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Sketches of Alabama

Author : Mary Gordon Duffee
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081735011X
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Sketches of Alabama written by Mary Gordon Duffee and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003-04-25 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Gordon Duffee's father, Matthew Duffee was born in Ireland and immigrated to Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1823. In Tuscaloosa he operated a popular tavern, and he later bought a resort hotel at Blount Springs. Mary Duffee was born in Alabama in 1840 and spent many summers with her family at the resort. It was the journey to and from Blount Springs that inspired Duffee's best-known work, Sketches of Alabama, which originally appeared as fifty-nine articles in the Birmingham Weekly Iron Age in 1886 and 1887. She also contributed articles to several out-of-state newspapers, wrote guide books, advertising copy, and poetry. She died in 1920. This collection contains typescripts of some of Mary Gordon Duffee's Iron Age columns "Sketches of Alabama," manuscripts of seven of Duffee's poems, a typed biographical sketch of Duffee, undated, and Duffee's obituary from the Birmingham Age-Herald.

Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised In Alabama During the Civil War

Author : John C Rigdon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised In Alabama During the Civil War written by John C Rigdon and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1962 the Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission reprinted pages 589-705 of Willis Brewer's Alabama which contain brief historical sketches of the military organizations raised in Alabama for Confederate service. The limited number of copies ordered by the Centennial Commission failed to meet the demand for them while the Commission was in existence; nor has the demand diminished since the close of the Centennial years. In an effort to answer requests for the information which Mr. Brewer compiled, the Alabama State Department of Archives and History made a limited number of the excerpts from Brewer's Alabama available as a reprint in 1966. We have made numerous changes / additions to Brewer's original work based on our own research and more recent findings. They provide an introduction to the study of Alabama men who organized to serve in military units during the Civil War. We have also included a section on How to Research Alabama Civil War Soldiers and an extensive bibliography of available books on Alabama history and the Civil War.

Historic Sketches of the South

Author : Emma Langdon Roche
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Historic Sketches of the South written by Emma Langdon Roche and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

These Rugged Days

Author : John S. Sledge
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817319603
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book These Rugged Days written by John S. Sledge and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessibly written and dramatic account of Alabama's role in the Civil War. The Civil War has left indelible marks on Alabama's land, culture, economy, and people. Despite its lasting influence, this wrenching story has been too long neglected by historians preoccupied by events elsewhere. In These Rugged Days: Alabama in the Civil War, John S. Sledge provides a long overdue and riveting narrative of Alabama's wartime saga. Focused on the conflict's turning points within the state's borders, this book charts residents' experiences from secession's heady early days to its tumultuous end, when 75,000 blue-coated soldiers were on the move statewide. Sledge details this eventful history using an impressive array of primary and secondary materials, including official records, diaries, newspapers, memoirs, correspondence, sketches, and photographs. He also highlights such colorful personalities as Nathan Bedford Forrest, the "Wizard of the Saddle"; John Pelham, the youthful Jacksonville artillerist who was shipped home in an iron casket with a glass faceplate; Gus Askew, a nine-year-old Barbour County slave who vividly recalled the day the Yankees marched in; and Augusta Jane Evans, the young novelist who was given a gold pen by a daring blockade runner. Sledge offers a refreshing take on Alabama's contributions to the Civil War that will intrigue anyone who is interested in learning more about the state's war efforts. His narrative is a dramatic account that will be enjoyed by lay readers as well as students and scholars of Alabama and the Civil War. These Rugged Days is an enthralling tale of action, courage, pride, and tragedy, making clear the relevance of many of the Civil War's decisive moments for the way Alabamians live today.

Library of Southern Literature: Selected works, with biographical sketches

Author : Edwin Anderson Alderman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Library of Southern Literature: Selected works, with biographical sketches written by Edwin Anderson Alderman and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sketches of Prominent Tennesseans

Author : William S. Speer
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806317151
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Sketches of Prominent Tennesseans written by William S. Speer and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I had a native ambition to rise from obscurity and make myself useful in the world, to shine and be distinguished." So said the Hon. Neil S. Brown, one of the 259 prominent 19th-century Tennesseans profiled in this extraordinary book. It is this kind of unique first-hand biographical information that makes this work unequaled in the canon of Tennessee genealogical literature. Not only did compiler William S. Speer have the unparalleled opportunity to interview a number of the featured Tennesseans himself, he also was able to garner--and include in this book--thousands and thousands of names of their family members, friends, and colleagues. The biographical sketches include numerous details about the lives of the subjects and their families. In addition, the compiler offers insight into the personal, professional, and sometimes even physical characteristics that made each of these men a success.

Amazing Alabama

Author :
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 9781588383396
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Amazing Alabama written by and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of facts about the state of Alabama.

New Deal Art in Alabama

Author : Anita Price Davis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476621144
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book New Deal Art in Alabama written by Anita Price Davis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the United States struggled to recover from the Great Depression, 24 towns in Alabama would directly benefit from some of the $83 million allocated by the Federal Government for public art works under the New Deal. In the words of Harold Lloyd Hopkins, administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief Act, "artists had to eat, too," and these funds aided people who needed employment during this difficult period in American history. This book examines some of the New Deal art--murals, reliefs, sculptures, frescoes and paintings--of Alabama and offers biographical sketches of the artists who created them. An appendix describes federal art programs and projects of the period (1933-1943).

