Episodes
Wednesday Jan 13, 2016
The Huntsvillain History Podcast with John O’Brien
Wednesday Jan 13, 2016
Wednesday Jan 13, 2016
Wednesday Dec 16, 2015
Spicecast #60: Huntsvillain History with John O’Brien
Wednesday Dec 16, 2015
Wednesday Dec 16, 2015
Since writing an intensive paper on divorce in the 19th century in Alabama, John O’Brien found time and time again, evidence that The Tennessee Valley has always been a crazy place.
O’Brien utilizes the extensive archives of Alabama’s oldest city, Huntsville, to find some of the most bizarre, hilarious, and telling stories in Alabama history.
From brothel busts and UFOs to spited lovers and family feuds O’Brien’s blog “Huntsvillain” covers all the dirty laundry of Alabama History, and there’s a LOT of it.
On today’s Spicecast O’Brien discusses his blog and upcoming podcast and apparently the only Christmas story he could dredge up, the only hint I can give you is it involves 4 men and corn.
Tune in tonight and tomorrow at 8pm to hear the full story, or you can download the podcast at 8pm on our podcasts page, and of course our itunes.
Friday Dec 21, 2018
Huntsvillain History Season 2 - Episode #1 Petition of 1828
Friday Dec 21, 2018
Friday Dec 21, 2018
On August 13th, 1828 11 enslaved people sued two white men for their freedom in the court of Huntsville Alabama. This was one of only two court cases John O'Brien has ever found that included enslaved people as litigants and not as property.
Today's case covered a vast expanse of 1800's civil rights including a women's right to property and "Manumission" -where a slave owner willingly frees their slaves usually upon their death. We also discuss the documentation required of free black people during the era.
Find the blog at https://huntsvillain.wordpress.com/ for more tales of Alabama or catch us on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/huntsvillain
Thursday Mar 14, 2019
Huntsvillain History Season 2 - Episode #3 The Ballad of James G. Birney
Thursday Mar 14, 2019
Thursday Mar 14, 2019
James G. Birney is one of the few self-professed abolitionists from the Deep South and specifically Alabama. His life and work provides an insight into the evolving American attitudes towards slavery and its moral failings from the 1790’s to his death immediately prior to the Civil War. Birney was a deeply imperfect man and his path from slaveholder to first Presidential candidate for the anti-slavery Liberty Party traces a strange path across American politics in the Antebellum.
Saturday Feb 13, 2016
Huntsvillain History #02 – With John O’Brien and Ben Jobe
Saturday Feb 13, 2016
Saturday Feb 13, 2016
Just in time for your Valentine, a new scandalous episode of Huntsvillain History!
John O’Brien is back in Spice Rack studios with a raunchy tale of Alabama debauchery: The Maddammes of Madison County, women who held such a great New Years Party that we’re still talking about it almost two hundred years later.
Join us on an adventure through wild side of old Huntsville with this month’s Episode of Huntsvillain History with John O’Brien and Ben Jobe.=