In 1928 Andre Kertesz, a Hungarian photographer, stood near the door of the Jeu de Paume in Paris and took a picture of four men crossing Place de la Concorde. This photograph, and others like it, changed the face of photography. To this day, many modern photographers travel to Paris to share the mood that their famous work evokes. Photographers worldwide do street photography that mimics this way of seeing. Read More...

Born in Anniston, the late Douglas Leigh redesigned the visual history of American pop culture with brilliant signs and illuminated skyscrapers that electrified New York City for generations Read More...

Phenix City Alabama didn’t earn the name ‘wickedest city in the USA’ for nothing. It was a border town offering soldiers at nearby Fort Benning everything they couldn’t get in Georgia. It was Tijuana to the larger city of Columbus across the Chattahoochee River.

But to say that might be an insult to Mexico. Read More...

You could say it began here, the March to the Sea. A highway marker notes it. This Cherokee County hamlet is where Gen. William T. Sherman, in pursuit of John Bell Hood’s Confederate army, pursued no more. Sherman stopped, considered. It was October 1864. The month before he had beaten Hood in Atlanta – “Atlanta is ours and fairly won,” he cabled Washington with triumphant pride  – and as he’d been taught at West Point, he was pursuing his adversary, conventionally, with the intent of destroying him, conventionally. Having suffered serious losses in and around Atlanta, Hood’s was now much the smaller army, more mobile, traveling light, outpacing the Yankees. Read More...

By Carolyn Haines
2010 Recipient of the Harper Lee Award for a Distingushed Alabama writer

From the opening line of this wonderful book, I was drawn into the world of Scout and Jem. “When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow....” Thus begins this coming of age story set in a small Alabama town about the need for good people to stand for justice. Read More...