Alabama Heritage Table of Contents: 1986-1999
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Alabama Heritage
Number 1, Summer 1986
Contents:
Stitches in Time: The Lanford Album Quilt; Robert Cargo & G. Ward Hubbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
The Sporting Life; Fred Hobson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Feuds, Factions, and Reform: Politics in Early Birmingham; Leah Rawls Atkins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
The Conquests of Europe: The Remarkable Career of James Reese Europe; Reid Badger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Alabama Heritage
Number 2, Fall 1986
Contents:
Steamboat Travel in Early Alabama; Robert O. Mellown. . . . . . 2
Is Southern English Disappearing?; Ann H. Pitts. . . . . . . . 12
Slidin' and Ridin': At Home and on the Road with the 1948 Birmingham Black Barons; Tim Cary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Little Italy in Rural Alabama; Rhoda Coleman Ellison. . . . . .34
The Catholic Cemetery in Blocton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Alabama Heritage
Number 3, Winter 1987
Contents:
Arms for Dixie; Douglas E. Jones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
P. H. Polk; Maryanne G. Culpepper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Alabama's William March; Roy E. Simmonds. . . . . . . . . . . .36
"Whistles": a short story; William March. . . . . . . . . . . .48
Alabama Heritage
Number 4, Spring 1987
Contents:
The Spanish Heritage of the Southeast; Lawrence A Clayton. . . .2
The Search for Hernando De Soto; John C. Hall. . . . . . . . . 12
The Battle of the Beehive Furnace Mural: Russellville, Alabama; Robert Mitchell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Mr. Spirit and His Alabama Wits; Eugene Current-Garcia. . . . .38
From: Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs; J. J. Hooper. . . . . . 48
Alabama Heritage
Number 5, Summer 1987
Contents:
Remember Goliad; James E. Harris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
The Delmore Brothers; Lynn Pruett. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Stepping into the Past: The story of the Battle-Friedman Garden George R. Stritikus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Alabama Heritage
Number 6, Fall 1987
Contents:
Mobile's City Hall; Nicholas H. Holmes, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . 2
Excerpts from: Lister Hill: Statesman from the South Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Big Mama Thornton; Ben Windham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Images of Alabama; Chip Cooper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Alabama Heritage
Number 7, Winter 1988
Contents:
Inside the Wire: Aliceville and the Afrika Korps; Randy Wall. . . . . . . 2
Traditional Pottery of Mobile Bay; Joey Brackner. . . . . . . 30
Lella Warren: Alabama's Margaret Mitchell? Nancy G. Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Alabama Heritage
Number 8, Spring 1988
Contents:
Chinese Laborers in Reconstruction Alabama; Daniel Liestman. . . . . . . 2
Gunboat Quilts; Bryding Adams Henley. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Outlaws, Cat's-Paws, and Spotters; Rhoda Coleman Ellison. . . . . . . 26
Stop Thief!: Nineteenth-Century Wanted Posters. . . . . . . . .40
Alabama Heritage
Number 9, Summer 1988
Contents:
Federalism and the South; Robert J. Norrell. . . . . . . . . . .2
Alabama and the U.S. Supreme Court: Landmark Cases Robert J. Norrell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Grand Old Flags; the editors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Hugo Black's Constitution; Steve Suitts. . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Alabama Heritage
Number 10, Fall 1988
Contents:
Remembering Tallulah; Maridith Walker. . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Alabama at Gettysburg; Philip D. Beidler. . . . . . . . . . . .16
Charles Mohr, Botanist; L. J. Davenport. . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Alabama Heritage
Number 11, Winter 1989
Contents:
Sister of Mercy: From Vicksburg to Shelby Springs Barbara Roberts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Excerpts from: Place Names in Alabama; Virginia O. Foscue. . . . . . . . 18
Images of Alabama; Walter Beckham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Horace King, Bridge Builder; Thomas L. French, Jr. & Edward L. French. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Alabama Heritage
Number 12, Spring 1989
Contents:
Doctor Koch and his "Immense Antediluvian Monsters" Douglas E. Jones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Punishment Seven Times More: The Convict Lease System in Alabama ; Robert David Ward & William Warren Rogers . . . . 20
Rammed-Earth Houses in Mount Olive ; Leigh Anne Roach. . . . . .34
Alabama Heritage
Number 13, Summer 1989
Contents:
...And Bring Your Fiddle!: The Fiddler in Alabama Community Life; Joyce Cauthen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Alabama Collections: Anatomical Manikins and Diagnostic Dolls Mary Claire Britt Cowen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Joseph Glover Baldwin: Antebellum Wit Eugene Current - Garcia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
