Alabama : from territory to statehood : an Alabama Heritage bicentennial collection
Record details
- ISBN: 9781588383990
- ISBN: 1588383997
- Physical Description: ix, 190 pages : illustrations, maps, 1 fold-out map, 1 fold-out timeline ; 29 cm
- Publisher: Montgomery, AL : NewSouth Books, [2019]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. "Conceived, written, edited, and designed for original publication in Alabama Heritage magazine, each article both stands alone and supports the overall work." - inside jacket cover. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | A long road to becoming a territory / Edwin C. Bridge -- 'More or less arbitrary' : the location of the Alabama-Mississippi border / Mike Bunn -- Land claims and surveying in the Alabama territory / Herbert James Lewis -- Alabama fever rages : migrations to the frontier of early Alabama / Thomas Chase Hagood -- The Alabama territory's cultural landscape / Gregory A. Waselkov -- St. Stephens : the Alabama territory's first capital / George Shorter -- The three sisters : how squash, beans, and corn became southern food / John C. Hall and Rosa N. Hall -- The Alabama territory quarter by quarter / Mike Bunn -- Constitution and crisis : outside the convention hall, Huntsville, Alabama, in the summer of 1819 / Thomas Reidy -- The adoption of the 1819 Alabama Constitution / Herbert James Lewis -- William Wyatt Bibb : Alabama's first Governor / Samuel L. Webb -- The Creek Nation and Alabama / Kathryn H. Braund -- 'Liberty is a jewel too precious for compromise or exchange' : the politics of banking, newspapers, and class in frontier Alabama / Thomas Chase Hagood -- A 'peculiar institution' : slavery in Alabama / Justin A. Rudder -- 'This beautiful and rapid rising state' : architecture of the territorial and early statehood years / Robert Gamble. |
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Subject: | Alabama > History. Alabama > History > Pictorial works. Alabama. |
Genre: | History. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at State Library of Alabama.
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APLS | 976.1 ALA | 31291002856936 | ALACIRC | Available | - |