Alabama
325 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- Alabama Paradox, The Land of Extremes
- Alabama's Gulf Coast, Hurricanes, Oil, and the Living Reef
- George Wallace, Four Races, and the Long Arc
- Reconstruction, Redemption, and the Constitution of Eighteen Seventy-Five
- Secession and the Confederate State
- Sharecropping, Debt, and the Tenant System
- Statehood, the Black Belt, and the Cotton Bargain
- The Nations That Named This Land
- The Selma-to-Montgomery March, the Whole Story
- The Sound from Muscle Shoals
- The Tennessee Valley and What the Dams Changed
- W.C. Handy and the Birth of the Blues
Near Birmingham
- A.G. Gaston, The Man Who Bankrolled the Movement
- Barber Motorsports Park
- Bessemer, The Marvel City's Steel and Struggle
- Bessemer: The City Built to Make Steel
- Bethel Baptist Church, Birmingham
- Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Airport, A Name Fought For
- Birmingham-Southern College: A Hundred and Sixty-Eight Years, Then Gone
- Birmingham-Southern College: One Hundred Sixty-Eight Years, Then Gone
- Bombingham, Fifty Explosions
- Brighton: A Streetcar Suburb Tied to Iron
- Bull Connor: The Movement's Unwilling Ally
- Convict Leasing and the Coal Mines
- Cumberland School of Law
- Fairfield: The City US Steel Built from Scratch
- Fred Shuttlesworth, The Man Birmingham Could Not Break
- Gardendale: From Jugtown to Garden City
- Homewood: The Suburb That Cholera Built
- Hueytown: Birthplace of the Alabama Gang
- Hueytown: Home of the Alabama Gang
- Irondale Furnace
- Kelly Ingram Park: Where the Dogs and Fire Hoses Faced the Children
- Kelly Ingram Park: Where the Fire Hoses Ran
- Kimberly: Named for a Diamond Mine in South Africa
- Leeds, Alabama: Named for Yorkshire's Iron Country
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- Lipscomb: From Wheeling to Lipscomb Station
- Miles College, Education Born from a Saddlebag
- Miles College: The HBCU That Launched Birmingham's Movement
- Mountain Brook: Creek Hunting Ground to Birmingham's English Village
- Red Mountain, Ore and Outlook
- Rickwood Field and the Black Barons
- Rickwood Field: America's Oldest Ballpark
- Samford University
- Sloss Furnaces, Nearly a Century of Fire
- Sun Ra, The Alien from Birmingham
- Sun Ra: From Birmingham to Saturn
- The 1908 Strike, Where Two Things Ended at Once
- The 1948 Dixiecrats, Birmingham as Stage
- The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
- The Children's Crusade, May Nineteen Sixty-Three
- The Civil Rights District, Built to Remember
- The Finley Roundhouse
- The Four Girls of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
- The Fourth Avenue District, A City Within the City
- The Magic City, Born at a Crossing
- The Old Mill
- The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing
- The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, September Fifteen
- Trussville: Warren Truss and His Grist Mill
- Vulcan, God of the Forge, Left in Pieces
- When the Furnaces Went Cold
Near Columbus
- April 16, 1865: The Last Battle
- Coweta and the People Before Columbus
- Eagle and Phenix: The Mill That Refused to Die
- Horace King: The Bridge Builder
- Phenix City: The Town Across the River
- Shiloh Church and the Tuskegee Study
- The Creek Census of Eighteen Thirty-Two
- The CSS Jackson: A Ship That Never Reached Water
- The Fall Line and the River That Made a City
- The Whitewater Returns
Near Gulf Shores
Near Huntsville
- 2006 Lee High School Bus Crash
- Alabama's First Capital
- Dixie Alley: The November Storm
- Explorer One and the Eighty-Four Days
- Huntsville Madison County Veterans Memorial Eternal Flame
- Marshall Space Flight Center and the Saturn Five
- Mill Town
- Monte Sano: Mountain of Health
- Mooresville, Alabama
- NASA's Leverage and the Schools
- Operation Paperclip Arrives
- Space Camp and the Children of the Rocket City
- The Chickasaw and the Cherokee Treaties
