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Tuscaloosa Through Time

Author : Serena Blount
Publisher : America Through Time
ISBN 13 : 9781635000696
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Tuscaloosa Through Time written by Serena Blount and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over its two hundred years of history, the city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has held a prominent position within the state, not only as home to the state's flagship university, but also taking turns as the State Capitol, as the location for the state mental health hospital, as the site of Civil War conflict, and as a Civil Rights landmark. A locale marked by rapid growth at the time of its formal incorporation, today's Tuscaloosa replicates that rapid development--witnessing industrial and commercial growth, a rising population, and an expanding University. Yet residents of contemporary Tuscaloosa are never far from their history and forebears, for beautiful reminders of its past dot the city and lend to its grace and charms, while uglier aspects of that past lend to its self-awareness and point the way toward more enlightened and just self-governance. Indeed, this rich and varied history claims for Tuscaloosa a compelling position in American memory.

Tuscaloosa

Author : G. Ward Hubbs
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817359443
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Tuscaloosa written by G. Ward Hubbs and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated history of this distinctive city's origins as a settlement on the banks of the Black Warrior River to its development into a thriving nexus of higher education, sports, and culture In both its subject and its approach, Tuscaloosa: 200 Years in the Making is an account unlike any other of a city unlike any other--storied, inimitable, and thriving. G. Ward Hubbs has written a lively and enlightening bicentennial history of Tuscaloosa that is by turns enthralling, dramatic, disturbing, and uplifting. Far from a traditional chronicle listing one event after another, the narrative focuses instead on six key turning points that dramatically altered the fabric of the city over the past two centuries. The selection of this frontier village as the state capital gave rise to a building boom, some extraordinary architecture, and the founding of The University of Alabama. The state's secession in 1861 brought on a devastating war and the burning of the university by Union cavalry; decades of social adjustments followed, ultimately leading to legalized racial segregation. Meanwhile, town boosters set out to lure various industries, but with varying success. The decision to adopt new inventions, ranging from electricity to telephones to automobiles, revolutionized the daily lives of Tuscaloosans in only a few short decades. Beginning with radio, and followed by the Second World War and television, the formerly isolated townspeople discovered an entirely different world that would culminate in Mercedes-Benz building its first overseas production plant nearby. At the same time, the world would watch as Tuscaloosa became the center of some pivotal moments in the civil rights movement--and great moments in college football as well. An impressive amount of research is collected in this accessibly written history of the city and its evolution. Tuscaloosa is a versatile history that will be of interest to a general readership, for scholars to use as a starting point for further research, and for city and county school students to better understand their home locale.

Tuscaloosa

Author : W. Glasgow Phillips
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 : 9780452274396
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book Tuscaloosa written by W. Glasgow Phillips and published by Plume. This book was released on 1994 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the verge of entering whatever "high society" Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has to offer a young man in 1972, Bill Mitchell falls in love with an inmate at his father's mental institution. Now Bill must either muster the courage to elope with his love or accept a prescribed--but unwelcome--role within the Southern patriarchy. "An ambitious and surprisingly effective first novel".--San Francisco Chronicle.

Opening the Doors

Author : B. J. Hollars
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817317929
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Opening the Doors written by B. J. Hollars and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening the Doors is a wide-ranging account of the University of Alabama’s 1956 and 1963 desegregation attempts, as well as the little-known story of Tuscaloosa, Alabama’s, own civil rights movement. Whereas E. Culpepper Clark’s The Schoolhouse Door remains the standard history of the University of Alabama’s desegregation, in Opening the Doors B. J. Hollars focuses on Tuscaloosa’s purposeful divide between “town” and “gown,” providing a new contextual framework for this landmark period in civil rights history. The image of George Wallace’s stand in the schoolhouse door has long burned in American consciousness; however, just as interesting are the circumstances that led him there in the first place, a process that proved successful due to the concerted efforts of dedicated student leaders, a progressive university president, a steadfast administration, and secret negotiations between the U.S. Justice Department, the White House, and Alabama’s stubborn governor. In the months directly following Governor Wallace’s infamous stand, Tuscaloosa became home to a leader of a very different kind: twenty-eight-year-old African American reverend T. Y. Rogers, an up-and-comer in the civil rights movement, as well as the protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. After taking a post at Tuscaloosa’s First African Baptist Church, Rogers began laying the groundwork for the city’s own civil rights movement. In the summer of 1964, the struggle for equality in Tuscaloosa resulted in the integration of the city’s public facilities, a march on the county courthouse, a bloody battle between police and protesters, confrontations with the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a bus boycott, and the near-accidental-lynching of movie star Jack Palance. Relying heavily on new firsthand accounts and personal interviews, newspapers, previously classified documents, and archival research, Hollars’s in-depth reporting reveals the courage and conviction of a town, its university, and the people who call it home.