A Bibliography of Alabama

Author : Thomas McAdory Owen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Bibliography of Alabama written by Thomas McAdory Owen and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How to Draw Alabama's Sights and Symbols

Author : Jennifer Quasha
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823960552
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis How to Draw Alabama's Sights and Symbols by : Jennifer Quasha

Download or read book How to Draw Alabama's Sights and Symbols written by Jennifer Quasha and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2001-12-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes how to draw some of Alabama's sights and symbols, including the state's seal, the state's flag, Russell Cave National Monument and others.

Alabama Creates

Author : Elliot A. Knight
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817320105
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Alabama Creates written by Elliot A. Knight and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists Alabama artists have been an integral part of the story of the state, reflecting a wide-ranging and multihued sense of place through images of the land and its people. Quilts, pottery, visionary paintings, sculpture, photography, folk art, and abstract art have all contributed to diverse visions of Alabama’s culture and environment. The works of art included in this volume have all emerged from a distinctive milieu that has nourished the creation of powerful visual expressions, statements that are both universal and indigenous. Published to coincide with the state’s bicentennial, Alabama Creates: 200 Years of Art and Artists features ninety-four of Alabama’s most accomplished, noteworthy, and influential practitioners of the fine arts from 1819 to the present. The book highlights a broad spectrum of artists who worked in the state, from its early days to its current and contemporary scene, exhibiting the full scope and breadth of Alabama art. This retrospective volume features biographical sketches and representative examples of each artist’s most masterful works. Alabamians like Gay Burke, William Christenberry, Roger Brown, Thornton Dial, Frank Fleming, the Gee’s Bend Quilters, Lonnie Holley, Dale Kennington, Charlie Lucas, Kerry James Marshall, David Parrish, and Bill Traylor are compared and considered with other nationally significant artists. Alabama Creates is divided into four historical periods, each spanning roughly fifty years and introduced by editor Elliot A. Knight. Knight contextualizes each era with information about the development of Alabama art museums and institutions and the evolution of college and university art departments. The book also contains an overview of the state’s artistic heritage by Gail C. Andrews, director emerita of the Birmingham Museum of Art. Alabama Creates conveys in a sweeping and captivating way the depth of talent, the range of creativity, and the lasting contributions these artists have made to Alabama’s extraordinarily rich visual and artistic heritage.

Biographical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of South Carolina

Author : John Belton O'Neall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Biographical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of South Carolina written by John Belton O'Neall and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of American Humorists

Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317362276
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Humorists written by Steven H. Gale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.

Sketches of a Small Town...Circa 1940...a Memoir

Author : Clifton K. Meador
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781499174397
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book Sketches of a Small Town...Circa 1940...a Memoir written by Clifton K. Meador and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-06-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a boy coming of age during the 1930s and '40s, Greenville, Alabama, a small cotton-farming town in the Deep South, was a wonderfully rich environment. Greenville may have been small, but for author Clifton K. Meador, MD, life growing up there was anything but dull.In his memoir Sketches of a Small Town...circa 1940, Meador lovingly retells the stories that formed his values and shaped his life. For young Clifton and his friends, there's plenty of trouble to stir up, ranging from a field fire, to buzzard hunting, to fights between the "country boys" and the "city boys," and, of course, girls. There are also poignant moments, such as the loss of his best friend because of the impenetrable wall of segregation. And there are quirky characters-the town's sole, somewhat frightening taxi driver; the intriguing, cross-dressing homosexual; and the eccentric agronomy professor turned failed farmer.Sketches of a Small Town...circa 1940 not only tells one man's story, but also beautifully captures the remarkable people, places, and events that characterized a unique lifestyle in a bygone era."What we have here is a poignant, very funny, yet respectful look back at small-town life and characters in the Deep South in the '30s and '40s, pre-prosperity, before it was a recognized condition. Meador is a Mark Twain without the river and a Garrison Keillor without the snow... and Baptists instead of Lutherans. I loved this book."-Harold Chambliss - freelance writer, humorist, and former magazine publisher

The Life and Times of Anne Royall

Author : Sarah Harvey Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of Anne Royall written by Sarah Harvey Porter and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Master Register of Bicentennial Projects, February 1976

Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Master Register of Bicentennial Projects, February 1976 written by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Humor of the Old Southwest

Author : Hennig Cohen
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820316055
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Humor of the Old Southwest written by Hennig Cohen and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most entertaining genres of American literature is the bold, masculine, wildly exaggerated, and highly imaginative frontier humor of the Old Southwest, produced between 1835 and 1861 in an area that extended from Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia westward to Lousiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas. Hennig Cohen and William B. Dillingham have tapped the wealth of this region to produce a collection that over the last three decades has become the standard anthology of Old Southwestern humor. This new, extensively revised edition includes an expanded introduction, a dozen replacement sections, an updated bibliography, and works by three new writers--Phillip B. January, Matthew C. Field, and John Gorman Barr. Most generously represented are George Washington Harris, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, and Thomas Bangs Thorpe. Selections from twenty-five authors are featured along with brief biographical essays that combine historical and political analysis with perceptive literary criticism. These selections document important facets of antebellum American culture and provide the background of the literary achievement of Mark Twain and William Faulkner.