Alabama, history/Bibliography

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Overviews

• Rogers, William Warren, Robert David Ward, Leah Rawls Atkins, and Wayne Flynt. Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (1994)
• Flynt, Wayne. Alabama in the Twentieth Century (2004)
• Flynt, J. Wayne. "Alabama." in Religion in the Southern States: A Historical Study, edited by Samuel S. Hill. 1983
• Flynt, J. Wayne. Poor But Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites 1989.
• Flynt, J. Wayne. Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie (1998)
• Holley, Howard L. A History of Medicine in Alabama. 1982.
• Owen Thomas M. History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography 4 vols. 1921.
• Jackson, Harvey H. Inside Alabama: A Personal History of My State (2004)
• Thomas, Mary Martha. Stepping out of the Shadows: Alabama Women, 1819-1990 (1995)
• Williams, Benjamin Buford. A Literary History of Alabama: The Nineteenth Century 1979.
• WPA. Guide to Alabama (1939)

Pre 1900

• Abernethy, Thomas Perkins The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815-1828. reprint 1965.
• Barney, William L. The Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860. 1974.
• Bethel, Elizabeth . "The Freedmen's Bureau in Alabama," Journal of Southern History Vol. 14, No. 1, Feb., 1948 pp. 49-92 [online at JSTOR]
• Bond, Horace Mann. “Social and Economic Forces in Alabama Reconstruction.” Journal of Negro History 23 (1938): 29 online at JSTOR
• Dupre, Daniel. "Ambivalent Capitalists on the Cotton Frontier: Settlement and Development in the Tennessee Valley of Alabama." Journal of Southern History 56 (May 1990): 215-40. Online at JSTOR
• Fitzgerald, Michael R. Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860–1890. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. 301 pp. ISBN 0-8071-2837-6.)
• Fitzgerald, Michael R. "Radical Republicanism and the White Yeomanry During Alabama Reconstruction, 1865-1868." Journal of Southern History 54 ( November 1988): 565-96. Online at JSTOR
• Fleming, Walter L. Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama 1905. the most detailed study; Dunning School
• Going Allen J. Bourbon Democracy in Alabama, 1874-1890. 1951.
• Hamilton, Peter Joseph. The Reconstruction Period (1906), full length history of era; Dunning School approach; 570 pp; ch 12 on Alabama
• Jordan, Weymouth T. Ante-Bellum Alabama: Town and Country. 1957.
• Kolchin, Peter. First Freedom: The Response of Alabama Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction. 1972.
• McWhiney, Grady. "Were the Whigs a Class Party in Alabama?" Journal of Southern History 23 (1957): 510-22. Online at JSTOR
• Rogers William Warren. The One-Gallused Rebellion; Agrarianism in Alabama, 1865-1896 1970.
• Sellers, James B. Slavery in Alabama 1950.
• Sterkx, Henry Eugene. Partners in Rebellion: Alabama Women in the Civil War 1970.
• Thornton, J. Mills III. Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama, 1800-1860 1978.
• Wiener, Jonathan M. Social Origins of the New South; Alabama, 1860-1885. 1978.
• Wiggins, Sarah Woolfolk. The Scalawag in Alabama Politics, 1865-1881 (1991)
• Wiggins, Sarah Woolfolk. "Alabama: Democratic Bulldozing and Republican Folly." in Reconstruction and Redemption in the South, edited by Otto H. Olson. 1980.

Since 1900

• Barnard, William D. Dixiecrats and Democrats: Alabama Politics, 1942-1950 (1974)
• Bond, Horace Mann. Negro Education in Alabama: A Study in Cotton and Steel 1939.
• Brownell, Blaine A. "Birmingham, Alabama: New South City in the 1920s." Journal of Southern History 38 (1972): 21-48. Online at JSTOR
• Feldman, Glenn. Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949 (1999)
• Frady, Marshall. Wallace: The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace (1996)
• Grafton, Carl, and Anne Permaloff. Big Mules and Branchheads: James E. Folsom and Political Power in Alabama 1985.
• Hackney, Sheldon. Populism to Progressivism in Alabama 1969.
• Hamilton, Virginia. Lister Hill: Statesman from the South 1987.
• Harris, Carl V. Political Power in Birmingham, 1871-1921 1977.
• Key, V. O., Jr. Southern Politics in State and Nation. 1949.
• Lesher, Stephan. George Wallace: American Populist (1995)
• Norrell, Robert J. "Caste in Steel: Jim Crow Careers in Birmingham, Alabama." Journal of American History 73 (December 1986): 669-94. Online at JSTOR
• Norrell, Robert J. "Labor at the Ballot Box: Alabama Politics from the New Deal to the Dixiecrat Movement." Journal of Southern History 57 (May 1991): 201-34. Online at JSTOR
• Sellers, James B. The Prohibition Movement in Alabama, 1702-1943 1943.
• Thomas, Mary Martha. The New Women in Alabama: Social Reform and Suffrage, 1890-1920 1992.
• Thomas, Mary Martha. Riveting and Rationing in Dixie: Alabama Women and the Second World War (1987)

Primary sources

• Baldwin, Joseph Glover The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi (1853)
• Beidler, Philip D., ed. The Art of Fiction in the Heart of Dixie: An Anthology of Alabama Writers 1986.
• Griffith, Lucille, ed. Alabama: A Documentary History to 1900 1968.
• McMillan, Malcolm Cook The Alabama Confederate Reader 1963.
• Alabama Archives
  
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• Flags Of The Confederacy