In both chronological and topical organization, "Alabama: The History of a Deep South State" examines traditional subjects such as politics, military events, economics, and social movements. It discusses the roles of individual leaders, such as Chief Tascaluza, Andrew Jackson, Rosa Parks, Helen Keller, and Wernher von Braun, as well as cultural ...
Alabama's agrarian protest began in the decades after the Civil War when individual farmers found themselves in an economic regression, unable to understand or partake in the forces behind the New South prosperity enjoyed by a few professional men, merchants, industrialists, and large planters. In reaction to this situation, yeomen farmers began ...
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 Turner refused to accept a society so structured. Highly intelligent, physically imposing, and an orator of persuasive talents, Turner was fearless before whites and emerged ...
Drawing from a wealth of historic documents and personal papers, William Warren Rogers, Jr., provides a fascinating and detailed political, economic, social, and commercial history of Montgomery from 1860 to 1865. His account begins with an examination of daily life in the city before the war began - how slaves outnumbered whites, how an ...
Richard Henry Whiteley participated firsthand in the epic events of nineteenth-century America. He came to the United States as a boy in the 1830s, working first in Georgia's textile mills, where the Irish immigrant climbed the ladder to become management. From there, he went on to become a lawyer, an officer in the Civil War, a convert to ...
William Warren Rogers traces and documents the economic, social, and political emergence of the Gulf coast port of Apalachicola and its pristine barrier island, Saint George.
One of the most elegant mansions in Florida, Goodwood was built in the late 19th-century. It was once the centre of a thriving plantation founded by the Croom family of North Carolina. This is the story of the family and their legacy.
A history of the Alabama penal system. It describes how the state responded to the national penal reform movement of the 19th century, documenting the basic and important differences between penitentiary experiments in the antebellum South and the New South.
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