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Taming Alabama

Paul McWhorter Pruitt (Jr.)
Taming Alabama Book PDF

Author : Paul McWhorter Pruitt (Jr.)
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817356019

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Taming Alabama focuses on persons and groups who sought to bring about reforms in the political, legal, and social worlds of Alabama. Most of the subjects of these essays accepted the fundamental values of nineteenth and early twentieth century white southern society; and all believed, or came to believe, in the transforming power of law. As a starting point in creating the groundwork of genuine civility and progress in the state, these reformers insisted on equal treatment and due process in elections, allocation of resources, and legal proceedings. To an educator like Julia Tutwiler or a clergyman like James F. Smith, due process was a question of simple fairness or Christian principle. To lawyers like Benjamin F. Porter, Thomas Goode Jones, or Henry D. Clayton, devotion to due process was part of the true religion of the common law. To a former Populist radical like Joseph C. Manning, due process and a free ballot were requisites for the transformation of society.

Alabama Founders

Herbert James Lewis
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Author : Herbert James Lewis
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817359157

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A biographical history of the forefathers who shaped the identity of Alabama politically, legally, economically, militarily, and geographically While much has been written about the significant events in the history of early Alabama, there has been little information available about the people who participated in those events. In Alabama Founders:Fourteen Political and Military Leaders Who Shaped the State Herbert James Lewis provides an important examination of the lives of fourteen political and military leaders. These were the men who opened Alabama for settlement, secured Alabama’s status as a territory in 1817 and as a state in 1819, and helped lay the foundation for the political and economic infrastructure of Alabama in its early years as a state. While well researched and thorough, this book does not purport to be a definitive history of Alabama’s founding. Lewis has instead narrowed his focus to only those he believes to be key figures—in clearing the territory for settlement, serving in the territorial government, working to achieve statehood, playing a key role at the Constitutional Convention of 1819, or being elected to important offices in the first years of statehood. The founders who readied the Alabama Territory for statehood include Judge Harry Toulmin, Henry Hitchcock, and Reuben Saffold II. William Wyatt Bibb and his brother Thomas Bibb respectively served as the first two governors of the state, and Charles Tait, known as the “Patron of Alabama,” shepherded Alabama’s admission bill through the US Senate. Military figures who played roles in surveying and clearing the territory for further settlement and development include General John Coffee, Andrew Jackson’s aide and land surveyor, and Samuel Dale, frontiersman and hero of the “Canoe Fight.” Those who were instrumental to the outcome of the Constitutional Convention of 1819 and served the state well in its early days include John W. Walker, Clement Comer Clay, Gabriel Moore, Israel Pickens, and William Rufus King.

Alabama Women

Susan Youngblood Ashmore,Lisa Lindquist Dorr
Alabama Women Book PDF

Author : Susan Youngblood Ashmore,Lisa Lindquist Dorr
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : African American women
ISBN : 9780820350783

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Alabama Women by Susan Youngblood Ashmore,Lisa Lindquist Dorr Pdf

An addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates the contributions of women and enriches our understanding of the past. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of eighteen biographical essays provides insight into the historical significance of these women.

Early Alabama

Mike Bunn
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Author : Mike Bunn
Publisher : Alabama the Forge of History
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817359287

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Early Alabama by Mike Bunn Pdf

An illustrated guidebook documenting the history and sites of the state's origins

1865 Alabama

Christopher Lyle McIlwain
1865 Alabama Book PDF

Author : Christopher Lyle McIlwain
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817319533

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1865 Alabama by Christopher Lyle McIlwain Pdf

