-----Original Message-----
From: Delilah [mailto:diamond6468@...]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:41 AM
To: aljeffer@...; allee@...; alabama@...
Subject: [ALJEFF] ALABAMA COUNTY Heritage County Books on sale/FYI

PLEASE FORWARD:

These Heritage Books for Alabama are on sale for $50.00 each:
GREENE, LAMAR, MOBILE, SHELBY, WALKER

The following are on sale for $30.00 each:
CALHOUN, CRENSHAW, ETOWAH, MONROE, PERRY, PICKENS, RUSSELL, SUMPTER,
TUSCALOOSA, WASHINGTON


The following are on sale for $40.00 each:
AUTAUGA, BULLOCK. BUTLER, COLBERT, DALLAS, HOUSTON, LOWNDES

Heritage Publishing
P.O. Box 67
Clanton, Al. 35046
1-800-568-1611
1-205-280-4100

e-mail <heripubcon@...>
web site   www.heritagepublishing.net

contact for out of state prices and S&H

From: Capitol Book [mailto:capitolbook@...]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 9:41 AM
To: Capitol Book
Subject: Greenhaw Returns!

The Capitol Book Newsletter
Friday, November 2, 2007
 
Greenhaw, Ghosts....and a King!
 
Join us THIS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, FROM 4-7 PM OVER AT EL REY'S BURRITO
LOUNGE when we celebrate the return of Wayne Greenhaw from Mexico with a
very special evening. Wayne will be there, of course, reading from his
new book of poetry, Ghosts On The Road: Poems of Alabama, Mexico and
Beyond, and also from his newly reissued, and revised, novel King of
Country.
 
But there's more! There'll be live entertainment from guitarist Ed
Jones, there'll be free El Rey's snack food, there'll be a cash bar, and
usually at events like this something happens that nobody could predict,
and you don't want to miss that!
 
Wayne will also be available to sign copies of the two books, and to
discuss same, and if past history is any guide he'll have 15 or 20 great
stories to tell about Alabama, Mexico, politics, certain people, and,
well, more.
 
It'll be great fun, so come....for the whole evening or just for a few
minutes. It's all extremely casual. And yes, we'll be there selling the
two books!
----------------------------------------------------
Cheryl and Thomas Upchurch
Capitol Book & News Company
1140 E. Fairview Avenue
Montgomery, AL 36106
Voice 334.265.1473
www.capitolbook.com

NOTE:

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in reverse chronological order within each section. All links are working at the time I send this email and post them to the web page listing. Some items are listed without links because I could not find online versions.

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COMING EVENTS*HISTORY**CULTURE**DEATHS*BONUS MATERIAL

================

**COMING EVENTS

================


**Alabama History Community Calendar
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/adahcalendar.html          

**Traditional Cultural Events in Alabama
http://www.alabamafolklife.org/folkevents.html

**Vintage radios, photographs showcase efforts establishing electricity, broadcasting in Alabama
"The Birmingham Public Library will host “Turning On Alabama” Nov. 4 through Dec. 30 featuring 1920-1945 photographs and artifacts from the collections of the Alabama Power Company and Alabama Historical Radio Society."
http://tinyurl.com/2k9heb
WebWire 4 November 2007

**Genealogist slated for Jubilee Mornings [November 7]
'Daphne Public Library will hold Jubilee Mornings at 11 a.m. Wednesday. The guest author for this event will be Rosemary Braziel Butler, Mobile resident and noted genealogist."
http://tinyurl.com/2ykj5q
Mobile Press-Register 5 November 2007

**DR. N.S. XAVIER [Ala. author] THU November 8, 5-7 p.m. Milestone Books, 700 Montgomery Highway, Suite 106, Vestavia Hills. Signing the book, "Fulfilling Heart and Soul: Meeting Psychological and Spiritual Needs with Conscience." 824-2223. 

**Big band, classic chorus [November 11]
UNA, Northwest Shoals to perform timeless music at fall concerts
http://tinyurl.com/2rjfnj
Florence Times-Daily 5 November 2007

**Local veterans share war stories on documentary [Nov. 12, APT]
["WWII: Alabama Remembers"]
http://tinyurl.com/2uwcef
Huntsville Times 4 November 2007

**Photos chronicle the life of an Alabama farmer
[At Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts through January 6, 2008]
http://tinyurl.com/255r2w
Montgomery Advertiser 5 November 2007

=============
**HISTORY
=============

**[Puryearville] Cemetery center of a faded neighborhood [near Burnt Corn]
[Article also profiiles Alabama author Mary E. Brantley]
http://tinyurl.com/23jpk4
Mobile Press-Register 5 November 2007

**Childhood home of Percy Sledge destroyed in Leighton fire
http://tinyurl.com/2z9w84
Florence Times-Daily 5 November 2007

**State's top history teacher named [Mary Beth Pugh, Hoover]
http://tinyurl.com/2gucol
Montgomery Advertiser 5 November 2007

**Late sheriff's statement backs ex-trooper accused in 1965 slaying
http://tinyurl.com/27vygg
Montgomery Advertiser 5 November 2007

**1867 November 5- First Reconstruction constitutional convention opens in Montgomery, Alabama. It has eighteen African Americans and ninety whites in attendance.

1956 November 5- The Nat King Cole Show premiers. The 15-minute show starring the popular singer will run until June 1957 and reappear in July in a half-hour format. The first network variety series hosted by an African American star, it was canceled due to lack of support by advertisers.

