August 29, 2024
As we mark the 80th anniversary of one of the many tragic events of World War II, we honor the extraordinary sacrifice of the 20th Squadron of the 2nd Bombardment… READ MORE
May 15, 2024
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L & N), along with other railroad startups, began prior to the Civil War. Located in Kentucky, the L & N railroad entered Alabama by… READ MORE
May 6, 2024
Today, we observe Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. It’s a day to remember the six million Jews murdered during World War II and the countless others who suffered under Nazi… READ MORE
April 26, 2024
Today, April 26th, marks the anniversary of the Salk polio vaccine field trials, a medical breakthrough that changed the world. But did you know a historically Black university played a… READ MORE
March 22, 2024
The critical questions of war facing the nation coincided with more personal dilemmas facing the Bankhead grandchildren Eugenia and Tallulah, who were enrolled at Fairmont Seminary as the nation girded… READ MORE
February 27, 2024
The University of Alabama Press announces F. Evan Nooe as the recipient of the 2022 Anne B. & James B. McMillan Prize in Southern History for his book Aggression and… READ MORE
December 13, 2023
It’s hard not to think about war these days, with Ukraine and the Middle East. It’s been said that only the dead can stop thinking about it; only the dead… READ MORE
October 26, 2023
Tennant McWilliams, the Southern historian and longtime Dean of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, passed away in Fairhope, Alabama on October… READ MORE
October 12, 2023
Imagine that the White House could speak. What would it say about its long and storied history? Perhaps it would tell us about the many presidents who have lived within… READ MORE
Excerpt: The Castle: A Novel by Seth Rogoff
