By Ashley Steenson PhD candidate, History Dissertation Fellow University of Alabama Drafted in 1933 and first explained in a message to Congress by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Tennessee Valley
By Greg Gresham North Alabama Civil War Roundtable Please read the Part No. 1 post for background on “The man labelled as P–.” Normally it’s almost impossible to determine the
By Greg Gresham North Alabama Civil War Roundtable When I was a child, during the school-less summers the boys in my neighborhood would often tramp to the nearby woods to
By Greg Gresham North Alabama Civil War Round Table If you’ve ever been in Pope’s Tavern Museum, you might remember seeing an extremely large cannonball, much bigger than anything you
By Alana Rogers MSNHA graduate assistant Although you may not recognize his name, George Washington Goethals ranks was one of the most instrumental people who contributed to making the Shoals
By Jessie Johnson MSNHA graduate assistant Local museums are some of my favorite places to visit. I love learning about people and places I do not know much about. It
By Carrie Crawford MSNHA director Growing up in New England has made me very partial to fall. While we certainly have fall in Alabama, it doesn’t quite compare
By Terrence Johnson MSNHA programs coordinator Leaves are not litter. With another autumn, we’ve had the pleasure during the past few weeks to witness our leaves change color and begin
By Abraham Rowe In an effort to learn more about our communities from an insider perspective, the Muscle Shoals National Heritage Areas’s Hidden Spaces project asks folks from
By Jessie Johnson MSNHA graduate assistant The Shoals has several recording studios. Some of them are more famous than others but all have contributed to the area’s international reputation. One
By Jessie Johnson MSNHA graduate assistant When you think about the music scene in the Shoals, you do not think of country. You might think of Aretha Franklin, Percy Sledge
By Jessie Todd Johnson MSNHA graduate assistant What do the Beatles, the Stones & Bob Dylan all have in common? I know, what a random grouping & bizarre riddle for