Alabama's legendary governor of the 1940s and 1950s was a giant, cartoonish, character named James E. “Big Jim” Folsom. Ole Big Jim ran against the big businesses of Birmingham ― big banks, utilities, ...

This past Wednesday was both a sad and joyous occasion for park staff. Pack Mules Henry and Cash are officially retired. They will be enjoying retirement not too far away at Fort Davis National ...

The sun was out as Mule Day rolled, or perhaps trotted, along into the weekend, with competitions, live events as well as large crowds showing up to experience Columbia's flagship festival. The gates ...

If only V.O. Key were around to see Alabama now. The most-admired American political scientist of the mid-20th century understood Southern politics as few have before or since. In his masterwork on ...

You think you've seen corruption. You've seen governors come and go, legislators and mayors and council members and bureaucrats and all the cronies who gather to feed off those boobs. You haven't seen ...

In the downstairs grill of the Mountain Brook Club in Birmingham, Ala.--a room, Diane McWhorter writes in "Carry Me Home," "soothingly dark, as if it had been designed with the hangover in mind"--the ...