Alabama Historical Association
Annual Meeting Presentations
1980–present
33rd Annual Meeting — 1980
"Interesting Points in the Life of William R. King"
Henry P. Johnston, Birmingham
"The Notoriety of Toomer's Corner in Auburn"
Neil O. Davis, Auburn University
"Political Issues in Mobile During the 1850s"
Dr. Alan S. Thompson, Louisiana State University in Shreveport
"John G. Cullmann's Dream Did Come True"
Mrs. Edna Smith Arnold, Cullman
"The First Capital at Montgomery"
Milo B. Howard, Jr., Director, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery
"Birmingham's Part in the Faltering Plans of the 'Bay of Pigs'"
Mrs. Margaret Sizemore, Samford University
"Johnny Reb and Women's Lib: Alabama Confederates' View of the Southern Woman"
Dr. G. Ray Mathis, Troy State University
"The Creek Path Era"
Mrs. Virginia Hooper Barton, Guntersville
"A 'Spanish Lady' in Alabama, 1918–1919"
Dr. Geraldine M. Emerson, University of Alabama in Birmingham
"The Remaining Building on the University Campus Following the War Between the States"
Dr. Richard Thigpen, University of Alabama
"What's Happening in History: Motivs and Motifs"
Dr. Gerald George, Director, American Association for State and Local History, Nashville
"Catesby ap Roger Jones, Distinguished Selma Personality of the Confederacy"
Catesby ap C. Jones, Selma
"N. H. R. Dawson of Dallas County, Alabama, Third United States Commissioner of Education"
Dr. Kit Carter, Mississippi University for Women
"Pushmataha, Orator and Warrior"
Judge C. J. Coley, Alexander City
"Phillip Phillips and Internal Improvements in Mid-Ninteenth Century Alabama"
Dr. David T. Morgan, University of Montevallo
"Rube Burrows, Alabama's Famous Outlaw"
William Warren Rogers, Jr., Auburn University
"Military Conscription in Alabama During the War Between the States"
Douglas Clare Purcell, Executive Director, Historic Chattahoochee Commission
"Roanoke's 'Miss Ella Smith' and Her Famous Dolls"
Mrs. Hugh Smith, Langdale
"Mobile Silver"
Mrs. Sidney Van Antwerp, Mobile
"The Nature of Criminal Justice in Madison Country during Reconstruction"
Miss Mary G. Tumlin, Huntsville
"Transportation on the Tennessee"
Harold T. Damsgard, Sheffield
"The Militant South Revisited" (Presidential Address)
Lt. Col. John H. Napier, III
34th Annual Meeting — 1981
"The Rarest of Confederate Publications of Mobile"
Walter T. Sumner, Mentone
"Trade Symbols Remembered from Earlier Days"
Mrs. Jeanette E. Barrett, Wetumpka
"Coal Mining in Alabama During the Civil War"
Dr. Justin Fuller, University of Montevallo
"John Henry Wisdom, the Paul Revere of the Confederacy"
Joe Barnes, Gadsden
"Civil Disorders at Athens, Alabama, 1946"
Dr. Lee E. Williams II, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
"Early Railroads: Their Impact on Calhoun County"
Jack D. Boozer, Jacksonville
"Comer, Cotton, and the World of the 1930s"
Michael A. Breedlove, The University of Alabama in Birmingham
"Museums in Alabama — Old and New"
Mrs. Nancy W. Holliman, Montgomery
"Large Plantations in Lauderdale County, 1860"
Dr. Mary Jane McDaniel, University of North Alabama
"Highlights in the History of The University Alabama during the Past 150 Years"
Dr. Joseph F. Volker, Chancellor, The University of Alabama
"The University's Role in the Founding of State Historical Organizations"
Dr. Charles G. Summersell, The University of Alabama
"Bishops of Mobile Have Made History"
Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb, Mobile
"Unusual Birmingham Characters for Whom the Bells Toll"
Samuel A. Rumore, Jr., Birmingham (In collaboration with James F. Sulzby, Jr.,
Birmingham)
"The McWane Family and the Pipe Industry in Birmingham"
Dr. Carolyn G. Satterfield, Samford University
"He Came, We Sawed, We Conquered"
Ralph G. Holberg Jr., Mobile
"Civil War Days in Decatur"
William H. Jenkins, Decatur
"Pictorial Sketches of Early Huntsville"
Mrs. Wayne Smith, Huntsville
"A Brook Cannon Will Find a Home in Selma"
Mrs. Elise Blackwell, Selma
"Lt. Col. James M. Williams, Fort Powell, and the Battle of Mobile Bay"
Dr. John K. Folmar, California State College, Pennsylvania
"Rebellion from Time to Time at the University during its First Twenty Years"
Leon F. Gilham, Jr., Pinson
"Spindle, Mine, and Mule: The Poor White Experience in Post Civil War Alabama" (Presidential
Address)
Dr. J. Wayne Flynt, Auburn University
35th Annual Meeting — 1982
"John W. (Bet-A-Million) Gates and his Sights on Birmingham Industries"
Lane Carter, Birmingham
"Alabama Bourbons Revisited"
Dr. Allen J. Going, The University of Alabama
"The Shifted Sands of Baldwin County"
Mrs. Kay Nuzum, Fairhope
"Phllip Henry Gosse: Some Observations on Alabama's Natural History and Plantation
Life, 1838"
Dr. E. B. Sledge, University of Montevallo
"Verbena, A resort and Yellow Fever Refuge"
Mrs. Joseph A. Sheppard, Verbena
"Mobile vs. Birmingham: The Alabama Medical College Controversy of 1912"
Dr. David E. Alsobrook, Carter Presidential Library
"Harrogate Springs, Resting and Recuperation Site for Fort Toulouse"
James Wesley Parker, Tuscaloosa
"Guardian of the New South: The Peacetime Career of Walter E. Bare"
Dr. Paul M. Pruitt, Jr., Montgomery
"The Real and Unreal Buck's Pocket"
Mrs. Elizabeth S. Howard and James R. Kuykendall, Fort Payne
"Where Molten Iron Flows Like Melted Butter"
