Posted on August 16th, 2011 by bwhetstoneahf
The Alabama Humanities Foundation is sponsoring a traveling exhibition called “Journey Stories” in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, now in Alexander City. This post is one in a series that will highlight our own personal journey stories. Our stories may include how our ancestors traveled from far away lands to come to America, or it [...]
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Posted on August 9th, 2011 by Jennifer Dome
Jenice Riley Memorial Scholarship Recipients Announced AHF would like to cordially invite you to our annual awards luncheon, held this year at the Wynfrey Hotel in Birmingham on September 26, 2011 at noon. Our keynote speaker will be Gen. Charles C. Krulak, the new president of Birmingham-Southern College. We will award the Alabama Humanities Award [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2011 by guest
Our SUPER Emerging Scholars (SES) summer institutes have grown from 16 students the first year, to 47 just three years later. Learning important critical-thinking and writing skills is an important piece of the program. Below is an essay written by an SES student during one of our institutes this summer. Essay by Jeremy Buckner on [...]
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Posted on July 22nd, 2011 by Jennifer Dome
We’re hard at work here at the AHF offices turning out articles for the next issue of our newsletter, the magazine Mosaic. If you already receive a copy of our magazine, tell us what you think about it by posting a comment! We’d love to get your ideas for future stories. If you would like [...]
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Posted on July 11th, 2011 by bwhetstoneahf
John and Alton become best friends in elementary school, their mutual attraction prompted by both being new in town. John’s father, with the ink barely dry on his law degree, hangs his shingle on the second floor of the Alexander City Bank. Alton’s father has just relocated his one-chair barber shop from Camp Hill to [...]
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Posted on July 5th, 2011 by Jennifer Dome
The Alabama Humanities Foundation was excited to launch Project Turn the Page last month, an effort to help libraries and schools damaged in the April tornadoes through an emergency grant for $30,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Since then, our initiative has garnered a lot of attention, from local TV stations and newspapers, [...]
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Posted on June 24th, 2011 by Jennifer Dome
The Alabama Humanities Foundation wants to help public libraries and schools affected by the April tornadoes—and you can help too! Following the devastating tornadoes that ripped through our state in April, the Alabama Humanities Foundation (AHF) was awarded a $30,000 emergency grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to launch Project Turn the [...]
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Posted on June 24th, 2011 by guest
by Reginald T. Hamner The Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse is itself on the National Register of Historical Places, having been so designated in 1998. The building was authorized in 1931 and occupied in 1933. An annex was completed in 2002. The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama [...]
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Posted on June 13th, 2011 by bwhetstoneahf
The Alabama Humanities Foundation will sponsor a traveling exhibition called “Journey Stories” in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution beginning June 25 in Jasper. This post is the first in a series that will highlight our own personal journey stories. Our stories may include how our ancestors traveled from far away lands to come to America, [...]
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Posted on June 2nd, 2011 by rstewartahf
The Alabama Humanities Foundation will sponsor a traveling exhibition called “Journey Stories” in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution beginning June 25 in Jasper. This post is the first in a series that will highlight our own personal journey stories. Our stories may include how our ancestors traveled from far away lands to come to America, [...]
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