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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…

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FROM 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…

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FROM 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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