At 83, Fairhope Civil Rights Veteran Bob Zellner Says the Work Isn’t Finished
Six decades after he became one of the few white Southerners to join the front lines of the civil rights movement, Bob Zellner is still working full time — and…
Alabama AG Steve Marshall Renews Warning Over Confederate Monument Removals After Mobile’s Semmes Statue Fight
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is warning city and county leaders statewide against removing Confederate monuments in violation of state law, months after Mobile settled its own dispute over the…
Alabama’s Bicentennial: How Mobile Shaped the Road to 1819 Statehood
As Alabama marked its 200th year of statehood, local historians point back to Mobile's outsized role in the events of 1817-1819 that split the old Mississippi Territory and created the…
University of Mobile to Host Civil War Historian for Anniversary Lecture Series
The University of Mobile marks the 10th year of its Billy G. Hinson Lecture Series with a talk on the legacy of Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
Inside the Conde-Charlotte House, One of Downtown Mobile’s Most Layered Historic Landmarks
Tucked near Fort Conde in downtown Mobile, the Conde-Charlotte Museum House stands as one of the city’s most layered historic properties, with a past that stretches from the colonial era…
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.
Carolina Hall: The Spring Hill Mansion Modeled After an Ancient Greek Landmark
Tucked among the oaks of Spring Hill stands one of Mobile’s most architecturally unusual historic homes: Carolina Hall, a three-level mansion whose design traces back nearly 2,000 years to ancient…
The Boy Who Rowed Out to Farragut’s Fleet: A Mobile Family’s Memoir Begins
A memoir by Sister Marie Emilie, a Mobile-born nun, opens with an Irish immigrant on the docks, a wounded Confederate prisoner, and a boy summoned home by Admiral Farragut himself.