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"This vignette of local southern history . . . recounts Renfroe's career as sheriff of Sumter County for a little more than two years, followed by six years of bizarre activities …
This history of black education in post-Civil War Alabama illustrates the history of goals in post-secondary institutions and the appropriateness of vocational or liberal arts …
Joseph Glover Baldwin left his native Virginia as a young man in 1836 for the booming frontier of the Old Southwest, settling first in DeKalb, Mississippi, and then in 1839 in …
This biography traces the life of Julia Strudwick Tutwiler (1841-1916) from her childhood in Alabama through her pioneering accomplishments as a teacher, administrator, and …
With a wry sense of humour and clear-eyed affection, Mitchell Garrett recalls growing up in a verdant valley in eastern Alabama. The Hatchett Creek community was his whole world …
Describing filibuster activities in both Florida and Texas, American efforts to seize Indian lands, operations against a free black fort in Florida and Andrew Jackson's adventures …
At the start of the Civil War in 1861, many men in Alabama enthusiastically enlisted. After these husbands, fathers, and brothers - all family breadwinners - marched off to duty, …
Written as a case study of the causes of the Alabama miner's strike in 1894, this book explains how during an economic depression period, the strong trade union of the United …
This is an outline of the economic crisis in the South based on the declining yields, increasing class stratification and higher slave prices. It supplies data on the property …
During the decades of Bourbon ascendancy after 1874, Alabama institutions - like those in other southern states - were dominated by whites. Former slave and sharecropper Jack …