Dauphin Island Diaries
A long-form history podcast focused on the people, places, and stories that shaped Dauphin Island and the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Dauphin Island Diaries
Latest Episodes
DID Season Interim Content - Lessons Learned, Challenges for an Independent Podcaster, and What's Coming in Season 2
Season One of Dauphin Island Diaries may be complete, but before Season Two begins, we are taking a look behind the podcast and examining some of the challenges involved in researching and sharing the history of Dauphin Island, Mobile ...
DID Ep 13 - The Shapeshifter (The Ever-changing Shape of Dauphin Island)
Dauphin Island is a shapeshifter.Barrier islands may appear permanent on a map, but they are constantly being rebuilt by waves, currents, wind, storms, and the movement of sand. Along the Mississippi–Alabama coast, the eastern ends of is...
DID Ep 12 - The Last Slave Ship (The Clotilda and Africatown)
In 1860—more than half a century after the importation of enslaved people into the United States became illegal—the schooner Clotilda sailed past Dauphin Island and entered Mobile Bay carrying approximately 108 or 109 surviving African...
DID Bonus INTERVIEWSDAY Material (8) - Interview with John Sledge (Topics of Discussion: Mobile's wartime growth, shipbuilding here during WWII, and the Ghost Fleet)
It’s INTERVIEWSDAY!This week on INTERVIEWSDAY (Interview Tuesday), we visit with John Sledge, maritime historian-in-residence at the National Maritime Museum of the Gulf, for an extended conversation about wartime Mo...
DID Ep 11 - They Built Ghosts (the story of Mobile Shipbuilding in WWII and the Ghost Fleet on the Mobile and Tensaw Rivers)
“Amateurs study tactics, but professionals study logistics.”During World War II, the United States did more than field an enormous military. American factories produced weapons, vehicles, fuel, ammunition, food, and other matériel on a s...
