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Historic Photos of Huntsville

Author : Jacquelyn Procter Reeves
Publisher : Turner
ISBN 13 : 9781620453964
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Historic Photos of Huntsville written by Jacquelyn Procter Reeves and published by Turner. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huntsville is an American city quintessentially founded upon change. From its birth to the present, Huntsville has consistently built and reshaped its appearance, ideals, and industry. Through changing fortunes, Huntsville has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity and maintaining the strong, independent culture of its citizens. Historic Photos of Huntsville captures this journey through still photography selected from the finest archives. From Huntsville's industrial revolution from the cotton fields, to being the birthplace of many technologies that would take man to the moon, Historic Photos of Huntsville follows life, government, education, and events throughout the city's history. This volume captures unique and rare scenes through the lens of hundreds of historic photographs. Published in striking black and white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.

Hidden History of North Alabama

Author : Jacquelyn Procter Reeves
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614232210
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Hidden History of North Alabama written by Jacquelyn Procter Reeves and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tranquil waters of the Tennessee River hide a horrible tragedy that took place one steamy July day when co-workers took an excursion aboard the SCItanic. Lawrence County resident Jenny Brooks used the skull of one of her victims to wash her hands, but her forty-year quest for revenge cost more than she bargained for. Granville Garth jumped to his watery grave with a pocketful of secrets--did anyone collect the $10,000 reward for the return of the papers he took with him? Historian Jacquelyn Procter Reeves transports readers deep into the shadows of the past to learn about the secret of George Steele's will, the truth behind the night the "Stars Fell on Alabama" and the story of the Lawrence County boys who died in the Goliad Massacre. Learn these secrets--and many more--in Hidden History of North Alabama.

Banking in Alabama, 1816-1860

Author : William Henderson Brantley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Banking in Alabama, 1816-1860 written by William Henderson Brantley and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Founding of Alabama

Author : Frances Cabaniss Roberts
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817320431
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Founding of Alabama written by Frances Cabaniss Roberts and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Seeds of Freedom

Author : Hester Bass
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536220590
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Seeds of Freedom written by Hester Bass and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Unflinchingly honest and jubilantly hopeful, this is nonfiction storytelling at its best.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Mention the civil rights era in Alabama and most people recall images of terrible violence. But for the citizens of Huntsville, creativity, courage, and cooperation were the keys to working together to integrate their city and schools in peace. This engaging celebration of a lesser-known chapter in American and African-American history shows how racial discrimination, bullying, and unfairness can be faced successfully with perseverance and ingenuity.

From Huntsville to Appomattox

Author : Jeffrey D. Stocker
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572333406
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book From Huntsville to Appomattox written by Jeffrey D. Stocker and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cole was adjutant of the Alabama Volunteer Infantry, one of the few Confederate regiments to see action in both the western and eastern theaters of the Civil War. After the war he refreshed and augmented his memory with other accounts to document both the military and the human aspects of the regiment's campaigns. End notes identify people and events and refer to other sources. This is the first full publication. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Huntsville Textile Mills & Villages

Author : Terri L. French
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439661030
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Huntsville Textile Mills & Villages written by Terri L. French and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1900s, Huntsville, Alabama, had more spindles than any other city in the South. Cotton fields and mills made the city a major competitor in the textile industry. Entire mill villages sprang up around the factories to house workers and their families. Many of these village buildings are now iconic community landmarks, such as the revitalized Lowe Mill arts facility and the Merrimack Mill Village Historic District. The "lintheads," a demeaning moniker villagers wore as a badge of honor, were hard workers. Their lives were fraught with hardships, from slavery and child labor to factory fires and shutdowns. They endured job-related injuries and illnesses, strikes and the Great Depression. Author Terri L. French details the lives, history and legacy of the workers.

Incidents of the War

Author : Mary Jane Chadick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Incidents of the War written by Mary Jane Chadick and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcribed, edited, and anotated Civil War journal written by Mary Jane Chaduck during the years of Federal invasion, 1862-1865.

Annals of Scotland

Author : Sir David Dalrymple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Annals of Scotland written by Sir David Dalrymple and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transforming the Cotton Frontier: Madison County, Alabama, 1800-1840

Author : Daniel S. Dupre
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807140741
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Transforming the Cotton Frontier: Madison County, Alabama, 1800-1840 written by Daniel S. Dupre and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Huntsville Heritage Cookbook

Author : Grace Club Auxiliary
Publisher : Junior League of Huntsville
ISBN 13 : 9780961811303
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Book Synopsis Huntsville Heritage Cookbook by : Grace Club Auxiliary

Download or read book Huntsville Heritage Cookbook written by Grace Club Auxiliary and published by Junior League of Huntsville. This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These time-tested southern recipes reflect the social and historic aspects of the region. With easy-to-read recipes and menu suggestions, the book features illustrations and vignettes of Huntsville life from antebellum days up to the space and rocket age. Inducted into the McIlhenny Hall of Fame, an award given for book sales that exceed 100,000 copies.