Judge C. J. Coley, Alexander City
"Down Home in Possum Trot: The Early Life of Herman Clarence Nixon"
Professor Sarah Shouse, Alabama A & M University
"The Gateway to Alabama: The Federal Road, 1806–1836"
Henry DeLeon Southerland, Jr., Birmingham
"Foster M. Kirksey: A Black Belt Planter of Greene County"
Roy A. Swayze, Eutaw
"Famous Early Travellers Along the Bartram Trail in Butler County"
Mrs. Richard Crenshaw, Greenville
"Theodicy, Nationalism, and Slavery: Alabama Clergymen and the Civil War"
Dr. Dan L. Cloyd, Auburn University
"Proceedings in Brief of the First Annual Meeting of the Alabama Historical Society, July 14,
1851"
Mrs. Wayne Smith, Huntsville
"Duel and the Duello Code in Alabama"
William Cassell Stewart, Birmingham
"Persisting Problems in Mobile Politics: The Mobile Charter Study Commission, 1964–1965"
Dr. Howard F. Mahan, University of South Alabama
"A Violet in the Sahara: Sarah Haardt Mencken and Her Writings"
Dr. Benjamin B. Williams, Auburn University at Montgomery
"Joseph Barbiere: Tennessee Confederate in Alabama"
Douglas C. Purcell, Eufala
36th Annual Meeting — 1983
"Carolyn Lee Hentz: Her Florence Years"
Dr. Leatrice Thomas, University of North Alabama
"Gold Mining at Hog Mountain in the 1930s"
Miss Peggy G. Walls, Goodwater
"Martha Foster Crawford — First Alabama Missionary to China"
Dr. Gerald W. Berkley, Auburn University at Montgomery
"The Southern Dial: A 'Southern Man' and His Peculiar Institution"
Randall B. Rosenberg, Auburn University
"Hosea Holcombe, the Writer of Alabama's First Published History"
Jack E. Brymer, Birmingham
"Alabama Scientists: Leadership for the New South"
Mrs. Nancy S. Midgette, University of Georgia
"The Pre-eminent Choctaw Chief, Pushmataha"
William H. Davidson, West Point, Georgia
"Slaves as Guinea Pigs: Dr. Thomas Hamilton in Georgia and Dr. J. Marion Sims in Alabama"
Dr. F. N. Boney, University of Georgia
"The Fork in the Road: Birmingham's Interracial Committee and the Conflict over Segregation,
1950–1951"
Robert G. Corley, Birmingham Public Library
"Underground Findings in the Preliminary Study of Cahawba"
Carl C. Morgan, Jr., Chairman, Cahawba Commission, Selma
"Shelta Cavern Under Huntsville"
Bill Torode, Huntsville
"Ante-Bellum Jacksonville: Events that Shaped the Character of a Northeastern Alabama Town"
Worden Weaver, Jacksonville State University
"Confederate Shipbuilding on the Tennessee River"
Walter Hamer, Scottsboro
"Memories of Mobile's Battle House"
Caldwell Delaney, Mobile
"Anniston: Transition from Company Town to Public Town"
Dr. Grace Gates, Anniston
"The Bridge of Friendship—Horace King and Robert Jemison, Jr."
Miss Elise H. Stephens, Alabama, A & M University, and Thomas L. French Jr.,
Columbus, Georgia, Co-Authors
"Early Days with the Alabama River Steamboats"
Jack N. Nelms, Selma
"John Tyler Morgan and the Nicaragua Canal"
Lawrence A. Clayton, The University of Alabama
"Alabama's Golden Literary Era"
Dr. William S. Hoole, Tuscaloosa
"Birmingham Political Tradition" (Presidential Address)
Dr. William D. Barnard, University of Alabama
37th Annual Meeting — 1984
"The Fantastic Fate of C. S. S. 'Dunbar'"
Turner Rice, Birmingham
"Brookside's St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church—Alabama's Most Unique Congregation"
Miss Garnet Leader, Bessemer
"Movie Censorship in Mobile, 1915–1925"
David E. Alsobrook, Decature, Georgia, Carter Presidential Materials Project
"Turkey Trot Days at Oliver Hall's Store in Collinsville"
James Kuykendall and Mrs. Elizabeth S. Howard, Fort Payne
"'Cagan Cookin'"
Mr. and Mrs. Yates Simonson, Bayou La Batre
"Carrie Tuggle: An Alabama Black Editor and Educator in the Progressive Era"
John M. Dollar, Auburn University
"Joe Jefferson, the Idol of the Rip Van Winkle Theatrical Era"
Mrs. Aubrey E. Neeley, Montgomery
"The Hall and Murdock Iron Furnaces, Lamar County Facilities of 1858"
Mrs. Rose Marie Smith, Vernon
"Anti-War Sentiment and Representative John Lawson Burnett of Alabama"
Timothy D. Johnson, The University of Alabama
"The Jefferson Davis Family"
Bertram Hayes-Davis, Richardson, Texas, Great-Great Grandson of CSA President
Jefferson Davis
"The University of North Alabama in Retrospect"
Dr. Kenneth R. Johnson
"The Music of Industrial Workers"
Miss Peggy Hamrick, Birmingham, "Birmingfind Project"
"Sheffield, Alabama, The Early Years"
Harold T. Damsgard, Sheffield
"The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama"
Dr. Robert Jefferson Norrell, Birmingham-Southern College
"Alabama Indians since 1830"
Dr. H. L. (Lindy) Martin, Samford University
"The 1865 Explosion that Almost Destroyed Mobile"
George H. Schroeter, Mobile
"Clarence Cason and Southern Liberalism in the 1930s:
Dr. John Matthews, Georgia State University
"Tuscaloosa: The Way It Was and the Way It Could Be"
Lewis McCray, Northport
"Working People of Antebellum Mobile
Dr. Harriet E. Amos, University of Alabama in Birmingham
"The Montgomery 'Freedom Rider' Riots of 1961"
Dr. J. Mills Thornton, III, University of Michigan
"'He Refused a Free Lunch and Lost His Company': The Bremen Story" (Presidential Address)
Chriss H. Doss, Birmingham
38th Annual Meeting — 1985
"Birmingham's Potlatch Celebration"
Mrs. Madge Davis Barefield, Birmingham
"Wilcox County's Emmett Kilpatrick — Prisoner of the Bolsheviks"
Daniel Fate Brooks, Camden
