A piece of Civil War history was brought back to life on Dauphin Island Saturday as Fort Gaines marked its 161st Battle of ...

Join us deep in the Alabama wilderness as we explore an overgrown road once traveled during the Civil War. Using advanced metal detectors, we uncover authentic artifacts, from lead bullets to uniform ...

Hurricane Isaac has washed the remains of a blockade-runner vessel onto the shores of an Alabama beach, and many believe it could be a Civil War-era vessel, dating to 1862, according to the ...

The sesquicentennial of the Civil War is one of three historical periods in state history being observed 2011 through 2015 under the “Becoming Alabama” campaign. Under this banner, the state ...

You can let your Civil War memories lie, Dear Reader, or you can shake them up by sprinkling over them the pleasure of reading Silent Cavalry. But, beware: In this case when it Raines, it pours.

Industrial development occupies the Mobile Riverfront under the Cochrane-Africatown USA Bridge near Mobile, Alabama, on Jan. 29, 2019. Julie Bennett/AP This story was updated on March 14.

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