Editing History of Alabama (section)

==Bibliography==

===Overviews===
* ''Encyclopedia of Alabama'' (2008) Online coverage of history, culture, geography, and natural environment. [http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/ online]
* Rogers, William Warren, Robert David Ward, [[Leah Rawls Atkins]], and Wayne Flynt. ''Alabama: The History of a Deep South State'' (3rd ed. 2018; 1st ed. 1994), 816pp; the standard scholarly history online older edition; [https://muse.jhu.edu/book/60678 online 2018 edition]
* Alabama State Department of Education. ''History of Education in Alabama'' (Bulletin 1975, No. 7.O) [https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED191766/page/n1/mode/2up Online free]
* Bridges, Edwin C. ''Alabama: The Making of an American State'' (2016) 264pp [https://www.amazon.com/Alabama-American-Edwin-C-Bridges/dp/0817358765/ excerpt]
* Dodd, Donald B.  ''Historical Atlas of Alabama'' (1974) [https://archive.org/details/historicalatlaso00dodd online free]
* 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)
* Hamilton, Virginia. ''Alabama, a bicentennial history'' (1977) [https://archive.org/details/alabamabicentenn00hami  online]; short popular history
* Holley, Howard L. ''A History of Medicine in Alabama''. 1982.
* [[Thomas M. Owen|Owen, Thomas M.]] ''History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography'' 4 vols. 1921. [https://books.google.com/books?id=NloTAAAAYAAJ&dq=History+of+Alabama+and+dictionary+of+Alabama+biography+Owen,+Thomas+McAdory,+1866-1920&pg=PA1281 online]
* 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)
* Thornton, J. Mills.  ''Archipelagoes of My South: Episodes in the Shaping of a Region, 1830–1965'' (2016) [https://muse.jhu.edu/book/48143  online]; scholarly essays on political episodes.
* Webb, Samuel L., and Margaret Armbrester, eds. ''Alabama Governors: A Political History of the State'' (University of Alabama Press, 2001).
* Wiggins, Sarah Woolfolk, ed. ''From Civil War to Civil Rights—Alabama, 1860–1960: An Anthology from the Alabama Review''  (U of Alabama Press, 1987). 29 scholarly essays by experts.
*Williams, Benjamin Buford. ''A Literary History of Alabama: The Nineteenth Century'' 1979.
*WPA. ''Guide to Alabama'' (1939)

===Local history===
See the individual articles on each locality.
*[[Blaine A. Brownell|Brownell, Blaine A.]] "Birmingham, Alabama: New South City in the 1920s." ''Journal of Southern History'' 38 (1972): 21–48. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2206652 in JSTOR]
* English, Bertis D. ''Civil Wars, Civil Beings, and Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt: A History of Perry County'' (University Alabama Press, 2020).
* Fallin Jr, Wilson. ''The African American Church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1815–1963: A Shelter in the Storm'' (Routledge, 2017).
*Fitzgerald, Michael W.  ''Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860–1890''. (2002). 301 pp.&nbsp;{{ISBN|0-8071-2837-6}}.
**Fitzgerald, Michael W. "Railroad Subsidies and Black Aspirations: The Politics of Economic Development in Reconstruction Mobile, 1865–1879." ''Civil War History'' 39#3 (1993): 240–256.
*Harris, Carl V. ''Political Power in Birmingham, 1871–1921'' 1977.
*Norrell, Robert J. "Caste in Steel: Jim Crow Careers in Birmingham, Alabama." ''Journal of American History'' 73 (December 1986): 669–94. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1902982 in JSTOR]
* Thornton III, J. Mills. ''Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Dividing-Lines-Municipal-Montgomery-Birmingham/dp/081731170X/ excerpt]
*WPA. ''Guide to Alabama'' (1939)