"Research Possibilities in Alabama History"
Malcolm M. MacDonald, The University of Alabama Press
"Benjamin S. Turner, Selma's Congressman"
Dr. Alston Fitts, Selma-Dallas County Museum
"The Image of Rube Burrow"
Joe G. Acee, Sulligent
"My father, Hamner Cobbs, as Editor of the 'Greensboro Watchman'"
Nicholas H. Cobbs, Greensboro
"The Kate Duncan Smith School in Jackson County"
Dr. Margaret Sizemore Douglass, Samford University"
"Tuscaloosa Preservation pays off in Discoveries"
Marvin L. Harper, Northport
"The Foundation of Foundation Stone"
Mrs. Nancy G. Anderson, Auburn University at Montgomery
"Biography as an Agent of Humanism"
Dr. Frank E. Vandiver, President, Texas A & M University
"Improbable Visitor: Oscar Wilde's Tour of Alabama, 1882"
Mrs. Mary Louis Ellis, Florida State University
"Used Book Catalogues — Their Historical Uses"
Dr. Paul A. Spence, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Shelby, a County Showered with Historical Publications"
Mrs. Tommie Harrison, Alabaster
"Mobile Medallions"
David Smithweck, Mobile
"Marion: College Town of the Old South"
Edward R. Crowther, Judson College
"The Presbyterian Church in Alabama: Division and Union"
Dr. Peter F. Barty, University of North Alabama
"Silent Wings Over Mobile: Brookley Field as a Glider Pilot Training Center"
Dr. W. Robert Houston, University of South Alabama
"Lloyd Noland and TCI's Health Program"
Dr. Marlene H. Rikard, Samford University
"Rosie the Alabama Riveter: Women Defense Workers during World War II"
Dr. Mary Martha Thomas, Jacksonville State University
"Henry F. DeBardeleben and the Rise of the New South" (Presidential Address)
Dr. Justin Fuller, Montevallo
39th Annual Meeting — 1986
"Outpost of Empire: Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieru de Bienville and the Establishment of Fort
Tombecbe"
Dr. Joe B. Wilkins, Jr., Livingston University
"Franklin P. Davis, Mobile Man of Many Talents"
Mrs. Marion D. Kendall, Memphis
"Resources for Recent Alabama History in the Carter Presidential Library"
Dr. David E. Alsobrook, Carter Presidential Library
"The Search for Semmes"
Dr. Grace H. Gates, Anniston
"Episcopalians Adjust to Changes in Small-Town Culture: The Reverend J. J. Smith and St.
Peter's, Talladega"
Dr. Paul M. Pruitt, Jr., The University of Alabama
"W. P. G. Harding: Alabama's First Central Banker"
Philip C. Jackson, Jr., Birmingham (Former Member of the Board of Governors,
Federal Reserve System)
"The Search for Confederate Ironclads, Huntsville and Tuscaloosa"
Sidney H. Schell, Mobile
"Alabama Politics Since 1970"
Dr. Ed Williamson, Professor Emeritus, Auburn University
"Trials and Tribulations in the Newspaper Business of Early Huntsville"
Mrs. Wayne L. Smith, Huntsville
"Beyond Termites and Cockroaches — The Life and Times of John L. Rapier of Mobile, 1842–
1905"
Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb, Mobile
"Violence in Reconstruction Mobile: The Role of the Media"
Ms. Stephanie C. Mardin, University of South Alabama
"The Case of Harrison W. Ellis: Former Slave and Presbyterian Missionary to Liberia"
Dr. Peter F. Barty, University of North Alabama
"Livingston, the County Seat of Sumter"
Marcus E. McConnell, Jr., Livingston
"The Visit of President Warren G. Harding during Birmingham's Semi-Centennial Celebration"
Judge C. J. Coley, Alexander City
"Thomas Freeman, Surveyor General of the Old Southwest"
Dr. Frances C. Roberts, University of Alabama in Huntsville
"Controversy in Old Barbour County: The Lore-Blake Case"
Douglas Clare Purcell, Eufaula
"The Lightning Route, 1886: Montgomery's Place in Transportation History"
Mrs. Aubrey E. Neeley, Montgomery
"The Tennessee Company: Land Speculation or Land Fraud?"
Winston E. Walker, III, Huntsville
"The Lost Cause: A Study of the Mobile City Government During Presidential Reconstruction,
April 12, 1865 – May 23, 1867"
Dr. Joseph E. Brent, University of South Alabama
"The Heyday of Alabama Drugstores" (Presidential Address)
James R. Kuykendall, Fort Payne
40th Annual Meeting — 1987
"Julian Lee Rayford: A Versatile Character"
Dr. Samuel Eichold, Professor Emeritus, School of Medicine, University of South
Alabama
"Civil War Manufacturing in the Tennessee Valley"
Richard C. Sheridan, Sheffield
"Alva Belmont: Exacting Benefactor for Women's Suffrage"
Ms. Rebecca T. Keeler, Mobile
"Reid's Tramp: An Alabama Literary Treasure"
Arthur F. Gates, Anniston
"New South or Old? Memorializing the Confederacy in the Shoals at the Turn of the Century"
Dr. Lawrence E. Nelson, University of North Alabama
"Blount County's Champion Mines'
Mrs. Carroll Y. Linder, Oneonta
"Joseph Glover Baldwin, Southwest Humorist and Social Historian"
Mrs. Irma Russell Cruse, Birmingham
"Judson College: Days of Decision"
Mrs. Frances D. Hamilton, Samford University
"The Planter Families of Antebellum Forkland, Alabama"
Dr. Ann Boucher, University of Alabama in Huntsville
"Quieting Georgia's Western Land Claims and Creating Mississippi Territory"
Dr. Edwin C. Bridges, Department of Archives and History
"J. L. M. Curry: The Alabama Years"
Walter Belt White, Talladega
"Mary Gordon Duffee, Chronicler of Her Time"
J. Morgan Smith, Birmingham
"A Look at Alabama Dry Docks and Shipbuilding Corporation, 1943–1944"
Dr. Lee E. Williams, II, University of Alabama in Huntsville
