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Joseph Glover Baldwin left his native Virginia as a young man in 1836 for the booming frontier of the Old Southwest. He prospered as a local officeholder and attorney, and produced a series of sketches for the Southern Literary Messenger. This collection features 26 of these essays.

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. Higginbotham has made extensive use of Spanish archives in the research of early American history.

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 humanitarian.

This account of the Creek War of 1813 and 1814 includes introductory material and a bibliography revised to reflect the advances in scholarship since the 1969 edition. The facsmile reproduction of the 1895 original provides an account of the Indians' point of view.

A source of information on all blast furnaces built and operated in Alabama, from the first known charcoal furnace of 1815 (Cedar Creek Furnace in Franklin County) to the coke-fired giants built before the onset of the Great Depression.

Written by a cousin of the better known humorist Johnson Jones Hooper, this work is a lampoon of dueling culture set in south eastern Alabama. The main character is a figure familiar in outline to readers of John Gorman Barr, J J Hooper, Joseph G Baldwin, and other practitioners of what is known as the humor of the Old Southwest.

Simon Suggs is the shifty man whose antics had been recorded in many a gusty tale of Alabama frontier life which had drawn laughter and applause from newspaper readers throughout the United States. This is the biography of Suggs, and his alter ego.

A restoration of original copies of the first, 1817, edition, this title presents the history of Jackson's military career, begun by John Reid, Jackson's military aide throughout the War of 1812 and the ensuing Creek War. It includes the original four large-scale foldout maps on an accompanying CD.

At the start of the Civil War in 1861, many men in Alabama enthusiastically enlisted. After all these family breadwinners marched off to duty, the number of indigent families in the state rose dramatically. This book argues that Confederate soldiers left their posts due to poverty at home.

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 training. It traces the role of state legislation and administrative policy and analyzes efforts of black educators to lobby for various measures.

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 in Florida, this book adds to the history and historiography of antebellum foreign policy.

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 rivalries and factional politics, as well as offering statistical data, election maps and tables of election results.

This novel is about a young man, Jule, who grew up in rural Alabama in the 1930s. He experienced a peaceful farm life filled with hard work in the hot sun followed by socializing by moonlight in the cooling hours of the night. His mother, Ollie Miss, raised him "to be somebody," as she said, and he always knew that he would follow her advice. As he grew, he developed a close friendship with the white storekeeper's son, Rollo, and an earthly love for Berta Mae, a neighbor girl. This quiet life changed abruptly for the young Negro boy when he fled Alabama and arrived in Harlem, there to gain a foothold in that world center of black social and economic power. Although a novel, Jule is strongly autobiographical and gives insight into a vanished Harlem, a glittering community that produced a rich outpouring of distinctively American literary works. J. Lee Greene's introduction places the novel in the context of the time and links this work with Henderson's earlier novel - Ollie Miss, also available from the University of Alabama Press - establishing its rightful place in Afro-American literature.

"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 as a fugitive from justice before being lynched in July 1886,... He led the local Ku Klux Klan in 1868-69, participated in the Meridian riot of 1871, and took part in the killing of two active Republicans, one white and one black, in 1874. Rumors attributed other slayings to this violence-prone man who in 1867 had fled another county after killing his brother-in-law.... The story clearly illustrates the violent tactics of the redemption process." - Journal of American History"

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 and he tells of the life led by the hill folk and the happy childhood spent in this close-knit community.

An outline of the economic crisis in the South based on the declining yields, increasing class stratification and higher slave prices. The book supplies data on the property holdings and occupations of the elected representatives and finds the secessionists to be young, probably lawyers who were both ambitious and confident.

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 Mineworkers of Alabama was founded and it was this that became instrumental in the coal miners and railway worker's strike.