Alabama Founders
Title | Alabama Founders PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert James Lewis |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2018-06-26 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 081735915X |
A biographical history of the forefathers who shaped the identity of Alabama politically, legally, economically, militarily, and geographically While much has been written about the significant events in the history of early Alabama, there has been little information available about the people who participated in those events. In Alabama Founders:Fourteen Political and Military Leaders Who Shaped the State Herbert James Lewis provides an important examination of the lives of fourteen political and military leaders. These were the men who opened Alabama for settlement, secured Alabama’s status as a territory in 1817 and as a state in 1819, and helped lay the foundation for the political and economic infrastructure of Alabama in its early years as a state. While well researched and thorough, this book does not purport to be a definitive history of Alabama’s founding. Lewis has instead narrowed his focus to only those he believes to be key figures—in clearing the territory for settlement, serving in the territorial government, working to achieve statehood, playing a key role at the Constitutional Convention of 1819, or being elected to important offices in the first years of statehood. The founders who readied the Alabama Territory for statehood include Judge Harry Toulmin, Henry Hitchcock, and Reuben Saffold II. William Wyatt Bibb and his brother Thomas Bibb respectively served as the first two governors of the state, and Charles Tait, known as the “Patron of Alabama,” shepherded Alabama’s admission bill through the US Senate. Military figures who played roles in surveying and clearing the territory for further settlement and development include General John Coffee, Andrew Jackson’s aide and land surveyor, and Samuel Dale, frontiersman and hero of the “Canoe Fight.” Those who were instrumental to the outcome of the Constitutional Convention of 1819 and served the state well in its early days include John W. Walker, Clement Comer Clay, Gabriel Moore, Israel Pickens, and William Rufus King.
The Founding of Alabama
Title | The Founding of Alabama PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Cabaniss Roberts |
Publisher | University Alabama Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2020-01-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0817320431 |
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.
The Founding of Alabama
Title | The Founding of Alabama PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Cabaniss Roberts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 9780817392734 |
1819 Alabama Constitution
Title | 1819 Alabama Constitution PDF eBook |
Author | Representatives of the people of Alabama |
Publisher | Good Press |
Pages | 43 |
Release | 2020-12-08 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
This document contains the Alabama Constitution of 1819 printed by order of the House of Representatives. It contains laws that govern the State of Alabama. It is divided into six articles namely:Declaration of Rights, Distribution of Powers, Legislative Department, Executive Departments, Judicial Department, and General Provisions.
Birmingham's Forgotten Founders
Title | Birmingham's Forgotten Founders PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas E. Badham |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2021-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781945333224 |
Dr. Basil Manly
Title | Dr. Basil Manly PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas McAdory Owen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
From Marion to Montgomery
Title | From Marion to Montgomery PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Caver |
Publisher | NewSouth Books |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2020-08-25 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781588383600 |
One of the earliest public historically black universities, Alabama State University is a vital source of African American excellence situated directly in the Heart of Dixie. From Marion to Montgomery tells the little-known story of the university's origin as the Reconstruction-era Lincoln Normal School in Marion, Alabama. How did a little school in Lowndes County become one of the world's most renowned HBCUs?