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 their sophomore year in high school through the carefree days of the 1920s, the devastation of the Great Depression, and the disruption of World War II.The theme of the novel is changechange in the American South and in the lives of the characters.Through a thoughtful development of human relationships, the author provides a memorable commentary on the ability of people to survive during times of extraordinary...
This powerful Southern novel takes place in Scottsboro, Alabama (the novel s Bellefonte), between 1923 and 1946 and focuses on the life of Eileen ...
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 amidst structures of power, property, authority, and genealogy in a world of laws and of other regulations created, interpreted, and administered by men.It is about the particular problems of widowhood, of single parenthood, of solitary ownership and distribution of property, of testamentary intention, of standards of mental competence, of statutory definition and standing in courts of law.It is also,...
Rachel s Children, originally published in 1938 by Harper & Brothers, is a powerful story about a woman of immense psychological and spiritu...
"Higginbotham has given to American historiography a microcosmic view of one of the earliest and most important outposts in the colonial new world. The Latin South can henceforth not be ignored." - Alabama Historical Quarterly
"The definitive account . . . superbly recounted." - Journal of Southern History
"Meticulously documented. . . . Recommended for libraries interested in the colonial period." - Choice
"Mind-boggling . . . a stupendous job of research. It is amazing that Higginbotham can recreate in such detail the lives of these people....
"Higginbotham has given to American historiography a microcosmic view of one of the earliest and most important outposts in the colonial new world....
Originally published in 1941, Cottonmouth is an Alabama novel like no other in its evocation of the sights, sounds, and smells of the city of Mobile, and in its depiction of a young boy growing up in the Deep South during the early 20th century. Highly autobiographical, the book is, in a real sense, two stories in one: the biography of a boy from his earliest memories through high school, and the life of a city in the years between the two world wars. In his introduction to this reprint within The Library of Alabama Classics, Benjamin B. Williams presents the author, Julian...
Originally published in 1941, Cottonmouth is an Alabama novel like no other in its evocation of the sights, sounds, and smells of the ...
'There are four buses that leave Mobile daily for Moss Bayou. No matter what time the trains get in from New Orleans or Birmingham, you still have to wait around half the day for one of these buses if you want to get to Moss Bayou. And a good many people do, for Moss Bayou is a lovely, easygoing resort town, located as it is where Magnolia River runs in to the bay with worlds of giant live oaks and sandy roads that wind forever under the trailing Spanish moss.' So begins Robert Bell's novel that is, most of all, about a love affair with a place --the legendary eastern shore of Mobile Bay.
'There are four buses that leave Mobile daily for Moss Bayou. No matter what time the trains get in from New Orleans or Birmingham, you still have to ...
The least well known of Johnson Jones Hooper's works, Dog and Gun was first published as a newspaper series, then appeared in six book editions between 1856 and 1871. Hooper is Alabama's most celebrated antebellum author, and here he gives insight into the meaning of a culture where every male hunts - and a man who shoots as a gentleman will be assumed a gentleman. Beidler's introduction to this reprint edition explores the social, literary, and technical dimensions of Dog and Gun, which he sees as an important commentary on class distinctions in the antebellum South, as well as...
The least well known of Johnson Jones Hooper's works, Dog and Gun was first published as a newspaper series, then appeared in six book editions...
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 college at Alabama State Normal School for Colored in Montgomery and then taught in the Birmingham Public Schools from 1924 to 1926.
In pursuit of her dream of becoming a writer, Tarry moved to New York, where she worked for black newspapers and became acquainted with some of the prominent black artists and writers of the day, particularly Claude McKay and James Weldon...
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Ellen Tarry was born in 1906 in Birmingham, Alabama. While attending a Catholic school in Virginia during ...
Hailed as the definitive study of the subject when it appeared in 1951, Bourbon Democracy in Alabamaanalyzes and describes the state government of Alabama during the Bourbon Period as it operated under the Democratic and Conservative party. For this edition, the author has prepared a new foreword in which he surveys recent scholarship.The term Bourbon originated during the Reconstruction Era and was used by the Radicals to label their Democratic opponents as anti-progressive and ultraconservative. The term has been adopted generally to describe the period following the overthrow of...
Hailed as the definitive study of the subject when it appeared in 1951, Bourbon Democracy in Alabamaanalyzes and describes the state governm...
Examines the social and economic aspects of slavery in Alabama. After a discussion of slavery under the imperial rulers of the colonial and territorial periods, Sellers focuses on the transplantation of the slavery system from the Atlantic seaboard states to Alabama.
Examines the social and economic aspects of slavery in Alabama. After a discussion of slavery under the imperial rulers of the colonial and territoria...
The Least One, published originally in 1967, portrays a white sharecropping family during the Great Depression and is based on Borden Deal s experiences growing up on a small farm in northeastern Mississippi. My own memory produced a flood of material, said the author. I remembered the loss of the farm, the day the sheriff had come to dispossess us; I remembered picking blackberries and selling them in town for a dime a bucket; I remembered the hope and promise of a government mule. The story is told through the voice of a twelve-year-old, significantly called Boy Sword, and is...
The Least One, published originally in 1967, portrays a white sharecropping family during the Great Depression and is based on Borden D...
