Mobile History Project 

BLOG SCHEDULE 

 

05.19.21  Pirates and Slave Traders of Antebellum Mobile 

 

05.26.21  Iconic Mobile...Vote for Mobile's Most Iconic Image! 

06.02.21   1839 : Snapshot of Mobile

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06.09.21  Historic Bay Shell Road 

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06.16.21 1906: Snapshot of Mobile

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06.23.21  Rituals of Sickness and Death in Antebellum Mobile

 

06.16.21 1850: Snapshot of Mobile 

 

06.23.21 The Story Behind The Landing at Africa Town 

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06.30.21 The Depth of Mobile Bay: At the Center of the City's History

 

07.07.21 Oaks of Mobile 
 

07.14.21 Animals in The City: Managing Dogs, Cows, and Other Animals in Old Mobile 

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07.21.21 Early Moments in Mobile's Baseball History 

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08.04.21 The Quandary of Race and the Creole Community in Antebellum Mobile 

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08.11.21 Escaping Yellow Fever in Mobile & Those Who Stayed Behind 

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08.18.21 The Yellow Fever Death Toll in Mobile 

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08.25.21 The French Community of Spring Hill ​

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09.01.21  The Legacy of Mobile's Lost Cause

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09.08.21 Segregation and Mobile's Conflicted Memory of the Jim Crow Era 

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09.15.21 The Legacy of Francois Diard: Memory, Myth and Civic Identity in Mobile

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09.22.21  The Legacy of Joe Cain, Julian Rayford : Politics and Festivity in Mobile 

Mobile Dialogue 

BLOG SCHEDULE 

Dialogue & Debate 

Topics and Local Updates

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05.21

Principles of Placemaking: Creating Community Spaces

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05.28

What Happens When Culture is Underfunded 

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06.04

Festivalization : Why it Works Here

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06.11

Confederate Monument Debates 

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06.18

City Election Candidates 

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06.25

City Election Candidates Con't

 

07.02

The Mobile Budget

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07.09

The Mobile Budget Con't 

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