December 3, 2024
In 1798 the US Congress formed the Mississippi Territory out of the present-day states of Mississippi and Alabama above the thirty-first parallel, but during the first decade of the nineteenth… READ MORE
November 25, 2024
It is romantic to think of Native Americans stalking through the forest with a bow and arrow in search of food. But by the European entrada, most of the calories… READ MORE
November 21, 2024
Thomas Rowan was the son of Irish immigrants, who settled in Saint Clair County, Alabama in c.1854. He later purchased 130 acres in Leeds and built a home along an… READ MORE
November 4, 2024
On a sunshiny Saturday at Desoto State Park in Fort Payne, very small winged creatures that prefer to make their home in dark caves came out to say hello. Or… READ MORE
October 30, 2024
It was raining late in the evening of March 3, 1956, when brothers Billy Howard and Robert Earl Dye and their older cousin, Dan Brasher, left a relative’s house in… READ MORE
October 23, 2024
When Guy Cobb died at the Tuberculosis Prison Hospital at Wetumpka, Alabama, in 1932, few marked his passing except perhaps the clerk who made the citation in volume nine, Record… READ MORE
October 21, 2024
Most have heard of man-made lakes—but have you heard about the lost cities or cemeteries that lie beneath some of them? In the 1950s, Alabama Power flooded thousands of acres… READ MORE
October 7, 2024
Following the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814, Alabama’s Native Americans ceded millions of acres of land in the Treaty of Fort Jackson. Although the treaty was designed to bring… READ MORE
September 17, 2024
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 MORE
September 16, 2024
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 MORE