"Mount Vernon Barracks: The Blue, the Gray, and the Red"
Dr. David T. Childress, Jacksonville State University
"Debacle of 1902: Birmingham's Worst Stampede"
Edward T. Douglass, Birmingham
"The Essential John Tyler Morgan: A Note on His Character, Personality, and Social Views"
Dr. Joseph A. Fry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
"Butler County, Alabama, and the Secession Crisis of 1860–1861"
Dr. Michael J. Daniel, United States Air Force Historical Research Center
"James A Simpson and Birmingham Politics" (Presidential Address)
Dr. Leah R. Atkins, Auburn University
41st Annual Meeting — 1988
"Sociable Montgomery"
Lt. Col. John H. Napier, III, Ramer
"The Only Monument in the World Glorifying an Insect"
T. B. Pearson, Leroy
"The Significance of 'The State of Alabama' Publication by Hiram Haines, Paris, France, 1867"
Chriss H. Doss, Samford University
"Science and Technology in the Canebrake: The Life of Robert W. Withers"
Dr. Robert J. Norrell, The University of Alabama
"Alabama Book Collectors and Book Dealers"
James (Pat) Cather, Birmingham
"A Capitol Idea: The Restoration of a Legacy"
F. Lawrence Oaks, Alabama Historical Commission
"The 'Can't Get-Away Club' of Mobile"
Mrs. Forrest C. Wilson, Mobile
"Fundamental Factors of Courage and Initiative: The Rosa Parks/Fannie Lou Hamer Connection"
Dr. Linda Reed, Auburn University
"The Election of Richard Arrington, Mayor of Birmingham"
Dr. Jimmie L. Franklin, Vanderbilt University
"The Natural History of the Bald Eagle in Alabama"
Dr. Joseph Meyers, Alabama Department of Conservation, Montgomery
"The Madam on the Shady Side of a Birmingham Street"
Mrs. Edward T. Douglass, Birmingham
"A Unique Telephone Directory for Mobile's Eastern Shore"
H. Joseph Curtis, Loxley
"The Last March: The Demise of the Black Militia in Alabama"
Ms. Beth Taylor Muskat, Alabama Department of Archives and History
"Mobile's Agora: A Sesquicentennial View of Bienville Square"
Caldwell Delaney, Mobile
"Pattie Ruffner Jacobs: Traditional Woman and Feminist"
Dr. J. Wayne Flynt, Auburn University, and Dr. Marlene Rikard, Samford University
"The Last Homecoming: The Life of a Rural Community as Reflected in its Church, 1837–1987"
Ms. Martha McGhee Glisson, Atlanta, Georgia
"John Hunt who Lived Two Stories Underground"
Winston E. Walker III, Huntsville
"'Content with Being': Antebellum Southern Attitudes Toward Economic Development"
J. Crawford Kind, Jr., Saint James School, Montgomery
"Economic Vision: The Role of State Government in Alabama's Development, 1870–1900"
Ms. Patsy B. Dow, University of South Alabama
"Craig Airforce—Its Effect on Selma, 1944–1977"
Carl C. Morgan, Jr., Selma
42nd Annual Meeting — 1989
"The Tecumseh: Sunken Treasure in Alabama Waters"
The Rev. H. Joseph Curtis, Loxley
"A Voice for the Freeman: The Mobile Nationalist, 1865–1869"
Kimberly B. Cantrell, Auburn University
"Ulysses S. Grant Visits Mobile: Reconciliation or Rejection"
William W. Rogers, Jr., University of Alabama
"Samuel Spring Gardner: A Maine Parson in Alabama"
Dr. Michael Daniel, Lurleen B. Wallace Junior College
"Early Fort Payne Influence on the Musical Group Alabama"
James R. Kuykendall and Elizabeth S. Howard, Fort Payne
"The Revised Ku Klux Klan"
Dr. William R. Snell, Lee College
"Plantation to Town: Merchants and the Rise of Towns in Alabama, 1860–1890"
Louis Kyriakoudes, Vanderbilt University
"Water Powered Mills in Calhoun County, Alabama, 1832–1900"
Jack D. Boozer, Jacksonville
"Joseph Bryan, Virginia Capital, and the Industrial Development of Northern Alabama, 1883–
1918"
Dr. W. David Lewis, Auburn University
"Famous Filibusters: High Drama in the Alabama Legislature"
The Honorable Albert Brewer, Cumberland School of Law, Samford University
"Wealth, Persistence, and Social Mobility in the Antebellum Black Belt: Green County, Alabama,
1840–1860"
Van A. Cain, Vanderbilt
"A Poet's Approach to History: A Way of Keeping and Sharing the Evidence of Life"
Betsy Barber Bancroft, Birmingham
"The University of Alabama and the Civil War"
Dr. Jerry C. Oldshue, University of Alabama
"Pioneers, Priests, and Politicians: Irish-Catholic Influence in Birmingham, Alabama, 1871–1921"
Kay J. Blalock, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Henry Edmonds, the Social Gospel, and the Founding of Independent Presbyterian Church"
Dr. Marvin Y. Whiting, Department of Archives and Manuscripts, Birmingham Public
Library
"The Narrow Path: John J. Eagan and Industrial Democracy at American Cast Iron Pipe
Company, Birmingham, Alabama, 1924–1924"
Rebecca L. Thomas, Birmingham
"John Temple Graves and the Search of Southern Liberalism"
Dr. John M. Matthews, Georgia State University
"The Alabama Gubernatorial Election of 1934—The Shadow of F. D. R."
Sam L. Webb, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"The Best Years of Their Lives: The Impact of Auburn's World War II Veterans, 1946–1950"
Dr. David E. Alsobrook, Carter Presidential Library
"Antebellum Women at Work" (Presidential Address)
Dr. Kenneth R. Johnson, University of North Alabama
43rd Annual Meeting — 1990
"The Battle of Mauvila: Causes and Consequences"
Jay Higginbotham, Mobile
"Legislators, Rowboats, Floods and Cahawba: Myth, Reality, or Act of God"
Linda Derry and Michael Meyer, Selma
"Lieutenant Colonel Jeremiah Clemens: Soldier of Manifest Destiny?"
