Alabama Bookshelf
Here are a few we think you will enjoy. Several of the authors listed have written entries for the Encyclopedia of Alabama. These publications are available for purchase. Click on the image for an expanded description and information on how to order from the publisher. We also encourage you to visit your local library and bookstore.
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Alabama Heritage Magazine
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Alabama Heritage is an award-winning, quarterly, print magazine. Each issue explores Alabama's history and culture with lively, colorful articles about the fascinating people, places and events that helped shape Alabama and the South...
Send the Alabamians
by Nimrod Thompson Frazer
Send the Alabamians recounts the story of the 167th Infantry Regiment of the WWI Rainbow Division from their recruitment to their valiant service on the bloody fields of eastern France in the climactic final months of World War I....
Exploring Wild Alabama
by Kenneth M. Wills and L. J. Davenport
Exploring Wild Alabama is an exceptionally detailed guide to the most beautiful natural destinations in the state. From the rocky outcrops of the Appalachian plateaus to the sugar-white beaches....
Footprints in Stone
by Ronald J. Buta and David C. Kopaska-Merkel
The Steven C. Minkin (Union Chapel) Paleozoic Footprint Site ranks among the most important fossil sites in the world today, and Footprints in Stone recounts the accidental revelation of its existence and detailed findings about its fossil record...
Alabama's Civil Rights Trail
by Frye Gaillard
No other state has embraced and preserved its civil rights history more thoroughly than Alabama. Nor is there a place where that history is richer. Alabama’s Civil Rights Trail tells of Alabama’s great civil rights events, as well as its lesser-known moments....
Tohopeka
by Kathryn E. Holland Braund
Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period...
The Works of Matthew Blue, Montgomery's First Historian
by Mary Ann Neeley
The 1878 City Directory of Montgomery, Alabama, included “A Brief History of Montgomery,” consisting of a “narrative” and a series of events arranged by the months. Compiled by Matthew....
My Journey: A Memoir of the First African American to Preside Over the Alabama Board of Education
by Ethel Hall
In this wise, introspective, and touching memoir, Dr. Ethel Hall recounts the little "journeys" throughout her life which prepared her to become the first African American woman....
Respectable and Disreputable
by Jeffrey Benton
Respectable and Disreputable describes how Montgomerians spent their increasing leisure time during the four decades preceding the Civil War. Everyday activities included gambling, drinking, sporting, hunting, and voluntary....
Once a Fighter Pilot
by Warren A. Trest
In January of 2000, fifty-plus years after the Korean War ended, Lt. Gen. Charles G. “Chick” Cleveland received a phone call. The Secretary of the Air Force’s representative had signed the paper making him an Ace, the fortieth Fighter Jet....
Druid City: Snapshots of Growing Up in the Segregated South
by David T. Warner
David Warner takes readers on an impressionistic journey back in time, back to the Tuscaloosa, Alabama, of his childhood. Nostalgic without being sentimental, these vignettes of growing up and losing....
Searching for Freedom after the Civil War
by Guy W. Hubbs
In Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman, G. Ward Hubbs uses a stark and iconic political cartoon to illuminate postwar conflicts over the meaning of freedom in the American South...