From: The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi (pub. in 1853); Joseph Glover Baldwin. . . . . . . . . . 42
Alabama Heritage
Number 14, Fall 1989
Contents:
Bohemia in America : Ottokar Cadek and the New York String Quartet; Caroline Cepin Benser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Bill Traylor: Freed Slave and Folk Artist; Maridith Walker. . .18
Excerpts from the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture; Charles Reagan Wilson & William Ferris, co-editors. . . . .32
Alabama Heritage
Number 15, Winter 1990
Contents:
Mobile 's Antebellum Volunteer Firemen; C.A. Spencer, Jr.. . . . 2
Alabama Takes the Plunge: Swimsuits from Alabama 's Past the editors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
From Montgomery to Gettysburg : War Letters from Alabama Soldier, Henry B. Wood; Wayne Wood. . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Alabama Heritage
Number 16, Spring 1990
Contents:
Iron and Dirt; Richard Dice & staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
The Cahaba Lily; L. J. Davenport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
The Burning of the University of Alabama ; Clark E. Center, Jr. 30
Alabama Heritage
Number 17, Summer 1990
Contents:
Chief William McIntosh: Scottish-Indian Statesman and General Benjamin W. Griffith, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Souvenir Spoons from Alabama ; Nancy Rohr . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Rube Burrow, Outlaw; William Warren Rogers, Jr. . . . . . . . .26
Alabama Heritage
Number 18, Fall 1990
Contents:
The Confederate Submarine: H. L. Hunley; James E. Kloeppel. . . . . . .2
Alabama : The Play; Charles S. Watson & Jennifer Willard. . . . 20
Excerpts from the 1878 Gulf City Cook Book; Introduction: George H. Daniels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Alabama Heritage
Number 19, Winter 1991
Contents:
Alabama Women on the Home Front, World War II Mary Martha Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Alabama Sheet Music, 1890-1925; Cheryl Taranto. . . . . . . . .24
Excerpts from: Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression; Robin D.G. Kelley. . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Alabama Heritage
Number 20, Spring 1991
Contents:
Vulcan: Birmingham 's Man of Iron; George Clinton Thompson. . . . . . 2
Giuseppe Moretti; Jennifer Willard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
A Brief History of the Marble Industry in Sylacauga; Ed Dodd . . . . . . . . . 34
Alabama Heritage
Number 21, Summer 1991
Contents:
Daughters of the South; Christine Crafts Neal . . . . . . . . . 2
Alabama Gold: Golden Harvest of the Piedmont ; Lewis S. Dean . . . . . . . . 20
The 1948 Keller Super Chief: Aero Engineered Auto for Tomorrow G. Ward Hubbs & A. R. Gibbons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Southern Architecture and Preservation: Endangered Mobile History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Alabama Heritage
Number 22, Fall 1991
Contents:
Alabamians At Pearl Harbor ; Maridith Walker Geuder. . . . . . . 4
The Federal Road: Tourists in the Creek Nation Jerry Elijah Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Excerpts from: Travels in North America ; Captain Basil Hall, Royal Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Julia S. Tutwiler: Years of Innocence; Paul M. Pruitt, Jr. . . . . . . .37
Southern Architecture and Preservation: Elm Bluff-A New York House in an Alabama Forest Robert Gamble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Alabama Heritage
Number 23, Winter 1992
Contents:
The Creek Prophetic Movement; Joel W. Martin . . . . . . . . . .4
The Cattle Egret; William H. Allen, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Endangered Aristocrats; Robert Gamble . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Julia S. Tutwiler: Years of Experience; Paul M. Pruitt, Jr. . . . . . . 31
Alabama Heritage
Number 24, Spring 1992
Contents:
Taxes, Taxes, Taxes: The History of a Problem; Wayne Flynt & Keith Ward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Old Mobile Ironwork; John Sledge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Praying for the President; Janie M. Moore . . . . . . . . . . .32
Southern Architecture and Preservation:
Gothic Revival Architecture in the Canebrake Jeff Mansell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Alabama Heritage
Number 25, Summer 1992
Contents:
Canal Morgan; Lawrence A. Clayton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
On the Road; the editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
The Mitcham War; Harvey H. Jackson, III . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Southern Architecture and Preservation: The Rain Porch: Vernacular Architecture At Point Clear Waring Inge Holt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Alabama Heritage
Number 26, Fall 1992
Contents:
Alabama vs. Auburn : The Forty-One-Year Time-Out, Wayne Atcheson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
The Jemison Mansion and Longwood: Antebellum Italianate Villas,
Robert O. Mellown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
The Jemison Mansion Family Histories, Camille Maxwell Elebash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Southern Architecture and Preservation: The Battle of the Battle House, Mark C. McDonald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Alabama Heritage