1989 November 5- The first memorial to the civil rights movement in the United States is dedicated at a ceremony in Montgomery, Alabama. The memorial was commissioned by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal and educational organization located in Montgomery.
FROM: Today in Black History http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html 

**City historic rules may extend west
http://tinyurl.com/2of66k
Mobile Press-Register 4 November 2007

**Volunteers' work restores dignity to old city cemetery [Shadow Lawn Memorial Park]
Effort also honors blacks who fought for the nation
http://tinyurl.com/39ntmj
Birmingham News 4 November 2007

**School [Talladega College] celebrates history, `recovery'
Actress, new leader help salute 140 years
http://tinyurl.com/39v6db
Birmingham News 4 November 2007

**Cicely Tyson keeps busy on, off screen [Tyson helped Talladega College celebrate its 140th anniversary]
http://tinyurl.com/2b6wd9
Birmingham News 4 November 2007

**Patricia Neal became involved in the life of Helen Keller in 1959 when she played the Alabamian's mother. Now, almost a half-century later, the actress once again turns to the woman who inspired the world.
http://tinyurl.com/2wyuv9
Birmingham News 4 November 2007

**Memorial [wall] in Montgomery to honor heroes of the war on terror
http://tinyurl.com/2wxzqr
Montgomery Advertiser 4 November 2007

**WWII vet [Leon Spencer] shares tales of life in the air
http://tinyurl.com/38bp7j
Montgomery Advertiser 4 November 2007

**Paint Rock Valley sites ready for register
Research shows many buildings qualify for historic designation
http://tinyurl.com/2z9wjp
Huntsville Times 3 November 2007

**[UNA's] Rogers Hall begins another life [153 years old]
http://tinyurl.com/yu2d4n
Florence Times-Daily 3 November 2007

**Children of Oak Park mark history together
http://tinyurl.com/2d52h2
Montgomery Advertiser 3 November 2007

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
November 5: http://tinyurl.com/296ssw 
November 3: http://tinyurl.com/2a42vo
Mobile Press-Register

**Oak Park Recognized by Alabama's Historical Association
[Montgomery's first public park]
http://tinyurl.com/294ddw
WSFA-TV [Montgomery] 2 November 2007

**Carver Theatre Shows Local Film 'Saint James'
[about the 1921 murder in Birmingham of Father James Coyle]
Birmingham News 2 November 2007 p4G

**Radio group's inclusion to FM brings in new listeners
[WLAY-- "It's the oldest radio station in the market and one of the oldest in the South."]
http://tinyurl.com/26mzdc
Florence Times-Daily 1 November 2007

**This Week In Alabama History
http://tinyurl.com/2xohyt
South Alabamian 1 November 2007

===========
**CULTURE
===========

**Wood-carving exhibit [byTom Kaeding and Bill Hastings of Madison] runs gamut
http://tinyurl.com/yqtoxp
Huntsville Times 5 November 2007

**Buckhorn graduate's book tracks The Man of Steel from cartoons to Broadway and all points in between
[Bruce Scivally, also author w/Montgomery's John Cork of a book on James Bond]
http://tinyurl.com/27gb9s
Huntsville Times 5 November 2007

**Local attorney's book [by Jim Zeigler] provides advice on protecting your parents' assets
http://tinyurl.com/yuw79q
Mobile Press-Register 5 November 2007

**Harper Lee given Presidential Medal of Freedom
http://tinyurl.com/yrw5pf
Blog.AL.com 5 November 2007 [via Birmingham News staff]

**Queen of 'SWAG': Alabama author [Melinda Rainey Thompson] shares views on Southern life
http://tinyurl.com/2cvwsw
Montgomery Advertiser 5 November 2007

**Teenage sculptor [Shipman Schaum] displays creations at Pike Road Arts and Crafts Fair
http://tinyurl.com/376fes
Montgomery Advertiser 4 November 2007

**Will hidden cameras [of ABC's "Primetime"] show real Southside?
http://tinyurl.com/2y7qu7
Birmingham News 3 November 2007

**Russian art [by Ivan Garikow] included in Smith Lake show
http://tinyurl.com/2dhrpl
Decatur Daily 3 November 2007

**Former nurse publishes spiritual account of her career [Angela Posey-Arnold]
http://tinyurl.com/ytgn9r
Florence Times-Daily 3 November 2007

**Author explores past experiences with Boston movement
[review of Thomas A. Jones, In Search of a City: An Autobiographical Perspective on a Remarkable but Controversial Movement; book includes Jones' time in Alabama]
http://tinyurl.com/yobgf6
Christian Chronicle 1 November 2007


===========
**DEATHS
===========

**[Palmer "Pete"] Norris left positive mark on northern area
[He helped establish first bank in Fultondale in 1975]
http://tinyurl.com/275s8n
Birmingham News 4 November 2007

==================
**BONUS MATERIAL
==================

**URL:     http://www.alabamapioneers.com
TITLE:     Alabama Pioneers
DESCRIPTION:     The information on this website is the result of over
10 years of research in Alabama records and from a database of over 40,000
related families. Free GEDCOMS in PDF format can be downloaded to your
computer. The site also includes biographies and pictures of early
Alabama settlers. Family lines are traced as they left Alabama for the
west through the early 1900's.  A newsletters posts any updates to the
page and queries by other researchers.


================
**USEFUL LINKS
================

**Alabama History Community Calendar
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/adahcalendar.html

**THIS MONTH IN ALABAMA HISTORY
http://www.archives.state.al.us/thisweek/month.html

**Alabama County Historical & Genealogical Societies & Records Repositories
http://www.archives.state.al.us/referenc/hsglist.html

**Alabama Historical Association Marker Index
http://www.archives.state.al.us/markers/histmarkindex.html

**Alabama History Resources on the Internet
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/netres.html

**Birmingham Rewound
http://www.birminghamrewound.com/

**Project to Document the Birmingham District
[Includes the BhamWiki and the Magic City Flickr group]
http://tinyurl.com/yt49xj

**activeculture.info [cultural events calendar for central Alabama]
http://activeculture.info/index.asp

**activeculture.info History Events
http://tinyurl.com/hn3lf

**activeculture.info Literature Events
http://tinyurl.com/fnf5l


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**alabamahistory related links
===============================

Listings since July 2002:

Alabama History & Culture in the News
http://www.anes.uab.edu/alahistnews0.htm

Listings prior to that date are in the Yahoo archives.

alabamahistory archives at Yahoo:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alabamahistory

***************************************


A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Associate Professor
Director, Section on the History of Anesthesia

Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
619 19th Street South, JT965
Birmingham AL 35249-6810

(205) 975-0158
(205) 975-5963 [fax]
ajwright@...

http://www.anes.uab.edu/libraryinformation.htm

FYI...a search for "Alabama" in the title field results in these 13
tunes...
A search for "Alabama" in any field results in some 1000+ hits, many no
doubt the recording location...this fabulous resource is at
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/afccards/ -- ajwright@...



