Alabama Interest

The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning Ben Raines

THE LAST SLAVE SHIP: THE TRUE STORY OF HOW CLOTILDA WAS FOUND, HER DESCENDANTS, AND AN EXTRAORDINARY RECKONING is told by the man who discovered the remains of the ship and travelled around the world to bring truth to readers from the mouths of descendants on all sides of the buying and selling of human beings. This is...

Saving America's Amazon Ben Raines

SAVING AMERICA'S AMAZON is a call to preserve the nation's most diverse ecosystem: the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, which spreads across over 260,000 square miles of south Alabama. This area is home to 126 species of fish, 46 mammals, 69 reptiles, 30 amphibians, and at least 300 species of birds, leading famed biologist...

Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta--And Then Got Written Out of History Howell Raines

SILENT CAVALRY: HOW UNION SOLDIERS FROM ALABAMA HELPED SHERMAN BURN ATLANTA AND THEN GOT WRITTEN OUT OF HISTORY finally sets the record straight after Lost Cause historians distorted what really happened. This veteran Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former executive editor of The New York Times has...

All of Us Fought the War: The University of Alabama and Its Men and Women in World War II Delbert Reed

ALL OF US FOUGHT THE WAR relates the stories and sacrifices of some of the nearly 10,000 men and women with ties to the University of Alabama who served in the United States military during World War II. Some 350 of them died during the war, and many more were wounded or were detained in prisoner of war camps as well...

From Power to Service: The Story of Lawyers in Alabama Pat Boyd Rumore

FROM POWER TO SERVICE: THE STORY OF LAWYERS IN ALABAMA follows the history of the law and lawyers in Alabama prior to the territory becoming a state, up to publication of the book. Included are many of the outstanding jurists who helped write Alabama's legal code and ethics, as well as rare photographs of scenes and...

9780 Paul Bryant Drive Steve Skipper
9780 Paul Bryant Drive Limited Steve Skipper

9780 PAUL BRYANT DRIVE is the powerful story of two great athletes who were more courageous human beings. Coach Paul Bryant was quoted as saying he wanted to be the Branch Rickey of college football, and John Mitchell and Wilbur Jackson made that dream a reality by integrating the University of Alabama football team....

Mattie C.'s Boy: The Shelley Stewart Story Shelly Stewart

MATTIE C.'S BOY: THE SHELLEY STEWART STORY is the most remarkable Rags-to-Riches biography in the store. Shelley Stewart created one of America's leading marketing firms with clients like Honda, Verizon, The NBA AMEX Card and on and on. However, as a young African-American boy in the South in the 1940s...

Behind the Magic Curtain: Secrets, Spies, and Unsung White Allies of Birmingham's Civil Rights Days T. K. Thorne

BEHIND THE MAGIC CURTAIN: SECRETS, SPIES, AND UNSUNG WHITE ALLIES OF BIRMINGHAM'S CIVIL RIGHTS DAYS reveals never-before-told names, deeds, and places involved in the Civil Rights struggle at the birthplace of much of the fight. Award-winninng author and former Birmingham Police Captain T.K. Thorne spent ten years...

Birmingham at 150: Built to Last Estes, Cary & Walker-Journey, Jennifer

BIRMINGHAM AT 150: BUILT TO LAST is a history of the Magic City, as well of the people, organizations and corporations who brought us to this point. It is truly a must for every library in the metropolitan area, and for ex-pats around thre globe.

 

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