In Part I, described a trip that my wife, Lida, and I took to St. Francisville, LA, Natchez, MS, and Mer Rouge, LA, in July. Mer Rouge is the hometown of Lida’s great-grandmother, Eliza Davenport, (Click here to view her portrait.) but we had never been there. We knew little about Eliza and even less [...]
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Since mid-July I have been experiencing something that must be quite rare in marriages: a growing fascination with the genealogy of my ancestral in-laws. Before she died in 2010, my mother had compiled a detailed family tree of her Wheeler and Glass lines. My half-brother, Carl Stewart, Jr., is now the official keeper of the [...]
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The SUPER Emerging Scholars (SES) program is an expansion of AHF’s mission to serve the public. This program directly fosters opportunities for high-school students to examine the significance of their own cultural values and meanings through in-depth studies of literature, history and the arts. By equipping participants, called Emerging Scholars, with necessary critical thinking and [...]
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Thought you’d missed your chance to sign up for this summer’s SUPER teacher institutes? Well, you haven’t! AHF is still accepting applications until all spaces are filled. For the past 20 years, AHF has taken a leading role in the advancement of Alabama education with the SUPER (School and University Partners for Educational Renewal) teacher [...]
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The winner of the new Whetstone-Seaman Faculty Development Award will present his paper at a forum on Friday, March 25. The forum, titled “Daring to Defend Our Rights: A Discussion of Civility in Alabama Public Life,” will be held at the Alabama Department of Archives and History (Alabama Power Auditorium) in Montgomery at 9:30 a.m. [...]
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Written by William Gantt, director of the Southern Literary Trail With the support of the Alabama Humanities Foundation, the Southern Literary Trail will soon begin three months of programs in Alabama to conclude with the Alabama Writers Symposium in Monroeville on May 7. The Alabama programs are part of the Trail’s tri-state “Trailfest,” which is [...]
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Click here for part one of this post. Napoleon Bonaparte, probably the foremost figure of the 19th Century, once cynically observed: “What is history but a fable agreed upon?” Sir Winston Churchill, arguably with Hitler the central figure of 20th-Century history, similarly said that “History is written by the victors.” Why, then, do many people [...]
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