The Houston Cole Library holds multiple archival and other items related to Alabama's History & Culture. Digitized versions of these materials can be found in this collection. Digitization efforts are ongoing, and new materials are added on a regular basis.
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Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy | Vol. 10: Reform and the Media: What Role for Journalists?
Bob Blalock, Frances Coleman, and John Fleming
Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy is a series originally recorded on VHS that features historians and other experts exploring different aspects of the Alabama Constitution of 1901. The original VHS set was made up of 15 tapes; the Library received 11 episodes as a donation. One tape (with episode 7) was unable to be played or digitized. The other 10 episodes are available for streaming and download.
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Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy | Vol. 11: Constitution-making in the 21st Century
G. Alan Tarr and Howard P. Walthall
Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy is a series originally recorded on VHS that features historians and other experts exploring different aspects of the Alabama Constitution of 1901. The original VHS set was made up of 15 tapes; the Library received 11 episodes as a donation. One tape (with episode 7) was unable to be played or digitized. The other 10 episodes are available for streaming and download.
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Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy | Vol. 1: What Is A State Constitution?
Gerald Johnson and Bo Torbert
Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy is a series originally recorded on VHS that features historians and other experts exploring different aspects of the Alabama Constitution of 1901. The original VHS set was made up of 15 tapes; the Library received 11 episodes as a donation. One tape (with episode 7) was unable to be played or digitized. The other 10 episodes are available for streaming and download.
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Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy | Vol. 2: Revolt and Reaction: Origins of the 1901 Alabama Constitution
Leah Rawls Atkins and Sam Webb
Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy is a series originally recorded on VHS that features historians and other experts exploring different aspects of the Alabama Constitution of 1901. The original VHS set was made up of 15 tapes; the Library received 11 episodes as a donation. One tape (with episode 7) was unable to be played or digitized. The other 10 episodes are available for streaming and download.
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Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy | Vol. 3: White Supremacy Triumphant: The 1901 Convention
Hardy Jackson
Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy is a series originally recorded on VHS that features historians and other experts exploring different aspects of the Alabama Constitution of 1901. The original VHS set was made up of 15 tapes; the Library received 11 episodes as a donation. One tape (with episode 7) was unable to be played or digitized. The other 10 episodes are available for streaming and download.
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Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy | Vol. 4: Big Mules Vs. Reformers: A Clash of Wills
Wayne Flynt and Anne Permaloff
Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy is a series originally recorded on VHS that features historians and other experts exploring different aspects of the Alabama Constitution of 1901. The original VHS set was made up of 15 tapes; the Library received 11 episodes as a donation. One tape (with episode 7) was unable to be played or digitized. The other 10 episodes are available for streaming and download.
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Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy | Vol. 5: State Government: How Effective?
Robert M. Schaefer and Brad Moody
Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy is a series originally recorded on VHS that features historians and other experts exploring different aspects of the Alabama Constitution of 1901. The original VHS set was made up of 15 tapes; the Library received 11 episodes as a donation. One tape (with episode 7) was unable to be played or digitized. The other 10 episodes are available for streaming and download.
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Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy | Vol. 6: Missing: Local Democracy
Joe Sumners and William Stewart
Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy is a series originally recorded on VHS that features historians and other experts exploring different aspects of the Alabama Constitution of 1901. The original VHS set was made up of 15 tapes; the Library received 11 episodes as a donation. One tape (with episode 7) was unable to be played or digitized. The other 10 episodes are available for streaming and download.
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Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy | Vol. 8: Grass Roots Vs. Special Interests
Natalie Davis and Odessa Woolfolk
Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy is a series originally recorded on VHS that features historians and other experts exploring different aspects of the Alabama Constitution of 1901. The original VHS set was made up of 15 tapes; the Library received 11 episodes as a donation. One tape (with episode 7) was unable to be played or digitized. The other 10 episodes are available for streaming and download.
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Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy | Vol. 9: How Reform Might Work in Alabama
Albert Brewer and Thomas E. Corts
Alabama Constitution: 100 Years of Controversy is a series originally recorded on VHS that features historians and other experts exploring different aspects of the Alabama Constitution of 1901. The original VHS set was made up of 15 tapes; the Library received 11 episodes as a donation. One tape (with episode 7) was unable to be played or digitized. The other 10 episodes are available for streaming and download.
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Calhoun County: Past, Present, and Future: Symposium on the Historical Development of Calhoun County | Vol. 1
Jacksonville State University
This video, originally in U-Matic format, was recorded at the Houston Cole Library. It covers a symposium examining different aspects of the historic and economic development of Calhoun County, Alabama. These include: pre-history, historic period, oral history, history of Fort McClellan, history of Jacksonville State University, organizations, and demography. The video was sponsored by the Committee for the Humanities in Alabama and Jacksonville State University. Speakers include: Harry Holstein, Worden Weaver, Douglas McConatha, Luke Owen, Jerry Smith, Adrian Aveni, and Howard G. Johnson.
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Calhoun County: Past, Present, and Future: Symposium on the Historical Development of Calhoun County | Vol. 2
Jacksonville State University
This video, originally in U-Matic format, was recorded at the Houston Cole Library. It covers a symposium examining different aspects of the historic and economic development of Calhoun County, Alabama. These include: pre-history, historic period, oral history, history of Fort McClellan, history of Jacksonville State University, organizations, and demography. The video was sponsored by the Committee for the Humanities in Alabama and Jacksonville State University. Speakers include: Harry Holstein, Worden Weaver, Douglas McConatha, Luke Owen, Jerry Smith, Adrian Aveni, and Howard G. Johnson.
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Mr. X and Mr. Y: Source Materials
Donald Brown
This collection of notes, photographs, and newspaper clippings includes some of the source materials used by Donald Brown (b. 1936) for his book, Mr. X and Mr. Y. Mr. Brown was a reporter for the Birmingham News who covered the so-called "torso murders" -- the murders of brothers Emmett and Lee Harper, whose dismembered bodies were found in Etowah and St. Clair counties in Alabama in June 1959. A 31-year-old Calhoun County woman, Viola Hyatt, confessed to the murders, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to Tutwiler prison. The included photographs were taken by photographer Norman Dean, of the Birmingham News.
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Historic Jacksonville: Semi-Centennial, 1902-1952
Annie Rowan Forney Daugette and Edith Schoonmaker Wilson
This work was published by the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce and the United Daughters of the Confederacy to celebrate the history of Jacksonville at the semi-centennial (1902-1952) of the founding of the General John H. Forney Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Written by Annie Rowan Forney Daugette, daughter of a Civil War veteran and wife of State Normal School president C.W. Daugette, it primarily contains information on the historic homes of Jacksonville and those who built and lived in them, as well as other points of interest (e.g., the Public Square, the First Baptist Church, the State Normal School, etc.). The photographs were made by Edith Schoonmaker Wilson.