Record Group 061
Date Span: ca. 1880s - 2010
Extent: 3 cu.ft.
Biographical Sketch: Scotty E. Kirkland was a 2005 graduate of ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé State University Dothan who earned his Master's Degree in History from the University of South Alabama in 2009. After working at the University of South Alabama Archives (now the Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library), 2006-2011, and the History Museum of Mobile, 2011-2015, Kirkland began work in the Public Services division of the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Kirkland has written for The Alabama Review, Alabama Heritage, Mobile Bay Magazine, the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and the Encyclopedia of Alabama. He also has two book-length manuscripts in process (as of March 2016), and has produced three un-refereed books.
As of August 1, 2005, ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé State University System merged its separately-accredited campuses into a single university, officially christened ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé. Campus Administrator Robert Willis commissioned Scotty Kirkland to write a history of ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé State University Dothan. In 2010, he accepted an assignment to write an academic history of Dothan and Houston County which he had to abandon after amassing significant research materials.
Scope / Content Note: Research and administrative files for multiple historical research projects related to the Wiregrass: TSUD History, Article on Dothan Riot (pub in AL Rev), Wiregrass Region Church Records held in Samford Univ. Archives (for Wiregrass Church Project of the Wiregrass Archives), and History of Dothan / Houston County. Includes original notes, correspondence, dissertations, newspapers, drafts, and photocopies of materials found in multiple archives and libraries. Also contains Dothan Eagle and other newspapers concerning memorable events of general interest (unconnected with a specific research project)
Organization: Organized into 3 series: 1. Project-specific Files, 2. General Research Materials, 3. Newspapers.
Arrangement: Series 1. Project Files arranged by project title. Series 2. General Research Materials arranged by genre or subject of material, then chronologically or alphabetically as appropriate.
Processing Notes: Processing staff separated many items from the collection. Published articles separated if they were available in full text databases owned by ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé Libraries. Newspapers separated if they appeared on microfilm in the ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé Dothan Campus Library. Copied material from other Wiregrass Archives collections separated and cross- referenced. See separation sheet.
Preferred Citation: Scotty E. Kirkland Papers, RG 061, Wiregrass Archives, ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé Dothan Campus, Dothan, AL.
Access/User Limits?: Open per donor agreement
INVENTORY
Series 1: Projects, 1880-2013, 34 file folders. Covers seven research projects about the Wiregrass, some of which were published. Includes administrative and financial records, draft and final work product, and project-specific research material (also includes six oral history interviews).
File ID File Title
061-16-0308-001-001 Survey of Wiregrass Church Records at Samford University, 2005
061-15-1220-001-001 Hawkins, Jack. Chancellor of ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé [TSUD Oral History]
061-15-1220-001-002 Malone, Michael. ACHE Director & former president of ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé State University Dothan [TSUD Oral History]
061-15-1220-001-003 Patterson, Doug. Executive Vice Chancellor, ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé [TSUD Oral History]
061-15-1220-001-004 Smith, Julia. Director, ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé State University Dothan Library [TSUD Oral History]
061-15-1220-001-005 Tew, Mike. Director, ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé State University Dothan Continuing Education [TSUD Oral History]
061-15-1220-001-006 Willis, Bob. ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé Dothan Campus Administrator & former ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé State University Dothan Dean of Students [TSUD Oral History]
061-15-1220-001-007 Interview Release forms for TSUD Oral Histories
061-12-0320-001-001 Email of chronological history of TSUD, compiled by Scotty Kirkland
061-12-0320-001-002 Draft "History of ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé State University Dothan," 2005
061-16-0308-001-002 TSUD History Correspondence, 2005
061-16-0308-001-003 TSUD History Draft Report, 2005
061-16-0308-001-004 TSUD History Research Material, 1 of 3
061-16-0308-001-005 TSUD History Research Material, 2 of 3
061-16-0308-001-006 TSUD History Research Material, 3 of 3
061-16-0308-001-007 "Bad, Bad Dothan" Publication Correspondence, 2005-2007
