I want to start this column by recognizing Cathy Randall, Harrison Taylor, Shelley Jones, Elizabeth McGiffert and the countless other volunteers and sponsors who are making the city of Tuscaloosa’s ...

Family and historians say they eagerly await Becker College's efforts to restore the iconic house that once belonged to the abolitionist Rev. Samuel May. In 1966, the college purchased The May House, ...

symbol is a precarious thing. Ask Richard Scrushy, Birmingham's symbolic boy-made-good who turned, as fast as the winds of fortune, into a symbol of greed gone wild. A symbol is a powerful thing to ...

An iconic, colorful and functional railroad car, absent for decades, can be seen again on a short-line railroad in Northeast Pennsylvania. It’s the caboose. For 150 years, rail fans and casual ...

When WGN America’s drama “Underground” debuted last winter, it seemed like a cultural outlier. Stories from the Underground Railroad had long been relegated to nonfiction or the broad and simplistic ...