As its BhamWiki entry notes, the Redmont Hotel  opened in May 1925 with 250 rooms in the 14-story building. The Redmont is the oldest hotel ...

"I can't live without empty chairs." - Karl Kraus For some time now I've been photographing scenes without people inside t...

In my never-ending project to look at every single image on Alabama Mosaic , I came across the one below recently. The photograph shows a nu...

As the most recent one demonstrated, the annual Iron Bowl football contest between Auburn University and the University of Alabama can have ...

I've written several blog posts in the past few years about Alabama-related books that have become victims of the downsizing of my perso...

In 1938 Auburn [then formally known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute, but seldom called that] and Birmingham-Southern College met in the fir...

I wanted to note the passing on October 23 of UAB Professor Emeritus and historian Tennant S. McWilliams, who served as Dean of the School...