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Sloss Furnaces

Author : Karen R. Utz
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738566238
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book Sloss Furnaces written by Karen R. Utz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark is currently the only 20th-century blast furnace in the nation being preserved and interpreted as an industrial museum. Since reopening in 1983, Sloss Furnaces has become an international model for similar preservation efforts and presents a remarkable perspective of the era when America grew to world industrial dominance. At the same time, Sloss is an important reminder of the dreams and struggles of the people who worked in the industries that made Birmingham the "Magic City." Today Sloss is not only dedicated to preservation and education but serves as a center for community and civic events. Site tours and public presentations provide insight into Sloss's industrial heritage as well as a rare glimpse of an early Birmingham that has all but disappeared.

Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District

Author : W. David Lewis
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817356681
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District written by W. David Lewis and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District contradicts earlier interpretations of southern industrialization by showing that Birmingham, which became a leading symbol of the New South, was in fact deeply rooted in the antebellum plantation system and its "peculiar institution," slavery. As Lewis demonstrates, southern businessmen pursued their own indigenous model of economic growth and were selective in how they imported capital, machinery, and technical expertise from outside the region. The racial crises that erupted in Birmingham during the 1960s can be traced, in part, to labor-intensive developmental strategies that were present from the birth of a city that might have become a bastion of industrial slavery if the South had won the Civil War

Iron and Steel

Author : James R. Bennett
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817356118
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Iron and Steel written by James R. Bennett and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to Birmingham area industrial heritage sites.

The Ghost in the Sloss Furnaces

Author : Kathryn Tucker Windham
Publisher : Birmingham Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780317651003
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Ghost in the Sloss Furnaces written by Kathryn Tucker Windham and published by Birmingham Historical Society. This book was released on 1987 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District

Author : W. David Lewis
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District written by W. David Lewis and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 1994-10-30 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District contradicts earlier interpretations of southern industrialization by showing that Birmingham, which became a leading symbol of the New South, was in fact deeply rooted in the antebellum plantation system and its "peculiar institution", slavery. As Lewis demonstrates, southern businessmen pursued their own indigenous model of economic growth and were selective in how they imported capital, machinery, and technical expertise from outside the region. The racial crises that erupted in Birmingham during the 1960s can be traced, in part, to labor-intensive developmental strategies that were present from the birth of a city that might have become a bastion of industrial slavery if the South had won the Civil War.

Urban Legends of the South

Author : Deborah Lamb
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1684090644
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Urban Legends of the South written by Deborah Lamb and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The south is known for the beautiful plantations sitting on the front porch talking to family and friends while drinking a tall cold glass of tea. There is so much rich history in the south. But if you look just under the surface, you can see the dark that begins to emerge with unsettling stories about urban legends. The rich history is true, but what about the urban legends, are they true or not? You be the judge.

Planters' Progress

Author : Chad Henderson Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813028729
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Planters' Progress written by Chad Henderson Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planters' Progress is the first book to examine the profoundly transformative industrialization of a southern state during the Civil War. More than any other Confederate state, Georgia mixed economic modernization with a large and concentrated slave population. In this pathbreaking study, Chad Morgan shows that Georgia's remarkable industrial metamorphosis had been a long-sought goal of the state's planter elite. Georgia's industrialization, underwritten by the Confederate government, changed southern life fundamentally. A constellation of state-owned factories in Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, and Macon made up a sizeable munitions and supply complex that kept Confederate armies in the fields for four years against the preeminent industrial power of the North. Moreover, the government in Richmond provided numerous official goads and incentives to non-government manufacturers, setting off a boom in private industry. Georgia cities grew and the state government expanded its function to include welfare programs for those displaced and impoverished by the war. Georgia planters had always desired a level of modernization consistent with their ascendancy as the ruling slaveowner class. Morgan shows that far from being an unwanted consequence of the Civil War, the modernization of Confederate Georgia was an elaboration and acceleration of existing tendencies, and he confutes long and deeply held ideas about the nature of the Old South. Planters' Progress is a compelling reconsideration not only of Confederate industrialization but also of the Confederate experience as a whole.

Ghost in the Sloss Furnaces

Author : Kathryn T. Windham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780943994062
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Ghost in the Sloss Furnaces written by Kathryn T. Windham and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1994

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1408 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1994 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1994: Testimony of public witnesses for natural resources management programs

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Download or read book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1994: Testimony of public witnesses for natural resources management programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1994: Public witnesses for energy programs

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Download or read book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1994: Public witnesses for energy programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Haunted Places in the American South

Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1628469013
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Haunted Places in the American South written by Alan Brown and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Alan Brown wrote Haunted Places in the American South, only the locals knew what was lurking in these locations. Slamming doors, eerie lights, and Confederate soldiers' ghosts kept some folks too scared to talk with outsiders. Above Peavey Melody Music in Meridian, Mississippi, children may be heard giggling and running down an abandoned hallway that turns icy cold. At the Jameson Inn in Crestview, Florida, an apparition appears on surveillance tapes after filling the lobby with sweet-smelling cigar smoke. Seldom told and rarely—if ever—printed stories such as these join tales from haunted inns, mansions, forests, ravines, and prisons to create Haunted Places in the American South. The book collects ghost stories from fifty-five historically haunted sites in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Alan Brown gathered these stories from newspapers, magazines, museum directors, archaeologists, hotel managers, and many others who shared their disturbing experiences. Most of these stories have never appeared in book form, and some, such as the haunting of Peavey Melody Music, have never been published at all. Haunted Places in the American South differs from most other collections of southern ghost stories, for the featured sites include more than just haunted houses. Bridges, forts, governors' mansions, prisons, hotels, woods, theaters, cemeteries, and even a large rock are included as focal points for these tales. The book provides directions to the sites, notes, and a bibliography that will be useful to folklore scholars and to travelers seeking that cold and creepy brush with the supernatural.

Fading Ads of Birmingham

Author : Charles Buchanan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614237603
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Fading Ads of Birmingham written by Charles Buchanan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fading advertisements on the walls of Birmingham's buildings paint an illuminating picture of the men and women who built an industrial boomtown in the first half of the twentieth century. Advertising expert, artist and writer Charles Buchanan unravels the mysteries behind Birmingham's ghost signs to reveal glimpses of the past now hidden in plain sight. Featuring stunning color photography by Birmingham native Jonathan Purvis.

Haunted Alabama

Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455626457
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Haunted Alabama written by Alan Brown and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alabama has a historic and haunted side. This book highlights the most interesting sites and stories, from Auburn and Birmingham to Tuscaloosa and Mobile.

The Most Segregated City in America"

Author : Charles E. Connerly
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813935385
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Most Segregated City in America" written by Charles E. Connerly and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Planetizen’s Top Ten Books of 2006 "But for Birmingham," Fred Shuttleworth recalled President John F. Kennedy saying in June 1963 when he invited black leaders to meet with him, "we would not be here today." Birmingham is well known for its civil rights history, particularly for the violent white-on-black bombings that occurred there in the 1960s, resulting in the city’s nickname "Bombingham." What is less well known about Birmingham’s racial history, however, is the extent to which early city planning decisions influenced and prompted the city’s civil rights protests. The first book-length work to analyze this connection, "The Most Segregated City in America": City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920–1980 uncovers the impact of Birmingham’s urban planning decisions on its black communities and reveals how these decisions led directly to the civil rights movement. Spanning over sixty years, Charles E. Connerly’s study begins in the 1920s, when Birmingham used urban planning as an excuse to implement racial zoning laws, pointedly sidestepping the 1917 U.S. Supreme Court Buchanan v. Warley decision that had struck down racial zoning. The result of this obstruction was the South’s longest-standing racial zoning law, which lasted from 1926 to 1951, when it was redeclared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite the fact that African Americans constituted at least 38 percent of Birmingham’s residents, they faced drastic limitations to their freedom to choose where to live. When in the1940s they rebelled by attempting to purchase homes in off-limit areas, their efforts were labeled as a challenge to city planning, resulting in government and court interventions that became violent. More than fifty bombings ensued between 1947 and 1966, becoming nationally publicized only in 1963, when four black girls were killed in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Connerly effectively uses Birmingham’s history as an example to argue the importance of recognizing the link that exists between city planning and civil rights. His demonstration of how Birmingham’s race-based planning legacy led to the confrontations that culminated in the city’s struggle for civil rights provides a fresh lens on the history and future of urban planning, and its relation to race.

Diverse Excursions in the Southeast: Paleozoic to Present

Author : Ann E. Holmes
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813700396
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Diverse Excursions in the Southeast: Paleozoic to Present written by Ann E. Holmes and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume contains field guides to the 2015 GSA Southeastern Section Meeting's field trips. The guides explore geologic history and visit four regional geologic provinces--the Nashville dome, Blue Ridge, Valley and Ridge, and Cumberland Plateau"--

Alabama Blast Furnaces

Author : Joseph H. Woodward
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817354328
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Alabama Blast Furnaces written by Joseph H. Woodward and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go to resource on all the furnaces that made Alabama internationally significant in the iron and steel industry This work is the first and remains the only source of information on all blast furnaces built and operated in Alabama, from the first known charcoal furnace of 1815 (Cedar Creek Furnace in Franklin County) to the coke-fired giants built before the onset of the Great Depression. Woodward surveys the iron industry from the early, small local market furnaces through the rise of the iron industry in support of the Confederate war effort, to the giant internationally important industry that developed in the 1890s. The bulk of the book consists of individual illustrated histories of all blast furnaces ever constructed and operated in the state, furnaces that went into production and four that were built but never went into blast. Written to provide a record of every blast furnace built in Alabama from 1815 to 1940, this book was widely acclaimed and today remains one of the most quoted references on the iron and steel industry.