{"id":3962,"date":"2017-02-26T13:01:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T18:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2017-02-26T13:01:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T18:01:03","slug":"sweet-home-alabamas-history-in-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/02\/sweet-home-alabamas-history-in-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Home: Alabama’s History in Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Sweet Home: Alabama’s History in Maps<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0“is an exhibit presented by the Birmingham Public Library in celebration of Alabama’s bicentennial. The Library’s\u00a0Southern History Department<\/a>\u00a0has carefully selected over 50 maps from our world class collection to tell the story of Alabama. The maps in this exhibit represent 450 years of exploration, expansion, and development.” It opens\u00a0Wednesday and runs through the end of April; there’s also an online version<\/a>.\u00a0Alabama Newscenter<\/a>. [Tony Campbell<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sweet Home: Alabama’s History in Maps\u00a0“is an exhibit presented by the Birmingham Public Library in celebration of Alabama’s bicentennial. The Library’s\u00a0Southern History Department\u00a0has carefully selected over 50 maps from our world class collection to tell… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[778,50],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-alabama","tag-exhibitions","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1845251,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/12\/alabamas-new-election-map-was-drawn-by-a-teenager\/","url_meta":{"origin":3962,"position":0},"title":"Alabama\u2019s New Election Map Was Drawn by a Teenager","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 December 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Alabama\u2019s state senate elections will now use a map drawn by an 18-year-old student. The judge chose the map over options put forward by the court\u2019s special master because it changed the existing map less (see the court decision). 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