Year in Review 2025
A look back at the top news items of 2025.
Historic Alabama: Nitrate production comes to the Shoals
Two nitrate plants and a dam were created to support the war effort.
Take the December 2025 AlaBiz Quiz
Challenge yourself with the December 2025 Alabiz Quiz featuring Alabama business-related puzzlers from the past.
Retrospect: Thomas Eastin and the early days of Alabama’s press
Thomas Eastin launched The Halcyon and Tombeckbe Advertiser in 1815.
Historic Alabama: Raising the Roof
The Skyline Farms project was a cooperative farming experiment.
Retrospect: The cotton kingdom of Isidor Weil
Isidor and Herman Weil launched a cotton brokerage that would grow to one of the world's largest.
Take the November 2025 AlaBiz Quiz
Challenge yourself with the November 2025 Alabiz Quiz featuring Alabama business-related puzzlers from the past.
Historic Alabama: Model Business
Under construction in 1960 is the chapel at Tuskegee University.
Retrospect: The French artisan who helped shape Alabama’s early identity
Mobile's poet, jeweler and pioneer Jean Simon Chaudron counted among his clients the nation's founding fathers.
Take the October 2025 AlaBiz Quiz
Challenge yourself with the September 2025 Alabiz Quiz featuring Alabama business-related puzzlers from the past.