William J. Stubno, Jr., Huntsville
"A Hospital By and For Blacks: A Chapter in the Medical History of Birmingham, 1930–1954"
Mary R. McCarl, Birmingham
"Alabama Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, 1899–1932"
Tracey Watkins DeVore, Fort Benning, Georgia
"Pioneer Camping in Alabama: The Winnataska Experience"
Virginia Pounds Brown and Katherine Price Garmon, Leeds
"Redemption on Trial: The Case of 'Honest Ike' Vincent"
Mark A. Palmer, Alabama Department of Archives and History
"Bill Nichols: Solder, Businessman, Congressman,"
Edward C. Williamson, Auburn
"Selma's Smitherman Affair of 1955"
Dr. J. Mills Thornton III, University of Michigan
"Finding the Once Beaten Path"
Dr. Jerry Elijah Brown, Professor of Journalism and Humanities, Auburn University
"Michael Tuomey and the Pursuit of a Geological Survey of Alabama, 1847–1857"
Lewis S. Dean, Tuscaloosa
"Ointment Not Wasted: The First Five Years of the Alabama Educational Association, 1856–
1860"
Mary Lee Carter, Dothan
"Sumter Goes to War: The Social, Economic, and Political Impact of the Civil War on Sumter
County"
Dr. Louis R. Smith Jr., Livingston State University
"The Stranger Military Career of Walter Lynwood Fleming"
Beth T. Muskat, Putney, Vermont
"Congressman Jeremiah Haralson and the End of Reconstruction"
Alston Fitts III, Selma
"The Mitcham War of Clarke County, 1893: The Persistence of an Oral Tradition"
Dr. Harvey H. Jackson, Clayton State College, Georgia
"The House of Happiness: An Episcopal Mission in Jackson County, 1923–1952"
Joan S. Clemens, Alabama Department of Archives and History
"The Photographs of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Truths in Tandem"
Edna Boone Johnson, Auburn University
"John Sparkman and the Development of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1936–1946"
Henry Walker, The University of Alabama
"Painful Circumstances: Glimpses of the Alabama Penitentiary, 1846–1852" (Presidential
Address)
Mary Anne Neeley, Montgomery
44th Annual Meeting — 1991
"Black Slave Owners in Alabama, 1860"
Mary Jane Daniel, University of North Alabama
"Voices of Protest: Black Newspaper Editors in Post-Reconstruction Alabama"
Allen W. Jones, Auburn University
"Black Suffrage and the Alabama Constitution of 1901: The First Challenge"
Edward Still, Birmingham
"Mobile's Old Catholoic Cemetery: An Unusual Necropolis: 1848–1940"
John S. Sledge, Mobile Historical Development Commission
"John Grant: Entrepreneur Extraordinaire"
Barbara Roberts, Samford University
"The Civilian Conservation Corps in Mobile County, Alabama, 1933–1942"
Billy Hinson, Mobile College
"Democratic Rascals and Whig Gentlemen: The View of Joseph Glover Baldwin"
Charles S. Watson, University of Alabama
"Illegitimate Entertainment on the Antebellum Mobile Stage, or, Phrenologists, Men-Monkeys,
Fire-Eaters and Such"
Mary Duggar Toulmin, Daphne
"Alabama Autobiography: 'Bundles for the World'"
Bert Hitchcock, Auburn University
"Liberty and Libertines: Workers' Struggle for Political Power in Birmingham, Alabama, 1908–
1913"
Henry McKiven, Livingston University
"The Battle for Birmingham: The History of the Salvation Army, Birmingham, Alabama"
Captain Allen Satterlee, Birmingham
"The English Reformer and the Alabama Society Editor: A Friendship and the Letters of Irene
Ashby Macfadyen to Nina Browne de Cottes"
Benjamin B. Williams, Auburn University at Montgomery
"Why They Fought: Motivations of Alabama Soldiers in the Civil War"
Thomas G. Rogers, Ellijay, Georgia
"Electric Powered Submarines, Rocket Propelled Torpedoes and Other Secret Weapons Tested
at Mobile During the Civil War"
Sidney H. Schell, Mobile
"Alabama on the Eve of World War II"
Allen Cronenberg, Auburn University
"The Naturalization of Harry Toulmin in the Wilds of the Old Southwest"
Jane E. DeNeefe, Huntsville
"Their 'X' Mark: The Creek Indians' Influence in the Formation of a States' Rights Doctrine in
Alabama, 1826–1832"
James Carson, Tulane University
"Femmes Soles': Women With Money in Early Lauderdale County, Alabama: Where They Got It;
How They Kept It"
Mildred S. Wright, Florence
"The Mobile 'Vision' of Richard Vipon Taylor" (Presidential Address)
Tennant McWilliams, University of Alabama at Birmingham
45th Annual Meeting — 1992
"Saltpeter Production from Niter Beds in Confederate Alabama"
Richard D. Sheridan, Sheffield
"Julia Tutwiler and Prison Reform in Alabama: An Assessment of Her Methods and Assumptions"
Paul M. Pruitt, Jr., University of Alabama School of Law Library
"The Myth of Emma Sansom"
Chriss H. Doss, Samford University
"A Scalawag's Justice: Elisha Wolsey Peck"
Joel Daniel Kitchens, Birmingham
"Alabama Republicans and the Politics of Fusion: The Growth of a White Constituency 1880–
1898"
James L. Sledge III, Guntersville
"The Women of Mountain Brook and the Realignment of Alabama Politics"
Joan Steely Hoffman, Birmingham
"The Jemison House in Tuscaloosa: Building the Big House in the Antebellum South"
George H. Daniels, University of South Alabama
"Samuel Ullman: Birmingham Progressive"
Margaret Armbrester, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Growth of Research in Alabama and the Southeast: The Origins of Southern Research Institute"
Gillian W. Goodrich, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Moon Pies, RC Colas, and Opussums: Editing the Encyclopedia of Southern History"
Charles Reagan Wilson, Professor of History and Southern Studies, The University of
Mississippi
"Glimpses of Alabama's Last Frontier through the Architectural Legacy of Calhoun County, 1832–
1875"
Horace Calvin Wingo, Jacksonville State University
"Steamboats in Antebellum Alabama"
W. J. Ikerman, University of North Alabama
"Eugene Allen Smith's Fourth Hat: Photographer for the Alabama Geological Survey, 1885–1910"
Frances Robb, Huntsville
"Donald Comer and Muscle Shoals, 1924–1933"
Michael A. Breedlove, Alabama Department of Archives and History
"Governor Bibb Graves, the New Deal, and Alabama Textile Workers"
Debbie Pendleton, Alabama Department of Archives and History
"Breasting the Current: Mobile's John Forsyth and the Election of 1860"
