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Alabama History
Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the area that is today
Alabama
was inhabited various Native American peoples including
the Alibamu, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Koasati
and Mobile.
The first European settlement in Alabama,
was established by the French at Mobile in 1702.
As a result, southern Alabama
was French from 1702 to 1763. This region subsequently became
part of British West Florida from 1763 to 1780, and later Spanish
West Florida from 1780 to 1814.
The northern parts of Alabama
were part of British Georgia from 1763 to 1783. This area became
part of the American Mississippi Territory following the
American Revolution (1775 to 1783).
In 1819, Alabama,
became the 22nd state admitted to the Union.
During this part of the 19th century,
Alabama,
was home to many large cotton plantations, which were worked by slaves.
In the American Civil War (1861 to 1865), in an attempt to retain
slavery, which it was thought was under threat of abolition,
Alabama,
seceded from the Union and joined the
Confederate States of America.
Alabama's slaves were
emanicipated after the defeat of the Confederacy,
at the end of the Civil War. Like many other southern states,
Alabama went through
a difficult period of Reconstruction. The state however remained
a poor rural state, with an economy closely tied to cotton,
and with
legally enforced racial segregation
(and consequent high racial tension).
Things gradually began to change in Alabama,
as result of the changes wrought by World War II.
In particular, the economy was no longer solely focused around cotton,
with the emergence of growing industrial and service sectors.
Politically things also began to change in
Alabama in the post-war
period. The state, especially the cities of
Birmingham and
Montgomery,
became a important and prominent location during the civil rights struggle.
Eventually, despite the opposition of the state's Governor, George Wallace,
to Federal integration efforts, blacks regained
the right to vote, and Jim Crow segregation laws disappeared.
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By William Warren Rogers Sr & Robert D. Ward
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Once the home of aboriginal inhabitants, Alabama was claimed and occupied by European nations, later to become a permanent part of the United States. A cotton and slave state for more than half of the 19th century, Alabama declared its independence and joined another nation, the Confederate States of America, for its more than four-year history. The state assumed an uneasy and uncertain place in the 19th century’s last 35 years. Its role in the 20th century has been tumultuous but painfully predictable. This comprehensive history, written in the last decade of that century, presents, explains, and interprets the major events that occurred during Alabama’s history within the larger context of the South and the nation. Alabama: The History of a Deep South State is the first completely new comprehensive account of the state since A.B. Moore’s 1935 work. Divided into three main sections, the first concluding in 1865, the second in 1920, and the third bringing the story to the present, the book’s organization is both chronological and topical. General readers will welcome this modern history of Alabama, which examines such traditional subjects as politics, military events, economics, and broad social movements. Of equal value are sections devoted to race, Indians, women, and the environment, as well as detailed coverage of health, education, organized labor, civil rights, and the many cultural elements—from literature to sport—that have enriched Alabama’s history. The roles of individual leaders, from politicians to creative artists, are discussed. There is as well strong emphasis on the common people, those Alabamians who have been rightly described as the “bone and sinew” of the state. Each section of the book was written by a scholar who has devoted much of his or her professional life to the study of that period of Alabama’s past, and although the three sections reflect individual style and interpretation, the authors have collaborated closely on overall themes and organization. The result is an objective look at the colorful, often controversial, state’s past. The work relies both on primary sources and such important secondary sources as monographs, articles, and unpublished theses and dissertations to provide fresh insights, new approaches, and new interpretations. |
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By W. Stuart Harris
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This easy-to-use reference work documents the many long-vanished towns, forts, settlements, and former state capitals that were once thriving communities of Alabama. Dead Towns of Alabama is not merely a series of obituaries for dead towns. Instead, it brings back to life 83 Indian towns, 77 fort sites, and 112 colonial, territorial, and state towns. W. Stuart Harris conjures up a wealth of fascinating images from Alabama's rich and colorful past--images of life as the Indians lived it, of colonial life in the wilderness, of Spanish explorers and French exiles, of danger and romance, of riverboats and railroads, of plantations and gold mines, of stagecoaches and ferries. Overall, it presents a thoroughly absorbing panorama of Alabama's early history. Here we learn about two former capitals--St. Stephens and Cahaba--that have deteriorated to mouldering ruins now. We learn about once thriving communities--county seats, river landings and crossings, trading posts, junctions, and other settlements--that time has forgotten. Absent from most maps, these sites come alive again in Harris's fascinating account, filled anew with the bustling activity of their former inhabitants. First published in 1977, Dead Towns of Alabama is a unique guidebook to every region of the state. It is an invaluable resource for historians, students, tourists, and anyone interested in exploring Alabama's interesting historical and cultural past. |
