Press Releases and Photos

SEPTEMBER 2011

—AHF invites you to visit our latest site for the traveling exhibition "Journey Stories" at the Perry County Chamber of Commerce in Marion. The exhibit will be housed at this location from Sept. 29-Nov. 10. For more information, view our press release.

AUGUST 2011

—Join us on Monday, Sept. 26, 2011, at noon at the Wynfrey Hotel for our annual awards luncheon, honoring Elaine W. Hughes and Wells Fargo. Gen. Charles C. Krulak, new president of Birmingham-Southern College, will be the keynote speaker. For more information, please visit our luncheon website or view our press release.

—The next Museum on Main Street exhibit, "Journey Stories," opens in Alexander City on August 13 and will tour six host sites in Alabama through April 2012. For the full press release. For more information, please visit our Journey Stories website.

JUNE 2011

—Project Turn the Page, an AHF initiative, will use a $30,000 emergency grant provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities to purchase books for the public libraries and schools damaged in the April 27 tornadoes. Humanities programs will also be included in a few of the affected communities. For more details, see the full press release here. To download the full press release, click here.

—The next Museum on Main Street exhibit, "Journey Stories," will tour six host sites in Alabama beginning June 25 in Jasper through 2012. For the full press release, click here. For more information, click here.

APRIL 2011

—Humanities Foundation awards two Alma Bryant High School students for documenting their communities through photos. To download the full press release, please click here. For examples of the students' photos, please see our Newsroom page. To obtain copies of the photos to print with your story, please contact Jennifer Dome: jdome@ahf.net or (205) 558-3991.

MARCH 2011

—AHF announces winners of Whetstone-Seaman Faculty Development Award. To download the full press release, please click here.

FEBRUARY 2011

—AHF is now accepting applications for this year's SUPER teacher institutes. To read full details, please click here.

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JANUARY 2011

—AHF announces a special presentaton and panel discussion on civility, March 25 at the Alabama Archives and History in Montgomery. For full details, please click here.

—AHF is now accepting applications for this year's SUPER Emerging Scholars institutes for high school students. To read full details, please click here.

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—AHF is now accepting applications for the Jenice Riley Memorial Scholarship. To read full details, please click here.

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—AHF is pleased to introduce the new board officers for 2011:
Jim Noles of Birmingham, chair
John Rochester of Ashland, vice chair
Danny Patterson of Mobile, treasurer
Lisa Narrell-Mead of Birmingham, secretary
Nancy Sanford of Sheffield, executive committee
Reggie Hamner of Montgomery, executive committee

Read the full press release here.

DECEMBER 2010

—The Alabama Humanities Foundation is bringing the National Humanities Conference to Birmingham in 2013! Click here to read the full press release.

OCTOBER 2010

Read about our successful 2010 fall luncheon, with award winners Edgar Welden and the Robert R. Meyer Foundation, as well as AHF's 2010 Jenice Riley scholarship winners, here.