Community history Website: https://auburnpublichistory.com/black-heritage-in-auburn-al/City: AuburnCounty: LeeEmail: ejg0019@auburn.eduPhone: 334-844-4327
An oral history archive of notable Alabama attorneys, many of whom operated at the vanguard of the civil rights movement and broke racial and gender barriers in the Alabama legal community.
Type: Oral HistoryWebsite: n/aAddress: Birmingham, ALCity: BirminghamCounty: Jefferson Contact: Birmingham, ALEmail: jbrock2@ua.edu; lcappello@ua.eduPhone: 205-348-1869
The Invisible Histories Project locates, preserves, researches, and creates for local communities an accessible collection of the rich and diverse history of LGBTQ life in the Deep South. Currently, IHP collects in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. IHP acts as an intermediary between the Queer community and various institutions like universities, museums, archives, and libraries in order to preserve Southern LGBTQ histories.
Type: Oral History, Digital Humanities / digitization / Mapping, Tour(s), Training / Class / WorkshopWebsite: invisiblehistory.orgAddress: PO Box 101672City: BirminghamCounty: Jefferson Contact: PO Box 101672Email: maigen@invisiblehistory.orgPhone: 2053106638
Locates and provides more information on campus named infrastructure including buildings, rooms, and trees.
Type: Digital mapping; websiteWebsite: http://spectrum.troy.edu/formoreinfo/home.htmlCity: DothanCounty: HoustonEmail: molliff@troy.eduPhone: 334-983-6556 x21327
Websites providing information on each of 6 historical buildings on the Landmark Park Campus, triggered by QR codes at each site.
Type: Descriptive websites Website: https://www.landmarkparkdothan.com/virtual-guided-tour/Address: 430 Landmark Dr.City: DothanContact: 430 Landmark Dr.Email: laurav@landmarkparkdothan.comPhone: 334-794-3452
Type: Research / Website / Curriculum Development Website: https://civilrightsshoals.com/Address: University of North Alabama City: Florence County: LauderdaleContact: University of North Alabama Email: aquiros@una.edu and bdempsey@una.eduPhone: 256-765-4439
The African-American Descendants of the Forks of Cypress aims to reveal a history of which most people are unaware. Across the country, coast to coast, we are seeing a surge in unheralded histories being brought to life. This humbling work is being completed by independent researchers, institutions of higher education, as well as descendants of those who cultivated the country’s economic, cultural, and tried and true sustainability. The said sustainability was/is afforded by the work of enslaved labor. Florence, Alabama has an opportunity to join in the collective of those we are intentional in creating a more comprehensive learning experience via the connection to ancestral roots for descendants of the Forks.
Type: Oral History, Digital Humanities / digitization / MappingWebsite: https://www.florencealmuseums.com/landing-page/popes-tavernAddress: 203 Hermitage DriveCity: Florence County: Lauderdale Contact: 203 Hermitage DriveEmail: Historybeforeus@gmail.com Phone: 615 438 3439
Type: Survey / Interview / Website / MappingWebsite: https://hiddenspaces.org/Address: University of North Alabama City: Florence County: LauderdaleContact: University of North Alabama Email: cbarske@una.edu and bdempsey@una.eduPhone: 256-765-5028
The Pope's Tavern Remembrance Project aims to identify and humanized people enslaved in the Shoals area. We would like to remember more of the people enslaved in our area by putting their names on bricks on the walls of the exhibit. This way, their names and stories are not forgotten. Our community will be stronger for coming together in remembrance of overlooked people. Your Part: We’d like your help. We are asking classes to choose a person from the packet provided. Your class can do some research and write a paragraph about why you chose the name. Your class can then visit the exhibit and put the name on a brick. We’ll create a website where the information that each class provided will be displayed, linking it to an image of the brick in the exhibit. Process: -Pope’s Tavern provides packets with information about enslaved people. -Pope’s Tavern helps to introduce the project to schools with a presentation/workshop about the exhibit and project. -Students work as a group to choose a name from the packet. Students write about why they chose the name and what it means to them that it will be preserved. -Students visit the Museum and write the name on the brick. -The stories will be put on a website with images of the bricks
Type: Website Documentation, Curriculum Development, Digital Humanities / digitization / MappingWebsite: https://www.florencealmuseums.com/landing-page/popes-tavernAddress: 203 Hermitage Drive, Florence, AL 35360City: Florence County: Lauderdale Contact: 203 Hermitage Drive, Florence, AL 35360Email: connect@florencealmuseums.com Phone: (256) 760 6439
Type: Oral history/researchWebsite: https://projectthreadways.org/Address: Muscle Shoals National Heritage AreaCity: Florence County: LauderdaleContact: Muscle Shoals National Heritage AreaEmail: cbarske@una.edu Phone: 256-765-5028
Type: Oral history/researchWebsite: https://musictrail.una.edu/Address: Muscle Shoals National Heritage AreaCity: Florence County: LauderdaleContact: Muscle Shoals National Heritage AreaEmail: cbarske@una.eduPhone: 256-765-5028
Because the Tennessee River watershed covers a vast territory, TVA staff members are unable to protect all of these sites from being damaged or destroyed through looting or vandalism. In order to address this problem, TVA has developed a volunteerism project called A Thousand Eyes. Through this project, TVA works with local groups and communities to protect archaeological sites and preserve them for future generations. Staff members conduct cultural resources presentations and field trips in which communities have the opportunity to learn more about the protection of sites on TVA land, are encouraged to take action when they see suspicious activity (digging, unpermitted dredging, etc.).
