Octavus Roy Cohen was an extremely prolific author of dozens of novels and hundreds of short stories. He lived in Birmingham before World Wa...

Recently my brother Richard & I took one of our jaunts through Alabama and family history via a road trip to places significant in our p...

One of the football greats at the University of Alabama before World War II was Don Hutson . Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in 1913, Hutson g...

Samuel Mintern Peck was born in Tuscaloosa in 1854 and died there in 1938. His father was attorney Elisha Wolsey Peck, who served as Chief ...

The pages below come from the 1909 Birmingham City Directory published by R.L. Polk & Company. Founded in Detroit in 1870 to publish b...

Two recent posts in this series here and here  have offered photos related to some hospitals in the city. These four images are also relate...

Bruce Willis is one of the most recognizable movie stars working today. His film career began in 1980 with a bit part in The First Deadly ...