Join the Alabama Humanities Alliance throughout 2024 as we celebrate a half-century of telling Alabama's stories!
Read our year-end recap!
For 50 years, storytelling has remained at the heart of who we are and what we do. When we explore the humanities — our history, literature, culture, art, and more — what we’re really doing is getting to know each other better. We’re sharing, and listening, to each other’s stories. We’re linking the past to the present. And we’re discovering the common ground, and the common humanity, that binds us all.
This page helps to capture an exciting 2024! Thank you for joining us often to celebrate our first 50 years (including our year-end celebration in Birmingham on December 2!), participate in original programs, and discover new storytelling series. Thank you, too, for supporting AHA’s “$500K for 50” campaign and helping us tell Alabama’s stories for another 50 years — and beyond.
This year, we gathered some of our partners, grant recipients, and allies to discuss the humanities’ impact in Alabama. Hear from Alabamians who have worked with us to lift up their communities, strengthen our democracy, and make our state an ever smarter, kinder, and more vibrant place to live.
Our 50th anniversary celebrations included an Alabama Colloquium series in Huntsville (with Brittany Howard and Jason Isbell) and Birmingham (with Rick Bragg and Roy Wood Jr). We also offered “learning from literature” workshops; our latest Smithsonian traveling exhibit; nearly 80 talks from our Road Scholar storytellers; and much more. Check out the rotator for highlights and bookmark our Events Calendar for 2025 offerings!
In Conversation: Rick Bragg + Roy Wood Jr.
Road Scholars: Storytelling statewide
The Art of Healing
In Conversation: Jason Isbell + Brittany Howard
AHA 2024 Workshop Series
Crossroads: Change in Rural Alabama
Throughout 2024, we enlisted some of Alabama’s most compelling writers, artists, and thinkers to reflect on what it means to be human in Alabama. And to share their hopes for our next 50 years.
Each month brings a new story. Read the latest below as the stories continue!
