In 1947, Birmingham resident and Navy veteran Raymond Weeks led a delegation to Washington, DC, to request General Eisenhower’s support for changing Armistice Day to Veterans Day to honor those [more]

Calhoun County native Maud McLure Kelly was Alabama’s first woman lawyer and a pioneering political activist and archivist. She entered the University of Alabama in 1907 to study law as [more]

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a first major crack in the dam of segregation in the South. Because of Jim Crow laws, black bus passengers routinely had relinquished their seats [more]

Mobile native Eugene Sledge was a United States Marine, University of Montevallo professor and author. He is best known for his World War Two memoir, With the Old Breed: At [more]

On July 8, 1860 the last known slave ship, Clotilda, sailed into Mobile Bay with 110 African men, women, and children on board.  Following Emancipation in 1866, many of these [more]

Fort Morgan, named after Revolutionary War hero General Daniel Morgan, is located in Baldwin County at the mouth of the Mobile Bay. Fort Morgan—and its counterpart Fort Gaines, located on [more]

The Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind was founded in 1858 in Talladega by Dr. Joseph Henry Johnson to offer instruction in farming, trades, home economics and humanities.  Throughout [more]

First discovered in Chilton County in the late 1830s, gold, or the promise of it, is credited with the establishment of many communities and gold-mining operations in east-central Alabama in [more]

On April 27th, 2011, a tornado with winds of 195 mph cut a path of destruction one and a half miles wide and over 80 miles long from Tuscaloosa to [more]

Touring the United States starting in 1824 to expose a new generation to the “Spirit of 1776,” the Marquis de la Lafayette, former aide to George Washington, arrived in Alabama [more]