Episode 70 -- Katie Beasley On Her 2023 SAWH Taylor Award Winning Article

Episode 70 – Dr. Katie Beasley on her 2023 SAWH Thomas Award
winning article re: Alabama women and Curb Markets, 1923-1929. Air
Date: January 23, 2024 Dr. Katie Beasley, an independent scholar
who recently completed her doctorate at Florida State University,
discusses her article, “’I Am Planning to Buy a New Buick Coupe
Next Year”: Rural Women and Alabama’s Curb Markets, 1923-1929,”
Alabama Review 75, no. 2 (April 2022), for which she won the 2023
A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize from the Southern Association for Women
Historians. Her work examines how rural Alabama women converted
home demonstration instruction for their own purposes – making
money and selling in local curb markets in the 1920s. Links
mentioned in the episode: The Alabama Review
https://www.alabamahistory.net/the-alabama-review Southern
Association for Women Historians https://thesawh.org/ A. Elizabeth
Taylor Prize
https://thesawh.org/prizes-and-fellowships/a-elizabeth-taylor-prize/
Auburn University Special Collections and Archives
https://lib.auburn.edu/specialcollections/ Finding aid to the home
demonstration agent reports (ACES Records, RG 71, series 3)
https://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/find-aid/071/3.htm#3 University
of Georgia Press https://ugapress.org/ Rather read? Here's a link
to the transcript: http://tinyurl.com/ybnb59ub *Just a heads up –
the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate.
The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its
associate producer is Laura Murray. Founded in 1947, the Alabama
Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society
in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful
engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical
markers, and other programs. See the website
www.alabamahistory.net/