A detailed history of a vitally important year in Alabama history The year 1865 is critically important to an accurate understanding of Alabama’s present. In 1865 Alabama: From Civil War to Uncivil Peace Christopher Lyle McIlwain Sr. examines the end of the Civil War and the early days of Reconstruction in the state and details what he interprets as strategic failures of Alabama’s political leadership. The actions, and inactions, of Alabamians during those twelve months caused many self-inflicted wounds that haunted them for the next century. McIlwain recounts a history of missed opportunities that had substantial and reverberating consequences. He focuses on four factors: the immediate and unconditional emancipation of the slaves, the destruction of Alabama’s remaining industrial economy, significant broadening of northern support for suffrage rights for the freedmen, and an acute and lengthy postwar shortage of investment capital. Each element proves critically important in understanding how present-day Alabama was forged. Relevant events outside Alabama are woven into the narrative, including McIlwain’s controversial argument regarding the effect of Lincoln’s assassination. Most historians assume that Lincoln favored black suffrage and that he would have led the fight to impose that on the South. But he made it clear to his cabinet members that granting suffrage rights was a matter to be decided by the southern states, not the federal government. Thus, according to McIlwain, if Lincoln had lived, black suffrage would not have been the issue it became in Alabama. McIlwain provides a sifting analysis of what really happened in Alabama in 1865 and why it happened—debunking in the process the myth that Alabama’s problems were unnecessarily brought on by the North. The overarching theme demonstrates that Alabama’s postwar problems were of its own making. They would have been quite avoidable, he argues, if Alabama’s political leadership had been savvier.

Clearing the Thickets

Herbert James Lewis
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Author : Herbert James Lewis
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781610271660

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An accessible and interesting survey of the rise of the state of Alabama from frontier society to the Civil War.

The Journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, 1827–1835

Sarah Haynsworth Gayle
The Journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle 1827 1835 Book PDF

Author : Sarah Haynsworth Gayle
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817361181

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The Journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, 1827–1835 by Sarah Haynsworth Gayle Pdf

The remarkable journal of the young wife of early Alabama governor John Gayle and a primary source of our knowledge about early Alabama and the antebellum American South

Getting Out of the Mud

Martin T. Olliff
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Author : Martin T. Olliff
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817319557

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Getting Out of the Mud by Martin T. Olliff Pdf

When roads were bad -- Alabamians become wide-awake to good roads -- State highways take the lead -- Peering beyond the state's boundaries: named trails and interstate highways -- Laying the foundation for a modern highway system -- Alabama administers its highway program

Traveling the Beaten Trail

Paul M. Pruitt Jr.,David I. Durham,Sally E. Hadden
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Author : Paul M. Pruitt Jr.,David I. Durham,Sally E. Hadden
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781941921012

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Traveling the Beaten Trail by Paul M. Pruitt Jr.,David I. Durham,Sally E. Hadden Pdf

In Traveling the Beaten Trail: Charles Tait’s Charges to Federal Grand Juries 1822–1825, a concise and essential addition to the Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library, authors Paul M. Pruitt Jr., David I. Durham, and Sally E. Hadden capture the life, achievements, and legacy of federal judge Charles Tait. Throughout his colorful career, Tait left an unmistakable impression on Alabama politics. He had a major influence over the federal bar and its practice, and he also made it his personal responsibility to educate the public. Traveling the Beaten Trail offers a brief biographical account of Charles Tait’s life, highlighting various noteworthy events, such as the array of professions he undertook—from professor, to planter, to lawyer, to senator. The remainder of the text focuses on in-depth analyses of Tait's grand jury charges for 1822, 1824, and 1825. About Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library This collection offers a series of edited documents that contribute to an understanding of the development of legal history, culture, or doctrine. Series editors Paul M. Pruitt Jr. and David I. Durham have selected a variety of materials—a lecture, diaries, letters, speeches, a ledger, commonplace books, a code of ethics, court reports—to illustrate unique examples of legal life and thought.

The Lawyer's Conscience

Michael S. Ariens
The Lawyer s Conscience Book PDF

Author : Michael S. Ariens
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780700633838

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In 1776, Thomas Paine declared the end of royal rule in the United States. Instead, “law is king,” for the people rule themselves. Paine’s declaration is the dominant American understanding of how political power is exercised. In making law king, American lawyers became integral to the exercise of political power, so integral to law that legal ethics philosopher David Luban concluded, “lawyers are the law.” American lawyers have defended the exercise of this power from the Revolution to the present by arguing their work is channeled by the profession’s standards of ethical behavior. Those standards demand that lawyers serve the public interest and the interests of their paying clients before themselves. The duties owed both to the public and to clients meant lawyers were in the marketplace selling their services, but not of the marketplace. This is the story of power and the limits of ethical constraints to ensure such power is properly wielded. The Lawyer’s Conscience is the first book examining the history of American lawyer ethics, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to the “professionalism” crisis facing lawyers today.

