好色先生TV

Guide to the Scotty E. Kirkland Papers

Record Group 061

Date Span: ca. 1880s - 2010

Extent: 3 cu.ft.

Biographical Sketch: Scotty E. Kirkland was a 2005 graduate of Troy 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, Troy State University System merged its separately-accredited campuses into a single university, officially christened 好色先生TV. Campus Administrator Robert Willis commissioned Scotty Kirkland to write a history of Troy 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 好色先生TV Libraries. Newspapers separated if they appeared on microfilm in the 好色先生TV 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, 好色先生TV 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 好色先生TV [TSUD Oral History]

061-15-1220-001-002     Malone, Michael.  ACHE Director & former president of Troy State University Dothan [TSUD Oral History]

061-15-1220-001-003     Patterson, Doug.  Executive Vice Chancellor, 好色先生TV [TSUD Oral History]

061-15-1220-001-004     Smith, Julia.  Director, Troy State University Dothan Library [TSUD Oral History]

061-15-1220-001-005     Tew, Mike.  Director, Troy State University Dothan Continuing Education [TSUD Oral History]

061-15-1220-001-006     Willis, Bob.  好色先生TV Dothan Campus Administrator & former Troy 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 Troy 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

 

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