The statue of Vulcan, Roman god of fire, looks down over the city of Birmingham from a height of almost 600 feet and watches over the city it was built [more]

As one of the most recognized names in agricultural research, George Washington Carver overcame numerous obstacles to achieve a graduate education and gain international fame as an educator, inventor, and [more]

With an abundance of navigable rivers in Alabama, steamboat traffic flourished and was the primary form of transportation for goods and people from the state’s founding into the 1880s. Many [more]

Known as the “mother of Black Lutheranism in central Alabama” and a strong advocate of education for rural children, Wilcox County native Rosa Young was instrumental in founding and promoting [more]

Mount Vernon, located in south-central Mobile County, arose near Fort Stoddert, which was constructed by the federal government in 1799 to protect what was then the nation’s southern border. In [more]

Calhoun County native Lilly McDaniel Ledbetter is a worker’s-rights activist and equal-pay advocate whose nine-year quest for equal compensation from longtime employer Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Gadsden resulted [more]

Kate Cumming was a Civil War nurse and diarist whose writings are an invaluable source on southern nursing, Confederate hospitals, and women’s experiences in the war. Born in Scotland, Cumming [more]

William Wyatt Bibb was Alabama’s first governor. He entered politics in 1802 at the age of 21, first as a Georgia state legislator, quickly followed by US Congress and then [more]

Pattie Ruffner Jacobs was one of the foremost crusaders for women’s right to vote in Alabama. She was elected president of the Alabama Equal Suffrage Association in 1912, the youngest [more]

Chambers County native Millard Fuller was the founder of Habitat for Humanity International, a nonprofit organization recognized globally for building houses for people in need. Fuller was widely regarded as [more]