Delphi Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Illustrated)

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Delphi Complete Works of F Scott Fitzgerald Illustrated Book PDF

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 3491 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908909312

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Delphi Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Illustrated) by F. Scott Fitzgerald Pdf

Widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the modern era, F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered a member of the “Lost Generation” of the 1920’s. His masterpiece ‘The Great Gatsby’, a 1925 Jazz Age tale about the impossibility of recapturing the past, was initially a failure. Today, the story of Gatsby’s doomed love for the unattainable Daisy is judged by many to be the greatest novel of the 20th century. Fitzgerald was also a writer of numerous short stories, plays and essays, revealing the incredible breadth of his literary talents. This comprehensive eBook presents Fitzgerald’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 4) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Fitzgerald’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major works * All the novels, with individual contents tables * Features the rare unfinished novel ‘Philippe, Count of Darkness’, appearing here for the first time in publishing history * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Many rare short stories available in no other collection * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the stories you want to read * Includes Fitzgerald’s rare poetry and essays – available in no other collection * Fitzgerald’s letters – spend hours exploring the author’s personal correspondence * Features the author’s wife’s autobiographical novel, ‘Save Me the Waltz’ * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres * UPDATED with revised texts and many rare works Please note: the 18 ‘lost’ short stories in the 2017 collection ‘I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories’ are still in copyright and so cannot appear in this collection. CONTENTS: The Novels This Side of Paradise (1920) The Beautiful and Damned (1922) The Great Gatsby (1925) Tender Is the Night (1934) The Love of the Last Tycoon (1941) Philippe, Count of Darkness (1941) The Short Story Collections Flappers and Philosophers (1920) Tales from the Jazz Age (1922) All the Sad Young Men (1926) Taps at Reveille (1935) The Pat Hobby Stories (1941) Miscellaneous Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Plays and Screenplays The Girl from Lazy J (1911) The Captured Shadow (1912) Coward (1913) Assorted Spirits (1914) Shadow Laurels (1915) Porcelain and Pink (1920) Mr. Icky (1920) The Vegetable (1923) “Send Me In, Coach” (1936) Three Comrades (1938) Infidelity (1938) The Poetry The Poetry of F. Scott Fitzgerald The Non-Fiction The Essays and Articles of F. Scott Fitzgerald The Letters The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald The Autobiographical Novel Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald

Save Me the Waltz

Zelda Fitzgerald
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Author : Zelda Fitzgerald
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735252684

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Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald Pdf

Zelda Fitzgerald’s semi-autobiographical account of her life and her marriage to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Save Me the Waltz is the story of Alabama Beggs and her husband, the artist David Knight. Alabama’s determination to not live in her husband’s shadow leads her to devote herself to ballet. But will success on the stage make up for the unhappiness in her marriage? When the novel was published, it was largely ignored or derided as an inferior reflection of her husband's work, but recent readers have rediscovered it as a wonderfully unique perspective on the same subjects. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you high quality, classic works of literature in e-book form. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Daring Pioneers Tame the Frontier

Bettye B. Burkhalter
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Author : Bettye B. Burkhalter
Publisher : Author House
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781477287224

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Daring Pioneers Tame the Frontier by Bettye B. Burkhalter Pdf

