archeologist

Signs of the University of Alabama’s role in the Civil War are everywhere on campus. The President’s mansion is among the few buildings that survived being burned to the ground during Croxton’s Raid on April 4th in 1865. Washington Hall was a student dormitory that was lost to history—until recently.

This week on StoryCorps, Donald Prater speaks with Linda Derry about her incredible career as an archeologist, and her experiences navigating through a male dominated field.