Alabama Heritage

[TUSCALOOSA, ALA., NOV. 2026] — After a remarkable 45-year career in publishing, public relations, and communications, Rebecca Todd Minder, director of Alabama Heritage, announced her retirement at the end of 2026. Minder has devoted the past 20 years of her career to The University o...

[TUSCALOOSA, ALA., OCT. 21, 2026] — Alabama Heritage has earned two Silver Davey Awards in the 22nd Annual Davey Awards competition, receiving national recognition for both its award...

Native Alabamian Florence Chandler Maybrick’s name might have disappeared into permanent obscurity half a century ago had it not been for a strange finding in Liverpool, England, several decades after her death. A handwritten diary from a trunk inside a cupboard in a Liverpool home changed hands many times before ending up on the desk of writer Shirley Harrison. The document,...

The identity of Jack the Ripper has been hotly debated since he murdered his first victim in 1888. Theories and suspects abound. One theorist speculates that the murders were part of a conspiracy involving the Freemasons. Another claims that Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, encoded a confession to the murders in his poetry. There is even a “Jill the Ripp...