History, Romance, & Destiny... Daring Pioneers Tame the Frontier is an exquisite saga of Dr. Jean (John) Baptiste Elzar Burels lifelong desire to cross the Atlantic Ocean to the beckoning new America. With his naval surgeon license in one hand and his medical chest in the other, he followed Marquis de Lafayette to Colonial America during the Revolutionary War. During the war he fell passionately in love and married a beautiful Acadian French woman in Philadelphia. After the war they made plans to return to his home at Ollioules, France. Homeward bound, the bourgeois doctor boarded the ship in Philadelphia with his new bride and their few belongings. There on deck he was unexpectedly forced to choose between his beloved homeland and family in France and his wife with child. Disembarking the ship with grave disappointment, John knowingly forfeited his inheritance as sole heir. Struggling to survive in Philadelphia, oftentimes John sat quietly admiring the beautiful woman who owned his heart as he secretly yearned for his prominent family and lifestyle on the Mediterranean Coast of France. Standing on the threshold of the newly independent America, the young doctor decided to take his wife and infant son and pioneer down the Great Wagon Road into the raw frontier of South Carolina. Believing he would build a new and prosperous life, he settled at Goshen Hill between the Tyger and Enoree Rivers within the lawless backcountry of South Carolina. Fighting the dangers and hardships of the frontier, and the recurring restlessness to return to France, John and his family carved out a simple life. Although disappointed at times, within the walls of his log home the enduring love and warmth of his wife and six children transcended adversity and hardships of the outside world. The heartwarming story is filled with humanity as John faced his inevitable destiny. The first novel in the trilogy closes with Dr. Burels widow standing helplessly in her front yard watching the wagon train take her spirited children and grandchildren west in search of richer land and prosperity. It was dj vu!

A Long Dark Night

J. Michael Martinez
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Author : J. Michael Martinez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442259966

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For a brief time following the end of the U.S. Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunity—slim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibility—to remake society so that black Americans and other persons of color could enjoy equal opportunity in civil and political life. It was not to be. With each passing year after the war—and especially after Reconstruction ended during the 1870s—American society witnessed the evolution of a new white republic as national leaders abandoned the promise of Reconstruction and justified their racial biases based on political, economic, social, and religious values that supplanted the old North-South/slavery-abolitionist schism of the antebellum era. A Long Dark Night provides a sweeping history of this too often overlooked period of African American history that followed the collapse of Reconstruction—from the beginnings of legal segregation through the end of World War II. Michael J. Martinez argues that the 1880s ushered in the dark night of the American Negro—a night so dark and so long that the better part of a century would elapse before sunlight broke through. Combining both a “top down” perspective on crucial political issues and public policy decisions as well as a “bottom up” discussion of the lives of black and white Americans between the 1880s and the 1940s, A Long Dark Night will be of interest to all readers seeking to better understand this crucial era that continues to resonate throughout American life today.

The Federal Courts

Peter Charles Hoffer,Williamjames Hoffer,N. E. H. Hull
The Federal Courts Book PDF

Author : Peter Charles Hoffer,Williamjames Hoffer,N. E. H. Hull
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199387908

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The Federal Courts by Peter Charles Hoffer,Williamjames Hoffer,N. E. H. Hull Pdf

There are moments in American history when all eyes are focused on a federal court: when its bench speaks for millions of Americans, and when its decision changes the course of history. More often, the story of the federal judiciary is simply a tale of hard work: of finding order in the chaotic system of state and federal law, local custom, and contentious lawyering. The Federal Courts is a story of all of these courts and the judges and justices who served on them, of the case law they made, and of the acts of Congress and the administrative organs that shaped the courts. But, even more importantly, this is a story of the courts' development and their vital part in America's history. Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, and N. E. H. Hull's retelling of that history is framed the three key features that shape the federal courts' narrative: the separation of powers; the federal system, in which both the national and state governments are sovereign; and the widest circle: the democratic-republican framework of American self-government. The federal judiciary is not elective and its principal judges serve during good behavior rather than at the pleasure of Congress, the President, or the electorate. But the independence that lifetime tenure theoretically confers did not and does not isolate the judiciary from political currents, partisan quarrels, and public opinion. Many vital political issues came to the federal courts, and the courts' decisions in turn shaped American politics. The federal courts, while the least democratic branch in theory, have proved in some ways and at various times to be the most democratic: open to ordinary people seeking redress, for example. Litigation in the federal courts reflects the changing aspirations and values of America's many peoples. The Federal Courts is an essential account of the branch that provides what Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Judge Oliver Wendell Homes Jr. called "a magic mirror, wherein we see reflected our own lives."