Remembering the Ironclad Tennessee’s Desperate Charge at Fort Morgan
As Mobile Bay's 150th anniversary approached, historians revisited the Confederate ironclad Tennessee's doomed charge near Fort Morgan in 1864.
Fairhope Artist to Complete Trio of Battle of Mobile Bay Paintings at Fort Morgan’s 150th
As Fort Morgan prepared for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Mobile Bay, Fairhope artist Dean Mosher readied a new portrait of Confederate Admiral Franklin Buchanan to complete a…
Mobile Native William Gorgas Helped Change the Fight Against Yellow Fever
Born near Mobile, William Crawford Gorgas helped turn new knowledge about mosquitoes into large-scale yellow fever prevention work.
Mobile’s 1853 Yellow Fever Epidemic and the City’s Relief Effort
Mobile’s worst yellow fever outbreak, in 1853, tested the city and highlighted the work of the Can’t Get Away Club.
The 1780 Siege That Changed Mobile’s Place on the Gulf Coast
The 1780 Battle of Fort Charlotte brought Mobile from British to Spanish control and became a pivotal Gulf Coast episode of the American Revolution era.
The Legend of the Eslava Tomb: Mobile’s Coin-Leaving Curse at Church Street Cemetery
Beneath the moss-draped oaks of Church Street Cemetery in downtown Mobile lies the grave of Miguel Eslava, a Spanish colonial official who served as royal treasurer under the king of…
How a Spanish Treasurer Named Eslava Left His Mark on Mobile’s Streets
Miguel Eslava served as royal treasurer and customs collector in Spanish colonial Mobile in the late 1700s and early 1800s, and his family's name still marks streets, a creek, and…
Church Street Graveyard: Mobile’s City of the Dead and the Fever That Filled It
Behind mossy brick walls a few blocks from downtown Mobile lies Church Street Graveyard, where yellow fever epidemics of the 1800s filled the ground faster than headstones could be carved.
Saint-Domingue and Mobile: A Gulf Coast History That Requires Care
A carefully sourced look at Saint-Domingue, the Haitian Revolution, French refugee ties to Alabama and what the record does—and does not—show about Mobile.
From a Morehouse Busboy to a Caddy Master at Spring Hill: More First Jobs
A legislator who bussed tables on the Atlanta graveyard shift, a minister who ran the caddy shack at Spring Hill College and a judge who picked cotton at $2.50 a…