I suppose that it doesn’t seem like summer reading, but Elaine Showalter’s A Jury of Her Peers had me flipping pages as fast as any murder mystery could. Showalter tracks the history of women writers in America from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, weaving together their personal stories with their artistic achievements to create compelling [...]
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After a lunch of mystery meat wedged between mashed potatoes and jiggly gelatin, I had filed into the seventh grade classroom to endure the second half of the first day of school. Mrs. Jones greeted each student with a book, a clever way to induce a period of tranquility as we settled at our desks [...]
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Over the 4th of July weekend, the Birmingham News published two articles and a guest editorial that caught my eye. Like so many news or feature items that appear in the local, state or even national press, humanities ideas often have something to say about them.
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Washington County celebrated the opening of “New Harmonies” with an amazing event at the Washington County Library in Chatom. People entered the library through a gigantic 10’ jute box, and the Smithsonian exhibition looks fantastic in the atrium of the library. The Sullivan Family and the Winky Hicks and Frontier Bluegrass Band played at the [...]
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On June 25, 2009, AHF joined several other organizations in the second-annual Cultural Leadership Summit. This one took place at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, and it featured Alabama Power CEO Charles McCrary as the keynote speaker, as well as a panel discussion of several cultural leaders from across [...]
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A service station attendant in Bessemer was swarmed with last minute customers at the start of a long holiday weekend. He shook his head in disgust as he said to a preacher next in line, “It’s funny to me that people always wait until the last minute to prepare for a trip they knew they [...]
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As every Alabamian knows, on gamedays in the fall, there are more people present within the city of Tuscaloosa than any other place else in the state–save Birmingham and (depending on the number of Druid City residents holding tickets at Bryant-Denny Stadium) perhaps Montgomery or Mobile. But, let’s put this boast into context. According to [...]
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Does it seem to anyone else that summer lasted forever when you were a child? I can remember the delicious sense of anticipation, and the prospect of unknown adventure, on the last day of school before the beginning of summer vacation. In my young mind, it really did seem that a grand expanse of time [...]
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The Chi Omicron chapter of Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is publishing a revamped version of their award-winning journal, The Vulcan Historical Review (VHR). Due out in July, this year’s VHR features a wide variety of historical topics as well as color photographs and a new [...]
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At the age of 57, Eleanor Roosevelt looked back on her life and wrote, “Somewhere along life’s way we discover what we truly are, and then make real decisions for which we are responsible.” The same is true about an individual’s will.
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