061-16-0308-001-008 "Bad, Bad Dothan" Presentation, Alabama Historical Association, 2005
061-16-0308-001-009 "Bad, Bad Dothan" Drafts and Readers' Inquiries, 2005-2006
061-16-0308-001-010 "Bad, Bad Dothan" Drafts with Readers' Reviews, 2005-2006
061-16-0308-001-011 "Bad, Bad Dothan" Various Drafts and Editorial Correspondence, 2005-2007
061-16-0308-001-012 "Bad, Bad Dothan" Galley Proofs and offprints, 2007
061-16-0308-001-013 "Bad, Bad Dothan" Research Materials
061-16-0308-001-014 "Bad, Bad Dothan" Research Articles and Photographs
061-16-0308-001-015 "Bad, Bad Dothan" Census notes from 1880, 1890, 1900
061-16-0308-001-016 "The Creation of Houston County" Presentation at Alabama Historical Association, 2008
061-16-0308-001-017 Proposed History of Houston County, Volume of Essays
061-16-0308-001-018 Dothan and Houston County: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Financial and other Records, 2011-2013
061-16-0308-001-019 Dothan and Houston County: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Announcement in The Lark (LMP) Newsletter, 2010
061-16-0308-001-020 Dothan and Houston County: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Draft
061-16-0308-001-021 Dothan and Houston County: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Sample images
061-16-0308-001-022 Dothan and Houston County: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Final Captions and CD of Images
061-16-0308-001-023 Dothan and Houston County: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Galley Proofs
061-16-0308-001-024 History of Houston County Project Correspondence, 2008-2013
061-16-0308-001-025 History of Houston County Notes on Bibliography, Outline
061-16-0308-001-026 History of Houston County, Chapter 1: A Clearing in the Piney Woods
Series 2: Research Materials, 1880s-2013, 103 file folders. Research materials concerning Wiregrass Alabama that cannot be assigned to a specific project in the previous series or spans multiple projects. Includes bibliographic materials, academic publications (retained if another copy was not readily available), archaeological reports, Family and local history, government documents, historical correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a small body of ephemera.
File ID File Title
061-16-0308-001-027 Bibliography: Dale County
061-16-0308-001-028 Bibliography: Newspapers (2012)
061-16-0308-001-029 Bibliography: List of Newspaper Articles
061-16-0308-001-030 Bibliography: Wiregrass and Houston County Materials
061-16-0308-001-031 Bibliography: Wiregrass Siftings (Newspaper)
061-16-0308-001-032 Finding Aid: George Andrews Papers at Auburn University
061-16-0308-001-033 Finding Aid: Gov. William Jelks Administrative Records, ADAH
061-16-0308-001-034 Photographs: Dothan and Cottonwood
061-16-0308-001-035 Information on Murals in Colquitt, GA, 2010
061-16-0308-001-036 Alsobrook, "William Dorsey Jelks . . .," MA Thesis, WVU, 1972
061-16-0308-001-037 Barnes, "Limited Survey . . .Resources in Dale County," MA Thesis, API, 1945
061-16-0308-001-038 Doster, "Alabama's Political Revolution of 1904," Alabama Review, 1954
061-16-0308-001-039 Graham, "Public Education in Houston County . . ." MA Thesis, API, 1941
061-16-0308-001-040 Jones, "A Federal Raid into S.E. Ala.," Alabama Review, 1961
061-16-0308-001-041 Parker, "History of Ozark, AL," MA Thesis, API, 1933
061-16-0308-001-042 Rogers & Waldorf," Wiregrass Politics and New County Formation . . ." Georgia Historical Quarterly, 2000
061-16-0308-001-043 Smith, "Educational Progress of Negro Schools in Houston County . . .," MA Thesis, Alabama State College, 1953
061-16-0308-001-044 Tompkins, "Wiregrass Sagas," Alabama Lawyer, 1942
061-16-0308-001-045 Williams, "The Status of Negro Teachers in Houston County . . ." MA Thesis, Alabama State College, 1950
061-16-0308-001-046 Kirkland, "The Alabama Wiregrass: An Historical Analysis . . .to Accompany the Archaeological Reports . . .," 2009
061-16-0308-001-047 Price, "Proposal for Phase 2 Archaeological Testing at Sites . . .," 2009
061-16-0308-001-048 Family History: Carothers
061-16-0308-001-049 Family History: Cobb
061-16-0308-001-050 Family History: McAllister
061-16-0308-001-051 Family History: Mixon
061-16-0308-001-052 Family History: Seay
061-16-0308-001-053 Family History: Taylor
061-16-0308-001-054 Abbeville Chamber of Commerce, Historic Abbeville, 2010
061-16-0308-001-055 Ashford 100 Years, Centennial Celebration
061-16-0308-001-056 Alabama Dept. of Education, "Report . . . Dothan City School System," 1977
061-16-0308-001-057 Annual Report on "Colored Schools" of Henry County, 1879
061-16-0308-001-058 Bates, "History of the Municipal Airport . . ." (ca. 1945) and "History of Napier Field" (1944)
061-16-0308-001-059 Brannon, "Old Henry on the Chattahoochee," Alabama Highways, 1957
061-16-0308-001-060 Dothan High School Centennial Celebration magazine, 2011
061-16-0308-002-001 Dothan Hosiery Mill NLRB Hearing re: Unionization, 1946
061-16-0308-002-002 "E. R. Porter Hardware Company," pamphlet, n.d.
