More than eighty years ago, on March 25, 1931, nine young African Americans hopped a train in a Chattanooga freight yard and headed west to seek work. Instead, they found themselves joined together at the center of a life and death courtroom drama, falsely accused of rape. The Scottsboro Boys’ cases focused an international spotlight …
Taste of the Tide is a collaborative student guide to cooking and dining in college. The site includes dorm-friendly recipes, restaurant recommendations, tips for getting the most out of dining halls, and guidance on how to eat healthy as a college student.
This site is devoted to the Department of Religious Studies‘ “REL Goes to Greece 2011” annual study abroad program–begun in 2008–which brings a small group of University of Alabama undergraduate students to Thessaloniki, Greece, for three weeks. This site’s content (i.e., the posts created by all those participating in the May 2011 trip) focuses on the ways in which different versions of an idealized past are created and communicated by different contemporary social actors–in their narratives, behaviors, and institutions.
Culture on the Edge is comprised of a core collaborative research group and its invited guests. Together they interrogate the contradiction between the historicity of identity, which is always fluid over place and time, and common scholarly assertions of a static and ahistorical origin for an identity community (whether religious, national, ethnic, etc.) against which …
Crimson Fried is a student-authored forum for delicious recipes and contemporary food-related discourse.
Digital Archive Black Belt 100 Lenses creates opportunities for high school students from Alabama’s Black Belt to comment on the region’s unique histories and cultures through photography.
A series of online exhibitions about various historical southern art topics. Each project on the site was researched, written, and curated by a student. This digital resource documents a wide variety of subjects in the history of southern art will grow, becoming a valuable point of reference for students and scholars in the field working nationally and internationally, as well as the general public.
Erin O’Rourke’s Spanish 485/585 class analyzed the changes in the Spanish language through recording themselves speaking the old pronunciations and annotating their own pieces to demonstrate where changes occurred. Project Owner(s): Erin O’Rourke Tools: WordPress Methods: audio recording Topics: Spanish Language View Bringing the Past to Life
This oral history archive has been created by students in Dr. Sarah Steinbock-Pratt’s class on the Vietnam War. The course explores the long history of the Vietnam War, beginning with early Vietnamese history and colonization.
Dr. Karen Gardiner’s EN 455 (Advanced Studies in Writing) course has students recovering family stories from the Great Depression, contextualizing the person they study into their historical and cultural context, and then writing essays that convey that information to a wider audience.