1. The Alabama, Rosier, F. W. -- sheet music.
2. In Alabama, Lawlor, Charles B. -- sheet music.
3. The Alabama and Kearsarge, Wilder, Frank -- sheet music.
4. Alabama lullaby, De Voll, Cal -- sheet music.
5. Alabama moon, Van Alstyne, Egbert -- sheet music.
6. The Last of the Alabama, Eastburn, -- sheet music.
7. Alabama gorlitza, Yagle, C. F. -- sheet music.
8. The Alabama, von La Hache, T. -- sheet music.
9. A Breeze from Alabama, Joplin, Scott -- sheet music.
10. In Alabama, dear, with you, Orr, Ellen -- sheet music.
11. Alabama quick march, Lignoski, B. R. -- sheet music.
12. I'm going back to Alabama in the spring, Cormack, Rennie -- sheet
music.
13. My ole home in Alabama 'fo' de war, Danks, H. P. -- sheet music.




-----Original Message-----
From: H-NET/OHA Discussion List on Oral History
[mailto:H-ORALHIST@...] On Behalf Of List Editor (Gene Preuss)
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 1:51 PM
To: H-ORALHIST@...
Subject: ANN: AFC "Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog" Now Online

From: Stephanie Aileen Hall <shal@...>
To: H-ORALHIST List h-oralhist@...;
Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2007 3:14:53 PM
Subject: Announce: AFC "Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog" Now
Online



Announcing the American Folklife Center Online Card Catalog Covering
Field Recordings 1930 to 1950


"Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog"

The Library of Congress's American Folklife Center (AFC) announces the
release of its online card catalog.. This tool will enhance access to
the most heavily used recordings in the American Folklife Center's
collections -- field recordings made primarily in the 1930s and 40s. It
will be available on the Library of Congress web site starting on
November 1, 2007. This new resource, entitled Traditional Music and
Spoken Word Catalog, will provide researchers the convenience of
accessing AFC's card catalog without traveling to the Library. It
contains fully searchable bibliographic data representing approximately
34,000 ethnographic sound recordings in the AFC Archive. Included among
these are the seminal field recordings associated with John A. Lomax 's
and Alan Lomax's Library of Congress collecting work (e.g., Leadbelly,
Woody Guthrie, Jelly Roll Morton), and countless other treasures
recorded by collectors such as Herbert Halpert, Zora Neale
  Hurston, Henrietta Yurchenco, Vance Randolph, and Helen Creighton. The
new catalog will be part of the site The Library of Congress Presents
Music, Theatre & Dance. The web address is:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/afccards/

AFC's card catalog was originally created by Work Progress
Administration (WPA) workers in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and
continued later by Archive of Folk Song (now AFC) staff. Although these
cards represent only 5 to 10 % of the AFC's total holdings, the card
catalog's great advantage is that it provides access at the level of the
individual track on the recording, and sometimes, added notes about that
item. It provides the public with access to the thousands of individual
songs, tunes, folk tales, sermons, monologues, and life stories in the
Archive's collections. The majority of the audio recordings listed in
the catalog are instantaneous disc recordings, made on lacquer and
aluminum discs, with the addition of a few early tape recordings.

In addition to providing images of each card in the original catalog,
and a searchable database of the text on the cards, the web resource
eventually will include sound files for some of the items listed in the
catalog. AFC has also digitized its collection of approximately 1,500
transcribed song lyrics, and the images of these transcriptions will be
associated with their corresponding card catalog records. In this way,
AFC staff can continue to expand the usefulness of the catalog as more
collection materials become available online.

The American Folklife Center was created by Congress in 1976 and placed
at the Library of Congress to "preserve and present American folklife"
through programs of research, documentation, archival preservation,
reference service, live performance, exhibition, public programs, and
training. The Center includes the Archive of the AFC, which was
established in 1928 and is now one of the largest collections of
ethnographic material from the United States and around the world.

Questions about this resource may be sent to the American Folklife
Center's reference email address: folklife@...  Queries sent to this
address will be forwarded to the appropriate folklife specialist.


Posted by:

Stephanie A. Hall
Librarian: Automated Reference Specialist

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[Shelton is a Jacksonville native.]


DREAMWORLDS OF ALABAMA
Allen Shelton
University of Minnesota Press | 224 pages | 2007
ISBN 978-0-8166-5034-7 | hardcover | $22.95

An evocative remembrance of the beauty and mystery of the rural South

Allen Shelton explores physical, historical, and social landscapes of
northeastern Alabama. His homeplace near the Appalachian foothills
provides the setting for a rich examination of culture, a place where
the language of place and things resonates with as much emotional
urgency as the language of humans. Shelton demonstrates how deeply
culture is inscribed in the land and in the most intimate spaces of the
person-places of belonging and loss, insight and memory.

"Dreamworlds of Alabama is a very powerfully written book and a
much-needed intervention in academic thought about intensity, place,
materiality, and the uncanny (or otherwise excessive) reaches and
resonances of what we call meaning."-Kathleen Stewart, author of
Ordinary Affects

"I speak in what others often hear as a strange accent. My past can't be
located. I live in Buffalo, New York, an exile from the South. But these
aren't Yankee dreams, even though my past seems like a fabrication, a
dreamworld in which I'm a paper character and not a historical
participant, with scars from barbed wire ripping under the pressure and
flying through the air like a swarm of bees, or a horse rearing up and
banging its head into mine from within, exploding my forehead." -from
the Preface

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's
webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/S/shelton_dreamworlds.html

[The Alabama Review is the quarterly publication of the Alabama
Historical Association; more info at
http://www.archives.state.al.us/aha/aha.html  ]


Alabama Review October 2007
Table of Contents

Article

Lost Treasure: The Birmingham Steel Series of Artist Roderick D.
MacKenzie
Marlene Hunt Rikard.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,
Iss.
4, p. 243-284 (42 pp.)


