Newsletters for Educators
• Conflict in Alabama in the 1830s: Native Americans, Settlers, and Government • Runaway Slaves in Alabama: Individual Freedom Fighters in the 1800s • Point of View: How Two Alabamians Remembered Slavery Years Later • Sharecropping in Alabama during Reconstruction: An Answer to a Problem and a Problem in the Making? • Marketing a Bad Idea: Why So Many People Joined the Klan in the 1920s
• Alabama Slave Codes in 1833: What They Can Teach Us About Slaves Themselves • The Alabama Man Who Survived a Massacre in 1836 and Became a Texas Hero • Alabama’s Secession in 1861: Embraced with Joy and Great Confidence • What Would the Ladies Think? An Alabama Secession Story • Cells for Sale—Convict Leasing in Alabama
• Alabama BEFORE the American Revolution • Clotilde, The Last Slave Ship • New Deal Programs in Alabama • Strange Fruit: Lynching in Alabama • New York Times Co. v Sullivan: The Alabama Case that Changed Libel Law
• A Worse Death: War or Flu? • Alabama and the Treaty of Versailles • The Great Depression: Hard Times Hit America • Inside the Wire: Internment of Prisoners of War in Alabama During World War II-Lesson 1 • Inside the Wire: Internment of Prisoners of War in Alabama During World War II-Lesson 2
• Alabama Farm Life in the Great Depression • The Effect of the Great Depression on Children • The Effect of the Great Depression on Children and Education • Women of the Movement: Civil Rights Movement in Alabama • Change of View: George C. Wallace
• Steamboat Transportation in Alabama • Alabama’s Rainbow Division • World War II – Life on the Home Front in Alabama • World War II Home Front – Mobilization in Alabama • Montgomery Bus Boycott: We Would Rather Walk
• Jim Crow Lived in Alabama in the late 1800s • Alabama’s 1901 Constitution: What Was at Stake? • Dear Father: A College Student’s Perspective on WWI • “Scottsboro Boys”: A Trial Which Defined an Age • America in Space: German Voices From Huntsville
• Birmingham, 1963: Spring Jubilation, Part I • Birmingham, 1963: Spring Jubilation, Part II • Beyond Birmingham, Summer 1963 • Birmingham, Fall 1963 • An African American Represents Alabama during Reconstruction
• Changes in Transportation over Time • Alabama’s Economic Contribution to the Confederacy • Birmingham: The Magic City • Working in Birmingham’s Iron Industry • Alabama’s New South Era
• Alabama Becomes a State • From Alabama Farmer to Civil War Soldier • Reformers Target Child Labor in Alabama in Early 1900s • The Trail of Tears: Implementation of the New Echota Treaty • The Value of a Slave
• African American Life After the Civil War – Sharecropping • Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois • Nellie Bly to Dr. Peter Bryce: 19th Century Asylum Reform • W. E. B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, and Jim Crow • Voting Rights for Alabama Women
• Prelude to the Creek Indian War • Settlement of Frontier Alabama • Jacksonian Democracy and Indian Removal • Alabama Tenant Farmers and Sharecroppers • A Lifetime of Responsibilities: Child Labor in Alabama
• Yellow Journalism • First in Time: Paleo-Indians in Alabama • A Study of the Physical Regions of Alabama • Alabama’s 1901 Constitution • La Mobile: A Case Study of Exploration and Settlement |