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By Robert Scott Davis
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Searching for your Alabama ancestors? Looking for historical facts? Dates? Events? This book will lead you to the places where you'll find answers. Here are hundreds of direct sources--governmental, archival, agency, online--that will help you access information vital to your investigation. Tracing Your Alabama Past sets out to identify the means and the methods for finding information on people, places, subjects, and events in the long and colorful history of this state known as the crossroads of Dixie. It takes researchers directly to the sources that deliver answers and information. This comprehensive reference book leads to the wide array of essential facts and data--public records, census figures, military statistics, geography, studies of African American and Native American communities, local and biographical history, internet sites, archives, and more. For the first time Alabama researchers are offered a how-to book that is not just a bibliography. Such complex sources as Alabama's biographical/genealogical materials, federal land records, Civil Warera resources, and Native American sources are discussed in detail, along with many other topics of interest to researchers seeking information on this diverse Deep South state. Much of the book focuses on national sources that are covered elsewhere only in passing, if at all. Other books only touch on one subject area, but here, for the first time, are directions to the Who, What, When, Where, and Why. Robert Scott Davis, a professor of history at Wallace State College in Hanceville, Ala., is the author of more than twenty books, including Requiem for a Lost City: Sallie Clayton's Memories of Civil War Atlanta and Cotton, Fire, and Dreams: The Robert Findlay Iron Works. |
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By William Warren Rogers Sr & Robert D. Ward
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Once the home of aboriginal inhabitants, Alabama was claimed and occupied by European nations, later to become a permanent part of the United States. A cotton and slave state for more than half of the 19th century, Alabama declared its independence and joined another nation, the Confederate States of America, for its more than four-year history. The state assumed an uneasy and uncertain place in the 19th century’s last 35 years. Its role in the 20th century has been tumultuous but painfully predictable. This comprehensive history, written in the last decade of that century, presents, explains, and interprets the major events that occurred during Alabama’s history within the larger context of the South and the nation.
Alabama: The History of a Deep South State is the first completely new comprehensive account of the state since A.B. Moore’s 1935 work. Divided into three main sections, the first concluding in 1865, the second in 1920, and the third bringing the story to the present, the book’s organization is both chronological and topical. General readers will welcome this modern history of Alabama, which examines such traditional subjects as politics, military events, economics, and broad social movements. Of equal value are sections devoted to race, Indians, women, and the environment, as well as detailed coverage of health, education, organized labor, civil rights, and the many cultural elements—from literature to sport—that have enriched Alabama’s history. The roles of individual leaders, from politicians to creative artists, are discussed. There is as well strong emphasis on the common people, those Alabamians who have been rightly described as the “bone and sinew” of the state. Each section of the book was written by a scholar who has devoted much of his or her professional life to the study of that period of Alabama’s past, and although the three sections reflect individual style and interpretation, the authors have collaborated closely on overall themes and organization. The result is an objective look at the colorful, often controversial, state’s past. The work relies both on primary sources and such important secondary sources as monographs, articles, and unpublished theses and dissertations to provide fresh insights, new approaches, and new interpretations. |
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By Donna R. Causey
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Great book for Alabama genealogy and history researchers! Includes the genealogy and biography of William Barrett Travis of Alama fame. After the war of 1812, and with the defeat of the Creek Indians, land in Alabama became open to new settlers seeking an opportunity in the the Mississippi Territory.New settlers of Alabama came from Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina and North Carolina. “the land had to be surveyed before it could be sold, but the immigrants were impatient. They rushed in during this period of “Alabama fever” laid claim to tracts, and became squatters. Wagon trains from individual states formed and they tended to congregate and settle in various parts of Alabama.
