Stay hydrated with Joe’s free newsletter, SPORTS! Happy Hour. Here’s the link to sign up. This is an opinion column. For a long time, the football players at the University of Alabama used the Civil ...

On Nov. 4, 1866, the Montgomery Advertiser published a proclamation that had been signed by Alabama Gov. Robert Miller Patton three days earlier. It was an official welcome to Thanksgiving for his ...

There are, in fact, many anecdotes in the 541-page antidote to the embarrassment occasioned by the realization that the War and its post-hoc, “Lost Cause” rationalizations represented a 100 year-long ...