Download or read book Huntsville Historical Review written by Huntsville-madison County Historical Society and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 first volume covers the first years of those two centuries 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.
Download or read book The Huntsville Historical Review written by Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society (Ala.) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 98The Huntsville Historical Review written by Jacquelyn Procter Reeves and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Madison County 1820 1860 written by Huntsville-Madison County Historical Soc and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Madison County 1861 1865 written by Huntsville Madison County Historical Soc and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 third volume tells the story of Huntsville's occupation by Union forces during the Civil War.
Download or read book Madison County 1805 1819 written by Huntsville Madison County Historical Soc and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Historic Photos of Huntsville written by Jacquelyn Procter Reeves and published by Turner. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huntsville is an American city quintessentially founded upon change. From its birth to the present, Huntsville has consistently built and reshaped its appearance, ideals, and industry. Through changing fortunes, Huntsville has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity and maintaining the strong, independent culture of its citizens. Historic Photos of Huntsville captures this journey through still photography selected from the finest archives. From Huntsville's industrial revolution from the cotton fields, to being the birthplace of many technologies that would take man to the moon, Historic Photos of Huntsville follows life, government, education, and events throughout the city's history. This volume captures unique and rare scenes through the lens of hundreds of historic photographs. Published in striking black and white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.
Download or read book Seeds of Freedom written by Hester Bass and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Unflinchingly honest and jubilantly hopeful, this is nonfiction storytelling at its best.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Mention the civil rights era in Alabama and most people recall images of terrible violence. But for the citizens of Huntsville, creativity, courage, and cooperation were the keys to working together to integrate their city and schools in peace. This engaging celebration of a lesser-known chapter in American and African-American history shows how racial discrimination, bullying, and unfairness can be faced successfully with perseverance and ingenuity.
Download or read book Historic Huntsville written by Elise Hopkins Stephens and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huntsville is a city rich in contrasts, an intriguing blend of the historic Old South and the dynamic New South of today. Historic Huntsville: A City of New Beginnings explores this fascinating region and its rise from a frontier settlement to a center for space-age achievement. Writing with style, wit, and affection, author Elise Hopkins Stephens depicts Huntsville's history through scholarly research as well as through the memories of those who lived it. The author distills a wealth of information into a lively narrative sparked with colorful anecdotes and an obvious love of the area. Settled by rugged frontiersmen like John Hunt, and aristocratic families like the Popes who came "lock, stock, and sterling silverware" from Georgia, Huntsville had its roots in contrast, thriving on the traditions of red-blooded squatters and blue-blooded squires. Here the author traces the growth years of antebellum Huntsville and the dizzying fluctuations of the cotton economy; the pathos of the war years and the personal conflicts of those who sought simply to do what was right; the rise of the textile industry and the struggles of black and white, rich and poor, to forge a new social order. World War II and the defense industry brought dramatic changes to the area, and foretold of an exciting future as scientists of the stature of Wernher von Braun, like a new aristocracy of intellect, settled in this city of the Old South. Hundreds of illustrations bring Huntsville's past to life, while a portfolio of brilliant color photographs focuses on contemporary views of the city. Biographies of many of Huntsville's businesses and organizations are highlighted in a special chapter entitled "Chronicles of Leadership," detailing their contributions to Huntsville. An illustrated timeline of significant events further enhances the text and puts it all in perspective. For both longtime residents, newcomers and friends of Huntsville everywhere, this is a volume to be treasured. It presents a uniquely comprehensive and insightful view of Huntsville, a city rich in heritage and bright with promise. Historic Huntsville: A City of New Beginnings is a book not only to inform but to delight readers for generations to come. Book jacket.
Download or read book Banking in Alabama 1816 1860 written by William Henderson Brantley and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Founding of Alabama written by Frances Cabaniss Roberts and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most thorough history of Alabama’s Madison County region, widely available for the first time The 1956 dissertation by Frances Cabaniss Roberts is a classic text on Alabama history that continues to be cited by southern historians. Roberts was the first woman to earn a PhD from the University of Alabama’s history department. In the 1950s, she was the only full-time faculty member at what is now the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where she was appointed chair of the history department in 1966. Roberts’s dissertation, “Background and Formative Period in the Great Bend and Madison County,” remains the most thorough history of the region yet produced. While certainly a product of its era, Roberts work is visionary in its own way and offers a useful look at Alabama’s rise to statehood. Thomas Reidy, editor of this edition, has kept Roberts’s words intact except for correction of minor typographical errors and helpful additions to the notes and citations. His introduction describes both the value of Roberts’s decades of service to UAH and the importance of her dissertation over time. While highlighting the great intrinsic value of Roberts’s research and writing, Reidy also notes its significance in demonstrating how the practice of history—its methods, priorities, and values—has evolved over the intervening decades. In her examination of Madison County, Roberts spotlights exemplars of civic performance and good community behavior, giving readers one of the earliest accountings of the antebellum southern middle class. Unlike many historians of her time, Roberts displays an interest in both the “common folks” and leaders who built the region—rural and urban—and created the institutions that shaped Madison County. She examines the contributions of merchants, shopkeepers, lawyers, doctors, architects, craftsmen, planters, farmers, elected and appointed officials, board members, and entrepreneurs.
Download or read book Beside the Troubled Waters written by Sonnie W. Hereford and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A black southern doctor offers a gripping memoir of his childhood in Alabama, his efforts to overcome racism in the white medical community, his participation in the civil rights movement and his problems with the Medicaid program and state medical authorities"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Incidents of the War written by Mary Jane Chadick and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcribed, edited, and anotated Civil War journal written by Mary Jane Chaduck during the years of Federal invasion, 1862-1865.
Download or read book Annals of Scotland written by Sir David Dalrymple and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Alabama Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Have a Seat Please written by Don Reid and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Don Reid," a cub reporter once wrote admiringly, "can see as much humanity in the messy murder of a shady lady as the coronation of a queen . . . ." Reid was a strong but gentle man, wise and compassionate, and his discerning eyes observed all the degradation and nobility mankind is heir to in his thirty-five years of covering the Texas prison system for the Huntsville Item and the Associated Press. For many years he was publisher of the Item and later in his life spent much of his time writing and making public speeches. Reid, who died in 1981, was survived by his widow, Frances. The late John Gurwell, who assisted Reid with the book, was a Houston writer whose daughter Kathy supported the reprinting of this book. "When Don Reid published Eyewitness in 1973, the chronicle of his conversion from a supporter of the death penalty to an ardent opponent, the book was an immediate sensation. Perhaps never before in the history of the American penal system has a man witnessed more electrocutions than Reid, who as Associated Press and Huntsville Item representative watched 189 men die in ‘Old Sparky,' as the electric chair in the Texas Department of Corrections' death chamber was not so affectionately called. This book is a powerful personal account of Reid's conversations with many of the very men he later watched receive the eighteen hundred volts of electricity from generators reserved for electrocutions and his later, almost evangelical efforts to defend the men on Death Row from a similar fate.
Download or read book Why Is It Named That written by Dex Nilsson and published by Twinbrook Communications. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains stories behind over 300 of the place names of Huntsville and Madison County, Alabama -- streets and roads, buildings, parks, mountains and streams, schools, and more. This edition of the book is specially issued in time for Alabama's bicentennial in 2019. From these stories, the 200-year history of the area emerges.
