Historical Alabama: Turning metal into motors
The information for this photo says that “engine pistons by the thousands are shipped each day from Ford Motor Company’s new aluminum castings plant...
Take the September 2021 AlaBiz Quiz
Challenge yourself with the August 2021 Alabiz Quiz featuring Alabama business-related puzzlers from the past.
Take the August 2021 AlaBiz Quiz
Challenge yourself with the August 2021 Alabiz Quiz featuring Alabama business-related puzzlers from the past.
Retrospect: A look back at Roderick D. MacKenzie’s steel series
This year marks the centennial of an unlikely meeting between a Mobile artist and a Birmingham steel executive. In the summer of 1921, Roderick...
Funding Alabama: The First State Budget
Statehood was within sight when Gov. William Wyatt Bibb submitted his address to the first Alabama Legislature in October 1819. He likened the process...
Retrospect: The story of Sam the Banana Man
Copies of the February 19, 1951, edition of Life magazine sold quickly in Selma. The periodical featured the story of a humble former resident...
Take the June 2021 AlaBiz Quiz
Challenge yourself with the June 2021 Alabiz Quiz featuring Alabama business-related puzzlers from the past.
Lafayette’s expensive visit to Alabama
During eight spectacle-filled days in the spring of 1825, Alabamians welcomed to their soil a Frenchman of international renown. The Marquis de Lafayette was...
Alabama’s First Bank Robbery
This story appears in the April 2021 issue of Business Alabama Magazine.
The Bank of Mobile holds the distinction of being the first financial institution in Alabama to...
Printing Alabama’s First Constitution
This story appears in the March 2021 issue of Business Alabama magazine.
When delegates arrived in Huntsville in the summer of 1819 to write Alabama’s first...