061-16-0308-002-003 History of the First Baptist Church of Dothan, Alabama, 1887-1983, 1984
061-16-0308-002-004 Smith, "Houston County was Formed," Henry County Siftings, vol. 1
061-16-0308-002-005 "Some Facts . . . Formation of Houston County," Bessemer Printing and Publishing Co., [ca. 1902-2905]
061-16-0308-002-006 "State Vocational Trade School, Dothan, Napier Field, Alabama," [ca. 1950-1955]
061-16-0308-002-007 Stepp, "From Cotton to Prosperity," Dothan Magazine, Nov/Dec 2006
061-16-0308-002-008 Warren, "Chattahoochee Trails," 1981
061-16-0308-002-009 Watson, "Early Days of Dothan, Ala." paper delivered to Alabama Historical Association, 1972
061-16-0308-002-010 Watson, Winds of Sorrow, 1986
061-16-0308-002-011 "Welcome to Abbeville," in Dothan Eagle, March 20, 2009
061-16-0308-002-012 South Alabama Immigration Bureau, Dothan, "Farm Lands for Sale in the South." Reprint of 1895 pamphlet.
061-16-0308-002-013 Proceedings of the 1901 Constitutional Convention [AL], vol. 2
061-16-0308-002-014 Acts of Alabama, 1900-1901 [re: Dothan govt. and bonds]
061-16-0308-002-015 General Laws of Alabama, 1903 [Gov.'s message and Acts re: Houston County]
061-16-0308-002-016 Wiregrass Tenancy Rates, Censuses of 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910
061-16-0308-002-017 List of Houston County Civil War [CSA] Pensioners [1918-1922]
061-16-0308-002-018 Alabama Cooperative Extension Service County Agent and Home Demonstration Agent Reports, Houston County, 1919-1934 [From AU]
061-16-0308-002-019 Correspondence [re: new county]: Acree, Walter, 1903
061-16-0308-002-020 Correspondence: Agriculture, various, 1929-1932
061-16-0308-002-021 Correspondence: Alabama Council for Defense [WW2], 1942-1944
061-16-0308-002-022 Correspondence: Andrews, George, 1944 [w/ Carlton Kirkland]
061-16-0308-002-023 Correspondence: Bankhead, John H. [re: Federal Courthouse in Dothan]
061-16-0308-002-024 Correspondence [re: new county]: Carmichael, J.M., 1902-1903
061-16-0308-002-025 Correspondence: Clayton, H.D., Jr., 1885, 1905-1906
061-16-0308-002-026 Correspondence: Clayton, H.D., Jr., 1905-1913
061-16-0308-002-027 Correspondence: Dixon, Frank, 1948, 1963
061-16-0308-002-028 Correspondence: Hall, Grover, 1941-1949 [his father's anti-KKK articles]
061-16-0308-002-029 Correspondence: Jelks, Governor W. D., 1903
061-16-0308-002-030 Correspondence: McCorvey, Gessner T., 1944 [Houston County election irregularities]
061-16-0308-002-031 Correspondence: NAACP [Dothan, Houston Co.], 1938
061-16-0308-002-032 Correspondence: Steagall, Henry B., 1918-1942
061-16-0308-002-033 Miscellaneous re: Dothan Riot in Abbeville Times [1885-1889], Columbia Enterprise [1889], Dothan Light [1889]
061-16-0308-002-034 Miscellaneous re: Dividing Henry County, 1902-1904
061-16-0308-002-035 Abbeville Times, 1903-1906
061-16-0308-002-036 Columbia Breeze, 1892-1900
061-16-0308-002-037 Columbia Breeze, 1902
061-16-0308-002-038 Columbia Enterprise, 1885-1889
061-16-0308-002-039 The Cottonwood Times, 1931
061-16-0308-002-040 Dothan Eagle, 1907-1914
061-16-0308-002-041 Dothan Eagle re: Tobe Domingus, 1932, 1942 [includes obituary], 1953
