A handsome, richly illustrated guide to the A. S. Williams III Americana Collection at the University of Alabama, From a Love of History introduces one of the most important archives of southern history and literature ever gathered in one place.
A. S. Williams III, of Birmingham, Alabama, is an insurance executive and bibliophile who over some forty years assembled a rich collection of Americana that is exceptional in size and scope, many parts of it rare and unstudied by scholars.
The A. S. Williams III Americana Collection, housed at the Gorgas Library at the University of...