- The Lunch Counters of Nineteen Sixty-Two
- The Plantation, the School, and Dred Scott
- The Rocket City's Second Century
- The Spring and the Name
- The Twickenham District and Its Houses
- Wernher von Braun: War Criminal to Moon Rocket
- William Hooper Councill and the School He Raised
Near Mobile
- Africatown: The Last Slave Ship and the Community That Would Not Disappear
- America's Original Mardi Gras
- Azaleas, Coca-Cola, and Bellingrath Gardens
- Battle of Fort Blakeley
- Battle of Spanish Fort: The Last Siege of the War
- Chickasaw Shipyard Village
- Daphne, Alabama
- Five Flags Over Mobile
- Georgia Cottage: The House Where Augusta Evans Wilson Wrote Her Way to Fame
- Government Street Presbyterian: America's Greek Revival Masterpiece
- Hank Aaron: Born in Mobile, Broke the Record Under Death Threats
- Hank Aaron: Down the Bay
- Hurricane Frederic and the Night the Bay Came Ashore
- King Cotton and the Slave Port
- Loxley, Alabama
- Mauvilla: The Deadliest Battle Before Jamestown
- Mobile Mardi Gras: Seventeen Oh Three, Older Than New Orleans
- Mobile, the City That Survived Everything
- Old City Hall, Mobile's Italianate Landmark
- Saraland: Named for a Minister's Wife
- Satsuma: The Orange Town That Lost Its Trees
- Spring Hill College and Bishop Portier's Gamble
- The 1943 Shipyard Riot
- The Architecture of Five Empires: Creole Cottages and Greek Revival
- The Clotilda and Africatown
- The First Capital: Fort Louis de la Louisiane
- The H. L. Hunley: Born in Mobile
- The Michael Donald Case and the Klan's Reckoning
- The USS Rodolph: The Last Mine of the War
- The Village: Britain's Last Gamble for Mobile
- Toulminville: The Suburb That Got Swallowed
- USS Alabama: The Ship That Never Lost a Man in Combat
- USS Drum: The Oldest Surviving American Submarine
- Yellow Fever and the Price of the Port
Near Montgomery
- Alabama State University and the Sit-Ins of 1960
- Alabama State University: Born from Rebellion
- Browder v. Gayle, or How the Boycott Actually Ended
- City of St. Jude: The Night Before Montgomery
- Claudette Colvin, Nine Months Before
- Claudette Colvin: The Test Case They Chose Not to Use
- Court Square, Where Commerce and Cruelty Shared an Address
- Daniel Pratt's Company Town: The Gin That Built the Black Belt
- Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, 1883
- Hank Williams Comes to Town
- Huntingdon College: From Tuskegee Female College to Montgomery
- Jo Ann Robinson and the Women's Political Council
- Judge Johnson's Courthouse: The Man the Klan Called Most Hated
- Millbrook: Pure Water Country
- Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
- Montgomery Now
- Nat King Cole Was Born Here
- Rosa Parks Was Not a Random Tired Seamstress
- The Alabama River and the Cotton Economy
- The Civil Rights Memorial, 1989
- The First Confederate Capitol
- The Freedom Riders at the Greyhound Station, May 1961
- The Greyhound Station: Where the Mob Was Waiting
- The Legacy Museum and the Memorial for Peace and Justice
- The March Arrives, March 25, 1965
- The National Memorial for Peace and Justice: Four Thousand Four Hundred Names
- The Women Who Printed Thirty-Five Thousand Leaflets
- Tuskegee, Forty Miles East
- Viola Liuzzo and the Road Back to Selma
- Zelda Sayre and the Confederate White House
Near Tuscaloosa
- Alabama Central Female College
- April Twenty-Seventh, Twenty Eleven
- Autherine Lucy and the First Breach
- Battle of Mabila, 1540
- Bear Bryant and the Integration of the Crimson Tide
- Bloody Tuesday, 1964
- Bryce Hospital Cemetery
- Bryce Hospital: Reform, Decline, and Wyatt v. Stickney
- Dinah Washington: Queen of the Blues, Born in Tuscaloosa
- Dreamland: Big Daddy's Rib Joint
- George Wallace at the Schoolhouse Door, June Eleven, Nineteen Sixty-Three
- Locks, Coal, and Mercedes: The Industrial River
- Moundville: Second City of the Mississippian World
- Queen City Pool: The WPA Built It. Segregation Closed It.
