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Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publications of the Alabama State Department of Archives and History
Author: Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Previous editions titled: Genealogical books in print
The Journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, 1827–1835
Author: Sarah Haynsworth GaylePublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817361189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The remarkable journal of the young wife of early Alabama governor John Gayle and a primary source of our knowledge about early Alabama and the antebellum American South
The McGillivray and McIntosh Traders
Author: Amos J. WrightPublisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1603060146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Amos Wright unveils exhaustive research following two extended Scottish clans as they made their way across the ocean to the American frontier. Once they arrived, the two families made an impact on the colonials, the British, the French, the Spanish, and the American Indians. Some of the Scots were ambitious traders, some were representatives for the Indians, some were warriors, and one ended up as a chief. This annotated history delves into the harsh and often violent lives of Scottish traders living on the frontier of colonial America.
Periodical Source Index, 1847-1985: Places
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
V.1-2, 5-6, 9-10, 13-14:Places; v.3-4,7-8,11-12,15-16: Families.
Lester's History of the United States. Illustrated in Its Five Great Periods: Colonization, Consolidation, Development, Achievement, Advancement
Author: Charles Edwards LesterPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385322286
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publications
Author: Alabama. Department of Archives and HistoryPublisher:
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Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Early Inhabitants of the Natchez District
Author: Norman E. GillisPublisher:
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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History of the United States of America
Author: Taliaferro Preston ShaffnerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 770
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The Founding of Alabama
Author: Frances Cabaniss RobertsPublisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817320431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The most thorough history of Alabama’s Madison County region, widely available for the first time The 1956 dissertation by Frances Cabaniss Roberts is a classic text on Alabama history that continues to be cited by southern historians. Roberts was the first woman to earn a PhD from the University of Alabama’s history department. In the 1950s, she was the only full-time faculty member at what is now the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where she was appointed chair of the history department in 1966. Roberts’s dissertation, “Background and Formative Period in the Great Bend and Madison County,” remains the most thorough history of the region yet produced. While certainly a product of its era, Roberts work is visionary in its own way and offers a useful look at Alabama’s rise to statehood. Thomas Reidy, editor of this edition, has kept Roberts’s words intact except for correction of minor typographical errors and helpful additions to the notes and citations. His introduction describes both the value of Roberts’s decades of service to UAH and the importance of her dissertation over time. While highlighting the great intrinsic value of Roberts’s research and writing, Reidy also notes its significance in demonstrating how the practice of history—its methods, priorities, and values—has evolved over the intervening decades. In her examination of Madison County, Roberts spotlights exemplars of civic performance and good community behavior, giving readers one of the earliest accountings of the antebellum southern middle class. Unlike many historians of her time, Roberts displays an interest in both the “common folks” and leaders who built the region—rural and urban—and created the institutions that shaped Madison County. She examines the contributions of merchants, shopkeepers, lawyers, doctors, architects, craftsmen, planters, farmers, elected and appointed officials, board members, and entrepreneurs.