Alabama History Films (Page 2)

Sweet Home Alabama - 19th century homes in Alabama

The nineteenth-century homes featured in this program stand as monuments to a forgotten way of life that shaped the way we live today. Ranging from simple dogtrot cabins to elegant mansions, twenty rural and small-town homes are featured in short essays on topics such as architectural styles, the people who built them, or the people who care for them now. SHOW ME NOW

Up From the Ashes: The Rebirth of Phenix City shows how the National Guard crushed a crime syndicate here in 1954, radically changing the course of this historic river town. During WWII, many of the 100,000 soldiers who were stationed at Ft. Benning visited the clubs, gambling halls, and houses of prostitution in Phenix City. SHOW ME NOW

Mobile, Alabama is known as The Azalea City. But the spring explosion of blooms is a relatively new tradition. Azaleas were imported during the 1920s to create a tourist attraction. “On the Azalea Trail” tells about the flowering of tourism based on Mobile’s flora and fauna and the development of the area’s horticultural industry. SHOW ME NOW

In the summer of 1819, 44 men gathered inside the cabinet maker’s shop in Huntsville to write Alabama’s first constitution–the document that would create the laws necessary to enable this new territory to become a state. The Northwest Ordinance declared that a territory could become a state when its population grew to 60,000. The 1818 census revealed Alabama had reached that mark.SHOW ME NOW