Treeborne

Author : Caleb Johnson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250169097
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Treeborne written by Caleb Johnson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I can’t remember the last time I read a book I wish so much I’d written. Treeborne is beautiful, and mythic in ways I would never have been able to imagine...I can’t say enough about this book."—Daniel Wallace, national bestselling author of Extraordinary Adventures and Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions An Honorable Mention for the Southern Book Prize One of Southern Living's "Best New Books Coming Out Summer 2018" and one of Library Journal's "Books to Get Now" Janie Treeborne lives on an orchard at the edge of Elberta, Alabama, and in time, she has become its keeper. A place where conquistadors once walked, and where the peaches they left behind now grow, Elberta has seen fierce battles, violent storms, and frantic change—and when the town is once again threatened from without, Janie realizes it won’t withstand much more. So she tells the story of its people: of Hugh, her granddaddy, determined to preserve Elberta’s legacy at any cost; of his wife, Maybelle, the postmaster, whose sudden death throws the town into chaos; of her lover, Lee Malone, a black orchardist harvesting from a land where he is less than welcome; of the time when Janie kidnapped her own Hollywood-obsessed aunt and tore the wrong people apart. As the world closes in on Elberta, Caleb Johnson’s debut novel lifts the veil and offers one last glimpse. Treeborne is a celebration and a reminder: of how the past gets mixed up in thoughts of the future; of how home is a story as much as a place.

Beside the Troubled Waters

Author : Sonnie W. Hereford
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081731721X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Beside the Troubled Waters written by Sonnie W. Hereford and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A black southern doctor offers a gripping memoir of his childhood in Alabama, his efforts to overcome racism in the white medical community, his participation in the civil rights movement and his problems with the Medicaid program and state medical authorities"--Provided by publisher.

A Frontier Texas Mercantile

Author : Donald Roy Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781881515081
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book A Frontier Texas Mercantile written by Donald Roy Walker and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the years, the enlightened stewardship they have demonstrated in the management of their real estate interests has earned them commendations from professional lumber organizations and environmentalists alike, and the generous benevolence of the Gibbs family has contributed greatly to the quality of life for residents of Huntsville and Walker County.

Have a Seat, Please

Author : Don Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Have a Seat, Please written by Don Reid and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Don Reid," a cub reporter once wrote admiringly, "can see as much humanity in the messy murder of a shady lady as the coronation of a queen . . . ." Reid was a strong but gentle man, wise and compassionate, and his discerning eyes observed all the degradation and nobility mankind is heir to in his thirty-five years of covering the Texas prison system for the Huntsville Item and the Associated Press. For many years he was publisher of the Item and later in his life spent much of his time writing and making public speeches. Reid, who died in 1981, was survived by his widow, Frances. The late John Gurwell, who assisted Reid with the book, was a Houston writer whose daughter Kathy supported the reprinting of this book. "When Don Reid published Eyewitness in 1973, the chronicle of his conversion from a supporter of the death penalty to an ardent opponent, the book was an immediate sensation. Perhaps never before in the history of the American penal system has a man witnessed more electrocutions than Reid, who as Associated Press and Huntsville Item representative watched 189 men die in ‘Old Sparky,' as the electric chair in the Texas Department of Corrections' death chamber was not so affectionately called. This book is a powerful personal account of Reid's conversations with many of the very men he later watched receive the eighteen hundred volts of electricity from generators reserved for electrocutions and his later, almost evangelical efforts to defend the men on Death Row from a similar fate.

Within These Walls

Author : Rev. Carroll Pickett
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Within These Walls written by Rev. Carroll Pickett and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FORMER TEXAS PRISON CHAPLAIN REV. CARROLL PICKETT, WORKING WITH TWO-TIME EDGAR AWARD WINNER AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR CARLTON STOWERS, PROVIDES THIS ELOQUENT, UNFLINCHING LOOK AT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. Within These Walls is the powerful memoir of Rev. Carroll Pickett, who spent fifteen years as the death house chaplain at “The Walls,” the Huntsville unit of the Texas prison system. In that capacity, Reverend Pickett ministered to ninety-five men before they were put to death by lethal injection. They came with sinister nicknames like “The Candy Man” and “The Good Samaritan Killer,” some contrite, some angry—a few who might even have been innocent. All of them found in Reverend Pickett their last chance for an unbiased confessor who would look at them only as fellow humans, not simply as the convicted criminals the rest of society had already dismissed them as. This firsthand experience gave Reverend Pickett the unique insight needed to write an impassioned statement on the realities of capital punishment in America. The result is a thought-provoking and compelling book that takes the reader inside the criminal mind, inside the execution chamber, and inside the heart of a remarkable man who shares his thoughts and observations not only about capital punishment, but about the dark world of prison society

Lost Capitals of Alabama

Author : Herbert James Lewis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625849753
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Lost Capitals of Alabama written by Herbert James Lewis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alabama's capital has roots all over the state. It first emerged in St. Stephens in 1799, a small fort acquired from the Spanish atop a tall limestone bluff overlooking the Tombigbee River. Next came Huntsville in the Tennessee Valley, where the state constitution emerged. Cahawba was the capital to receive a visit from the Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving general of the American Revolution. In 1826, Tuscaloosa took the reins for twenty years before the final move to Montgomery. Discover the leaders and events that established the state and the fates of each dynamic governmental center as author Jim Lewis traces the history of Alabama's lost capitals.