Book Reviews

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Akens, Helen Morgan and Virginia Pounds Brown, Alabama: Mounds to Missiles

Alsobrook, David. Presidential Archivist: A Memoir

Alsobrook, David, Southside: Eufaula’s Cotton Mill Village and Its People, 1890-1945

Amos, Harriet E. Cotton City: Urban Development in Antebellum Mobile

Anderson, Fred. The War That Made America

Anderson, Lars. Chasing the Bear: How Bear Bryant and Nick Saban Made Alabama the Greatest College Football Program of All Time

Atkinson, Rick. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

 

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Bailey, Tom. The Five Capitals of Alabama: The Story of Alabama’s Capital Cities from St. Stephens to Montgomery

Ballard, Michael B. Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi

Barnett, James F. Beyond Control: The Mississippi River’s New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico

Barnett, James F. The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735

Barnett, James. F. Mississippi’s American Indians

Barra, Allen. The Last Coach: A Life of Paul “Bear” Bryant

Beck, Brandon. Holly Springs: Van Dorn, the CSS Arkansas and the Raid that Saved Vicksburg

Bell, David. Napolean: A Concise Biography

Bennett, Stewart L. The Battle of Brice’s Crossroads

Bergeron, Jr., Arthur. Confederate Mobile

Blejwas, Emily. The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods

Blount, Jr., Roy. Robert E. Lee: A Life

Blount, Jr., Russell W. Besieged: Mobile 1865

Blount, Jr., Russell W. Wilson’s Raid: Final Blow to the Confederacy

Boehm, Collette. Baldwin County: Our People, Our Places, Our Stories

Boritt, Gabor. The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech that Nobody Knows

Borja Medina Rojas, Francisco de. Jose de Ezpeleta: Gobernador de la Mobila, 1780-1781(guest review by John S. Sledge)

Borneman, Walter R. American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution

Borneman, Walter R. Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

Bragg, J.C.A. The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent

Bragg, Rick. My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South

Brasseaux, Carl A. The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765-1803

Braund, Kathryn, ed. Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and War of 1812

Braund, Kathryn, Gregory Waselkov, and Raven Christopher. The Federal Road in Alabama: An Illustrated Guide

Bridges, Edwin C. Alabama: The Making of an American State

Broers, Michael. Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny

Broers, Michael. Napolean: Spirit of the Age: 1805-1810

Brooks, Chris, and David Greear. Images of America: Helen

Brown, Ian W. Bottle Creek: A Pensacola Culture Site in South Alabama

Brown, Ian W. Bottle Creek Reflections: The Personal Side of Archaeology in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta

Brueske, Paul. The Last Siege: The Mobile Campaign, Alabama 1865

Buchanan, John. The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas

Buker, George. E. Swamp Sailors in the Second Seminole War

Bunn, Mike. Early Alabama: An Illustrated Guide to the Formative Years, 1798-1826

Burke, Monte. Saban: The Making of a Coach

Burnett, Lonnie. The Pen Makes a Good Sword: John Forsyth of the Mobile Register

Burton, H. Sophie and F. Todd Smith. Colonial Natchitoches: A Creole Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier

 

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Cahill, Thomas. How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe

Calloway, Colin G. The Scratch of a Pen; 1763 and the Transformation of North America

Calloway, Colin G. The Victory With No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army

Captivating History. Andrew Jackson: A Captivating Guide to the Man Who Served as the Seventh President of the United States

Carp, Benjamin L. Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution

Castel, Albert. Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864

Caughey, John Walton. Bernardo de Galvez in Louisiana, 1776-1783

Chaffin, Tom. The H.L. Hunley: Secret Hope of the Confederacy

Cheathem, Mark. R. Andrew Jackson, Southerner

Chernow, Ron. Washington: A Life

Claiborne, J.F.H., The Life and Times of General Sam Dale, The Mississippi Partisan

Clavin, Tom. Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West

Cohen, Adam. Nothing to Fear

Cooper, Chip. Alabama Memories

Cowie, Jefferson. Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

Cox, Dale. Milly Francis: The Life and Times of the Creek Pocahontas

Cox, Dale. The Scott Massacre of 1817

Cozzens, Peter. A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, The Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South

Cozzens, Peter. No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River

Cozzens, Peter. The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles for Iuka and Corinth

Cozzens, Peter. This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga

Crawford, Alan Pell. Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson

Crooks, Jr., Daniel J. Lee in the Low Country: Defending Charleston and Savannah, 1861-1862

Crouse, Nellis.  Lemoyne d’Iberville: Soldier of New France

Cummins, Joseph. Ten Tea Parties: Patriotic Protests That History Forgot

Cunningham, O. Edward. Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862

Cunningham, Edward. The Port Hudson Campaign, 1862-1863

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Daniel, Larry J. Conquered: Why the Army of Tennessee Failed