Bailey Thomson, Orlando, Florida
"C. C. J. Carpenter: From Segregation to Integration"
S. Jonathan Bass, Birmingham
"Nobody Ever Asked Me"
Helen Shores Lee, Birmingham
"The University of Alabama: Segregation's Appomattox"
E. Culpepper Clark, University of Alabama
"First and Second Choice Votes in Alabama" (Presidential Address)
Albert P. Brewer, Samford University
46th Annual Meeting — 1993
"From Cabins and Castles to Usonian Homes: Housing in the Shoals Since 1818"
Mildred Wright, Florence
"The Meteor: The 'Remarkable Enterprise' by the 'Sanest Crazy' Folk in the United States"
Burt Rieff, Judson College
"William B. Travis in Claiborne and Texas before the Alamo"
Theodore Pearson, Leroy
"Christopher Wesley Powell: A Farmer/Schoolteacher/Poet's Anti-Secession Views of the Civil
War"
William A. Powell Jr., Birmingham
"The Confederate Who Switched Sides: The Saga of Captain Joseph G. Sanders"
Val L. McGee, Ozark
"Two Alabama Contributions to a Neglected Genre of Civil War Literature"
Bert Hitchcock, Auburn University
"'A Good Home on a Good Farm': The Goals of the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service,
1914–1924"
Dwayne Cox, Auburn University
"The Georgia Pacific Railway and the Industrial Development of North Alabama, 1881–1894"
W. David Lewis, Auburn University
"Camp Sibert: Alabama's First Chemical Warfare Center, 1942–45"
Joseph T. Robertson, Gadsden State Community College, and Wayne Findley, Etowah
County Public Schools
"George Wallace and the Southernization of American Politics"
Dan T. Carter, Emory University
"The Genesis of the Birmingham Museum of Art"
William Archer Price, Birmingham
"Alabama Baptist and the Controversy in the Southern Baptist Convention, 1979–1990"
David T. Morgan, University of Montevallo
"The Calhoun School: Miss Charlotte Thorn's 'Lighthouse on the Hill' in Lowndes County,
Alabama"
Rose Herlong Ellis, Fort Deposit
"Tecumseh's Prophecy: The Great Madrid Earthquakes in Alabama"
Lewis S. Dean, Tuscaloosa
"A River History of Monroe County's People and Their Steamboats"
Kathy Painter, Monroe County Heritage Museum
"Alabama's 'Bald Eagle': Governor George Smith Houston"
Faye A. Axford, Athens
"Wheeler and Roddy: Confederate Generals form Upper Alabama"
William C. Scott Jr., Florence
"Slave Impressment in Alabama During the Civil War"
Bruce E. Matthews, Montgomery
"The Rise of the Republicans in Mobile, Alabama"
Billy G. Hinson, Mobile College
"An Epithet for The Montgomery Advertiser, or How 'Grandma Got Her Name.'" (Presidential
Address)
Grace Hooten Gates, Anniston
47th Annual Meeting — 1994
"Two Dallas County Carpetbaggers: General Datus Coon and the Reverend John Silsby"
Alston Fitts, III, Selma
"Fannie Amelia Dimon Beers: A Steel Magnolia of Yesterday"
Jerry Oldshue, University of Alabama
"Violence and Confederate Recruiting Efforts: Shelby County, Alabama, 1863–1865"
Alan Pitts, Birmingham
"Dr. Cornelius Dorsette: Alabama's First Board Certified Black Physician"
Marian Crenshaw Austin, Birmingham
"Tuscaloosa's Drugstore Entrepreneurs: Harco's Harrison Family"
James R. Kuykendall, Fort Payne
"Theodore Swann: Triumphs and Troubles"
Carolyn Green Satterfield, Samford University
"The Partnership of Daniel Pratt and George Cook in the Creation of Alabama's First Art Gallery"
Laquita Thomson, Huntsville
"Fairhope, Alabama"
Waring I. Holt, Point Clear
"Black Belt Cotton Planters"
Edgar Givhan, Montgomery
"Big Things Out of Little: Growing Up in the Black Belt"
Oxford Stroud, Professor Emeritus, Auburn University
"A Place Remembered: Hamburg, Alabama"
Annie Ford Wheeler, Birmingham
"John Archibald Campbell and the Alabama Platform"
Robert S. Saunders Jr., Auburn University
"The 1836 Florence Diary of Caroline Hentz: A Writer's Diary"
Marilyn Davis-DeEulis, West Virginia Graduate College
"Lee Compere: Baptist Missionary to the Creek Indians, 1822–1829"
Sean Flynt, Samford University
"The Merger of the Woman's Missionary Training School with the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, 1962–63"
Kimberly K. Estep, Wesleyan College
"Networking in Alabama's Judicial System in the 1940s: Jones vs. Opelika, A Case Study"
Merlin Owen Newton, Huntington College
"The Origins and Consequences of the Gee's Bend Cooperative"
Reginna Horne, Anniston
"Soft Opposition: The Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, 1946–1949"
Glenn Feldman, Auburn University
"Alabama's New Deal Utopias"
Karen I. Peterson Hendricks, Jacksonville State University
"Alabama's 'Wonder of the Earth'" (Presidential Address)
Nicholas H. Cobbs, Jr., Greensboro
48th Annual Meeting — 1995
"The Francis Brothers at War: The Story of a Jacksonville Family, 1861–65"
James P. Pate, Livingston University
"The Ideal of Southern Womanhood: The Life and Times of Mary Lewis Clay, 1825–1898"
Nancy Rohr, Huntsville
"Remarks on Some Notable Gubernatorial Inaugural Speeches in Alabama"
Michael Breedlove, Alabama Department of Archives and History
"Dauphin Island, Gateway to Mexico, a Colonial Chimera"
Robin Fabel, Auburn University
"Black Police Officers in Reconstruction Alabama"
W. Marvin Dulaney, College of Charleston
"Senator O. J. (Joe) Goodwyn: Advocate of Public Education, 1955–1973"
Cordelia C. Humphrey, Montgomery
"The 1st Alabama Infantry of African Descent"
Joseph E. Brent, Kentucky Heritage Council
"The Life and Times of Oliver D. Street: Progress in a non-Democratic Tradition"
James L. Sledge, Truett-McConnell College
"Holding the Line: John Patterson and Civil Rights"
P. David Romei, Leeds
"What is Southern About the South"
John Shelton Reed, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Ft. McClellan's POW Compound, 1943–46: 'The Best Little Camp in Alabama'"
Joseph T. Robertson, Gadsden State Community College
"The Upjohn Churches of Antebellum Alabama"
Ronald Caldwell, Jacksonville State University
"James Dellet of Claiborne"
Agee S. Broughton III, Mobile
"A Dream Deferred: The Experience of Middle Class Blacks in Birmingham, 1920–1929"
Grace Smith, Adamsville
"Gen. Joe Wheeler and the Dandridge Galey Murder and Trial"
Peter Harrison Branum, Decature
"The History of the Ten Islands"