Number 27, Winter 1993
Contents:
Disaster and Disgrace: The John C. Pemberton Story, Michael B. Ballard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Decorative Arts in the Black Belt; Bryding Adams, Joey Brackner & Gail Trechsel. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Present and Past in the Cradle of Dixie ; Tanya L. Zanish . . . 25
Black Wings of Tuskegee ; Jerry A. Davis . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Art in the South: A Stained-Glass Tiffany Knight, Robert O. Mellown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Alabama Heritage
Number 28, Spring 1993
Contents:
The Free State of Winston; Donald B. Dodd . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Diary of a Union Soldier From Alabama ; John R. Phillips . . . . . . . 20
Ezra Winter's Murals: Birmingham Public Library, George Clinton Thompson. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .26
Philip Henry Gosse: An Englishman in the Alabama Black Belt, Harvey H. Jackson, III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Art in the South: Sully's Portrait of An Alabama Beauty, Robert O. Mellown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Alabama Heritage
Number 29, Summer 1993
Contents:
Osceola: The Man Behind the Myths; Patricia R. Wickman . . . . . . . . . . 6
Alabama Collections: The Loeb Collection of First Period, Worcester; Louise Joyner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Souvenirs From the Grand Tour; Jeff Mansell . . . . . . . . . .21
Big-Time Baseball: Alabamians in the Major Leagues, Mark Inabinett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
The Flag of the 22nd Alabama Infantry; Bob Bradley . . . . . . 40
The Deadly Oleander; L. J. Davenport . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Alabama Heritage
Number 30, Fall 1993
Contents:
Co-Education in Alabama : "In Accord With Nature"; Leah Rawls Atkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Star Quilts of Nineteenth-Century Alabama Mary Elizabeth Johnson Huff . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 17
The Killing of Father Coyle: Private Tragedy, Public Shame, Paul M. Pruitt, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
The H.D. Clayton Civil War Map Collection; Mary Jo Madison . . . . . . . . . 38
Alabama Heritage
Number 31, Winter 1994
Contents:
Sara Haardt and "The Sweet, Flowering South"; Ann Henley. . . . . . . . 6
Alabama Made: Furniture from the Alabama Decorative Arts Survey; Katherine Estes . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .22
"When Shall Our Cup Be Full?": The Correspondence of Confederate Soldiers, James T. Reuben
and M. Searcy Maxwell Elebash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Guy Cobb: Escape Artist; Mark A. Palmer . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Black Walnuts; L. J. Davenport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
An Alabama Portrait Returns Home; Robert O. Mellown . . . . . . . . 44
The National Register: Facts, Myths, and Misconceptions, Melanie A. Betz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Alabama Heritage
Number 32, Spring 1994
Contents:
Mental Health and Moral Architecture; Robert O. Mellown . . . . . . . 5
Insights Into an Insane Asylum; John S. Hughes . . . . . . . . 18
William Frye, Artist; E. Bryding Adams . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Alabama 's Handwoven Counterpanes; Lee W. Rahe & Charlotte Jirousek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Southern Architecture and Preservation: The Hopkins Pratt House at River Bend, Jeff Mansell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Green Treefrogs: L. J. Davenport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Alabama Heritage
Number 33, Summer 1994
Contents:
Eugene Allen Smith and the Geological Survey of Alabama, John C. Hall & Frances Osborn Robb . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Harnessing the Black Warrior River ; Kenneth D. Willis . . . . .19
Sloss Furnaces: A Story of Iron and the Men Who Made It, Paige Wainwright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Voices From Alabama ; J. Mack Lofton, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . 35
The Birmingham Industrial Heritage District; Philip Morris, Marjorie White, Brenda Howell & Bill Jones . . . . . . . . . 44
The Alabama Croton; L.J. Davenport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Immigrants Needed, Please Apply: Publications of a Nineteenth-Century State Bureau; Michael A. Breedlove . . . . . . . 56
Alabama Heritage
Number 34, Fall 1994
Contents:
The Tangible Past: Mobile 's Magnolia Cemetery ; John Sledge . . . . . . . . 6
Old Stars in Alabama : General Ormsby M. Mitchel, Kay Cornelius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Alabama 's Most Endangered Historic Places, Mary Elizabeth Johnson Huff and Robert Gamble . . . . . . .29
W.C. Rice; Kathy Kemp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Southern Architecture and Preservation: "Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!", Mindy Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
The Case of the Vermilion Darter; L.J. Davenport . . . . . . . 44
Alabama Heritage
Number 35, Winter 1995
Contents:
Revelations: Alabama 's Visionary Folk Artist; Kathy Kemp, Keith Boyer,& Gail Trechsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