The Georgians settled in the eastern part of the State while further west and southerly were the North Carolinians and Virginians. Some North Carolinians and Virginians also settled in North Alabama, especially Huntsville. Tennesseans settled in the North and further south in the counties of Bibb and Shelby. Some of the settlers of what was to be Cahaba, later Bibb County were first attracted to this “valley of very inviting land” when they were fighting the Indians with ANDREW JACKSON in 1814.
The biographies and genealogies of Alabama pioneers included in this book are: REV. JOHN WESLEY STARR; ELBERT SOULE STARR, JOHN WESLEY STARR, JR., RICHARD ELLIS, JOHN WHITE, Esq., JOSEPH GLOVER BALDWIN, COL. JONATHAN NEWTON SMITH, RICHARD HOPKINS PRATT, MARY DICKERSON PRATT, JAMES HARVEY PRATT, EDMOND PIERCE ANDERSON, DAVID W. HUNTER, AMBROSE HUNTER, JOHN GRUGETT, ISAAC NEWTON LANGSTON, OBEDIAH LANGSTON, DORANTON PATTON NEWTON LANGSTON, ELISHA COTTINGHAM, SR. ELISHA COTTINGHAM, JR., JOHN C. D. MAT TROTT, COL. WILLIAM BARRETT TRAVIS (Hero of the Alamo), HENLEY GRAHAM SNEAD, WINTHROP SARGEANT, TOD ROBINSON, TOD ROBINSON, JR., WILLIAM RAIFORD PICKETT, COLONEL ALBERT J. PICKETT, BRIG. GENERAL WILLIAM FLANK PERRY, GEORGE FOOTE, PHILLIP A. FOOTE, JONATHAN BURFORD, DANIEL BURFORD, JOHN GALLAGHER, DAVID J. GOODLETT, JUDGE HENRY ANDERSON MCGHEE |
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The Very Worst Road contains sixteen contemporary accounts by travelers who reached Alabama along what was known as the “Old Federal Road,” more a network of paths than a single road, that ran from Columbus and points south in Georgia for more or less due west into central Alabama and to where the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa Rivers forms the Alabama River. These accounts deal candidly with the rather remarkable array of impediments that faced travelers in Alabama in its first decades as a state, and they describe with wonder, interest, and, frequently with some disgust, the road, the inns, the travelling companions, and the few and raw communities they encountered as they made their way, often with difficulty, through what seemed to many of them uncharted wilderness. The Very Worst Road was originally published by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission in 1998. |
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By Andy Duncan
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The definitive collection of Alabama's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for Alabama residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist. |
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By Jacquelyn Procter Reeves
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The tranquil waters of the Tennessee River hide a horrible tragedy that took place one steamy July day when co-workers took an excursion aboard the SCItanic. Lawrence County resident Jenny Brooks used the skull of one of her victims to wash her hands, but her forty-year quest for revenge cost more than she bargained for. Granville Garth jumped to his watery grave with a pocketful of secrets did anyone collect the $10,000 reward for the return of the papers he took with him? Historian Jacquelyn Procter Reeves transports readers deep into the shadows of the past to learn about the secret of George Steele's will, the truth behind the night the Stars Fell on Alabama and the story of the Lawrence County boys who died in the Goliad Massacre. Learn these secrets and many more in Hidden History of North Alabama. |
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By Kathryn Tucker Windham
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First published in 1975 and long out of print, this book is now reissued in a handsome new edition. Alabama is like one big front porch where folks gather on summer nights to tell tales. It's a sprawling porch stretching from the Tennessee River Valley to the sandy Gulf beaches. In this book, Mrs. Windham takes readers on a tour of the history, people, and places of the "heart of Dixie." The stories are alike in their unmistakable Southern blend of exaggeration, humor, pathos, folklore, and romanticism with family history woven in. |
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By Gay N. Martin
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From Noccalula Falls and Park to the Rattlesnake Rodeo, this guide leads visitors and residents to often overlooked sites and events throughout Alabama.
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