Alabama Historical Association hosting 73rd annual meeting April 2-4

The Alabama Historical Association will hold its 73rd Annual Meeting in Florence on April 2-4 at the Marriott Shoals Conference Center. The meeting will include presentations from historians, tours of historic sites, keynote presentations and an awards banquet.

Thursday pre-meeting tours include a guided tour of “Village One” U.S. Nitrate Plant Village, the Julian House and St. John’s Episcopal Church. A reception and local history author book signing will take place at the University of North Alabama’s historic Rogers Hall in the evening. On Friday, events include a keynote presentation by Carrie Barske Crawford of the Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area, numerous paper presentations from historians around the state and region and tours of local historical sites. Friday evening’s award banquet will feature Jonathan Rieder, professor of sociology at Barnard College and Columbia University, who will discuss the civil rights legacy of the Shoals music tradition. Saturday’s session will include an archivists’ roundtable, paper presentations and an address by 2019-20 Alabama Historical Association President Frazine Taylor.

Sponsors for the annual meeting include UNA’s Department of History, Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area, Alabama Bicentennial Commission, Baldwin County Department of Archives and History, Alabama Department of Archives and History and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities at Auburn University.

For more information, to register or join the AHA, go to www.alabamahistory.net.