Book Reviews

A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile
Industry
Pamela C Edwards.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss.
4,
p. 288-290 (3 pp.)


A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814
Gene Allen Smith.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss.
4,
p. 304-305 (2 pp.)


A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature
Anonymous.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss. 4,  p.
309
(1 pp.)


A White Preacher's Message on Race and Reconciliation: Based on His
Experiences Beginning with the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Joseph Kip Kosek.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss.
4,
p. 292-294 (3 pp.)


Developed for the Service of Alabama: The Centennial History of the
Alabama
Power Company, 1906-2006
D Clayton Brown.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss.
4,
p. 285-286 (2 pp.)


Guests Behind the Barbed Wire: German POWs in America; A True Story of
Hope
and Friendship
Matthias Reiss.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss.
4,
p. 286-288 (3 pp.)


History of the Boll Weevil in Alabama, 1910-2007
Anonymous.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss. 4,  p.
308
(1 pp.)


Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great
Champion of the Constitution
Howard Ball.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss. 4,
p. 302-303 (2 pp.)


Ironclads At War: The Monitor vs. the Merrimac
Anonymous.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss. 4,  p.
308
(1 pp.)


Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams
Kenneth J Bindas.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss.
4,
p. 296-297 (2 pp.)


Never for Want of Powder: The Confederate Powder Works in Augusta,
Georgia
Anonymous.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss. 4,  p.
308-309 (2 pp.)


Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes
Joseph M Turrini.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss.
4,
p. 305-307 (3 pp.)


Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960s
Steven F Lawson.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss.
4,
p. 294-296 (3 pp.)


Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony,
Constructing
Narrative
Kathryn H Braund.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss.
4,
p. 290-292 (3 pp.)


Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
Anonymous.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss. 4,  p.
309
(1 pp.)


Slavery and American Economic Development
Anonymous.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss. 4,  p.
309
(1 pp.)


The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory
John A Kirk.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss. 4,
p. 298-299 (2 pp.)


The Hand of Esau: Montgomery's Jewish Community and the Bus Boycott
Stuart Rockoff.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss.
4,
p. 300-301 (2 pp.)


To Save My Race From Abuse: The Life of Samuel Robert Cassius
Anonymous.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss. 4,  p.
310
(1 pp.)


William Christenberry's Black Belt
Anonymous.  Alabama Review.  University:Oct 2007.  Vol. 60,  Iss. 4,  p.
310
(1 pp.)

FYI.... ajwright@...


-----Original Message-----
From: Melissa Hogan [mailto:genealogistinal@...]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 1:48 PM
To: albibb-l@...; aljeffer@...; alabama@...
Subject: [ALJEFF] Alabama State/Local Records Retention

While looking about online for something else, I ran across the records
retention schedules and process to get the schedules approved on the
Alabama Archives website.  I have posted the information and links on
the BGS blog.

http://birminghamgenealogy.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/alabama-records-disp
osition/

[or http://tinyurl.com/2dw6s8 ]


I have not looked at them all, but did open the one for Probate Court.
There was some interesting information there.

I wonder if there is a way to obtain the plan submitted for each county
agency?


Melissa
http:/birminghamgenealogy.wordpress.com

NOTE:

Materials in brackets are my additions. Items are listed more or less in reverse chronological order within each section. All links are working at the time I send this email and post them to the web page listing. Some items are listed without links because I could not find online versions.

Feel free to forward this email as desired....

AND NOW THE NEWS...

Additional articles can often be found at Google, Topix or Yahoo news sites:

http://news.google.com/

http://www.topix.net/

http://news.yahoo.com/

Please note that many articles continue beyond the single web page I have linked here. Web sites related to some articles often appear in the "Bonus Material" section.

COMING EVENTS*HISTORY**CULTURE**DEATHS*BONUS MATERIAL

================

**COMING EVENTS

================


**Alabama History Community Calendar
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/adahcalendar.html         

**Traditional Cultural Events in Alabama
http://www.alabamafolklife.org/folkevents.html

**[Baldwin Co.] Genealogical society to meet [Nov. 10; speaker: Bert Blackmon, CW re-enactor]
http://tinyurl.com/yu6n9k
Mobile Press-Register 7 November 2007

**Antebellum life not gone with the wind in Tallassee
Plantation life in antebellum Alabama, including slave quarters, will be on display this weekend at the 10th annual "Battles for the Armory" re-enactment in Tallassee.
http://tinyurl.com/2pvjko
Montgomery Advertiser 7 November 2007

**Writers reading planned [in Fairhope, Nov. 16-18]
http://tinyurl.com/2wv77q
Mobile Press-Register 6 November 2007

**[Ala. author Alan] Brown will lecture on hoodoo [November 20]
[ "Curses, Conjure and John the Conqueror: Folk Magic in Alabama"]
http://tinyurl.com/yufc4r
Mobile Press-Register 7 November 2007

**Historic [Madison] homes set for Christmas tour [December 2]
http://tinyurl.com/23mhdx
Huntsville Times 7 November 2007

**`A gem -- in the rough' -- [Irondale Arts Council-Dec. 9 show/sale]
http://tinyurl.com/2ysx5l
Birmingham News 7 November 2007

=============
**HISTORY
=============

**Final marker is placed at grave of Confederate [in Madison]
http://tinyurl.com/yos8sw
Huntsville Times 7 November 2007

**Madison pioneers had Huntsville connections
http://tinyurl.com/2h2pya
Huntsville Times 7 November 2007

**Polishing a gem [Sadler Plantation Home]
[West Jefferson] Historical group updates homes in McCalla
http://tinyurl.com/23x668
Birmingham News 7 November 2007