Tuscaloosa

Author : Amalia K. Amaki and Priscilla N. Davis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467114367
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Tuscaloosa written by Amalia K. Amaki and Priscilla N. Davis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s, Tuscaloosa drew national attention when the University of Alabama was fully integrated. The decade also marked the arrival of Paul "Bear" Bryant as head coach of Alabama's football team and the majority of Frank Anthony Rose's tenure as president--a period characterized by race mediation and increases in enrollment, assets, and academic standards. For the next 50 years, sports, education, cultural and recreational opportunities, and business developments contributed to the city and the lifestyles of its residents. Tuscaloosa has associations with people such as F. David Mathews (who concurrently served as president of Alabama and as a secretary under Pres. Gerald Ford), writer Richard Yates (Revolutionary Road), actress Sela Ward, and quarterback Joe Namath.

Haunted Tuscaloosa

Author : David Higdon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614236526
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Haunted Tuscaloosa written by David Higdon and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the ghostly history of this famed Alabama city . . . includes photos! Tuscaloosa was first inhabited by ancient native tribes tied to the land by centuries-old traditions. Pioneering settlers later moved in, establishing a town and a university that would prove vital to the state. Some say these early inhabitants never truly left. Voices from the Civil War to the civil rights movement still echo in Tuscaloosa, where the past refuses to lie dormant. Now, take a terrifying trek through Tuscaloosa with authors David Higdon and Brett Talley as they delve into the city’s shadowy history with tales of the jettisoned insane asylum, lingering antebellum mansions housing the ghosts of the original dwellers, and haunted cemeteries where the specters of Confederate soldiers still march. From ghostly hot spots on campus to the shady outskirts of town, this is Haunted Tuscaloosa.

The Heritage of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Author : Tuscaloosa County Heritage Book Committee
Publisher : Heritage Publishing Consultants
ISBN 13 : 9781891647314
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Heritage of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama written by Tuscaloosa County Heritage Book Committee and published by Heritage Publishing Consultants. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tuscaloosa Moon

Author : Carolyn Breckiniridge
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481718924
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Tuscaloosa Moon written by Carolyn Breckiniridge and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Priscilla Beaty has two sons, a successful career, and an all-consuming interest in Crimson Tide football. She additionally has a very long string of lovers and an even greater number of enemies. Some people are both. It falls to Detective Addie Bramson to untangle the webs of passion crisscrossing Tuscaloosa County to discover who might most want to see Dr. Beaty dead.

The Storm and the Tide

Author : Lars Anderson
Publisher : Time Home Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1618939580
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book The Storm and the Tide written by Lars Anderson and published by Time Home Entertainment. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragedy, Hope, and Triumph in Tuscaloosa

Operation Tuscaloosa

Author : John J. Culbertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780804115650
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Operation Tuscaloosa written by John J. Culbertson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1967, Operation Tuscaloosa sent 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, into the hostile Song Thu Bon valley. Their mission--to exterminate the Viet Cong. But a sandbar island in the river quickly became an island of death for the Marines. As point man for the lead squad of Hotel Company, 2/5, John Culbertson tells the full bloody story of the battle.

