Alabama Humanities Alliance Unveils Statewide Exhibits and Events
The Alabama Humanities Alliance announced a statewide slate of Smithsonian exhibits, music tributes and grant opportunities running from Atmore to Foley.
USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park joins Smithsonian Museum Day
MOBILE, Ala. — The USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park will take part in Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum Day on Sept. 18, offering free admission to visitors who present a Museum Day…
Africatown Descendants Celebrate Confirmation That the Clotilda Has Been Found
Alabama officials have confirmed that a wreck found in the Mobile River is the Clotilda, the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans into the United States, a discovery that…
Alabama Historical Commission Confirms Mobile River Wreck as the Clotilda
State archaeologists have confirmed that a shipwreck lying in the Mobile River is the Clotilda, the last known vessel to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The Alabama Historical…
Underwater Survey of Mobile River Wraps Up, Search for Clotilda Continues
A week-long underwater survey of the Mobile River has concluded, cataloging newly discovered shipwrecks in a stretch of the river long known as a ship graveyard while continuing the search…
Alabama Historical Commission Launches Survey to Map Mobile River Shipwrecks
The Alabama Historical Commission is launching a Phase I sonar survey of the Mobile River to inventory shipwrecks and submerged cultural sites, work that could also help locate the long-sought…
Historical Commission Rules Out Mobile-Tensaw Delta Wreck as the Clotilda
A team of maritime archaeologists working with the Alabama Historical Commission has determined that a large wooden wreck found in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta is not the Clotilda, even as the…
Africatown Community Leaders Announce Investigation Into Possible Clotilda Wreckage
Africatown community leaders and researchers from the Smithsonian, National Park Service and Alabama Historical Commission announced an investigation into a shipwreck that may be the Clotilda, the last known slave…
Artstream Live Showcased Three Acclaimed Mobile Artists in Online Webcast
Three celebrated Mobile, Alabama, artists took part in a live online webcast through Artstream Live in January 2011, bringing their creative work to audiences across the internet in a groundbreaking…
Oral Histories, a Climate Teach-In and a Bridge Reopening: Mobile’s Late-Winter Calendar
A national oral history project came to Mobile's libraries, students organized a global warming teach-in at South Alabama, tourism officials courted snowbirds, and the Navco Road bridge neared reopening.