- Stand in the Schoolhouse Door, 1963
- Stillman College, A Presbytery, A Promise, Tuscaloosa
- Stillman College: One Hundred and Fifty Years
- Stillman College: Six Students and a Mission
- The Bryant Museum: Cathedral of Crimson Tide Football
- The Defended Covered Bridge
- The Druid City: Water Oaks and a Nickname
- The River That Named a City
- The University, the Fire, and the Gorgases
- Twenty Years as Alabama's Capital
- USS Tuscaloosa Mast
- Vance: Stagecoach Stop to Mercedes Factory
- Vance: The German Invasion of Alabama
Along the way
- Alamuchee-Bellamy Bridge: Built in Wartime, Still Standing
- Andrew Jackson's Military Road
- Antebellum Cotton Mills on Cypress Creek
- Antioch Cemetery
- Ardmore: A Town Split by a State Line
- Ashville: The Town That Wouldn't Give Up Its Seat
- Atmore: Williams Station and the Poarch Creek Homeland
- Attalla: The Mountain Town Lafayette Visited
- Ave Maria Grotto: One Monk's Lifetime in Miniature
- Bailey School
- Barton Hall: Forty Thousand Acres and an Unfinished Staircase
- Battle of Sulphur Creek Trestle
- Battle Royal
- Beaver Mills: Where the Confederacy's Uniforms Became Paper
- Bent, Not Broken
- Bloch Park and the Selma Cloverleafs
- Bloody Sunday: The Bridge, the Troopers, and John Lewis's Skull
- Blount Springs, the Saratoga of the South
- Blountsville, Once Bear Meat Cabin
- Boll Weevil Monument
- Cairns Army Airfield, Army Aviation's Home
- Calera: The Lime Kiln Town
- Capture of John Murrell, Land Pirate
- Center Star Methodist Church
- Champion Mines
- Cherokee Plantation: Alabama's Oldest House and the Ross Family
- Cherry Street Historic District
- Chewacla: Built by the CCC in Depression-Era Alabama
- Claiborne, Alabama's Lost River Town
- Claiborne, the Lost River City
- Clanton: Goose Pond to Peach Capital
- Coldwater Covered Bridge: Alabama's Oldest
- College Place Historic District
- Collinsville: From Lynchburg to a Schoolteacher's Name
- Colonel Cullmann's German Colony
- Conecuh National Forest and the Return of the Longleaf
- Confederate Memorial Park
- Cuba, Alabama
- Cuba, Alabama: A Black Belt Cotton Town
- Daniel White and the Wayside Inn
- Dr. Harold A. Franklin
- East Florence Historic District
- Ebenezer Hearn, Father of Alabama Methodism
- Elba, The Town That Keeps Flooding
- Epes, Alabama
- Eufaula: A Creek Name on Seven Hundred Antebellum Homes
- Eutaw, Alabama: Named for a Revolution
- Evergreen: Cosey's Old Field
- Falkville: The Storekeeper's Town
- Federal Raid at Blountsville
- Florence Wagon Works
- Forks of Cypress Plantation
- Fort Deposit: Jackson's Supply Base
- Fort Payne, Cherokee Removal, Socks, and a Band
- Franklin, Alabama: First Town in Creek Country
- Gantt's Quarry Observation Point
- General Hood's Narrow Escape
- General John Coffee, Founder of Florence
- Georgiana: Where Hank Williams Found His Voice
- Gilliland-Reese Bridge: Built by Neighbors, Saved by a Park
- Good Hope: Church, Germans, and Monks
- Governor Hugh McVay
- Greater Mount Moriah Primitive Baptist Church
