Last year I wrote a blog post on a slave named Harry Talbird who saved several Howard College students during a fire in Marion in 1854 and ...

I worked at UAB from 1983 through 2015 and often left campus going down University Boulevard and then Green Springs Highway  [Alabama State ...

I'm continuing to draw photographs from the wonderful 1908 publication Views of Birmingham .  The top photo is the "Baptist Chur...

           Several years before her death in 1997, my paternal grandmother Rosa Mae Wright of Gadsden, Alabama, gave me a small bound b...

If they survive, all sorts of ephemeral materials from the past can be of interest to historians, genealogists, entrepreneurs, and even the...