This study reviews how the four streams of the Alabama River system - which flow for more than 900 miles through the state - have shaped the lives of those living along their banks, and how people have used them. The Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba and Alabama are now both harnessed and polluted.
This study reviews how the four streams of the Alabama River system - which flow for more than 900 miles through the state - have shaped the lives of ...
A fascinating time capsule, this classic guide captures Alabama at a critical moment in its history between the Great Depression and World War II and its aftermath.
The WPA guide to Alabama provides a unique snapshot of 1930s Alabama life and culture. Like the other state guides in the WPA's American Guide Series, it features essays on history, economy, people, folkways, education, and other characteristics of the state, as well as general information about the towns and cities. Fifteen suggested automobile tours encourage visitors and residents to explore every corner of the...
A fascinating time capsule, this classic guide captures Alabama at a critical moment in its history between the Great Depression and World War I...
An affectionate, irreverent, candid look at the "Heart of Dixie."
This book tells Alabama's history in a conversational style with an unapolo-getically subjective approach. Accessible to general readers and students alike, it recounts the history and politics of a state known for its colorful past, told by one of the state's most noted historians and educators, whose family came to the territory before statehood. A native and resident Alabamian, Harvey Jackson has spent a lifetime discovering and trying to understand his state. Expressing deep love for its people and...
An affectionate, irreverent, candid look at the "Heart of Dixie."
This book tells Alabama's history in a conversational style with...
Lachlan McIntosh (1728-1806) was a prominent Georgia planter, patriarch of his Highland Scots clan in America, and the ranking general from Georgia in the Continental army. Often, however, he is known simply as the man who, in a duel, mortally wounded Button Gwinnett, one of Georgia's signers of the Declaration of Independence. This biography fleshes out McIntosh considerably and, just as important, uses his life as a springboard for discussing the rapidly shifting political, social, and economic forces at work during a crucial period of Georgia's history.
Lachlan McIntosh (1728-1806) was a prominent Georgia planter, patriarch of his Highland Scots clan in America, and the ranking general from Georgia in...
Harvey H., III Jackson Edwin C. Bridges Kenneth H., Jr. Thomas
This is the story of the lives and political careers of three men - Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton - who attained prominence within that struggle and who acquired undying fame by representing Georgia in the congress that adopted the Declaration of Independence.
This is the story of the lives and political careers of three men - Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton - who attained prominence within th...
