TROY students Mya Bell and Ciara Jones collect dirt in Perote, Alabama in memory of lynching victim Tobe McGrady.
A Troy University history class is doing its part to provide a sense of justice for victims of lynching in and around Pike County.
Students in Dr. Kathryn Tucker’s class, the African American Experience, have spent part of the spring semester researching lynching, searching out locations and filling jars with dirt from the sites where…
Dr. Marty Olliff celebrates Women's History Month with a look at the history of women's groups in the Wiregrass.
The women’s club movement in the U.S. began in the 1890s and was closely associated with the New Woman of the Progressive Era though the movement lasted well into the post-World War II era. It continues today.
Local women – from the elite in the white community and fewer but more broadly based among African-Americans…
Senior Vice Chancellor Walter Givhan will serve as chairman of the Alabama Historical Commission.
TROY University’s Senior Vice Chancellor for Advancement and Economic Development Gen. Walter Givhan has been named Chairman of the Alabama Historical Commission.
The AHC is the state’s official historic preservation agency. According to Givhan, the members of the commission are the “keepers of heritage.”
The commission is responsible for conducting geographic surveys and handling the…
Dr. Harvey "Hardy" Jackson will speak at the McPherson-Mitchell Lecture in Southern History on Jan. 23.
Author and historian Dr. Hardy Jackson will deliver the McPherson-Mitchell Lecture in Southern History on Jan. 23 inside Claudia Crosby Theater at Troy University’s Troy Campus.
Jackson’s lecture shares the title of his book, “The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera,” and will focus on the evolution of the Florida Panhandle Gulf Coast from…
