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FROM THE VAULT: The Art of Dionicio Rodríguez in Birmingham’s Elmwood Cemetery
In Birmingham’s Arlington-West End neighborhood, Elmwood Cemetery spans more than four hundred acres and serves as the final resting place of Alabamians such as Coach Bear Bryant and jazz musician…
Read MoreFROM THE VAULT: Alabama’s First Ladies of Flight
The development of the airplane has been described as the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. During the first half of the twentieth century, the airplane would…
Read MoreFROM THE VAULT: A Flourishing Seaport–Visitor Descriptions of Antebellum Mobile’s Commercial Scene
The antebellum period looms as an especially important epoch in Mobile’s long history, a time in which the town literally and figuratively took shape after generations as an outpost of…
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