In Montgomery, Jefferson Davis Avenue crosses Rosa Parks Avenue, creating an appropriate intersection for a place that used to rely on Civil War tourism but that now draws visitors to a growing ...

He traveled Alabama's rivers to Montgomery, Mobile, Selma, ... During the Civil War, Alabama is the scene of 108 military engagements: 100 on land and eight in the water.

Numerous activities are planned for the Civil War Sesquicentennial in Alabama. At the Alabama Tourism Department, Director Lee Sentell's staff is running ads that promote both Civil War and civil ...

The Yellowhammer State's history, geography, economy (aerospace, automotive), and education. Explore its role in the Civil ...

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A major destination on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, Montgomery is home to the the ... MONTGOMERY, Alabama — More than 800 steel blocks ... It did not get much better after the Civil War, ...

Growing up in Montgomery in the '40s and '50s, I came to be aware of “the free state of Winston” County, Alabama, whence came my friend-to-be Judge Frank M. Johnson.

Thanksgiving in Alabama: 'Yankee' holiday didn't catch on until after Civil War After the war, Alabama had Thanksgiving on Dec. 7, 1865, and Nov. 29, 1866; Previously the South thought of it as a ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Schoolchildren who visit the First White House of the Confederacy learn that its famous former resident, President Jefferson Davis, was leader of a "heroic resistance" who ...

Alabama’s capital city, a hub of the civil rights movement decades ago, is about to inaugurate its first African-American mayor.

In the two centuries since its founding, Alabama’s capital of Montgomery and the birthplace of the civil rights movement has never had a black mayor. That changed Tuesday when Montgomery County ...