On Aug. 22, 1923, fire broke out at the historic state capitol building in Tuscaloosa. It was Alabama’s second statehouse but at the time of the fire, it was being used as Alabama Central Female ...

The state Capitol stairs serve as a stark example of complicated work performed by a complicated man, who lived a remarkable ...

have seen decades of use since King was contracted to construct them in 1851 after the previous Capitol building burned in 1849. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of Alabama elementary ...