Chuck Holmes

The Alabama Humanities Foundation, operating as the Alabama Humanities Alliance (AHA), is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities. The non-profit company is based in Birmingham, AL. It promotes lifelong learning, storytelling, civic engagement, and cultural understanding through diverse public humanities programs. AHA offers grants, scholarships, and educational initiatives supporting history, literature, civics, and cultural projects statewide. Key programs include the Road Scholars speakers bureau, History Day student research contest, Super Teacher workshops for educators, immersive field studies on civil rights history, and public humanities events honoring storytellers and artists. AHA partners with the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street program to bring traveling exhibits to small Alabama communities and manages the Encyclopedia of Alabama, an online resource on the state’s history, culture, and environment.