===Pre 1876===
* "Alabama" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=dhhesoIKZS4C&pg=PA265 ''The American year-book and national register for 1869'' (1869) online] pp 275–280.
* Abernethy, Thomas Perkins ''The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815–1828'' (1922) [https://archive.org/details/formativeperi00aberiala  online free]
* 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.&nbsp;49–92 [https://www.jstor.org/pss/2197710 online at JSTOR]
* Bond, Horace Mann. "Social and Economic Forces in Alabama Reconstruction," ''Journal of Negro History'' 23 (1938):290–348 [https://www.jstor.org/pss/2714686 in JSTOR]
* Dupre, Daniel S..  ''Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South'' (Indiana UP, 2017) [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=52038 online review]
*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. [https://www.jstor.org/pss/2210232 Online at JSTOR]
*Fitzgerald, Michael W.  ''Reconstruction in Alabama: From Civil War to Redemption in the Cotton South'' (LSU Press, 2017) 464 pages; a standard scholarly history replacing Fleming 1905
**Fitzgerald, Michael W.  "Reconstruction in Alabama" ''Alabama Encyclopedia'' (2017) [http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1631 online]
** Fitzgerald, Michael W. "" To Give Our Votes to the Party": Black Political Agitation and Agricultural Change in Alabama, 1865–1870." ''Journal of American History'' 76#2 (1989): 489–505.
**Fitzgerald, Michael W. "Radical Republicanism and the White Yeomanry During Alabama Reconstruction, 1865–1868." ''Journal of Southern History'' 54 (1988): 565–96. [https://www.jstor.org/pss/2209201  JSTOR]
** Fitzgerald, Michael W. "The Ku Klux Klan: property crime and the plantation system in Reconstruction Alabama." ''Agricultural history'' 71.2 (1997): 186–206.
* Fleming, Walter L. ''Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama'' (1905). a detailed study; Dunning School [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41680/41680-h/41680-h.htm full text online from Project Gutenberg]
*Going, Allen J. ''Bourbon Democracy in Alabama, 1874–1890''. 1951.
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=UO0NAAAAIAAJ&dq=peter+joseph+hamilton+reconstruction+period&pg=PA3 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).
* McIlwain, Christopher Lyle. ''Civil War Alabama'' (University of Alabama Press, 2016); 456 pp; a major scholarly survey. [Will  excerpt]
*McWhiney, Grady. "Were the Whigs a Class Party in Alabama?" ''Journal of Southern History'' 23 (1957): 510–22. [https://www.jstor.org/pss/2954389 Online at JSTOR]
* Moore, A. B. "Railroad Building in Alabama During the Reconstruction Period," ''Journal of Southern History'' (1935) 1#4 pp.&nbsp;421–441 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2191774 in JSTOR]
* Rogers, William Warren, Robert David Ward, [[Leah Rawls Atkins]], and Wayne Flynt. ''Alabama: The History of a Deep South State'' (3rd ed. 2018; 1st ed. 1994), 816pp; the standard scholarly history; [https://muse.jhu.edu/book/60678 online 2018 edition] 
* Schweninger, Loren. "James Rapier of Alabama and the Noble Cause of Reconstruction," in Howard N. Rabinowitz, ed. ''Southern Black Leaders of the Reconstruction Era'' (1982) pp.&nbsp;79–100.
*Sellers, James B.  ''Slavery in Alabama''  1950. 
* Severance, Ben H. "To Fight and Die for Dixie: Alabama’s Manpower Contribution to the Confederate War Effort, 1861–1865." ''Alabama Review,''74#4 (2022), pp.&nbsp;283–303. doi:10.1353/ala.2022.0029.
*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). [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=acls;cc=acls;view=toc;idno=heb00452.0001.001 online edition]
*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 1876===
* 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). [https://archive.org/details/negroeducationin0000bond/page/n6/mode/1up online], a famous classic
* Cronenberg, Allen. ''Forth to the Mighty Conflict: Alabama and World War II'' (University of Alabama Press, 2003).
* Feldman, Glenn. ''Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915–1949'' (1999) 
* Feldman, Glenn. "Southern Disillusionment with the Democratic Party: Cultural Conformity and 'the Great Melding' of Racial and Economic Conservatism in Alabama during World War II," ''Journal of American Studies'' 43 (Aug. 2009), 199–230.
* Feldman, Glenn.  ''The Irony of the Solid South: Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865–1944'' (University of Alabama Press; 2013) 480 pages; how the South became "solid" for the Democrats, then began to shift with World War II.
* Frederick, Jeff. ''Stand Up For Alabama: Governor George Wallace'' (University of Alabama Press, 2007).
*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.
* Jett, Brandon T. " 'We Crave to Become a Vital Force in this Community': Police Brutality and African American Activism in Birmingham, Alabama, 1920-1945" ''Alabama Review'' (2022) 75#1 pp.&nbsp;50–72 DOI: 10.1353/ala.2022.0013
* Jones, Allen. "Political reforms of the progressive era" ''Alabama Review'' (1968)  21#3 pp 173–194. 
*Key, V. O. Jr. ''Southern Politics in State and Nation''. 1949.
*Lesher, Stephan. ''George Wallace: American Populist'' (1995)
*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. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2210414 in JSTOR]
* Oliff, Martin T., ed. ''The Great War in the Heart of Dixie: Alabama During World War I'' (2008)
* Permaloff, Anne, and Carl Grafton. ''Political Power in Alabama'' (University of Georgia Press, 1995)
*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)