**[Alabaster's] Buck Creek warehouse can't be saved [old jail and water tower will be saved]
http://tinyurl.com/ypsz5c
Birmingham News 7 November 2007

**Memorial [wall] a tribute to sacrifice [in war on terror]
http://tinyurl.com/2os4xv
Montgomery Advertiser 7 November 2007

**'Fallen soldiers' memorial includes handmade statue
http://tinyurl.com/272r5e
Decatur Daily 7 November 2007

**92 Alabama soldiers honored
Remembering Alabamians who died in the war on terror
http://tinyurl.com/25ozsc
Birmingham News 7 November 2007

**Fire destroys childhood home of Percy Sledge
House among three destroyed by blaze
http://tinyurl.com/2uyq4a
Florence Times-Daily 6 November 2007

**Zelda Fitzgerald Novel Wins Goncourt Prize
A fictional autobiography of Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, has won France’s highest literary award, the Prix Goncourt, Agence France-Presse reported. Written by a former journalist, Gilles Leroy, the novel, “Alabama Song,” tells a tale of wild parties in the Roaring Twenties, Zelda’s relationship with her husband and her decades of struggle with mental illness. Another of France’s leading literary accolades, the Prix Renaudot, was awarded to Daniel Pennac for “Chagrin d’École” (“School Blues”), about his experiences as a self-professed class dunce. The prizes ushered in the season of French literary awards.
New York Times 6 November 2007

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
November 7: http://tinyurl.com/ywo4hb 
November 6: http://tinyurl.com/379p5o
Mobile Press-Register

Harwell, Hoyt. Back Then: In Mobile, it was "The Wah" [World War II]
Senior Living November 2007, p21


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**CULTURE
===========

**Fairy-tale author [Dorothy Allen] creates local women's writing group
http://tinyurl.com/2hlet6
Mobile Press-Register 7 November 2007

**The Blind Boys Of Alabama: Seven decades of gospel and still going strong
http://tinyurl.com/2kfht6
Cross Rhythms [United Kingdom] 6 November 2007

**Medal of Freedom goes to state author Harper Lee
President says lessons of honor, tolerance and love in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' will be read and studied forever'
http://tinyurl.com/2kbt83
Birmingham News 6 November 2007

**Harper Lee receives highest award
http://tinyurl.com/38oy5x
Montgomery Advertiser 6 November 2007

**[Kathryn Tucker] Windham's stories delightfully frightful
http://tinyurl.com/3bokhu
Huntsville Times 28 October 2007


===========
**DEATHS
===========

**Julius Henry "Hank" Reinhardt [obituary; Alabama author, etc.]
http://tinyurl.com/3ylnst
Birmingham News 2 November 2007

==================
**BONUS MATERIAL
==================

**Recent Books with Alabama Connections

Bumiller, Elisabeth. Condoleezza Rice: An American Life. Random, January 2008

Fox, Stephen. Wolf of the Deep. Blackstone Audio [read by Barrett Whitener], 2007
[Captain Raphael Semmes and the CSS Alabama]

Griffin W.E.B. The Shooters: A Presidential Agent Novel. Putnam, January 2008 [Ala. author's latest novel]

================
**USEFUL LINKS
================

**Alabama History Community Calendar
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/adahcalendar.html

**THIS MONTH IN ALABAMA HISTORY
http://www.archives.state.al.us/thisweek/month.html

**Alabama County Historical & Genealogical Societies & Records Repositories
http://www.archives.state.al.us/referenc/hsglist.html

**Alabama Historical Association Marker Index
http://www.archives.state.al.us/markers/histmarkindex.html

**Alabama History Resources on the Internet
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/netres.html

**Birmingham Rewound
http://www.birminghamrewound.com/

**Project to Document the Birmingham District
[Includes the BhamWiki and the Magic City Flickr group]
http://tinyurl.com/yt49xj

**activeculture.info [cultural events calendar for central Alabama]
http://activeculture.info/index.asp

**activeculture.info History Events
http://tinyurl.com/hn3lf

**activeculture.info Literature Events
http://tinyurl.com/fnf5l


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**alabamahistory related links
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A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Associate Professor
Director, Section on the History of Anesthesia

Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
619 19th Street South, JT965
Birmingham AL 35249-6810

(205) 975-0158
(205) 975-5963 [fax]
ajwright@...

http://www.anes.uab.edu/libraryinformation.htm

Alabama Department of Archives & History
624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery

CONTACT:    	 Sherrie Hamil

P R E S S      R E L E A S E 	 RELEASE  DATE:
Immediately

The Alabama Department of Archives and History's lecture series,
ArchiTreats: Food for Thought, continues on the third Thursday of each
month beginning at 12:00 noon. The public is invited to bring a sack
lunch and participate in these hour-long sessions on various aspects of
Alabama history.  Sponsored by the Friends of the Alabama Archives, the
lectures and refreshments are provided free to the public.

ARCHITREATS:  FOOD FOR THOUGHT

	 Date/Time:  Thursday, November 15, 2007 at 12:00 noon
	 Place:  Alabama Power Auditorium
			  Alabama Department of Archives and History
	 Topic:  "Hogs in Alabama Culture"
	 Presenter:    S. Jonathan Bass

Both symbolically and in reality the hog has become ingrained in the
culture of Alabama.  Join us for "Hogs in Alabama Culture" presented by
S. Jonathan Bass on Thursday, November 15th, at 12 noon at the Alabama
Department of Archives and History.  The ArchiTreats: Food for Thought
presentation will be held in the Alabama Power Auditorium.

