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Semper Fortis: U.S. Navy Week coming to Montgomery April 1-7

In the midst of a nationwide recruiting crisis, the U.S. Navy has announced that its signature community outreach initiative is coming to Montgomery, Alabama. Navy Week, officials say, will give interested individuals and prospective recruits the opportunity to learn about the branch, its people, and its importance to national security and America's future prosperity.

Prattaugan Museum launches new family history project, seeks families stories

Slavery's ghost haunts cotton gin factory's transformation

A construction project in Alabama demonstrates the difficulty of telling complicated U.S. history in 2022. What was once the world's largest cotton gin factory is being renovated into apartments. Enslaved people were used to build the factory, which played a key role in the expansion of slavery before the Civil War. Some people in Prattville want their story told along with that of its founder, Daniel Pratt. But it's hard to honor the past without stirring conservative opposition. A historian says relatively few commercial sites linked to slavery recognize that past, so the developers in Prattville have a chance to do something new.

Slavery's ghost haunts cotton gin factory's transformation

A once-abandoned cotton gin factory with history tied up in slavery is being renovated into apartments in Prattville, Ala.

Slavery's ghost haunts cotton gin factory's transformation