Photograph by Mark Thiessen, National Geographic Based on their research of possible locations, Delgado and Alabama state archaeologist Stacye Hathorn focused on a stretch of the Mobile River that ...

No stone marks her grave, but it's believed that Matilda was laid to rest here, in the Martin Station Cemetery near Safford, Alabama. Photograph by Elias Williams, National Geographic In 1931 ...

Scientists are racing to boost early warning systems as climate change pushes tornadoes into unpredictable new patterns.

In 1860—52 years after the United States had banned the import of slaves—a wealthy landowner hired the schooner and its captain to smuggle more than a hundred African captives into Alabama ...

Photograph by Natalie Keyssar, National Geographic Margaret Norman ... The New Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama, held its first in-person service since the start of the pandemic ...

On a recent road trip through the American South, my partner, National Geographic photographer Kris Graves, and I drove through Tuskegee, Alabama, where we found a connection to a time long before ...

There have been whispers for decades that a creature with the spots of a leopard and the body of an eel lurked in the swamps of Florida and Alabama. Rumor had it the animal was as long as a man ...

Sartore is a National Geographic Explorer, wildlife photographer, and conservationist. In 2006, Sartore founded the Photo Ark project to show the world the beauty of biodiversity and inspire ...