Daniel, Larry J. and Lynn N. Bock. Island #10: Struggle for the Mississippi Valley

Davis, Daniel T. and Phillip S. Greenwalt. Calamity in Carolina: The Battles of Averasboro and Bentonville, March, 1865, by Daniel T. Davis and Phillip S. Greenwalt

Davis, Donald A. Stonewall Jackson: A Biography

Davis, Kenneth C. America’s Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation

Davis, William C. The Greatest Fury: The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America

DeJean, Joan. Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

Dersham, John. My Alabama: John Dersham Photographs a State

Deutsch, William G. Alabama Rivers: A Celebration and Challenge

Dickey, Christopher. Our Man in Charleston: Britain’s Secret Agent in the Civil War South

Diouf, Sylviana A. Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America

Donovan, James. The Blood of Heroes: The Thirteen-Day Struggle for the Alamo–and the Sacrifice that Forged a Nation

Downing, Taylor. 1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink

Drury, Bob, and Tom Clavin. Valley Forge

Dufrene, Dennis J. Civil War Baton Rouge, Port Hudson, and Bayou Sara: Capturing the Mississippi

Dunkerly, Robert M. An Explorer’s Guide to the Revolutionary War

Dunkerly, Robert M. To the Bitter End: Appomattox, Bennett Place, and the Surrenders of the Confederacy

Dupre, Daniel S. Alabama’s Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South.

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Edgar, Walter. Partisans and Redcoats: The Southern Conflict That Turned the Tide of the American Revolution

Elliott, Jr., Jack D. and Mary Ann Wells. Cotton Gin Port: A Frontier Settlement on the Upper Tombigbee

Ellis, Joseph. First Family: Abigail and John Adams

Ellis, Joseph J. Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams

Ellis, Joseph J. Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

Ellis, Joseph J. The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783

Ellis, Joseph J. The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

Eubanks, W. Ralph. A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape

  

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Faragher, John Mack. Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer

Ferling, John. Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence

Finch, Bill, Beth Maynor Young, Rhett Johnson, and John C. Hall. Longleaf, Far As the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America’s Richest Forest

Fischer, David Hackett. Champlain’s Dream: The European Founding of North America

Flynt, Wayne. Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee

Forsman, Creighton C. “Peco.” “She’s Bound To Be a Goer”: Fairhope, Alabama and the Steamboats of Mobile Bay, 1894-1934

Foster, Buck T. Sherman’s Mississippi Campaign

Fowler, Margaret McCrummen, ed. A History of Mobile in 22 Objects

Fox, Stephen. Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS Alabama

Friend, Jack. West Wind, Flood Tide: The Battle of Mobile Bay

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Gaillard, Frye. Go South to Freedom

Gaillard, Frye. Journey to the Wilderness: War, Memory, and a Southern Family’s Civil War Letters

Gardner, Mark Lee. Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill

Gedney, Matt. The Story of Helen: Desperately Seeking Helen

Gelbert, Doug. Look Up, Mobile!: A Walking Tour of Mobile, Alabama

Gerson, Noel B. Franklin: America’s “Lost State”

Gillis, Jennifer Blizin. Robert E. Lee: Confederate Commander

Gillon, Steven M. Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation Into War

Gladwell, Malcolm. The Bomber Mafia

Goodman, Joseph. We Want Bama: A Season of Hope and the Making of Nick Saban’s Ultimate Team

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals

Gordon, John Steele. A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable

Gott, Kendall, Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862

Gragg, Rod. Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher

Grant, Richard. The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi

Groom, Winston. A Storm in Flanders, The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front

Groom, Winston. Shiloh 1862

Groom, Winston. Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville, The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War

Groom, Winston. Vicksburg, 1863

Gross, Robert A. The Minutemen and Their World

Gudmestad, Robert. Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom

Guelzo, Allen C. Reconstruction: A Concise History

Guenin-Lelle, Dianne. The Story of French New Orleans: History of a Creole City

Gwynne, S.C. Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson

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Hall, Wade H. Greetings from Alabama: A Pictorial History in Vintage Postcards

Hallock, Judith Lee. General James Longstreet in the West: A Monumental Failure

Hamilton, Virginia Van der Veer. Alabama: A History

Hardin, Stephen. The Alamo 1836, Santa Anna’s Texas Campaign

Harrison, Lowell H. The Civil War in Kentucky

Harter, Eugene C. The Lost Colony of the Confederacy

Heidler, David and Jeanne Heidler. Old Hickory’s War

Heidler, David and Jeanne Heidler. The Rise of Andrew Jackson: Myth, Manipulation, and the Making of Modern Politics

Hearn, Chester. Mobile Bay and the Mobile Campaign

Hearn, Chester. The Capture of New Orleans, 1862

Herwig, Holger. The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World

Hess, Earl, Banners to the Breeze: The Kentucky Campaign, Corinth, and Stones River