Much like cotton, the hog developed from a simple economic staple to a
broad cultural symbol.  But cotton was a static symbol-fixed and
unchanging- one, that at least in the last fifty years or so, has "faded
into the fabric of our lives " or, in other words, a symbol that no
longer represents a people or a place.  But the hog has endured and
evolved as the state has changed from a rural-agricultural to an
urban-industrial society.  Bass will trace the history of Alabama's
dependency on hogs as the back-bone of the southern farm to the mainstay
of the state's barbecue addiction.  The gentle porker remains just as
important to our state's culture and diet today as it did when Alabama
was a part of the rural frontier of the early 19th century.

Dr. Jonathan Bass is an associate professor of history at Samford
University.  He is the author of the book, Blessed Are the Peacemakers:
Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the 'Letter
from Birmingham Jail.'  He is currently completing a book-length
manuscript entitled "He Calls Me By Lightning: The Search for Justice in
Southern Courtrooms, Prison Cells, and Death Chambers."  His essay, "How
'bout a Hand for the Hog: The Enduring Nature of the Swine as a Cultural
Symbol in the South" will be published by the University of North
Carolina Press in the spring of 2008.
Reared in Birmingham, Alabama, Bass received a B. A. and an M.A. degree
from  the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He earned a Ph.D. in
history from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

This  ArchiTreats  presentation is one in a series of monthly
third-Thursday free lectures presented by the Alabama Department of
Archives and History.  The public is invited to bring a sack lunch and
enjoy a bit of Alabama history.  Coffee and tea will be provided by the
Friends of the Alabama Archives.  For more information call (334)
353-4712 or go to www.archives.alabama.gov .

ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY
P.O. Box 300100
624 Washington Avenue
Montgomery, AL   36130-0100

Press Release
Contact: 	     Debbie Pendleton
			           (334) 242-4363
Release Date: 	            Immediately


STARS FELL ON ALABAMA:
Learn More From The
Alabama Department of Archives and History

Stars Fell on Alabama.  Most people have heard the song or seen the
phrase on car tags, but how many  really know what that means?  Next
time you see or hear that phrase think back to a November night in
Alabama 174 years ago.  Imagine a dark night on November 12 and 13,
1833, when people across Alabama saw stars streaming across the sky.
This event was seen across much of the United States and became known to
astronomers as the Great Leonid Meteor Storm of 1833.  According to
legend, the event was so memorable that many who witnessed the event
began to refer to it as "the night the stars fell."  In 1934, the phrase
Stars Fell on Alabama entered popular culture when it became the title
of a song written by Frank Perkins and Mitchell Parish, and the title of
a book written by Carl Carmer.  The phrase became known to travelers
across the country when it was added to Alabama license plates in 2002.

In October 2007,  the Alabama Department of Archives and History asked
4th-grade students from across the state to draw a poster illustrating
an event in Alabama history to celebrate Archives Week.  The winning
illustrations were added to the department's Alabama History Timeline on
the ADAH website.  Alex Maynard of Dalraida Elementary School in
Montgomery drew the winning selection for The Night the Stars Fell on
Alabama, but this event was such a popular choice that the Archives
created a special exhibit to display some of the best entries.  You can
view the exhibit online at www.archives.alabama.gov or see the posters
on display in the Hand-On Gallery at the Alabama Department of Archives
and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama.

Stop by and experience the same wonder felt by those early Alabamians in
1833 on the night the Stars Fell on Alabama

www.archives.alabama.gov

-----Original Message-----
From: Alabama Booksmith <booksmith@...>
To: Alabama's Literati <Historians@The_Booksmith.com>
Sent: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 1:43 pm
Subject: Marvin Whiting and Catherine Browne
Hi Y'All-

For those who have an interest in specific areas of Birmingham's bygone
days, Friday, November 9, is your lucky day. Marvin Whiting, our city's
most beloved historian, has finally finished his labor of love - the
biography of Independent Presbyterian Church's Henry Edmonds. As a
special bonus, the book includes a CD of Henry Edmonds delivering the
commencement address at Livingston College, c. 1936. Catherine Greene
Browne has followed her acclaimed History of Forest Park with History of
Avondale. This new release is gigantic - both in size and content.
Current and former residents of this enchanting neighborhood must own
this treasure.
Friday, November 10         4:00 PM
Catherine Greene Browne
History of Avondale
Marvin Whiting
An Enduring Ministry
The Alabama Booksmith

If you cannot make it Friday and would like to purchase a signed copy of
Marvin Whiting's Enduring Ministry on our secure web site, click
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title you'd like.

Hope to see you Friday.
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The Alabama Booksmith
2626 19th Place
Homewood, AL 35209
205.870.4242
booksmith@...
http://www.alabamabooksmith.com

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COMING EVENTS*HISTORY**CULTURE**DEATHS*BONUS MATERIAL

================

**COMING EVENTS

================


**Alabama History Community Calendar
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/adahcalendar.html        

**Traditional Cultural Events in Alabama
http://www.alabamafolklife.org/folkevents.html

**Face To Face
Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 2:00PM on Alabama Public Television
“Face to Face” talks with historian Steven Fox, author of a book on the Confederate ship The CSS Alabama.  Fox talks about Raphael Semmes, the CSS Alabama, and the naval battles of the Civil War.  There will also be a report on remembering the sailors who died when the CSS Alabama was sunk.

**WWII: Alabama Remembers
Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 3:00PM & 8:00PM on Alabama Public Television
More than 30 Alabama veterans of World World Two recount their wartime experiences,  the devastating news of Pearl Harbor (including one veteran who was there), the rush to join the military, the carnage of the battlefield. The 90-minute documentary includes the stories of men and women who served in all branches of the armed forces and in most theaters of combat.  

