Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface to the Bicentennial Edition
Alabama: A Prospect
Part One: From Early Times to the End of the Civil War / Leah Rawls Atkins
1. Native Peoples of Alabama
2. European Exploration and Colonization in Alabama
3. Creeks and Americans at War
4. Land in the Alabama Wilderness Beckons
5. The Early Years: Defining the Issues
6. The Early Years: Confronting the Issues
7. The Cotton Kingdom
8. Antebellum Society
9. Party Politics and States’ Rights
10. Yancey and the Alabama Platform
11. The Secession Crisis
12. At War with the Union
13. The Home Front
Part Two: From 1865 through 1920 / William Warren Rogers and Robert David Ward
14. Reconstruction: The Second Beginning
15. Radical Reconstruction
16. The Bourbon Oligarchy and the New Old South
17. The Agricultural Alternative and the Rise of Industry
18. New Winds and Old Voices
19. The Defeat of Reform
20. Politics, Education, and the “Splendid Little War”
21. The Constitution of 1901
22. The Chimerical Impulse of Progressivism
23. Women in Alabama from 1865 to 1920
24. Domestic Issues, the Creative State, and the Great War
Part Three: From the 1920s to 2018 / Wayne Flynt
25. The Politics of Reform and Stability during the 1920s
26. Change and Stability during the Roaring Twenties
27. Hard Times, 1930–1940
28. How New a Deal in Alabama?
29. A State Forged by War, 1940–1954
30. The Flowering of Alabama Liberalism: Politics and Society during the 1940s and 1950s
31. A Time to Hate: Racial Confrontation, 1955–1970
32. Racial Politics and Economic Stagnation
33. A Time to Heal: Struggling to Find a New Vision, 1970–2018
34. Gender, “Jocks,” and Shakespeare: Alabama Society and Culture, 1970–2018
Alabama: Past and Future
Appendix A: Governors of Alabama
Appendix B: Counties of Alabama
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors