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Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (3rd ed. 2018; 1st ed. 1994), 816pp; the standard scholarly history online older edition; online 2018 edition; Alabama State Department of Education. History of Education in Alabama (Bulletin 1975, No. 7.O) Online free; Bridges, Edwin C. Alabama: The Making of an American State (2016) 264pp excerpt
The Alabama Department of Archives and History is the official repository of archival records for the U.S. state of Alabama. Under the direction of Thomas M. Owen its founder, the agency received state funding by an act of the Alabama Legislature on February 27, 1901.
1818 - Settlement designated seat of newly formed Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Territory. [1] [2] 1819 City of Tuscaloosa incorporated. Tuscaloosa becomes part of the new U.S. state of Alabama. 1826 - Alabama state capital relocated to Tuscaloosa from Cahaba. [1] 1831 - University of Alabama opens. 1835 - Battle–Friedman House built. [3]
The National Historic Landmarks in Alabama represent Alabama's history from the precolonial era, through the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Space Age. There are 39 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Alabama , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] which are located in 18 of the state's 67 counties .
Still, various people have asserted over the decades that the design was drawn from the Confederate battle flag. [10] In 1900, the Montgomery Advertiser reported the flag was "a memory and a suggestion of the Confederate battle flag". [12] In 1906, a piece in the Birmingham Age-Herald stated the Alabama state flag "has no history woven into it ...
Materials related to Mobile, Alabama, various dates (via US Library of Congress, Prints & Photos Division) Materials related to Mobile, Alabama, various dates (via New York Public Library, Digital Collections) Back in the Day in Mobile County - Free genealogy records, family stories, area descriptions and information on Mobile historical sites.
Image credits: Vachon, John,, 1914-1975,, photographer. Before color photography could exist, scientists had to first understand how light and color actually work. The journey began in the 17th ...
Alabama was central to the Civil War, with the secession convention at Montgomery, the birthplace of the Confederacy, inviting other slaveholding states to form a southern republic, during January–March 1861, and to develop new state constitutions. The 1861 Alabaman constitution granted citizenship to current U.S. residents, but prohibited ...