Growing up in Montgomery in the '40s and '50s, I came to be aware of “the free state of Winston” County, Alabama, whence came my friend-to-be Judge Frank M. Johnson.

Thanksgiving in Alabama: 'Yankee' holiday didn't catch on until after Civil War After the war, Alabama had Thanksgiving on Dec. 7, 1865, and Nov. 29, 1866; Previously the South thought of it as a ...

Viral video of a chaotic brawl along Montgomery, Alabama’s riverfront has renewed national ... told CNN the state played a “substantial role in the domestic slave trade” until the Civil War.

By 1860, there were more than 435,000 enslaved people in the state, according to the Equal Justice Initiative. By the start of the Civil War a year later, Montgomery was among the most prominent ...

The Civil War remains one of the most important chapters in American history. ... In Davis’s eyes, there was no other choice, and he eventually headed to Montgomery, Alabama, ...

In the files in Montgomery, ... One was Fleming’s pro-Klan “Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama,” published in 1905.