It is a statewide collaboration that involves more than forty institutions from across Alabama that share their archives with the project.
Auburn University hosts the encyclopedia's editorial offices and servers and the Alabama Humanities Foundation holds copyright to the encyclopedia's original content.
[3] Historian Wayne Flynt served as the project's first editor-in-chief.
1974), is "the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities".
"[1][2] In 2020, the organization was renamed Alabama Humanities Alliance.