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Issue 153, Summer 2024 is here!

Dive into Lelia Seton Wilder Edmundson’s cover story as the “Cotton Queen of Alabama” and her lasting legacy in Decatur. Edmundson, a maverick of her time, used her platform to be a voice for farmers and others in her community.

Also included are Mobile’s antebellum seaport, Alabama education during the Cold War, Dr. George Washington Coffey, and much more.

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A New Look

Marketing and Digital Media Manager Caroline Gazzara-McKenzie shares some insights into the site’s redesign and what it was like building a website.

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Introducing the New Alabama Heritage Online

When I was first hired in 2022, the Alabama Heritage team sat down to discuss our hopes and goals for the magazine. We had big dreams, and we knew it…

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Martin Luther King Jr. was not at the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama. On March 7, 1965—the day that Alabama State Troopers and mounted sheriff’s deputies beat demonstrators in…

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