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MaIn the year’s best fiction film, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On describes a documentary to his grandmother: “It’s like a movie, but nobody has any lines and no one even knows what it is while they’re making it.” Our favorite talking mollusk is right, as usual. This year produced a bumper crop of great nonfiction

Since its discovery the Clotilda, the sunken schooner often known as the “last American slave ship,” has gained worldwide attention.

Senator Richard C. Shelby made the most of his perch on the committee that controls federal spending. Now he’s leaving Congress, where his way of doing business is a fading art.

It spread Anglo-European culture across the nation and caused trade to flourish, but the story of the Chinese labourers who built the track has largely been forgotten.

A 1905 Edwardian home in Mobile, a three-bedroom condominium in Cleveland and a midcentury ranch house in Oklahoma City.

Tales of an 1860s slave ship being burned just off the Alabama coast were confirmed when its ruins were found. Now, a documentary explores the contemporary impact.

The Southern Environmental Law Center (“SELC”) on behalf of Mobile Baykeeper, Inc., filed a Complaint in the United States District Court (Southern District of Alabama) against Alabama...

Smuggled out of Japan, he became the US' first permanent Japanese resident and helped birth California's wine industry.

These ten extremely endangered rivers in the US (according to American Rivers) require immediate restorative efforts and powerful movement to preserve them.

A new Netflix documentary follows the descendants of survivors of the last recorded vessel to bring slaves to the US, also focusing on the role of Irish slave owner Timothy Meagher in the affair.