The South: Culture and History

Tuscaloosa News

Northport Gazette

AL.com (includes newspapers from Birmingham, Mobile, Huntsville)

LexisNexis Academic--an exceptional resource for news topics from the past twenty years. You can focus your search on Alabama news sources.

WVUA (TV news station for UA and Tuscaloosa)

Google News--to focus your search on Alabama, type Alabama in the "News source" box, and then type your topic in the top search boxes.

You can find an extensive list of Alabama e-zines, TV and radio news stations, newspapers, and magazines in the Alabama Media Index.

 Alabama Mosaic--a large online archive of images, newspaper clippings, government documents, manuscripts, and other soruces from Alabama's history.

America: History and Life-finds articles about Alabama history from state journals and magazines, including Alabama Heritage, Alabama Review, and Southern Historian.

JSTOR-contains thousands of articles from key journals in history, political science, sociology, women's studies, and African-American studies.

WPA life histories from Alabama--interviews with Alabamians from the 1930s.

W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library (UA library covering Alabama history)

Some good primary source texts on civil rights in Alabama include:

Kempton, Murray. "When The Riots Came." Reporting Civil Rights: Part One American Journalism 1941-1963. Ed. Library of America, 2003. Print.

 Sitton, Claude. "Alabama Admits Negro Students; Wallace Bows To Federal Force." Reporting Civil Rights: Part One American Journalism 1941-1963. Ed. Library of America, 2003. Print.

For even more information about Alabama history, please see Alabama Resources from Hoole

State of Alabama Official Web Site--education, law, disability services, state news, consumer protection, history, economy, community resources.

State and Local Governments in Alabama--quickly find links to city and county government sites.