Displaying items by tag: Department of History
November 18, 2010
UAB Professor is State’s Best, Says Carnegie Foundation
Andrew Keitt, Ph.D., an associate professor of history in the University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Arts and Sciences has been named the 2010 Alabama Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
September 27, 2010
Mountain of Memories
The mines of Birmingham’s Red Mountain fell silent nearly 50 years ago, but Ike Matson never did.
September 13, 2010
Telling Tales: Teaching Students to Capture Oral Histories
Last fall, historians Pamela Sterne King and Staci Glover, along with visual and applied anthropologist Rosie O'Beirne, debuted Untold Stories: Finding and Telling Stories You Haven't Heard in History Class.
July 20, 2010
Study Away 2010: Japan
In 2010, Dr. John E. Van Sant led a study away group focusing on the history and culture of Japan.
June 30, 2010
Living History
For the past several semesters, UAB historian Andrew Keitt has been experimenting with a different way of teaching—a form of time travel called Reacting to the Past, in which students live ideas, rather than memorize them.
May 31, 2010
Study Away 2010: Historic Preservation in the South
In 2010, Pamela Sterne King led a group of UAB students on a study away focusing on Historic Preservation in the American South.
August 11, 2009
UAB Professor Researches Historic Birmingham Neighborhoods
UAB Professor Pamela Sterne King tells the story of one of Birmingham's oldest neighborhoods, Fountain Heights, through historic preservation.
September 10, 2007
Green Dreams: Birmingham Park Plans Bloom Again
Call it an industrial evolution. Birmingham, once smothered in smoke and soot, could soon be covered in green—and reign as the nation's number-one city in park land per capita.
