I stow my carry-on and settle into a window seat just in time to hear the flight attendant announce, “Has anyone on this flight lost a wallet?” The 200 passengers, including myself, discreetly check through our belongings for our cash and credit cards. Momentarily she breaks the silence, “Now that I have your attention, we [...]
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I was personally delighted when the grants committee of the Alabama Humanities Foundation recently provided funding for a baseball program developed by Vulcan Park and Museum. “From Factory to Field” is an exhibition, opening April 1, 2010, that celebrates the 100th anniversary of Rickwood Field and the history of baseball as a reflection of the [...]
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The humanities approach to music, often referred to as musicology, involves more than just listening to or producing sound. Behind the melody, there is a method. Behind the tune, a tale. And behind the instrument, almost always, a rich history. For years, I have viewed our family piano in the same way. To me, it [...]
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Wherever I may be, whatever I’m engaged in, if I hear music start up—I stop. I listen. And I involuntarily identify the tune. This automatic name-that-tune response must have imprinted on my brain during my early years of music training and brief career teaching music. If I go to any restaurant that features live musicians [...]
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I was talking to a coworker a few weeks ago about some night classes she had taken recently–one of which was in the humanities. She mentioned that she had written a paper on Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel, the famous children’s books author and illustrator. I assumed that the subject matter of her paper was directed [...]
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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 Hall collection. In [...]
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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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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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