**Christmas Open House with 6 Alabama Authors [November 15]
[Includes Marvin Clemons, author of Birmingham Rails; Robert McCammon and others]
Milestone Books, Vestavia Hills
http://www.milestonebooks.net/2007ChristmasOpenHouse.htm#Authors

**Plans announced for Sam Phillips Music Celebration [in January 2008]
http://tinyurl.com/2kdswq
Florence Times-Daily 9 November 2007



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**HISTORY
=============

**The 100-year-old monk
St. Bernard's Father Schnurr reaches the century mark
http://tinyurl.com/34rvz6
Huntsville Times 9 November 2007

**New book explores Avondale's history
http://tinyurl.com/34t35d
Birmingham News 9 November 2007

**Crisp autumn days just right for syrup [at Rikard's Mill in Beatrice]
Living history museum sticks to age-old art
http://tinyurl.com/3xbzdc
Birmingham News 9 November 2007

**Wallace assailant could go free today
Bremer's release has opponents
http://tinyurl.com/2k4ncs
Birmingham News 9 November 2007

**Raze Boutwell [Auditorium, built in 1924], says Langford
[Art] Museum could grow
http://tinyurl.com/2ky2xw
Birmingham News 9 November 2007

**Marker honors Capital City hero [Charles W. Davis]
http://tinyurl.com/26f28o
Montgomery Advertiser 9 November 2007

**1965 November 9- Willie Mays is named the National League's Most Valuable Player.
FROM: Today in Black History http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html 

**Rocket team got OK for Explorer I 50 years ago today
Successful satellite launch paved way for other programs
http://tinyurl.com/2h33ma
Huntsville Times 8 November 2007

**Wallace attacker Arthur Bremer likely to be free within 2 weeks
Maryland officials won't make an announcement until after gunman is out of prison
http://tinyurl.com/2ymaf7
Mobile Press-Register 8 November 2007

**PRINCESS LECTURE SERIES
BILL HUIE AND HOLLYWOOD
Lecture explores [Hartselle] author's relevance through film
http://tinyurl.com/283yud
Decatur Daily 8 November 2007

**51-year-old [Austinville H.S.] yearbook finds way back home
http://tinyurl.com/ytcep8
Decatur Daily 8 November 2007

**Compilation of military history
Priceville woman's collage illustrates family's service
http://tinyurl.com/2gs3eq
Decatur Daily 8 November 2007

**Park named for Mize [Col. Ola Lee Mize is Etoway Co.'s only Medial of Honor winner]
http://tinyurl.com/22ca9m
Gadsden Times 8 November 2007

**Retired trooper gets pretrial hearing today [in 1965 shooting death of Jimmie Lee Jackson]
http://tinyurl.com/28otm4
Montgomery Advertiser 8 November 2007

**Group records veterans' stories
http://tinyurl.com/2h6x3t
Montgomery Advertiser 8 November 2007

**Yesterday's News [in Mobile in 1857, 1907, etc.]
November 9: http://tinyurl.com/2qf9fm 
November 8: http://tinyurl.com/29vsf4 
Mobile Press-Register

**Failing health causes boutique owner to close shop after 29 years [The Gift Bag in Pelham]
http://tinyurl.com/29e7dc
Birmingham News 7 November 2007


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**CULTURE
===========

**Filming Old School
Country singer [Chad Bradford] returns to Hatton Elementary to shoot music video, using students, local people as stars
http://tinyurl.com/37ennj
Decatur Daily 9 November 2007

**Author [A. Faye Boykin] turns experiences into lessons for others
http://tinyurl.com/2tu6mx
Montgomery Advertiser 9 November 2007

**Interview with Alabama author Robert McCammon
http://tinyurl.com/347jwo
"Tapestry" WBHM-FM 8 November 2007

**BIRMINGHAM CAPTURED ON DINNERWARE
http://tinyurl.com/ywxffq
Birmingham News 8 November 2007

**Alabama author [A. Faye Boykin] to visit local libraries
http://tinyurl.com/ys66gx
Montgomery Advertiser 8 November 2007

**Oprah Wynfrey Spurns Racist’s Book
Oprah Winfrey banished from her list of recommended books a prize-winning best seller written by a white supremacist under a pseudonym, The Associated Press reported. The book, “The Education of Little Tree,” was supposedly the true story of an orphaned boy raised by his Cherokee grandfather. It was first published in 1976 as the work of Forrest Carter, who was later identified as Asa Earl Carter, a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Mr. Carter was also a speechwriter for George Wallace, the former governor of Alabama, and wrote Wallace’s slogan: “Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” Ms. Winfrey said the book had been posted in “error” among recommended titles like “The Color Purple” and “The Grapes of Wrath.” She said she did not know how long it had been on the her Web site (oprah.com). In 1994 she discussed “Little Tree” on her television show, saying she had once been a fan, but when she learned the truth about it, felt she “had to take the book off my shelf.”
New York Times 8 November 2007


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**DEATHS
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**Jim Myers, pharmacist, businessman dies at 76
http://tinyurl.com/38f3p3
Tuscaloosa News 9 November 2007

**John Grenier, Birmingham lawyer, state GOP pioneer, dies at 77
[obituary: http://tinyurl.com/2sklxz ]
http://tinyurl.com/26sey6
Birmingham News 8 November 2007

**John Grenier, leading figure in Alabama GOP, dies
http://tinyurl.com/23224c
Montgomery Advertiser 8 November 2007

**Roommate finds [national] bodybuilding champ dead [Dan Puckett]
http://tinyurl.com/2gy5cl
Tuscaloosa News 8 November 2007

**Jesse Champion, Sr. [obituary]
[Mr. Champion was the first black radio news announcer at WERC and a vocalist inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1998]
http://tinyurl.com/2zz43c
Birmingham News 7 November 2007


==================
**BONUS MATERIAL
==================

**BIrmingham Sunlights
Video of a concert at the Library of Congress, December 7, 2005
http://tinyurl.com/2hulxj 

**Recent Dissertations Related to Alabama History

================
**USEFUL LINKS
================

**Alabama History Community Calendar
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/adahcalendar.html

**THIS MONTH IN ALABAMA HISTORY
http://www.archives.state.al.us/thisweek/month.html

**Alabama County Historical & Genealogical Societies & Records Repositories
http://www.archives.state.al.us/referenc/hsglist.html