The History of Tuscaloosa, 1816-1880

Author : Archibald Bruce McEachin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The History of Tuscaloosa, 1816-1880 written by Archibald Bruce McEachin and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Northern Alabama

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Northern Alabama written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Tuskaloosa Kills

Author : Scott Mc McWaters
Publisher : Spork Press
ISBN 13 : 9781948510325
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Tuskaloosa Kills written by Scott Mc McWaters and published by Spork Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuskaloosa Kills has the teeth of a saw. And the eyes of a wolf. It's a patchwork prose back-and-forth--it's a heady screwloose brew of marblemouth and jughead musings upon a famous football town with a clandestine literary history. Tuskaloosa Kills is a soapbox upon which McWaters and Smith howl of how humans make community and community unmakes humans. Think threads and scraps, interlaced and unraveling: how a yarn isn't bellyached from one voice but through a spice-cabinet of voices--heard, misheard, remembered, misremembered, and echoing for one more round.

The University of Alabama

Author : Robert Oliver Mellown
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817356800
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The University of Alabama written by Robert Oliver Mellown and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campusand Its Architecture is a richly illustrated guidebook to the architecture and development of the University of Alabama’s campus as it has evolved over the last two centuries. In 1988 the University of Alabama Press published Robert Oliver Mellown’s The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campus, a culmination of a decade’s worth of research into both the facts and the legends surrounding the architecture, history, and traditions of the Capstone. Over twenty years later, this new guide brings to light the numerous additions, expansions, and renovations the university has undergone on its spacious grounds in Tuscaloosa. In addition to updated sections devoted to the university’s historic landmarks—such as Foster Auditorium, where “the stand in the schoolhouse door” occurred; Denny Chimes,where the handprints and footprints of famous Tide athletes are memorialized in concrete; and the Gorgas House, which with stood the destruction of Union troops at the end of the Civil War—new sections account for the acquisition of Bryce Hospital’s campus, the expansions at Bryant-Denny Stadium to accommodate the growing Crimson Tide fan base, and the burgeoning student recreation facilities, playing fields, and residential communities. Chapters are arranged into various campus tours for walking or driving—Antebellum, Victorian, Early Twentieth-Century, East Quad, West Quad, Science and Engineering Corridor, Student Life, Bryce, Medical, Southeast, Athletics, and Off Campus. Alumni, prospective students and their parents, new faculty, out-of-state visitors, and foreign dignitaries will all welcome this useful, compact, and colorful guide to one of the most beautiful campuses in the country.

Chasing the Bear

Author : Lars Anderson
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538716496
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Chasing the Bear written by Lars Anderson and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dual biography of two coaching legends -- Bear Bryant and Nick Saban -- who built the Alabama Crimson Tide into a true football dynasty. Both Bear Bryant and Nick Saban are undeniable kings of college football, two coaches at Alabama who have each won more national championships -- six apiece -- than anyone else in the history of the game. Chasing the Bear examines how they did it, revealing along the way their similarities in style, background, football philosophy, and recruiting methods, while providing readers a rare inside look at two of the greatest leaders in the history of sports. Bear Bryant and Nick Saban never met, but they have more in common than either of them realize. Both grew up in small towns -- Bryant in Moro Bottom, Arkansas, a dot on the map, and Saban from Monongah, West Virginia, population five hundred. As a child, Saban pumped gas at his father's service station, washing and waxing cars and doing anything he could to help the business. Bryant's father suffered from multiple physical ailments, which forced Bryant to work to keep the family farm going. Both men knew the value of hard work from the time they were young boys, and both understood that there were no shortcuts to success. But both dreamed of escaping their hometowns, and both used football as the means to do so. Separated by two generations, Bear Bryant and Nick Saban are mythic figures linked by a school, a town, and a barroom debate centering on one question: Which is the greatest college coach of all time?

Civil War Alabama

Author : Christopher Lyle McIlwain
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817318941
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Civil War Alabama written by Christopher Lyle McIlwain and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In fascinating detail, Civil War Alabama reveals the forgotten breadth of political opinions and loyalties among white Alabamians during the antebellum period. The book offers a major reevaluation of Alabama's secession crisis and path to war and destruction.