A native of Birmingham, Leah Rawls Atkins taught history at Auburn University, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Samford University, and retired as director of the Auburn University Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in 1995. Atkins is a coauthor of Alabama: The History of a Deep South State with Wayne Flynt, William W. Rogers, and David Ward. The University of Alabama Press released a revised, updated Bicentennial Edition in late 2016.
Leah Rawls Atkins’s Featured Articles:
- Ralph “Shug” Jordan: A Quiet Heroism (Issue 122)
- Empowering Alabama: The James Mitchell Story (Issue 81)
- William Benson and the Kowaliga School (Issue 76)
- Coeducation in Alabama: “In Accord with Nature” (Issue 30)
- Feuds, Factions, and Reform: Politics in Early Birmingham (Issue 1)
