Welcome to your free, online resource on Alabama history, culture, geography, and natural environment. This site offers articles on Alabama's famous people, historic events, sports, art, literature, industry, government, plant and animal life, agriculture, recreation, and so much more.
For an introduction to EOA's content, please read historian Wayne Flynt's essay on Alabama.
Visit EOA's new Federal Road page, which is part of the Federal Road Initiative, a program of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System to highlight sites of historical and cultural interest on or near
the path of the Old Federal Road.
The road, which stretched from Milledgeville, Georgia, to coastal Alabama, contributed to the development and growth of communities in Alabama.
Visit EOA's new Becoming Alabama feature, which arranges our content by three periods of national upheaval—The Creek War of 1813-14, The Civil War and Emancipation, and The Civil Rights Movement. Anniversaries connected to them will converge between 2011 and 2015 and this section helps tell the story of events that unfolded 200, 150, and 50 years ago.
In March 1931, nine young black men were removed from a train and arrested in Jackson County, Alabama,...
The Battle of Autossee took place on November 29, 1813, at a Creek town near present-day Shorter, Macon...
Snake (or serpent) handling in Alabama is practiced primarily by the members of the Church of God with...