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.
Mobile Teacher Publishes Biography of Civil Rights Leader John LeFlore
A Mobile educator has brought to life the story of one of the city’s most important yet often overlooked civil rights figures. Ken Robinson, a history teacher at Murphy High…
Mobile Native Vivian Malone Jones Remembered as a Civil Rights Pioneer
Mobile native Vivian Malone Jones helped change the history of higher education in Alabama when she entered the University of Alabama in 1963 and became its first Black graduate two…
Mobile’s Only Satanist Coven Calls It Quits This Halloween
After seven years, the Black Coven of Sathanas — to the best of local knowledge the only organized Satanist group in Mobile — will officially dissolve this Halloween, a date…
Interview: ‘Haunted Mobile’ Author Elizabeth Parker on the City’s Ghost Stories
Mobile writer Elizabeth Parker has spent years collecting the port city’s ghost stories, and in a recent interview she explained how that obsession became a book — and how a…
Janet Nodar’s ‘Trumpet Field and Other Stories’ Arrives in Print From Mobile-Area Press
A Mobile-area independent press has announced a pair of literary projects headed for shelves in the coming months, led by the first print edition of Janet Nodar’s story collection “Trumpet…
Late Mobile Writer Eugene Walter’s Spirited Cookbook ‘The Happy Table’ Reaches Shelves
Mobile-born writer Eugene Walter (1921-1998) is back in print this season with “The Happy Table of Eugene Walter: Southern Spirits in Food and Drink,” a posthumous cookbook assembled from the…
Mobile’s Davis Avenue Recreation Center Joins the National Register
The National Park Service added Mobile's Davis Avenue Recreation Center, founded in 1921 as the city's first public recreation center for African Americans, to the National Register of Historic Places.
The Old Spanish Alley: A Riverfront Quarter in Mobile’s Past
Long before the docks and rails remade Mobile’s riverfront, a cramped, hard-lived district known as Spanish Alley sat in the shadow of the city’s old waterfront. Set between Monroe and…
University of South Alabama Makes Vast Wilson Burton Photo Collection Available Online
The University of South Alabama Archives has made a remarkable collection of historical photographs accessible to the public through its website, opening a window into decades of life in Mobile…