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

An 1842 article in the Jacksonville Republican proposed that “Alabama” meant ‘Here We Rest’, a notion popularized in the 1850s through the writings of Alexander Beaufort Meek.

Alabama is home to 62 indigenous mammal species.

Alabama has very hot summers with high temperatures averaging over 90 °F (32 °C) in some parts of the state and mild winters.

3.2% of Alabama’s area is water.

Alabama is usually ranked among the top in the nation for its range of overall biodiversity.

Invertebrates in Alabama include 97 crayfish species and 383 mollusk species.

The Yazoo lands referred to most of what is now the northern two-thirds of Alabama, claimed by the Province of Georgia from 1767 onwards. Following the Revolutionary War, it remained part of Georgia until added to the Mississippi Territory ...Read more

The removal of the Ten Commandments statue in Alabama led to protests around the capitol, with many people in favor of keeping the monument.

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.