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Behind the Hedges
Big Money and Power Politics at the University of Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In Behind the Hedges, journalist Rich Whitt focused his investigative lens on recent events at the University of Georgia, and in so doing examined the bigger story of "a sea change in how America supports its institutions of higher education." Through interviews with many key figures in...
'Echoes' of Robert E. Lee High School
The First Decade, 1955-65
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This book is an anthology about the first decade of Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery, Alabama, written and compiled by persons who supplemented their unique personal experiences at the school with research on the same. The "echoes" of the title refers to how life experiences reverberate...
by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Nationally syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson’s Hank Hung the Moon is more of a musical memoir than a biography: the author’s evocative and personal stories of 1950s and ’60s musical staples—elementary school rhythm bands, British Invasion rock concerts and tear-jerker movie musicals....
by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Nationally syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson, winner of the Ernie Pyle Award for human interest reporting, turns her sharp eye on herself in this frank, exhilarating, wise, poignant, and brave memoir. Her territory ranges from childhood memories of ritual pre-interstate trips in the family...
Through Others' Eyes
Published Accounts of Antebellum Montgomery, Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Through Other's Eyes is a collection of twenty-seven published accounts of Montgomery, Alabama, covered the thirty-six years between April 1825 and May 1861. With two exceptions, the stays in Montgomery were quite short. Each account is preceded by biographical information about the author. The accounts...
by Lewis Grizzard
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Lewis Grizzard got his first newspaper job when he was ten years old. Thirty-odd years later (thirty-very-odd years) he’s still in the newspaper business—and he’s still infuriated by it, still tickled by it, and still very much in love with it. If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I’m Gonna Nail...
by Daniel L. Haulman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Almost everyone you meet has heard about the Tuskegee Airmen, but surprisingly few can answer with accuracy questions relating to their most important leaders, aircraft, missions, stations, phases of flight training, and unique accomplishments. Some of the Tuskegee Airmen stories in circulation are...
by Dr. Ibrahim Fawal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
On the Hills of God describes the year-long journey of a boy becoming a man, while all that he has known crumbles to ashes. The novel has been translated into German and Arabic and won the PEN Oakland Award for literary excellence. Critic Ishmael Reed calls it “a monumental book.” This revised...
Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama
A Resource Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Over the past two decades, in workshops and personal consultations, thousands of persons have have received the expertise and knowledge of author Frazine Taylor about Alabama genealogical research. In addition, she has taught the art to hundreds of students. As Dr. James Rose notes, all genealogists...
The McGillivray and McIntosh Traders
On the Old Southwest Frontier, 1716-1815
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
In this volume, Amos J. Wright Jr. compiles and presents the source materials relating to the lives and careers of Laughlin McGillivray and Alexander McGillivray. The volume represents tweny years of meticulous detective work, during which the author has ferreted out details previously unknown, has...
Respectable and Disreputable
Leisure Time in Antebellum Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Respectable and Disreputable describes how Montgomerians spent their increasing leisure time during the four decades preceding the Civil War. Everyday activities included gambling, drinking, sporting, hunting, and voluntary associations -- military, literary, self-improvement, fraternal, and civic....
Killing Yamamoto
The American Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
One of the most heroic World War II air raids by US forces was the one that killed Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander of the Combined Japanese Fleet and the man who planned the Pearl Harbor and Midway attacks in 1941 and 1942. The raid occurred on April 18, 1943, exactly one year after the famous...
She
The Old Woman Who Took Over My Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This slender book, the last of twenty-nine written by Kathryn Tucker Windham over her long and productive life, will be an exquisitely bittersweet read for the many fans of the late storyteller and author from Selma, Alabama. In She, which Windham was putting the finishing touches on when she died...
Spit, Scarey Ann, and Sweat Bees
One Thing Leads to Another
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
With sprightly humor and a lifetime spent observing Southern culture, beloved storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham shares memories of her childhood in Thomasville, Alabama. She affectionately recounts stories about family members, friends, and favorite pastimes. Spit, Scarey Ann, and Sweat Bees recalls...