The economy of Alabama’s Black Belt region was built around large cotton plantations whose owners’ wealth grew mainly from slave labor. Southeastern planters and traders from the Upper South brought slaves with them as the cotton plantations in Alabama ...Read more

The 2011 tornado outbreak in Alabama resulted in 238 deaths and caused significant devastation to many communities across the state.

The climate in Alabama is classified as humid subtropical (Cfa) under the Köppen Climate Classification.

Suburban Baldwin County, along the Gulf Coast, is the largest county in Alabama in both land area and water area.

Alabama was under military rule from the end of the war in May 1865 until its official restoration to the Union in 1868.

After seceding, Alabama joined the Confederate States of America, and the Confederacy’s capital was initially at Montgomery. Alabama contributed about 120,000 soldiers to the war effort, though few battles were fought in the state.

Alabama’s coastal counties, part of the former Spanish West Florida territory, officially became part of the United States in 1819 with the Adams–Onís Treaty.

Thomas Bassett was a loyalist to the British monarchy during the Revolutionary era and one of the earliest white settlers in Alabama outside Mobile. He settled in the Tombigbee District during the early 1770s.

The first capitol building in Montgomery burned down in 1849, but it was rebuilt on the same site in 1851. The second capitol building, designed by Barachias Holt of Exeter, Maine, remains to the present day.