Type: Training / Class / WorkshopWebsite: www.tva.com/thousandeyes Address: 1028 South Court StreetCity: Florence County: LauderdaleContact: 1028 South Court StreetEmail: culturalresources@tva.govPhone: Katie Fillers, 800-548-4005
This project, a collaboration with Klein Arts and Culture, presents and contextualizes the collections of Peter Datcher, keeper of one the largest collections of a Black agricultural family in Alabama.
Type: Oral history; digital humanities; digital mapping; digital exhibitionWebsite: https://auburnpublichistory.com/360-tour-of-the-datcher-history-house/City: HarpersvilleCounty: ShelbyEmail: ejg0019@auburn.eduPhone: 334-844-4327
Type: Survey / RegistrationWebsite: https://ahc.alabama.gov/slavedwellingsurvey.aspxAddress: 468 S. Perry StreetCity: MontgomeryCounty: MontgomeryContact: 468 S. Perry StreetEmail: Evelyn.Causey@ahc.alabama.govPhone: 334-230-2696
Type: Survey / RegistrationWebsite: https://ahc.alabama.gov/hurricanemichaelgrants.aspxAddress: 468 S. Perry StreetCity: MontgomeryCounty: MontgomeryContact: 468 S. Perry StreetEmail: Hannah.Garmon@ahc.alabama.govPhone: 334-230-2644
In 2020 the Montgomery County Archives (MCA) (AL.), Mississippi State University, University of Mississippi, Delta State University, Columbus-Lowndes Public Library (MS.), and the Natchez Historical Foundation received $340,424 in grant funding from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission for a three-year project to digitize pre-Civil War legal records that document enslaved people for a project titled “The Lantern Project.” The end result of the project will be a web portal of the digitized and transcribed records. The records and their accompanying data will also be added to the Digital Library on American Slavery at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
Type: Digital Humanities / digitization / MappingWebsite: https://www.montgomeryprobatecourtal.gov/divisions/archivesAddress: 101 South Lawrence StreetCity: MontgomeryCounty: MontgomeryContact: 101 South Lawrence StreetEmail: dallashanbury@mc-ala.orgPhone: 3348327173
This interpretive plan will focus on the experiences of the enslaved at the site and urban slavery in Montgomery. This plan will facilitate public programing and tours to bring awareness to this rare resource within Alabama.
Type: Tour(s)Website: https://www.oldalabamatown.com/Address: 230 North Hull Street Montgomery 36104City: MontgomeryCounty: MontgomeryContact: 230 North Hull Street Montgomery 36104Email: education@oldalabamatown.comPhone: 334-240-4617
This interdisciplinary effort seeks to reconstruct the events of Selma's "Bloody Sunday" through oral histories and complex, reconstructive digital scans.
Type: Oral history; Digital humanities; Digital scanning and mappingCity: SelmaCounty: Dallas
The Cahaba Homestead Heritage Foundation, Inc., was founded in March 2021, and the group's historian, Gary Lloyd, is working on a book about the history, heritage and people from the historic Cahaba Project in Trussville, Alabama.
Type: Oral History, Website Documentation, Tour(s)Website: www.cahabaheritage.orgAddress: 5294 Drew RunCity: TrussvilleCounty: Jefferson Contact: 5294 Drew RunEmail: Gary.Lloyd87@gmail.comPhone: 205-790-0127
As a historian from the South who teaches at the University of Alabama, I deliberately engage the public and often do so with my students who regularly use Tuscaloosa as a "lab" to learn more about our shared past.
Type: Oral History, Website Documentation, Training / Class / WorkshopWebsite: https://sharonygreenpublichistory.wordpress.com/Address: University of Alabama Department of History PO Box 870212City: TuscaloosaCounty: TuscaloosaContact: University of Alabama Department of History PO Box 870212Email: sagreen1@ua.eduPhone: 205-348-7100
Flow Tuscaloosa draws from the successful restoration of Hurricane Creek, a Tuscaloosa natural resource, to inspire protection of the Black Warrior River and its tributaries and to bring attention to the unique history and ecology of our watershed. The project hopes to inspire environmental stewardship through art-making: we’re hosting a series of lantern-building workshops, a community lantern parade (May 21 2022), and artist exhibitions in the spring and summer of 2022 (June-August 2022. See our full calendar and FAQ page for more information.
Type: Training / Class / WorkshopWebsite: flowtuscaloosa.comAddress: TuscaloosaCity: TuscaloosaCounty: TuscaloosaContact: TuscaloosaEmail: jbrock2@ua.edu Phone: 205-348-1869
The Tuscaloosa Civil Rights History & Reconciliation Foundation seeks to bring about positive change and reconciliation through collecting, preserving, and telling the stories of the important struggle for civil rights in Tuscaloosa.
Type: Oral History, Curriculum Development, Digital Humanities / digitization / Mapping, Tour(s)Website: https://civilrightstuscaloosa.org/Address: Tuscaloosa, AL City: TuscaloosaCounty: Tuscaloosa Contact: Tuscaloosa, AL Email: sbridges@retiree.ua.eduPhone: n/a