Charlotte Hood, Bette Sue McElroy, Patsy Hanvey, Etowah Historical Society, Gadsden
"Alabama Territory's Surprise Presidential Visit: James Monroe in Huntsville, 1819"
Chriss Doss, Samford University
"Saving Alabama's Local Records from Flood, Fire, and Neglect"
Deborah Skaggs, Alabama Department of Archives and History
"Carl Elliot and the 1966 Alabama Gubernatorial Election"
Jason J. Battles, Steele
"Twenty-four Votes for Oscar W. Underwood: Alabama at the Democratic Convention of 1924"
(Presidential Address)
Lee N. Allen, Birmingham
49th Annual Meeting — 1996
"Murder at Dry Fork: The Tait Family Tragedy"
Daniel F. Brooks, Camden and Birmingham
"Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson of Greensboro, Alabama: American Naval Hero"
Theodore Pearson, Leroy
"States' Rights Democracy in Alabama: The Dixiecrat Rebellion of 1948"
Michael Pintagro, New York
"Southern Iron Works, Park and Lyons Proprietors: Submarine Shipyard for the Development of
the C. S. S. Hunley"
Ray F. Houchin, Bowling Green, Kentucky
"Gone to Texas: The Mysterious Last Days of Gabriel Moore"
Harriet Amos Doss, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"The Proposal by Confederate Major General Patrick Cleburne to Emancipate the Slaves"
Mark Hull, Alabama A & M
"The Alabama Insane Hospital: Survival During the Peter Bryce Years, 1861–1892"
Bill Weaver, Birmingham
"D. L. Hightower, the Photographer: The Atget of Barbour County"
Michael Thomason, University of South Alabama
"Light Planes, Heavy Politics: Asa Roundtree, Jr., and the 'Alabama Airport Program for Small
Cities,' 1954–1967"
George Cully, Ocean Springs, Mississippi
"Citizen Clay: Huntsville's Clement Comer Clay and the Alabama Constitution"
Justice Gorman Houston, Alabama Supreme Court
"A Study of the Economy of Winston County, Alabama, 1850–1870"
Morris Williams, Cullman
"Phenix City, Alabama, and Its Struggle with Memory"
Campbell McLean, Tampa, Florida
"The Creoles of Mobile: Colonial Legacy"
George Ewert, Mobile
"Taking Christianity to China: Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850–1950"
Wayne Flynt, Auburn University
"'A Foul Crime' in Early Birmingham: The Notorious Life of Eugene Byars"
Ellen Griffin, Birmingham
"Anniston — Its Fate Decide by One Vote at Talladega"
Walker Reynolds, Jr., M. D., Anniston
"An Antebellum Feminist in Alabama: The Early Life of Martha Foster Crawford, 1830–1851"
Carol Ann Vaughn, Huntsville
"Guinea Pig Prisoners and a Pulitzer Prize: The Investigative Reporting of Harold E. Martin"
Grace Hooten Gates, Anniston
"Doctoring in Cullman County, Alabama, 1860–1900"
Sylvia B. Morris, Cullman
"Escape from Slavery: The Milly Walker Trials" (Presidential Address)
Judge Vall McGee, Ozark
50th Annual Meeting — 1997
"Domestic Imagery in Antebellum Alabama Schools and Plantations"
Dr. Robert Hunt, Middle Tennessee State University
"A Woman of Spirit: Louise Branscomb, M.D., and Methodism, 1945–1991"
Dr. Norma Taylor Mitchell, Troy State University
"The Wheeler Legacy"
Mildred Witt Caudle, Athens
"Only Two Decades with Alabama Historians"
Elizabeth May, Tuscaloosa
"Civil Rights in Conflict: 'The Birmingham Plan' and the Freedom Train"
Dr. John White, University of Hull, England
"'Railroad Bill': An Outlaw of Whom Alabama Can Be Proud"
David A. Bagwell, Mobile
"Hugh Otis Bynum and the Scottsboro First Monday Bombing"
Byron Woodfin, Pisgah
"We Built Better than We Knew: The Julius Rosenwald School Building Fund, 1913–1937"
Jeff Mansell, Tuscaloosa
"Nicola Marshall: Confederate Artist in Alabama"
Bryding Adams, Birmingham
"In Pursuit of Josiah Gorgas"
Dr. Frank E. Vandiver, Distinguished University Professor, Texas A & M University
"Alabama: The New South Passover State"
H. Brandt Ayers, editor and publisher, The Anniston Star
"Alabama Power's First Dam: The Lock 12 Project, 1910–1914"
Dr. Harvey H. Jackson III, Jacksonville State University
"Is It True What they Say About Dixie? A Look at Senator Dixie Bibb Graves"
Dr. Sandra Behel, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
"Faunsdale Plantation during the Civil War: The Homefront in Black and White"
John Sykes, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
"Maxwell Field and the South Alabama Flood of March, 1929"
Dr. Daniel L. Haulman, Montgomery
"Buster Duggan: North Alabama's Most Famous Outlaw"
James R. Kuykendall and Elizabeth S. Howard, Fort Payne
"The Settling of the Jews in Southwest Alabama"
Ruby Lauzon, Mobile
"What They Fought for in Greensboro, Alabama"
Guy W. Hubbs, Tuscaloosa
"Railroad Development in Antebellum Alabama"
Donna M. Castellano, Huntsville
"Clarence Cason: Journalist in Academe"
Bailey Thomson, Mobile
"Amelia Gayle Gorgas and the Civil War" (Presidential Address)
Dr. Sarah W. Wiggins, University of Alabama
51st Annual Meeting — 1998
"Alabama Women: Their Faith and Action in the Civil War"
Marlene Rikard and Elizabeth Wells, Samford University
"Biding Their Time: Black Women and Their Families During the Civil War Era"
Kimberlynne Darby, Montgomery
"Women of Privilege: Louise Horton Dunn of Antebellum Mobile"
Nancy Trawick, Evergreen
"Honeysuckle and Deadly Nightshade: Tallulah Bankhead, Regina Giddens, and the Making of a
Southern Icon"
Carolyn Terry Bashaw, LeMoyne College
"Antebellum Architecture Revisited: The 1939 Photographs of F. B. Johnston"
David Robb Jr., Huntsville
"Balm in Gilead: The American Missionary Association and Black Education in Reconstruction
Alabama"
Richard Bailey, Maxwell Air Force Base
"A European Hamlet in the Heart of Dixie: The Brookside Slovak Community"
Staci Simon, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"The Stone Left Unturned: Alabama Progressivism and Promises Unkept"
Glenn Feldmann, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"'Just Another Day on the Plains': The Desegregation of Auburn University"
Martin Olliff, Auburn University
"'Wrasslin fur a Blessin': Camp Meetings Come to Alabama"
Stuart Collier, Judson College
"Alabama Heritage Gardens or how Grandmama Used to Garden"
Edgar Givhan, Montgomery
"Trailing Robert Trent Jones: Who is this Golf Guy on all our Highway Signs?"
