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
September 6, 2024
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… READ MORE
August 16, 2024
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… READ MORE
August 14, 2024
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… READ MORE
August 9, 2024
The love and tradition of college football runs deep in Alabama, but many are unaware of how this cherished sport became an integral part of the state’s culture. William Gray Little, known as the father of Alabama football,… READ MORE
August 5, 2024
Who was Railroad Bill? Was he the “Robin Hood” figure the legends have described? Was he an outlaw with murderous tendencies? Or was the idea of Railroad Bill just a… READ MORE
July 24, 2024
Free blacks in the antebellum South led precarious lives. Respected by slaves, with whom they shared skin color but not bondage, free persons of color were often feared by whites,… READ MORE
May 31, 2024
The Eliza Battle’s final resting place lies in the Tombigbee River near the tiny town of Pennington, Alabama. According to Rufus Ward in his book The Tombigbee River Steamboats: Rollodores, Deadheads and… READ MORE
