Author: Alabama Historical Society
Publisher:
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Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Author: Gregory A. Waselkov
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817361537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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"Southern Footprints celebrates the more than fifty years of research projects carried out by University of South Alabama archaeologists and students as well as staff at the Center for Archaeological Studies in Mobile. Their dynamic work has been public facing through programs and exhibits curated at the University of South Alabama Archaeology Museum. Archaeologists Gregory A. Waselkov, former director of the Center, and Philip J. Carr, current director of the Center, present the "greatest hits" that have transformed knowledge of human history on the Alabama and Mississippi Gulf Coast from the Ice Age until recently. Of the hundreds of archaeological sites, premiere historic sites, such as Old Mobile and Holy Ground, are now archaeological preserves. Essays are arranged chronologically overall and survey the history and archaeology of a wide range of significant sites such as the Gulf Shores canoe canal, Bottle Creek Mounds, Old Mobile, Fort Mims, Spanish Fort, Spring Hill College, and Mobile River Bridge. Waselkov and Carr take care to acknowledge in these stories populations who are typically underdocumented and recognize the contributions of Native Americans and African Americans as uncovered through archaeology. While documenting all material culture and places that have been saved and preserved, they also note the dire impacts of climate change, environmental disasters, development, and neglect and share their urgency to protect these areas of shared history. Copious color photographs showcase the archaeology as it unfolded, often with the help of dedicated volunteers. Southern Footprints will serve as an indispensable reference on the rich Gulf heritage for all to appreciate"--

Author: Everett Dick
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806123851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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The Dixie frontier was one of the most romantic and heroic of the entire North American continent. This engaging social history of the everyday life of the first settlers and pioneers has earned readers' praise over two generations.

Author: Eugene D. Genovese
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107138051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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American slaveholders used the wealth and leisure that slave labor provided to cultivate lives of gentility and refinement. This study provides a vivid portrait of slaveholders at home and at play as they built a tragic world of both 'sweetness' and slavery.

Author: Thomas McAdory Owen
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Author: Benjamin Buford Williams
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838620540
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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A biographical, bibliographical, generic, critical, and chronological survey of nineteenth-century Alabama authors. Presents a vivid picture of life in the South in 19th-century America.

Author: American Historical Association
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 900

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Author: Peverill Squire
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472118315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451

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Squire offers a comprehensive history of legislatures, core institutions in American political development

Author: W. Stuart Harris
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Dead Towns of Alabama is not merely a series of obituaries but a vivid story of the life of each town it resurrects. In the course of bringing 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, glory and slavery, riverboats and railroads, plantations and gold mines, stagecoaches and ferries. It is a thoroughly absorbing panorama of Alabama's history. Book jacket.

Author: William Richard Cutter
Publisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 678

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