David E. Alsobrook was born in Eufaula, Alabama, and grew up in Mobile, where he currently resides with his wife, Ellen. He earned graduate history degrees at West Virginia University and Auburn University. He served as an archivist at the Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH), supervisory archivist at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, and as the founding director of the George H. W. Bush and William J. Clinton Presidential Libraries. His earlier article in Alabama Heritage became the genesis for his book, Southside: Eufaula’s Cotton Mill Village and its People, 1890–1945, published by Mercer University Press (MUP) in 2017 and recipient of the Alabama Historical Association’s C. J. Coley Award the following year. MUP also will publish his forthcoming work, Presidential Archivist: A Memoir, in December 2020. David passed away on October 28, 2021 at the age of 75.
David E. Alsobrook’s Featured Articles:
- “Donald Comer’s Great Adventure in the Philippines,1899-1902” (Issue 137)
- “Southside and Eufaula’s Cowikee Mills Village, 1910-1945” (Issue 119)