Jim Hansen, Auburn University
"Civic Bankruptcy: Politics, Corruption, and Railroads in Mobile, 1865–1880"
Michael Fitzgerald, St. Olaf College
"Mobile's Solitary Sentinel: U. S. Attorney William H. Armbrecht and the James Robertson
Lynching Case of 1909"
David Alsobrook, George Bush Presidential Library
"Sweet Lunacy's County Seat"
Eugene Walter, Mobile
"'The Most Distant Antiquity': Adair, Romans, and Bartram on the Culture and Origins of the
Southeastern Indians"
Kathryn Braund, Dadeville
"Mothers and Daughters: The Jackson Women of Antebellum Chambers County"
Tony Carey, Auburn University
"Early Images of Alabama's Native Americans: The Artistic and Cultural Background"
Karen Hendricks, Jacksonville State University
"Juliet Opie Hopkins and The Alabama Hospitals in Richmond: The Records and the Story"
Edwin C. Bridges, Alabama Department of Archives and History
52nd Annual Meeting — 1999
"Flush Times in Mt. Meigs, 1840–1850"
John Scott, Montgomery
"Atassi: A Creek 'Grandmother Town,'"
Stacye Hathorn, Alabama Historical Commission
"The News from Huntsville, 1820"
Nancy M. Rohr, Madison County Historical Society, Huntsville
"The Outlaws of Alabama: Drawing the Line between Historical Fact and Fiction"
Alan Brown, University of West Alabama
"Thoroughly Modern Lizzie: The Life and Works of Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy (1837–
1900)"
Dorothy McLeod MacInerny, Austin, Texas
"Stories and Images of Scottsboro: Creating Alabama's 'Terrible Public Image" Through Arts"
Lynn Barstis Williams, Auburn University
"Mary Morgan Keipp of Selma: An Alabamian in the Avante-Garde of Modern Art"
Frances Osborn Robb, Huntsville
"The City of St. Jude: A Microcosm of the African American Catholic Experience"
Derek V. Barry, The University of Alabama
"Searching for God's Place in the Classroom: The Controversy over Prayer in Alabama's Public
Schools, 1962–1985"
Burt Rieff, Florence
"Alabama Baptists, Women, and the Culture Wars of the 1970s and 1980s"
J. Wayne Flynt, Auburn University
"The Medical Care of Confederate Soldiers in Wartime Montgomery"
Warren Rogers, Gainesville College
"Jesse Beene: Harbinger of Alabama Secession"
Frederick M. Beatty, Troy State University-Montgomery
"The Collapse of Reconstruction: Black Alabamians and Charles Sumner's Civil Rights Bill"
Bruce E. Mattews, Auburn University
"In the Belly of the Beast: Clifford J. Durr and the Struggle for Civil Liberties in Montgomery,
Alabama, 1954–1964"
David Harmon, Montgomery
"Opening the Schoolhouse Door: Race, Politics, and the National Defense Education Act of 1958"
Andrew Carpenter, University of North Alabama
"A Right to Read: The Desegregation of Alabama's Public Libraries, 1960–1965"
Patterson Toby Graham, McCain Library and Archives, University of Southern Mississippi
"The Alfred Moore Tunstall Papers: A New Resource in Alabama History"
Samuel L. Webb, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Pioneer Historian: Auburn Professor George Petrie and His Survey of Slavery in Alabama"
Anthony Donaldson, University of South Alabama
"The Role of Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama, in Chemical Warfare During World War II"
Kelly Nolte, Tuscaloosa
"The Rise and Fall of an Alabama Founding Father, Gabriel Moore" (Presidential Address)
Harriet E. Amos Doss, University of Alabama at Birmingham
53rd Annual Meeting — 2000
"The Wyeths, An Amazing Alabama Family"
Harmon Hudgens, Guntersville
"What Became of the 1898 Birmingham Driving Club?"
Carolyn Green Satterfield, Samford University
"The WPA Guide to Alabama in the 1930s: How it Came to be Written and Why it is Being
Reprinted"
Harvey H. Jackson III, Jacksonville State University
"Roderick B. Thomas, Alabama's First African American Judge"
Alston Fitts III, Selma
"Central Texas Street Urban Renewal in Mobile, Alabama"
Meredith Johnston, University of South Alabama
"Willie Seals, Jr. v. Alabama and Mobile's Fight Against the South's Lily White Juries, 1958–1970"
Nahfiza Ahmed, University of Edinburgh
"The Trial of James Hickman: Questions of Loyalty in Confederate Huntsville"
Christine Dee, Harvard University
"Major General John H. Forney: Jacksonville's Highest Ranking Confederate Officer"
J. Luke Frady, Montgomery
"A Family at War: The Claytons of Alabama During the Civil War"
Henry Walker, University of West Alabama
"Samuel Ruffin: Ascent and Descent of a Southern Planter in Choctaw County, 1835–1885"
Mary Jane Skinner, Demopolis
"Ignatius Pollak: Alabama Entrepreneur, 1846–1915"
Virginia Tunstall Clay: Alabama's Belle
"Virginia Tunstall Clay: Alabama's Belle in the Nation's Capital"
Leah Rawls Atkins, Birmingham
"Mother of Agitation: Fred Shuttlesworth and a Mother's Influence"
Andrew Manis, Mercer University
"Before Bloody Sunday: Outside Influences on Race Relations and African American Life in
Selma, 1937–1965"
Steve Murray, Auburn University
"Unintended Consequences: The Rise and Fall of the Know-Nothing Party in Alabama"
Jeff Frederick, Auburn University
"Slavery and the Alabama Supreme Court"
Timothy W. Dixon, University of Alabama
"The Political Career of William Calvin Oates"
Jeff Seymour, Jacksonville State University
"When the Yankees Came to Huntsville . . . Again, and Again, and Again" (Presidential Address)
Joyce M. Smith, Huntsville
"Hitler, Jim Crow, and Democracy: The Alabama Press and Comparisons of Nazi and Southern
Racism"
Dan J. Puckett, California Baptist University
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 AntiBourbon 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