The Fall 2018 issue of Alabama Heritage magazine highlights twenty-five years of Places in Peril. The Places in Peril program began being published in Alabama Heritage in 1994 as a way to highlight threatened historic sites throughout Alabama. The list is compiled by the Alabama Historical Commission and the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation. Besides the 2018 list of endangered landmarks, Michael Panhorst assesses what has happened to many of the historic locations over the past 25 years.
Other features include Nimrod Frazer’s look at Alabamians on the Point in the Argonne Forest. The American Army made numerous attempts to take the Cote de Chatillon, but none succeeded—until Alabama’s 167th Infantry Regiment reached the scene.
The 1918 influenza pandemic “came like a cyclone” in Alabama and killed millions of people around the world and close to home. Author James Baggett reveals how the disease spread fastest among people in close quarters, causing the governor of Alabama to close schools, theatres, and churches, and ban public gatherings.
Historian Scotty Kirkland brings to light the life of Mobile Civil Rights organizer John L. LeFlore, whose fifty-year career of activism brought about great change for African-Americans in Alabama and the South.
Regular departments found in the Fall 2018 issue include Alabama Makers, Behind the Image, From the Archives, Adventures in Genealogy, Reading the Southern Past, and much more.
About Alabama Heritage
Alabama Heritage, celebrating more than 30 years of fine publishing, is co-published by the University of Alabama, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the Alabama Department of Archives and History. The quarterly magazine covers a variety of subjects related to Alabama history and culture, and has garnered numerous local, regional, and national awards over the years. Copies are available for purchase at the University of Alabama Supply Store, at Barnes & Nobles and Books-a-Millions throughout the state, and online at www.alabamaheritage.com. Readers can also follow the magazine on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Google+, and YouTube.
The 1918 influenza pandemic “came like a cyclone” in Alabama and killed millions of people around the world and close to home. Author James Baggett reveals how the disease spread fastest among people in close quarters, causing the governor of Alabama to close schools, theatres, and churches, and ban public gatherings.
Historian Scotty Kirkland brings to light the life of Mobile Civil Rights organizer John L. LeFlore, whose fifty-year career of activism brought about great change for African-Americans in Alabama and the South.
Regular departments found in the Fall 2018 issue include Alabama Makers, Behind the Image, From the Archives, Adventures in Genealogy, Reading the Southern Past, and much more.
About Alabama Heritage
Alabama Heritage, celebrating more than 30 years of fine publishing, is co-published by the University of Alabama, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the Alabama Department of Archives and History. The quarterly magazine covers a variety of subjects related to Alabama history and culture, and has garnered numerous local, regional, and national awards over the years. Copies are available for purchase at the University of Alabama Supply Store, at Barnes & Nobles and Books-a-Millions throughout the state, and online at www.alabamaheritage.com. Readers can also follow the magazine on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Google+, and YouTube.
