Since 2016 the Alabama Historical Association has given out the Robert J. "Jeff" Jakeman Award for Digital History to honor vari...

Since mom's death in January 2023 , my brother Richard and I have been on a long journey to get her and dad's house in Huntsville re...

Source: Find-A-Grave In 1836 Dr. Philip Madison Shepard, a Georgia native and graduate of the Georgia Medical College in Augusta, moved hi...

In one of my online wanderings recently I found  this photograph of Allen Ginsberg. Birmingham News photographer Ed Jones took this shot of...

Sometimes I run across really strange Alabama "connections", and I've written blog posts about a few of them. One examined box...

As one often does, I was recently perusing the March 1963 issue of the Junior League of Birmingham Newssheet and came across this advertisem...