**Alabama Historical Association Marker Index
http://www.archives.state.al.us/markers/histmarkindex.html

**Alabama History Resources on the Internet
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/netres.html

**Birmingham Rewound
http://www.birminghamrewound.com/

**Project to Document the Birmingham District
[Includes the BhamWiki and the Magic City Flickr group]
http://tinyurl.com/yt49xj

**activeculture.info [cultural events calendar for central Alabama]
http://activeculture.info/index.asp

**activeculture.info History Events
http://tinyurl.com/hn3lf

**activeculture.info Literature Events
http://tinyurl.com/fnf5l


===============================
**alabamahistory related links
===============================

Listings since July 2002:

Alabama History & Culture in the News
http://www.anes.uab.edu/alahistnews0.htm

Listings prior to that date are in the Yahoo archives.

alabamahistory archives at Yahoo:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alabamahistory

***************************************

A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Associate Professor
Director, Section on the History of Anesthesia

Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
619 19th Street South, JT965
Birmingham AL 35249-6810

(205) 975-0158
(205) 975-5963 [fax]
ajwright@...

http://www.anes.uab.edu/libraryinformation.htm

-----Original Message-----
From: U.S. Southern Literature [mailto:H-SOUTHERN-LIT@...] On
Behalf Of Martyn Bone
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 3:37 AM
To: H-SOUTHERN-LIT@...
Subject: CFP: "Capote Revisited" (ALA, May 2008)

From: Kristen Proehl [mailto:kbproe@...]
Sent: 11. november 2007 19:57
Subject: CFP: ALA Panel, Capote Revisited



A Panel for the Annual Conference of the

American Literature Association

San Francisco, CA, May 22-28, 2008



Panel Proposal:  Capote Revisited



Due to the overlapping film productions of _Infamous_ (2006) and
_Capote_
(2005),

as well the 2005 Random House publication of the "lost" _Summer
Crossing_

manuscript, Truman Capote has received yet another wave of attention
amongst


academic and popular American audiences.  For this panel proposal, I
welcome
a

variety of different critical approaches to understanding Capote's
literature and

his complex role as an American literary icon. I am particularly
interested
in

papers that reflect critically upon the recent surge of interest in
Capote's
work,

offer innovative new interpretations of his texts, or analyze the
influence
of

_Summer Crossing_, _Infamous_ and/or _Capote_ on our understanding of
his
life and

work.



Panelists might explore the following topics, among others:



-                     Issues of authorship in _Capote_ or _Summer
Crossing_.

-                     Approaches to teaching Capote's work and/or
_Infamous_
and _Capote_.

-                     Comparative analysis of _Infamous_ and _Capote_.

-                     New Orleans and Capote.

-                     Issues of celebrity and Capote's vexed literary
relationships.

-                     Harper Lee and Capote.

-                     Violence in Capote's work and/or Capote.

-                     Sexuality in Capote's work and/or the recent
films.

-                     Analysis of the 1967 film version of _In Cold
Blood_,
perhaps in conjunction

with the recent films.



By Jan. 1, 2008, please send a 250 word abstract and a brief CV or bio
to
Kristen

B. Proehl, College of William and Mary, kbproe@....



Kristen B. Proehl

College of William and Mary

-----Original Message-----
From: H-NET List for Southern History [mailto:H-SOUTH@...] On
Behalf Of Herr, David
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 9:24 AM
To: H-SOUTH@...
Subject: Call for Contributors--The Transformations of Southern Society,
1790-1860


From: Louis M. Kyriakoudes [mailto:Louis.Kyriakoudes@...]
Subject: Call for Contributors--The Transformations of Southern Society,
1790-1860

THE SOUTHERN INDUSTRIALIZATION PROJECT
CALL FOR ESSAYS

The Transformations of Southern Society, 1790-1860.


The Southern Industrialization Project announces a call for papers for
the third volume in the series "New Currents in the History of Southern
Economy and Society", to be published by the University of Missouri
Press. This volume will be devoted to the theme: The Transformations of
Southern Society, 1790-1860.

According to conventional wisdom, antebellum southern society was
overwhelmingly composed of planters and their families, slaves, and an
undifferentiated mass of poor whites. During the past few decades,
however, historians have documented how the Old South had been much more
diverse and articulated, both economically and socially, than previously
believed. Moreover, recent historical literature has underscored the
dynamic nature of southern society during the seventy-odd years that
spanned between the founding of the federal state and the coming of the
Civil War.

The editors seek paper proposals that explore social and economic
transformations in the pre-1860 United States South in rural, urban, and
or industrial contexts, broadly conceived. Essays exploring middle
classes, black-white relations, factory operatives (either free or
slave), or the impact of economic change on southern women are
particularly welcome.

Interested authors are asked to submit a two-page paper proposal and
c.v. via email to each of the three series editors by January 15, 2008.
Final papers would be due September 1, 2008. Please contact the editors
for more information:

Susanna Delfino, University of Genoa, Italy, susanna.delfino@...
Michele Gillespie, Wake Forest University, gillesmk@... Louis M.
Kyriakoudes, University of Southern Mississippi,
Louis.Kyriakoudes@...


Louis M. Kyriakoudes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Southern Mississippi
118 College Drive #5047
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5047
Telephone: (601) 266-4700
Fax: (601) 266-4334

The Alabama Department of Archives and History is planning a fun-filled
day
of activities on Friday, December 14th for Alabama's Birthday. We are
expecting 550 fourth grade students to participate in the activities
from
10:00 am. to 3:00 pm. There will be several different events going on
throughout the day.

In addition to the re-enactors there will be activities inside the
Archives;
an original play presented by Wetumpka Intermediate School fourth Grade
Students; Traditional Alabama Music and Buck dancing; and a cake cutting
ceremony with the First Lady, Patsy Riley.


Sincerely,

Sherrie Hamil

Education Curator

Alabama Department of Archives and History

624 Washington Avenue

P O Box 300100

Montgomery, Alabama 36130-0100

(334)353-4712