In Montgomery, Jefferson Davis Avenue crosses Rosa Parks Avenue, creating an appropriate intersection for a place that used to rely on Civil War tourism but that now draws visitors to a growing ...

Montgomery, Ala. — Alabama’s Civil War sites, attractions and battle re-enactments are showcased in a new brochure created by the state tourism department.

A major destination on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, Montgomery is home to the the Legacy Museum, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Rosa Parks Museum.

After the war, Alabama had Thanksgiving on Dec. 7, 1865, and Nov. 29, 1866; Previously the South thought of it as a 'Yankee holiday' ...

The Alabama Shakespeare Festival has commissioned two plays about the start of the Civil War in Montgomery in 1861. One is being written by a white Southern female and the other by a black ...

On a recent trip to the Montgomery museum, fourth-graders from rural Wilcox County in southern Alabama trudged up a nearly 200-year-old staircase and into the Relic Room, where a painting of Gen ...

The civil war within the Alabama Democratic Party isn’t about race, no matter how much party chairwoman Nancy Worley and minority affairs vice chairman Joe Reed want to say it is.

In this 4K metal detecting expedition, we uncover Civil War artifacts hidden along an overgrown Alabama road. From lead bullets to uniform buttons, each find reveals a forgotten story from the 1860s.

In Montgomery, Alabama, the history of the American slave trade and the civil rights movement are stacked right on top of each other. On Dec. 20, a group of more than 50 students took a day to absorb ...

Alabama’s capital city, a hub of the civil rights movement decades ago, is about to inaugurate its first African-American mayor. Steven Reed will be sworn in as mayor of Montgomery in a ceremony ...

We take our Minelab Equinox 800s into the night to explore a Civil War site steeped in history and legend. Alongside rare relics, we experienced a few chills that had nothing to do with the cold.