Below is a list of two-page study guides designed for classroom use. Some study guides are available on-line and links to them are provided here. Printed study guides are distributed by Alabama Public Television through its Educational Services Department. You may call them at 1-800-239-5233, ext. 140, for assistance.

The study guides may also be obtained from the University of Alabama Center for Public Television & Radio by calling us at 1-800-463-8825.

Each study guide includes a synopsis of the program, discussion questions, classroom exercises, and details on obtaining additional information about the program.

Study guides are available for the following episodes:

Advertising: It's Not Your Average Day Job
Your students will set up their own marketing campaign using this study guide. The program shows all the work that a Birmingham, Alabama, advertising agency puts into selling a bag of potato chips. On line study guide available.

Against the Mainstream
Gould and Mary Beech were Alabama advocates for populism and civil rights. Mr. Beech was a newspaperman and publisher of The Southern Farmer magazine where he wrote about how much small black and white farmers had in common. In 1946 he was a pioneering media advisor and speechwriter for Big Jim Folsom. His nomination to the board of trustees at Auburn University was rejected by the legislature and he was branded "a dangerous leftist." This study guide helps students understand what the Beeches accomplished in Alabama, why they left, and why they returned to their home state. On line study guide available.

Conscience of a Congressman:  the Life and Times of Carl Elliot
The story of the late North Alabamian who became congressman and drafted legislation that changed how America educates its citizens. Elliott, winner of the John F. Kennedy Foundation's 1990 Profile in Courage award, recalls his impoverished childhood, political triumphs, and the bitter defeat that relegated him to obscurity.  On line study guide available.

Dance of Identity
Includes synopsis, glossary, questions, and bibliography. Dyann Robinson returned to her native town of Tuskegee, Alabama, after a successful career as a one of the few African American ballerinas in New York. In this program she tells why she came home and why she often says "classical arts do not belong to any one racial group." On line study guide available.

From Territory to State
The constitutional convention held in a Huntsville cabinetmaker's shop paved the way for Alabama to become a state in 1819. The reconstructed shop is one of several buildings which make up Alabama Constitution Village, a living history museum where 1819 life is demonstrated by interpreters dressed in period attire. This study guide includes a glossary, discussion questions, and a concise summary of Alabama's move to statehood. On line study guide available.

Gather Unto Thy People
In the rural South, summer means a season of church fellowships. City-dwellers return to country cemeteries to remember their ancestors; generations of families swap stories over "dinner on the ground." Decoration Days and Homecomings are uniquely Southern traditions, and Alabama is one of the last places they're faithfully practiced. On line study guide available.

I Shall Not Be Moved: The Legacy of W. C. Patton
This study guide has suggestions for classroom activities and research projects that will enhance the student's understanding of the Civil Rights movement in Alabama. W. C. Patton was a key figure in the NAACP's voter registration efforts. On line study guide available.

Let Her Own Works Praise Her: Julia Tutwiler
Students will learn more about Alabama's remarkable educator and social reformer using this study guide. The discussion questions challenge students to think about what issues and causes this great woman would be engaged in today. On line study guide available.

The Lowndes County Freedom Organization
This study guide helps students understand how the civil rights struggle changed one forgotten, rural county in Alabama's Black Belt. Includes introduction, questions, and a map. On line study guide available for this program.

Made In Alabama
A simple wooden desk; a carefully stitched quilt; a modest stoneware jar--all items of necessity for the average Alabama family in the 19th century. But the folks who fashioned these practical items are now being recognized as true Alabama artisans. Their material legacy provides a tangible link to the state's social and cultural past. This program, based on an exhibit sponsored by the Alabama State Council on the Arts, explores the ordinary people whose hands shaped our history. This study guide has suggestions to spark classroom discussions about the program. On line study guide available.

New South Star
Includes glossary, questions, and suggestions for extra credit projects. The Anniston Star is a small town paper that is praised by many media observers, is a proving ground for up and coming reporters, and reflects the passions and persuasions of the family that has published it for nine decades. The editor, Brandt Ayers, says the paper's mission is to "afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted." On line study guide available.

Pages From the Civil War in Alabama
An overview of the action in the Tennessee Valley, paying particular attention to Nathan Bedford Forrest's capture of Streight's Raiders. Also, the heroic exploits of Emma Sansom are discussed. The study guide also helps students learn about Alabama's ironworks and foundries, which were very valuable to the South's war efforts. Students will learn about the war on the home front in Alabama. On line study guide available.

Roses of Crimson
No one gave the Alabama Crimson Tide much of a chance when it traveled to the 1926 Rose Bowl to play the mighty Washington Huskies. But Southerners who crowded into auditoriums and lodges to hear tickertape re-creations of the game saw it as much more than a mere athletic event. Their team was fighting to restore the region's honor and glory. The game changed the South and how the nation viewed a region that had been dismissed and ignored. Today the game is seen as the most important one in the history of the region. Online press release and study guide available.

Six O'clock High: Making Television News
Using this guide, your students will log a newscast, study a glossary, and discuss the challenges faced every day in a television newsroom. On line study guide available.

Thunder In Huntsville
The world was watching in 1969 when Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon. But his miraculous journey would not have been possible without the work of thousands of Alabamians at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. They designed and tested the monstrous and majestic Saturn V rocket, the 36 story, 6.5 million pound vehicle that remains the most powerful machine ever created. This was the rocket that enabled humans to break earth's bounds, and this show celebrates the Alabama men and women who gave life to this extraordinary machine.  On line study guide available.

Triptik: Birmingham to Montgomery on Highway 31
It used to be Alabama's busiest road, but now everyone takes the interstate. Ride the old road using a 1941 driving tour as a guide and discover Alabama's Scandinavian settlement; the descendant of a famous poet; one of the state's oldest dry goods stores; the secret of the Temple of Sybil. On line study guide available.

Tuskegee: Living Black and White
How did the Civil Rights era affect Tuskegee, Ala., where Tuskegee Institute had given blacks citizens more prominence than they had in other Alabama towns? People who grew up in Macon County, including producer Michael Letcher, remember the turbulent times that divided the community. On line study guide available.

A Voice of Justice and Reason: Buford Boone's Tuscaloosa News
Includes before and after viewing discussion questions and an excerpt from Boone's Pulitzer Prize winning editorial. In 1956 Boone argued for the peaceful integration of the University of Alabama, a position that put him at odds with many in his conservative community. He refused to back down, even when threatened with violence by the Ku Klux Klan. On line study guide available.

The Wayfaring Stranger
The story of a determined Canadian, William Luke, who came to Alabama during Reconstruction on a spiritual mission to preach equality and educate ex-slaves. Luke would pay the ultimate price for challenging the traditional way of life in the South. This dramatic story changed Alabama's history. On line study guide available.

With Fingers of Love
This study guide suggests starting a "cooperative exercise" in a classroom to show how rural black women in Alabama successfully marketed around the world the quilts they made and designed. The Freedom Quilting Bee was started in 1966 by women in a poor section of Alabama's Black Belt who were stirred and encouraged by the Civil Rights Movement. This study guide also includes a glossary, objectives, and discussion questions. On line study guide available.