===Historiography and memory===
* [[Leah Rawls Atkins|Atkins, Leah Rawls]]. “The Alabama Historical Association: The First Fifty Years.” ''Alabama Review'' 50#4 (1997): 243–266.
* Brown, Lynda et al. eds. ''Alabama History: An Annotated Bibliography,''  (Greenwood, 1998).
* Bridges, Edwin C. "A Tribute to Mills Thornton" ''Alabama Review'' (2014) 67#1 pp 4–9.
* Cox, Richard J. “Alabama’s Archival Heritage, 1850-1985.” ''Alabama Review'' 40#4 (1987): 284–307.
* Kennington, Kelly. "Slavery in Alabama: A Call to Action." ''Alabama Review'' 73.1 (2020): 3-27. [https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/181/article/756238/summary excerpt]
* Mathis, Ray. "Alabama Freedmen, Politics, And Progressive Historiography: An Essay-Review." ''Georgia Historical Quarterly'' 58.4 (1974): 414–421. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/40580050 online]
* McKenzie, Robert H. "Clio’s Partners: The Significance of Alabama History and the Contributions of Its Contemporary Historians." ''Alabama Review''   (1975) 28#4: 243–259.
* Pearson, Joseph W. "A Conversation with J. Mills Thornton" ''Southern Historian'' (2013), Vol. 34, pp 7–25.
* Rigdon, John. ''A Guide to Alabama Civil War Research'' (2011)
* Rudder, Justin A. "Grassroots Historians and African American Historiography in Alabama." ''Alabama Review'' 72.4 (2019): 259–300. [https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/181/article/742251/summary excerpt]
* Simpson, Robert R. “The Origin of the Alabama Department of Archives and History,” ''Alabama Historical Quarterly'' 34#2  (Summer 1972): 155–170.
* Stephenson, Wendell H. “Some Pioneer Alabama Historians III: Thomas M. Owen.”'' Alabama Review'' 2#1 (1949): 45–62.
* Sulzby, James F. Jr. “Alabama Historical Association: Human Retrospective of Forty Years.” ''Alabama Review'' 41#2 (1988): 83–102.
* Wiggins, Sarah Woolfolk, ed. ''From Civil War to Civil Rights, Alabama 1860–1960: An Anthology from The Alabama Review'' ( University of Alabama Press, 1987) 29 scholarly articles.

===Primary sources===
*{{cite book
  | last = Baldwin
  | first = Joseph Glover
  |author2=Louis M. Hacker
  | author2-link =Louis M. Hacker
  | title = The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches (1853)
  | publisher = Sagamore Press
  | year = 1957
  | location = New York
  }}
*{{cite book
  | editor-last = Beidler
  | editor-first = Philip D.
  | title = The Art of Fiction in the Heart of Dixie: An Anthology of Alabama Writers
  | publisher = The University of Alabama Press
  | year = 1987
  | location = Tuscaloosa
  | isbn = 978-0-8173-0313-6}}
*{{cite book
  | editor-last = Griffith
  | editor-first = Lucille Blanche
  | title = Alabama: A Documentary History to 1900
  | publisher = The University of Alabama Press
  | year = 1972
  | location = Tuscaloosa
  | url =https://archive.org/details/alabamadocumenta0000grif
  | isbn = 978-0-8173-0371-6}}
*{{cite book
  | last = McMillan
  | first = Malcolm Cook
  | title = The Alabama Confederate Reader (1963)
  | publisher = The University of Alabama Press
  | year = 1992
  | location = Tuscaloosa
  | isbn = 978-0-8173-0595-6}}
* {{Cite book |location = Boston, Massachusetts |author = Morse, J. |author-link=Jedidiah Morse |title = The American Gazetteer |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/americangazettee00mors#page/n199/mode/2up |chapter=Georgia Western Territory |date = 1797|ol = 23272543M |publisher = Boston : At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews, and sold by E. Larkin, and the other booksellers in Boston; by Gaine & Ten Eyck, and S. Campbell, New-York; M. Carey, and W. Young, Philadelphia; by Messrs. Websters, and Thomas, Andrews & Pennyman, Albany; and Thomas, Andrews & Butler, Baltimore }}

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