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 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 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
By Jessie Todd Johnson MSNHA graduate assistant Hello, and welcome to the third post about the Journal of Muscle Shoals History! If you missed parts Nos. 1 and 2, be
By Brian CorriganMSNHA consultant When I was a child growing up in the nearby Shoals, Decatur was synonymous with the Point Mallard water park. But it turns out the River
By Jordan Collier Assistant Genealogy and Local History Librarian Florence-Lauderdale Public Library It may come as a surprise that industry in antebellum Lauderdale County was remarkably advanced and diversified. Abundant
By Greg Gresham North Alabama Civil War Round Table MSNHA note: This post includes contemporary Civil War accounts using language we consider offensive today. We have many Civil War stories
By Dixie Norwood MSNHA graduate assistant Did you know that an Olympic winner was born here in northwest Alabama? That future Olympic athlete and winner, named Jesse Owens, was born Sept. 12, 1913, in
By Dixie Norwood MSNHA graduate assistant Did you know that the “Father of the Blues” was born and raised right in the heart of the Shoals area? William Christopher Handy was born