Episode 88 - Virginia Cain on the 2025 Milo Howard Award

Air Date: October 6, 2025 Dr. Virginia Cain, 2023 graduate of the
University of Alabama, discusses her article, “Red Mountain Ladies,
How Prostitution Shaped Birmingham, Alabama, from 1871 to 1920,”
published in the Alabama Review, April 2023 that won the Alabama
Historical Association’s 2025 Milo Howard Award for best article in
the Alabama Review in the previous two years. Dr. Cain also
discusses a companion article she published in the Tennessee
Historical Quarterly about a Nashville madam, and her dissertation,
“We Built These Cities on Rocks and Hos,” that compare late 19th
century prostitution in Birmingham and Nashville. Transcript:
https://tinyurl.com/yhfyt58t Links mentioned in the episode –
Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/
AHA’s Milo B. Howard Award:
https://www.alabamahistory.net/milo-b-howard-award Alabama Review:
https://www.alabamahistory.net/the-alabama-review Birmingham, AL:
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/birmingham/ Birmingham
Public Library Archives:
https://www.cobpl.org/locations/central/archives/ Louise Wooster:
https://bhamwiki.com/w/Louise_Wooster Nashville, TN:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nashville,_Tennessee
Tennessee Historical Quarterly:
https://tennesseehistory.org/publications/tennessee-historical-quarterly/
The Alabama History Podcast’s producer is Marty Olliff. 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.