UAH co-hosts The Joy of Juneteenth with Dr. Opal Lee
Sep 13, 2022
The Joy of Juneteenth with Dr. Opal Lee Photo Credit James D. Teed September 6, 2022 | Nicholaos Jones The Humanities Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), in partnership with United Women of Color (UWOC), recently hoste...
UAH Theatre announces the 2022-2023 season
Aug 29, 2022
UAH Theatre announces the 2022-2023 season (#18) and it is REVOLTING! This year, we have focused on comedy, good feels, and REVOLUTION! Join us as we examine women and the revolution, an important cultural musical, and a readers series of ne...
UAH to host The Joy of Juneteenth with Dr. Opal Lee August 28 & 29, 2022
Aug 16, 2022
The Joy of Juneteenth brings Dr. Opal Lee to the City of Huntsville to discuss the history and significance of celebrating the anniversary of the day General Gordon Granger proclaimed the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas. Known as the “G...
History students create digital timelines
Aug 05, 2022
This past fall students in History 485/585 "Nazi Germany and the Holocaust" with Dr. Molly Johnson, Associate Professor of History, researched and created Timelines using a digital humanities tool called Timeline JS. Each timeline entry feat...
Sons honor father Dr. Mulk Arora by establishing CAHS lecture series on South Asian topics with $105K gift
Jul 26, 2022
Dr. Amit Arora, along with his brothers Vivek and Rahul Arora, have made a gift of $105,000 to UAH to honor their father’s 80th birthday. ...
History Internship Spotlight with Jacob Winton
Jul 13, 2022
Student History Blog: Jacob Winton, Senior History Major This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to spend ten weeks working at the Limestone Archives. While there, I digitized and created metadata for a correspondence collec...
Multi-generational UAH family continues their legacy of giving by establishing the Dailey and Pope Family History Scholarship
Jun 16, 2022
Vella Dailey (B.A. History ‘76) credits UAH as playing a significant role in her family’s success. ...
CS grad Jasmine Le wins Critical Language Scholarship to study Arabic in Jordan
Jun 10, 2022
Jasmine Le, a computer science graduate this spring at UAH has been named a recipient of a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Arabic in an intensive language setting this summer. ...
Dr. Frances C. Roberts, historian and one of UAH's founding lights, honored with marker dedication
May 25, 2022
This month UAH helped honor one of its own, Dr. Frances Cabaniss Roberts, a long-time faculty member in the history department, who played a major role in the founding of UAH but also in helping shape Huntsville, Alabama, into the community it is t...
UAH continues to discover the history of Avalon
May 16, 2022
The land currently occupied by UAH was a nineteenth-century cotton plantation called Avalon. Starting in the early 1800s, Avalon became one of the largest cotton plantations in Madison County. By 1860, 106 enslaved people worked the land and lived ...