A story credited to Mark Twain is that there once was a steamboat on the Mississippi River, which stopped dead still in the water every time its whistle was blown. It couldn’t proceed until more steam was developed. With that thought in mind, we will not blow too much of an AHF horn regarding the [...]
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Note: this is a reprinting of a Birmingham News article, which ran on October 11, 2009. The original article can be found here. U.S. CAPITOL’S NATIONAL STATUARY HALL: Curry comes home barely known By Jim Noles On Wednesday, it was out with the old and in with the new in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary [...]
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Click here for part one of this post. In my last blog, I described my discovering a 1970s project about the Creek Indians in our 1980 “catalog of projects.” In those days, AHF was called the Alabama Committee on Humanities and Public Policy. Almost all the projects we supported focused on the relationship of history, [...]
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Occasionally, we get a call or e-mail from someone, or we read something in the newspaper, which leads us out of the office to explore a community, visit a humanities-related organization, or meet an Alabamian who shares our interest in the humanities. But sometimes we are contacted about a project that leads us to explore [...]
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I have always been an avid reader. What I didn’t realize about myself until recently, however, is that I also love to write. Writing can be used for numerous purposes. It can be a healthy outlet for working through an emotion. It can allow people to organize their thoughts and prove (or disprove) a point. [...]
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Anniversaries are nice, unless you forget one. Recognizing events of the past helps to gather our culture’s collective memories we choose to keep alive and pass on to our progeny. September was an unusually rich month for commemorations, perhaps because autumn is a season for clearing the fields and preparing to start anew. While we [...]
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In addition to celebrating the 40th anniversary of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the student members of Phi Alpha Theta presented the 13th Edition of the Vulcan Historical Review (VHR) student journal to distinguished guests and fellow students on Thursday, September 24.
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All summer, I read Shakespeare out on my porch with a cold drink, pausing to watch the dragonflies hover around the leaves of my hibiscus.
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I am extremely fortunate to be related to two incredibly talented individuals, Carl Stewart and Barbara Evans. As my half-siblings, they share the same father with me—the late Carl Stewart, Sr.—who was born and raised in Munford, Alabama. All three of us, as well as my brother, Wheeler, were born there, too.
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