Author Index

  • Jeff Wanser
    Erskine Hawkins

    Musician and Birmingham native Erskine Hawkins (1914-1993) was a prominent African American trumpeter,...

  • Thomas J. Ward Jr.
    Black Hospital Movement in Alabama

    In Alabama, as in the rest of the segregated Jim Crow South, African Americans were barred from working...

  • Michael Ward
    Panic of 1819

    The Panic of 1819 was the first significant economic crisis in the United States and led to failed banks...

  • Robert David Ward
    Banner Mine Tragedy of 1911

    At precisely 6:30 in the morning on April 8, 1911, an explosion rocked the Banner Coal Mine, the pride...

  • Robert David Ward
    Thomas Seay (1886-90)

    Thomas Seay (1846-1896) was Alabama's governor from 1886 to 1890, years when frustration at Bourbon...

  • Robert David Ward
    Rufus W. Cobb (1878-82)

    Rufus W. Cobb (1829-1913) was Alabama's governor from 1878-82. A lawyer and businessman, Cobb was...

  • Billy R. Warren
    Alabama Renaissance Faire

    First held in 1987, the official Alabama Renaissance Faire in Florence, Lauderdale County, has developed...

  • Danielle N. Warren
    Reuben F. Kolb

    Reuben Francis Kolb Sr. (1839-1918) was one of Alabama's leading agricultural spokesmen and planters....

  • Sarah A. Warren
    Alabama Constitution of 1901

    Called primarily to establish white supremacy by disfranchising blacks, the Constitutional Convention...

  • Gregory A. Waselkov
    Fort Mims Battle and Massacre

    On August 30, 1813, a force of about 700 Creek Indians destroyed Fort Mims, in present-day Baldwin County...

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