King Cotton in Alabama : A Brief History; Thomas W. Oliver . . . . . . . 16
Sentimental and Memorial Jewelry; Marion Ruth Yount Sams . . . . . . . 28
From Plantation to Hacienda: The Mexican Colonization Movement in Alabama ; Karl Jacoby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Southern Architecture and Preservation: Gulf Coast Lighthouses, David M. Smithweck & Mindy Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Giant Swallowtails (And Metamorphosis); L. J. Davenport . . . .48
Alabama Heritage
Number 36, Spring 1995
Contents:
Jewish Life in Alabama : The Formative Stages; Henry Marks & Marsha Kass Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
The Jewish Community in Demopolis; Anna Jacobs Singer . . . . .14
Images of Southern Jewish Life: A Jewish Road Trip Through Alabama ; Marcie Cohen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
The Moseses of Montgomery : The Saga of a Jewish Family in the South; Kenneth Libo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
The Moseses and the Lehmans: From Montgomery to New York, Kenneth Libo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Redecorating the Beast: The Life and Death of Captain Henry Wirz, CSA; Christopher Mohney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
William Bullock Inge; Robert O. Mellown . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Chestnut Blight; L. J. Davenport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Alabama Heritage
Number 37, Summer 1995
Contents:
The Saga of CSS Alabama ; Christopher M. Henze . . . . . . . . . 6
The Recovery Of CSS Alabama Artifacts; Ulane Bonnel . . . . . .22
USS Kearsarge: The Last of a Legend; Eugene Alvarez. . . . . . 24
Ann Hodges and the Hand of Fate; John C. Hall & Harold Povenmir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
The Gold Star Book: Personal Memories of Alabamians Who Died in the Great War; Joan S. Clemens . . . . . . . . . . 34
Jack-in-the-Pulpit; L. J. Davenport . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Alabama Heritage
Number 38, Fall 1995
Contents:
Rickwood Field: Grand Lady of Baseball; Paige Wainwright . . . . . . . . 6
The Story of Johnny Mack Brown; Philip D. Beidler . . . . . . .14
Taming the Coosa ; Harvey H. Jackson III . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Alabama 's Most Endangered Historic Places, 1995; Alabama Historical Commission and Alabama Preservation Alliance
Endangered Historic Places Commission . . . . . . . . . . .34
An Alabama Legacy: Images of a State; Alice Knierim . . . . . .45
Tulotoma, The Alabama Live-Bearing Snail; L.J. Davenport . . . 48
Alabama Heritage
Number 39, Winter 1996
Contents:
When Good Men Do Nothing: The Murder of Albert Patterson Alan Grady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Silver in Antebellum Alabama ; Edward Pattillo . . . . . . . . .22
Red Erwin and the Medal of Honor; Judd A. Katz . . . . . . . . 30
Northington General Hospital , Tuscaloosa ; Joanna Jacobs . . . . . . . . 36
Art in the South: Made in Alabama : A State Legacy E. Bryding Adams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
What Really Happened to the CSS Hunley? Success and Tragedy in Maffitt's Channel; Mark M. Newell . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Maypops; L.J. Davenport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Southern Architecture and Preservation: A Rare Glimpse of Antebellum Mobile John Sledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Rosenwald Schools: Have You Seen One in Your Area? Jeff Mansell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Alabama Heritage
Number 40, Spring 1996
Contents:
To Teach the Negro; Judith Hillman Patterson . . . . . . . . . 6
The Art of Howard Weeden; Kay Cornelius . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Alabama Heritage Profile: James D. Hardy, M.D., J. Mack Lofton, Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
A Greensboro Belle; Robert O. Mellown . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
The Eastern Glass Lizard; L. J. Davenport . . . . . . . . . . 40
Alabama Heritage
Number 41, Summer 1996
Contents:
The Dixie Art Colony; Lynn Barstis Williams . . . . . . . . . . 6
The World of Kelly Fitzpatrick; Margaret Lynne Ausfeld and Christine C. Neal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Man and Mission : E.B. Gaston and the Fairhope Single Tax Colony, Paul M. Gaston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
General Cleburne and the Emancipation of Slaves, Mark M. Hull. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Spotted Salamanders; L.J. Davenport . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Alabama Heritage
Number 42, Fall 1996
Contents:
The Wetumpka Astrobleme; John C. Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Clairmont Springs; John B. Scott, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
The Confederados: Old South Immigrants in Brazil Cyrus B. Dawsey and James M. Dawsey . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Places in Peril; Alabama Historical Commission and the Alabama Preservation Alliance Endangered Landmarks Committee . . . 30
Off to the War: Photographs of Alabama 's Confederate Soldiers, Robert Bradley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40