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Horse and Buggy Days on Hatchet Creek
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 …
Party Politics in Alabama from 1850 Through 1860
Reveals the flow of political events in the state of Alabama, and the people behind them, during the critical decade preceding the American Civil War. This study explains sectional …
The Life of Andrew Jackson
Original copies of the first, 1817, edition of this work are so rare that even the Library of Congress does not have an undamaged copy. Consequently scholars and students of …
Filibusters and Expansionists
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 …
A Rich Man's War, a Poor Man's Fight
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, …
Labor Revolt in Alabama
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 …
Secessionist Impulse
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 …
Oscar W. Underwood
Although Oscar W. Underwood was considered a titan of his age, few American political figures have suffered such neglect as he. Except for his candidacy for the Democratic …
Down the River
This delightful divertissement is a lampoon of dueling culture set in south eastern Alabama, penned by a cousin of the better known humorist Johnson Jones Hooper. Interestingly, …
Old Mobile
Offers to American historiography a microcosmic view of an early French colonial settlement in the United States, recreating the lives of the fort occupants in minute detail. …
The Reminiscences of George Strother Gaines
This annotated edition of George Strother Gaines' ""Reminiscences"" provides a glimpse into the early history of the Mississippi-Alabama Territory and antebellum Alabama.
August Reckoning
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 …