- Greene County, The Black Belt's Deepest Story
- Greenville: Butlerville Becomes the County Seat
- Grove Hill World War One Memorial
- Guin: The Gold Spike Town
- Hamilton: The Toll Gate That Became a County Seat
- Hartselle: Born in a Boxcar
- Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum
- Heflin, Alabama
- Helen Keller: Tuscumbia, Anne Sullivan, and a Political Life Nobody Taught
- Hobson City: Alabama's First Black Municipality
- Homer Givens, First American Hero of World War One
- Honoring John Lewis
- Houston Memorial Library: Athens and Its Governor
- Jackson's Military Road
- Justice John McKinley
- Kennedy Gun Factory
- Lanett: Two Names in One Town
- Lincoln, Alabama: Three Names and a Railroad
- Livingston, Alabama: Born from a Treaty and a River
- Locust Dell Academy
- Lone Cedar Church of Christ
- Macedonia Church of Christ
- Manitou Cave: Hidden Words in Cherokee Syllabary
- Maud McKnight Lindsay
- Monroeville, Literary Capital of Alabama
- Muscle Shoals Canal
- New Hope Church of Christ
- Noccalula Falls: The Legend and the Gorge
- Old Confederate Fort
- Opelika: The Creek Word That Stuck
- Saint Michael's Catholic Church and Saint Florian
- Saint Paul A M E Church
- Salem-Shotwell Covered Bridge: The Last of Its Kind in the County
- Sam Phillips, Born in Florence
- Samuel Noble and the Model City
- Sipsey Wilderness and the Fight That Saved It
- Site of Six Mile Male and Female Academy
- Sweetwater Mansion
- Talladega: The Track That Was Built in Sixty-Three Days
- Tannehill Ironworks, Furnaces in the Forest
- Tannehill Ironworks: Where the Confederacy Forged Its Iron
- The Alamuchee Bridge: Built for War, Moved Twice, Still Standing
- The April Twenty-Seventh Tornado
- The Edmund Pettus Bridge Renaming Campaign: The Name Still There
- The Freedom Riders Bus Burning
- The Gallant Pelham
- The Gamble School
- The Grave of Mountain Tom Clark
- The International Motorsports Hall of Fame
- The Kick Six: One Hundred and Nine Yards into Legend
- The Marble Church of Jasper
- The Old Railroad Bridge
- The Scottsboro Boys: Alabama Justice Documented and Reversed
- The Scottsboro Boys: Due Process on a Freight Train
- The Spirit of American Citizenship
- The Toll Gate on Byler Road
- Trinity Episcopal Church
- Tuskegee Airmen: The Red Tails
- Tuskegee National Forest and the Farming Revolution Next Door
- Tuskegee: The Study That Used Community Trust as Cover
- Tuskegee: Where Booker T. Washington Built a World
- University of West Alabama and the Angel of the Stockade
- University of West Alabama: Julia Tutwiler's Quiet Revolution
- Valley Head: Cherokee Telonga and the Winston Place
- Valley, Alabama: Four Mill Villages, One City
- Vietnamese Fishermen and the Klan: Bayou la Batre, 1979
- Walnut Street Historic District
- Warrior: Coal Town on the Black Warrior River
- Wilcox County Confederate Monument
- Wilson's Headquarters and Camp Winter, 1865
- Winston County's Dual Destiny
- Woodstock: Clay, Coal, and Eight Trains a Day
- York, Alabama