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.
7 Sept 2026
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.
3 Aug 2026
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.
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