Homeschoolers and history-interested parents can still enjoy the Resources page. Also, we will post videos showing a few of the speakers and activities when the workshop wraps up in October.
So far, you can see most of the schedule online at the website above (though this doesn't provide much information about the nitty-gritty). The young historians will learn various skills, including primary source research, cartography, timeline construction, constructing secondary sources and narratives, interpreting archival materials, exploring
They will also have the opportunity to be part of a Living Tuscaloosa Timeline on the evening of Friday, October 15th in which they will act out a character from Tuscaloosa history. A few of the persons we will be discussing include:
- Local family members
- Dinah Washington, "Queen of the Blues"
- Professor Hudson Strode, Renaissance scholar
- Samuel Minturn Peck, Alabama's first poet laureate
- Roland Harper, botanist
- W.S. Hoole
- Johnny Shines, blues musician
- The Tuscaloosa poets associated with the Southron literary journal
- John Beecher, poet, businessman and activist
- Amelia Gayle Gorgas
- Carl Carmer, journalist and author
- Rick Bragg, living journalist and author
- Chief Tuskaloosa
- T. Y. Rogers
- Byron Arnold, folk song collector
- Peter Bryce, doctor
- Millard and Linda Fuller, founders of Habitat for Humanity
- John Drish
- George Edwin Starbuck, poet
- Robert Jemison, Jr.
As the workshop progresses, I'll share some of the many interesting handouts and materials compiled for the benefit of our creative participants.
A few, for starters:
- An excerpt from "What Is Tuscaloosa" by Ben Windham, which we will use as a journal prompt for our own impressions of Tuscaloosa.
- Dinah Washington Biography Handout
In addition, the following have been used to frame and develop various activities and learning opportunities:
- "How Can I Use Oral History in School?"
- Children and Elders Sharing Stories: Lessons From Two Online Oral History Projects
- Oral History in the Classroom
- Oral History Activities
- Oral History Instruction Guide from the Virginia Folklife Association
- Maps and Globes Lesson Plans
- University of Alabama Digital Archives
- University of Alabama Hoole Special Collections Library
- Using Manuscripts and Archives, an online tutorial from Yale
- The Archivists Toolkit
- Bibliomania, a classic. No pun intended.
- Digital Archive of American Architecture
- Southern Mosaic
- US News Archives on the Web
- The Alabama Indian Tribe
- Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas
- "The Alabama-Coushatta Indians" by G.E. Moore
- Regional overview of American Indian clothing styles for southeast region
- Alabama Archaeology: Prehistoric Alabama
- "Yellowhammer: An Alabama Folk Tale"
(The image above is kept in the University of Alabama Hoole Special Collections Library, which can be accessed online through the Digital Collections. It shows a creek near "Lake Lorraine", which must have become Lake Lurleen or must have been eradicated by the construction of the Tombigbee Waterway.)
