Here is a taste of Tish Harrison Warren’s New York Times piece on the late Birmingham civil rights activist: On Sept. 9, 1957, the very day President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act and lawyers sought injunctive relief to force...
Victoria E. Ott is James A. Wood Professor of American History and the coordinator of Gender and Women’s Studies at Birmingham-Southern College. This interview is based on her new book, The Failure of Our Fathers: Family, Gender, and Power in...
Here is the legendary Wayne Flynt, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Auburn University: Dear Alabama Legislators: I called the office of my state senator several weeks ago concerning House Bill 312, which proposes to restrict how K-12 public school educators...
In case you haven’t seen this yet: Saban is probably right. But as far as “self-absorption” in college sports is concerned, I think there is enough to go around right now....
Back in February I live-tweeted Trump’s speech at CPAC: Some of you may recall a post I wrote in March 2021 about pro-Trump evangelical Franklin Graham’s efforts to get his followers vaccinated. It did not go well. Here were some...
Alabama has the lowest population of fully vaccinated people in the nation (33.91%). 49% of Alabama residents identify as evangelical Christians. Even a staunch Alabama conservative like Kay Ivey understand the science. Watch: Also near the bottom of the list:...
Judson College, an Alabama Baptist women’s college and a member of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, has closed. Here is Inside Higher Ed: After teetering on the edge of closure for months, Judson College’s Board of Trustees voted...
Glad to see this. Here is WSFA 12 News: The Alabama legislature passed a bill Thursday to name a portion of U.S. Highway 80, from Selma to Montgomery, after the late civil rights icon and congressman, John R. Lewis. According to...
In case you missed it, this was Mo Brooks on January 6, 2021: The guy who represents Alabama’s 5th congressional district is running for Senate. Here is NBC News: A conservative firebrand and staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump...
This is a revised and updated version of a post originally published on March 6, 2020: After a couple weeks focusing on “creation” in my Created Called for Community (CCC) course at Messiah University, we have shifted gears slightly to focus on the...
Look on the bright side. At least they are not calling Trump THE “greatest and most effective president” in U.S. history. Here is Brandon Moseley at the Alabama Political Reporter: When the Alabama Republican Party executive committee meets for its...
Over at The Montgomery Advertiser, Brian Lyman reports on the treatment of the Confederacy in Southern history textbooks: For much of the 20th century, southern classrooms treated Black history — when they touched the subject at all — as a sideshow to...
This article appeared in the People’s Party Advocate, published in Ashland, Alabama, in 1895. Fri, Aug 16, 1895 – 4 · People’s Party Advocate (Ashland, Alabama) · Newspapers.com As I argued in the first four chapters of Was America Founded...
Here is the statement from the Department of Archives & History: As our state and nation struggle to navigate through a place of contention, fear, and uncertainty, the Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH) recommits itself to the mission...
Earlier this week, presidential historian Michael Beschloss tweeted a 1964 letter written by segregationist Alabama governor George Wallace to a woman in Cedar Spring, Michigan: Here is the text of the entire letter: Dear Miss Martin: This will acknowledge and...
After he was booed in Washington D.C. at the World Series and in New York at a UFC fight, Donald Trump appears to have found a generally friendly audience in Tuscaloosa, Alabama at a University of Alabama football game. ESPN...
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyZutImCyZU&w=560&h=315] Wallace Henley is the Associate Pastor at Houston Baptist Church, a 69,000 member megachurch. He worked as a White House aide in the Nixon administration, served as president of the Alabama Baptist Convention, and was an award-winning journalist...
Thomas J. Balcerski is Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut State University. This is interview is based on his new book Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King (Oxford University Press, 2019). JF: What led you...
Steven Waldman, author of a new book titled Sacred Liberty: America’s Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom, makes a fascinating argument in a recent op-ed at Newsweek. What happens when a pro-life position on abortion clashes with religious liberty? Jews...
Today I had a long conversation with New York Times reporter Adeel Hassan. He was trying to figure out how Alabama could execute a convicted murderer on the day after the state passed a very extreme abortion law. Here is his...
