Episode 81 -- Dan Puckett on the Alabama Holocaust Commission

Episode 81 – Dan Puckett discusses the Alabama Holocaust Commission
Air Date: January 7, 2025 Dan Puckett, chair of the Alabama
Holocaust Commission, discusses the Commission’s history, mission,
program of work, and future. He also talks about adding Holocaust
studies to Alabama’s 2024 Social Studies Standards for K-12
education, the purposes of Holocaust education, and his 2014 book,
In the Shadow of Hitler: Alabama’s Jews, the Second World War, and
the Holocaust (University of Alabama Press). Dr. Puckett is a
professor of history at Troy University. Transcript here (caveat –
possibly not 100 % accurate): https://tinyurl.com/mur9ap82 Links
mentioned in this episode: Alabama Historical Association:
https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Alabama Holocaust Commission:
https://alabamaholocaustcommission.org/ Alabama Department of
Archives and History: https://archives.alabama.gov/ Yom HaShoah
(via Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_HaShoah Gulf
Coast Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education:
https://www.gcholocaustcenter.org/ Alabama Holocaust Education
Center: https://ahecinfo.org/ Alabama State Department of Education
Social Studies Standards (available after ca. mid-January 2025):
https://www.alabamaachieves.org/acad-stand/ Birmingham Public
Library Department of Archives and Manuscripts:
http://www.cobpl.org/locations/central/archives/ (Book) In the
Shadow of Hitler:
https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817381073/in-the-shadow-of-hitler/