Cake Walk is BACK!
This popular annual BHS event is finally back. Calling all Cakes! What’s your childhood favorite? Is it the Southern Living all time favorite, Hummingbird Cake? 7 Layer (difficult…
Thank you for your support!
It’s that time of year again! As a non-profit operating entirely with volunteers, we depend upon the support of our donors and the service of our Trustees. We…
“Dynamite Hill” unveiled Sunday, December 11th at Tabernacle Baptist Church
The Birmingham Historical Society’s newest book has 13 first-hand accounts of what it was like to grow up on Dynamite Hill, the neighborhood that was repeatedly bombed in…
Final 2022 Trustee Meeting Tuesday, December 13th
Don’t forget the final Trustee Meeting next Tuesday, December 13th, at noon for lunch, at our new offices at 2827 Highland Avenue. Note that according to the by-laws,…
Autograph Party for Birmingham’s Dynamite Hill – December 11, 2-4PM
You’re invited to attend an autograph party of our newest publication, Birmingham’s Dynamite Hill, with speakers who grew up on the hill in the 1950s and 1960s. The…
New Book Release! Birmingham’s Dynamite Hill
This is the compelling story of the fight over residential segregation laws as told by the people who lived it. The multiple bombings in the ‘40’s, 50s, and 60’s of the close-knit Birmingham…
Celebrating our New Home on Highland
After vacating 37 years at the Duncan House at Sloss Quarters, we celebrated the move to our new home at the historic Altamont Apartments on Highland Avenue this…
New Book Release – Coming Soon!
This is the story of a neighborhood just west of the Birmingham city center. Known since a subdivision in 1887 as Smithfield, North Smithfield, Graymont, and East Thomas,…
Open House
You’re invited to the official opening of our new location, 2827 Highland Avenue, on Birmingham’s Southside, in the historic Altamont Apartments, now called the Greenbriar at Altamont. Read…
Mark your Calendars for 2023
ANNUAL MEETING The Birmingham Historical Society’s Annual Meeting for 2023 has been scheduled for February 27, 2023 at 7 p.m. at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. (Free and open to…
Who Built The White House?
Find out at a lecture at Samford University, Thursday, October 20th by the president of the White House Historical Association, Stewart McLaurin. Tickets go on sale October 15th…
Celebrating a NEW/OLD (1924) Location
An historic 1924 apartment building on Highland Avenue is our NEW/OLD location! Birmingham Historical Society members and volunteers have been slowly moving 37 years of research documents and…
Trustees Board Meeting – September 13th
Please mark your calendars for the fall meeting of the Trustees of Birmingham Historical Society, the first in our new offices at 2827 Highland Avenue/35205 at noon on the second…
Help Save Shades Mountain with the SOUND of MUSIC!
Friends of Shades Mountain are sponsoring a Benefit Concertat Wild Roast Cafe in Bluff Park, featuring great live folk, mountain, and classical guitar music, as well as original…
We are MOVING! (We have MOVED!)
Please note our change of location to: 2827 Highland Avenue/Birmingham, AL 35205. At this time, the BHS business office is open ONLY for scheduled meetings and appointments, and…
Take me out to the OLDEST ballpark 🎵🎶
Lifetime and passionate baseball fan and writer, Sean Dietrich, aka Sean of the South, recently discovered Rickwood Field, America’s oldest ballpark, and brings it to life for us…
Genealogy Research – Ask a Librarian!
Birmingham Historical Society frequently receives requests for information on family histories, photograph archives, or specific Southern history items. The Birmingham Historical Society researches specific subjects and are not…
Birmingham’s Hot Weather Extremes
It is HOT today, and there is another heat alert advising people to be cautious, but it IS July. So thought we’d take a look at some of…
Heritage Society enjoys the Bush-Hill-Cooley Home
One of the most anticipated Birmingham Historical Society events each year is the annual Heritage Society party. It often features one of Birmingham’s most magnificent historic mansions and…
100th Birthday Observance of Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Historic Bethel Baptist Church, in conjunction with the Greater New Light Baptist Church of Cincinnati, Ohio, will celebrate the 100th birthday of Freedom Fighter, Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth, on March 18, 2022. The…
Colored Masonic Temple – A Step Back in Birmingham’s Civil Rights History
Attached is exclusive video from inside the Colored Masonic Temple, also known as the ”Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Alabama”, courtesy of photographer Hunter Stone at…
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