Teaching Public History Creatively in Alabama: About (Public) Face [Paperback]

Introduction? 1. Origin Story: Engaging Postwar Miami via an Installation and a Museum Exhibit? 2. Using Tuscaloosa as Lab to Intuit the Antebellum Past? 3. Hunting for Antebellum Huntsville with Two Student Researchers? 4. Locating Four (Black) Women in Antebellum Tuscaloosa via Diaries? 5. A Football Stadium and Scavenger Hunt: Dissecting Postwar Social Conflict? 6. Upending Southern Belle Stereotype in Mansions and on a College Campus? 7.? Hey, Mr. D.J. : Recovering Social Conflict Via Mixtapes, a University Chapel and a Digital Installation? 8.?What Zora Neale Hurston, Octavia Butler and Art in the Oldest Campus Dwelling and a Tiny House Can Teach Us? Conclusion

This book chronicles a University of Alabama historians efforts to engage public history over the course of a decade, highlighting personal and educational experiences inside and outside of the classroom.

Sharony Green, an award-winning writer, is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama. She earned her PhD in History at the University of Illinois. Her published work includes The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras (2023). She is a native of Miami, Florida.

This book chronicles a University of Alabama historians efforts to engage public history over the course of a decade, highlighting personal and educational experiences inside and outside of the classroom.

Each chapter reveals how Sharony Green, her students, and collaborators used various public places and spaces in Alabama, including the University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa, where she teaches, as labs to learn more about our shared past. Inspired by her familiar beginnings in a historic community in Miami, Florida, the author, a descendant of people from the American South and the Bahamas, unveils her encounters with the built environment, old documents and objects, motion pictures, music, and lÃM