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Ollie Miss
Ollie Miss is a folk novel of Southern backwoods and rural, poor black life in Alabama's recent past. The novel serves as an important social record of a past society, time, and …
Physician to the World
Physician to the World by John M. Gibson is a study of the career of William Crawford Gorgas, focusing primarily on the 22 years from the Spanish-American War until his death at …
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs
A series of sketches written in part to parody some the campaign literature of the eraOriginally published in 1845, Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs is a series of sketches …
It's Always Three O'Clock
This powerful Southern novel takes place in Scottsboro, Alabama (the novel's Bellefonte), between 1923 and 1946 and focuses on the life of Eileen Holder and her classmates from …
The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815-28
Traces the evolution of Alabama out of the Mississippi Territory, and the earliest years of statehood. Events in these early years established patterns and shaped the future.
Fort Toulouse
Situated at the head of the Alabama River system--at the juncture of the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers--Fort Toulouse in 1717 was planned to keep the local Indians neutral, if not …
Cottonmouth
Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Originally published in 1941, Cottonmouth is an Alabama novel like no other in its evocation of the sights, sounds, and smells of …
The Third Door
Ellen Tarry was born in 1906 in Birmingham, Alabama. While attending a Catholic school in Virginia during her teens, she joined the Church. She returned to Alabama to attend …
Foundation Stone
Using the history of Alabama and the stories of her pioneering ancestors, Lella Warren created the Whetstone clan who settled Alabama in the 1820s, helped lead it into the …
Rachel's Children
Rachel's Children, originally published in 1938 by Harper & Brothers, is a powerful story about a woman of immense psychological and spiritual presence attempting to work her way …