A History of Madison County and Incidentally of North Alabama, 1732-1840
Author : Thomas Jones Taylor
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,99 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Madison County (Ala.)
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Author : Thomas Jones Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,99 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Madison County (Ala.)
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 27,97 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Alabama
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Author : LeeAnna Keith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0195393082
Drawing on a large body of documents, including eyewitness accounts and evidence from the site itself, Keith explores the racial tensions that led to the Colfax massacre - during which surrendering blacks were mercilessly slaughtered - and the reverberations this message of terror sent throughout the South.
Author : Huntsville Madison County Historical Soc
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 2017-11-21
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ISBN : 9781071422496
For 46 years, the Huntsville Historical Review has chronicled the origins and history of Huntsville and Madison County. Now, as Alabama celebrates its bicentennial, the Huntsville-Madison CountyHistorical Society has assembled a collection of articles from past issues of the Review, spanning Huntsville's history during Alabama's 200 years. This first volume covers the first years of those twocenturies as Alabama transitions from territory to Statehood, with Huntsville serving as home to the drafting of the state constitution and as Alabama's first capital.
Author : John O’Brien
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 10,87 MB
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1439671273
Before the Civil War, North Alabama was infamous for lawlessness. The era saw courts filled with defendants who spanned the socioeconomic gamut--farmers, merchants and politicians. In 1811, John B. Haynes tore apart William Badger's house with his bare hands. Rodah Barnett ran a series of ill-reputed brothels in the early 1820s. In 1818, Rebecca Layman "accidentally" gave her husband sulfuric acid instead of rum. There is even a case of assault with frozen corn. Author John O'Brien relays these and more stories of the shady side of North Alabama during the antebellum period.
Author : Sarah Bélanger
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1439662207
North Alabama built its fi rst commercial brewery in Huntsville in 1819, three months before the state joined the Union. Before Prohibition in 1915, the region was peppered with numerous saloons, taverns and dance halls. Locals still found ways to get their booze during Prohibition using Tennessee River steamboats and secret tunnels for smuggling. Alabama re-legalized beer in 1937, but it wasn't until 2004, when the grass-roots organization Free the Hops took on the state's harsh beer laws, that the craft beer scene really began to flourish. Authors Sarah Bélanger and Kamara Bowling Davis trace the history of beer in North Alabama from the early saloon days to the craft beer explosion.
Author : Huntsville-Madison County Historical Soc
Publisher :
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 2019-07-31
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ISBN : 9781070997803
For 46 years, the Huntsville Historical Review has chronicled the origins and history of Huntsville and Madison County. Now, as Alabama celebrates its bicentennial, the Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society has assembled a collection of articles from past issues of the Review, spanning Huntsville's history during Alabama's 200 years. This second volume covers the years between Alabama statehood and the Civil War, as Huntsville grows into being the "smart place" it's known as today.
Author : Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society (Ala.)
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Page : 161 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Huntsville Region (Ala.)
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1686 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Copyright
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Author : Johanna Nicol Shields
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 2012-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1107013372
Before the Civil War, most Southern white people were as strongly committed to freedom for their kind as to slavery for African Americans. This study views that tragic reality through the lens of eight authors - representatives of a South that seemed, to them, destined for greatness but was, we know, on the brink of destruction. Exceptionally able and ambitious, these men and women won repute among the educated middle classes in the Southwest, South and the nation, even amid sectional tensions. Although they sometimes described liberty in the abstract, more often these authors discussed its practical significance: what it meant for people to make life's important choices freely and to be responsible for the results. They publicly insisted that freedom caused progress, but hidden doubts clouded this optimistic vision. Ultimately, their association with the oppression of slavery dimmed their hopes for human improvement, and fear distorted their responses to the sectional crisis.