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…
Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees, tribal archivist for the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, speaks during the annual McPherson-Mitchell Lecture.
The annual McPherson-Mitchell Lecture in Southern History on Thursday, Jan. 19, focused on the importance of education to a Native American tribe in Alabama and their struggle for equal educational and civil rights.
Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees, tribal archivist for the Poarch Band of Creek Indians and director of the tribe’s Office of Archives and Records…