061-16-0308-002-042 Herring, "Local Group Launches Program to Keep History Alive," Dothan Eagle, Oct. 7, 1979
061-16-0308-002-043 Dothan Eagle re: Downtown Redevelopment, 2005-2008
061-16-0308-002-044 Dothan Eagle, obit for Wendell Stepp, July 22 or 23, 2008
061-16-0308-002-045 Dothan Home Journal, 1901-1903
061-16-0308-002-046 Dothan Home Journal, 1916-1917
061-16-0308-002-047 The Dothan Light, 1887-1890
061-16-0308-002-048 Dothan Weekly Eagle, 1908-1913
061-16-0308-002-049 Ghinga, "The Alabama Wiregrassers," Harpers, September, 1974
061-16-0308-002-050 "Henry County Siftings" in Dothan Progress, v. 9, [2006]
061-16-0308-002-051 "Henry County Siftings" in Dothan Progress, v. 10, 2007
061-16-0308-002-052 "Henry County Siftings" in Dothan Progress, v. 11, 2008
061-16-0308-002-053 "Henry County Siftings" in Dothan Progress, v. 12, 2009
061-16-0308-002-054 "Henry County Siftings" in Dothan Progress, v. 13, 2009-2010
061-16-0308-002-055 "Henry County Siftings" in Dothan Progress, v. 14, 15, 16 (scattered), 2011-2013
061-16-0308-002-056 "Fifty Leading Houston Farmers," Houston Herald, June 24, 1933
061-16-0308-002-057 Montgomery Advertiser, 1903
061-16-0308-002-058 Azbell, "Encouraged by '66 Results . . .," Montgomery Independent, September 9, 1969 [re: Charles Woods of Dothan]
061-16-0308-002-059 The Ozark Tribune, 1903
061-16-0308-002-060 The Southern Star, 1885-1904
061-16-0308-002-061 "Front Page Revolution," Time, September 2, 1935 [reprinted on Time.com, August 19, 2008]
061-16-0308-002-062 Wiregrass Siftings, 1903-1904
061-16-0308-002-063 Miscellaneous News Clips Articles and Topics, 1993-2010
061-16-0308-002-064 Miscellaneous News Clips on Civil Rights, 2007-2010
061-16-0308-002-065 Miscellaneous News Clips on Military, 2006-2007
061-16-0308-002-066 Miscellaneous News Clips on Presidents, n.d.
061-16-0308-002-067 Presidential campaign bumper stickers, Ford and Wallace
061-16-0308-002-068 Rutherford, "Wrongs of History Righted," UDC address, November 13, 1914, reprint.
061-16-0308-003-001 Scrapbook page of mixed newspaper clippings, n.d.
Series 3: Newspapers, 1963-2011, 18 oversized folders. Souvenir newspapers, mostly Dothan Eagle, on topics of interest but are not part of any specific research project.
File ID File Title
061-16-0308-003-002 Governor Guy Hunt guilty verdict, 1993
061-16-0308-003-003 Miscellaneous newspapers
061-16-0308-003-004 Dothan's 125th anniversary, 2010
061-16-0308-003-005 SE Alabama spree killing, 2009
061-16-0308-003-006 Enterprise, AL, tornado, 2007
061-16-0308-003-007 Elba, AL, floods, 1990, 1998
061-16-0308-003-008 Presidents [Obama, Bush 43, and Clinton inaugurations; Reagan's death]
061-16-0308-003-009 Kennedy assassination [LA Times], 1963
061-16-0308-004-001 Auburn University football championship, 2011
061-16-0308-004-002 Michael Jordan retirement, 1999
061-16-0308-004-003 Mark McGwire home run records, 1998
061-16-0308-004-004 Reenactment of Battle of Gettysburg, 1998
061-16-0308-004-005 Year 2000
061-16-0308-004-006 Death of Princess Diana, 1997
061-16-0308-004-007 Capture of Saddam Hussein, 2003
061-16-0308-004-008 9/11/2001
061-16-0308-004-009 9/11/2001
061-16-0308-004-010 Gulf War, 1991