Author : Tuscaloosa County Heritage Book Committee
Publisher : Heritage Publishing Consultants
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Tuscaloosa County (Ala.)
ISBN : 9781891647314
Author : Serena Blount
Publisher : America Through Time
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781635000696
Over its two hundred years of history, the city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has held a prominent position within the state, not only as home to the state's flagship university, but also taking turns as the State Capitol, as the location for the state mental health hospital, as the site of Civil War conflict, and as a Civil Rights landmark. A locale marked by rapid growth at the time of its formal incorporation, today's Tuscaloosa replicates that rapid development--witnessing industrial and commercial growth, a rising population, and an expanding University. Yet residents of contemporary Tuscaloosa are never far from their history and forebears, for beautiful reminders of its past dot the city and lend to its grace and charms, while uglier aspects of that past lend to its self-awareness and point the way toward more enlightened and just self-governance. Indeed, this rich and varied history claims for Tuscaloosa a compelling position in American memory.
Author : Don Dodd
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 16,5 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738505923
Based on a lifetime of researching and writing about their home county of Winston, the husband and wife team of Don and Amy Dodd have crafted a unique pictorial retrospective that conveys a serene sense of what it was like to grow up in the hills of Winston. Outlining the highlights of this Appalachian county's history, from its opposition to the Confederacy to its slow evolution from its rustic, rural roots of the mid-nineteenth century, two hundred photographs illustrate a century of hill country culture. A sparsely settled, isolated county of small farms with uncultivated, forested land, most of Winston County was out of the mainstream of Southern life for much of its history. The creation of the Bankhead National Forest preserved almost 200,000 acres of forested land, primarily in Winston, to perpetuate this "stranded frontier" into the post-World War II era. The story setting is scenic--fast-flowing creeks, waterfalls, bluffs, caves, natural bridges, and dense forests--and the characters match the stage--individualistic, rugged pioneers, more than a thousand mentioned by name within these pages. Winston has long resisted change, has held fast to traditional values, and, as seen in this treasured volume, is a place as unique as any other in America.
Author : Matthew William Clinton
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Northport (Ala.)
ISBN : 9780916620288
Author : Marjorie Longenecker White
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Stephen M. Monroe
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2021-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 0817320938
"Explores how Ole Miss and other Southern universities presently contend with an inherited panoply of Southern words and symbols and "Old South" traditions, everything that publicly defines these communities--from anthems to buildings to flags to monuments to mascots"--
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Alabama
ISBN :
Author : William James Edwards
Publisher : Boston : Cornhill
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 1910
Category : African American educators
ISBN :
Author : Woodbury Lowery
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Florida
ISBN :
Author : Michael W. Twitty
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0062876570
2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touch points in our ongoing struggles over race. In this unique memoir, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine. From the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to plantation kitchens and backbreaking cotton fields, Twitty tells his family story through the foods that enabled his ancestors’ survival across three centuries. He sifts through stories, recipes, genetic tests, and historical documents, and travels from Civil War battlefields in Virginia to synagogues in Alabama to Black-owned organic farms in Georgia. As he takes us through his ancestral culinary history, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the Southern past. Along the way, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep—the power that food has to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table, where they can discover the real America together. Illustrations by Stephen Crotts
