By Jessie Todd JohnsonMSNHA graduate student Alabama does Helen Keller a disservice. We overlook how interesting and witty she was by focusing only on her “Miracle Worker” roots. I remember
Join Project Threadways, in Florence, Thursday-Saturday, April 20–22. We’ll share stories of those have worked with textiles and in the process created economic opportunity, organized resistance & achieved self-determination. The
The Florence Indian Mound Museum is hosting a series of children’s programs on the Shoals’ early history using short lessons & hands-on learning. The programs explore 12 Native American figures
By Jordan Collier Assistant Genealogy and Local History Librarian Florence-Lauderdale Public Library Here’s a Civil War trivia question for you: Which (in)famous Union general crossed the Tennessee River at Waterloo
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
The Florence Indian Mound & Museum’s Young Learners’ Series, 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, focuses on Arthur C. Parker, Seneca, a museum director & archaeologist and an early advocate for
By Terrence Johnson MSNHA programs coordinator Join us as we help restore the schoolhouse/community center of U.S. Nitrate Plant Village One, in Sheffield! In 1916 & in preparation for the
By Greg Gresham North Alabama Civil War Round Table On June 6, 1895, one Henry Newton Pharr sat down in his home at Lagrange, Arkansas, to write a tribute to
By Dixie Norwood MSNHA graduate assistant As we begin the month of October, storytellers throughout the MSNHA dust off their tales of the weird & spooky. But do you know
By Dixie Norwood MSNHA graduate assistant Could you imagine Muscle Shoals becoming the “Detroit of the South”? Well, this almost occurred. Just before the end of World War I, two nitrate plants were completed
By Tori Shaw, MSNHA graduate assistant When you buy an historic home, perhaps the most significant challenge is the process of restoration. When we think of restoring historic homes, however,
By Tori Shaw MSNHA graduate assistant hether you are simply interested in finding the date it was built or you hope to uncover the full history of your home, there