ALABAMA GOVERNORS: Reuben Chapman
March 17, 2025
Born in Virginia in 1799 and educated in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Reuben Chapman traveled to Alabama at age twenty-five to join his brother, a Huntsville attorney. After reading law in… READ MORE
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A Step Back In Time: Jane Austen Society of Alabama Hosts Regency Ball
March 3, 2025
Do you love the novels of Jane Austen, enjoy British literature in general, or revel in wearing period costumes? Did you know you can attend a Regency Ball in Alabama?… READ MORE
ALABAMA GOVERNORS: Joshua Lanier Martin
March 1, 2025
Joshua Martin, a descendent of French Huguenots, was born in Blount County, Tennessee, in 1799, and educated by local ministers there. At age twenty he moved with his family to… READ MORE
ALABAMA GOVERNORS: Benjamin Fitzpatrick
February 25, 2025
Benjamin Fitzpatrick was twice elected governor and later became an influential national figure in the US Senate. Born in Greene County, Georgia, on June 30, 1802, Fitzpatrick was orphaned at… READ MORE
ALABAMA GOVERNORS: Arthur P. Bagby
February 20, 2025
Arthur Pendleton Bagby, born in 1794 in Louisa County, Virginia, migrated with his family to Monroe County in the Alabama territory. It was here that Bagby read law and opened… READ MORE
THE NATURE JOURNAL: The Deadly Oleander
February 19, 2025
In the first chapter of their recent book, Poisonous Plants and Venomous Animals of Alabama and Adjoining States (University of Alabama Press, 1990), co-author Whit Gibbons, Robert R. Haynes, and… READ MORE
FROM THE VAULT: William Benson and the Kowaliga School
February 17, 2025
Just off a dirt road in Tallapoosa County and a few feet into a patch of forest lies the concrete tomb of William E. Benson. Most of the land Benson… READ MORE
ALABAMA GOVERNORS: Hugh McVay
February 15, 2025
Clement Comer Clay’s election to the US Senate led to his resignation as Alabama’s governor in August 1837. Under the state constitution, Hugh McVay, the president of the state senate,… READ MORE
FROM THE VAULT: Alabama and the American Presidency
February 13, 2025
On June 1, 1819, Pres. James Monroe paid an unannounced visit to Huntsville while on an inspection tour of southern military fortifications. At a quickly organized dinner that evening, Monroe… READ MORE
FROM THE VAULT: Air Force One–The Alabama Connection
February 12, 2025
The inauguration of John Fitzgerald Kennedy as the 35th President of the United States symbolized the passing of the torch to new generation of Americans poised to accept the challenge:… READ MORE