Hess, Earl, The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi

Hickey, Donald. Glorious Victory: Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans

Higginbotham, Jay. Fort Maurepas

Hilburn, Robert. Johnny Cash: The Life

Holland, Cecelia. Jamestown: First Contact

Hopkins, Donald A. Robert E. Lee in War and Peace: The Photographic History of a Confederate and American Icon

Horn, Jonathan. The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee’s Civil War and His Decision that Changed American History

Horowitz, Tony. A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventures in Early America

Hughes, Nathaniel C., Jr. Bentonville: The Final Battle of Sherman and Johnston

Hughes, Nathaniel C., Jr. The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South

Hurst, Jack. Born to Battle: Grant and Forrest; Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga, The Campaigns That Doomed the Confederacy

 

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Inkskeep, Steve. Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab

Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Isbell, Timothy. Mississippi Gulf Coast

 

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Jackson, Harvey, III. The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: An Insider’s History of the Florida-Alabama Coast 

Jackson, Kevin. Mayflower: The Voyage from Hell

Johnson, Boris. The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

Joiner, Gary D., ed. The Battle of New Orleans: A Bicentennial Tribute

Joiner, Gary D. Mr. Lincoln’s Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron

Joiner, Gary D. One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign of 1864

Joiner, Gary D. Through the Howling Wilderness: The 1864 Red River Campaign and Union Failure in the West

Jones, James Pickett. Yankee Blitzkrieg: Wilson’s Raid Through Alabama and Georgia

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Kallman, Theodore. The Kingdom of God Is At Hand: The Christian Commonwealth in Georgia, 1896-1901

Kanon, Tom. Tennesseans at War, 1812-1815: Andrew Jackson, The Creek War and the Battle of New Orleans

Kazek, Kelly, Forgotten Tales of Alabama

Keegan, John. The First World War

Keith, Todd. Old Cahawba

Kershaw, Alex. The Few: The American “Knights of the Air” Who Risked Everything to Save Britain in the Summer of 1940

Kilmeade, Brian, and Don Yaeger. Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans

Kilmeade, Brian, and Don Yaeger. Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History

Kirby, Brendan, Wicked Mobile

Kirkland, Scotty E. We The People: Alabama’s Defining Documents

Kirkpatrick, David. The War of 1812 in the West, From Detroit to New Orleans

Kitchens, Michael W. Ghosts of Grandeur: Georgia’s Lost Antebellum Homes and Plantations

Knight, James R. Hood’s Tennessee Campaign: The Desperate Venture of a Desperate Man

Knight, Vernon, Jr., ed. The Search for Mabila

Kolakowski, Christopher L. The Civil War at Perryville: Battling for the Bluegrass

Kolchin, Peter. First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama’s Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction

Konstam, Angus. Hunt the Bismarck: The Pursuit of Germany’s Most Famous Battleship

Korda, Michael. Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk; Defeat Into Victory

Korda, Michael. Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee

Korda, Michael. With Wings Like Eagles: The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain

Kvach, John, Charity Ethridge, Michelle Hopkins, and Susanna Leberman. Images of America: Huntsville

 

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Langdale, Jay. Superfluous Southerners

Langguth, A. J. Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence

Laumer, Frank. Dade’s Last Command

Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman

Levin, Jack. George Washington: The Crossing 

Levine, Bruce. Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves During the Civil War

Levine, Bruce. The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution that Transformed the South

Lewis, Herbert James. Alabama Founders: Fourteen Political and Military Leaders Who Shaped the State

Lewis, Herbert James. Clearing the Thickets: A History of Antebellum Alabama

Lewis, Herbert James. Lost Capitals of Alabama

  

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Mahon, John K. History of the Second Seminole War

Marszalek, John F. Sherman’s March to the Sea

Martelle, Scott. William Walker’s Wars: How One Man’s Private American Army Tried to Conquer Mexico, Nicaragua, and Honduras

McCardle, Linda S., ed. A Just and Holy Cause? The Civil War Letters of Marcus Bethune Ely and Martha Frances Ely

McCullough, David. Brave Companions: Portraits in History

McCullough, David. The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

McCullough, David. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

McDonald, Robin, and Valerie Pope Burns. Visions of the Black Belt: Visions of the Black Belt: A Cultural Survey of the Heart of Alabama

McDonough, James Lee. Chattanooga: A Death Grip on the Confederacy

McDonough, James Lee. War in Kentucky: From Shiloh to Perryville

McDowell, Bart. The Revolutionary War

McGovern, James. R. Andrew Jackson and Pensacola

McIlwain, Sr., Christopher Lyle. Civil War Alabama.

McIlwain, Sr., Christopher Lyle. The Million Dollar Man Who Helped Kill a President: George Washington Gayle and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

McLemore, Laura Lyons, editor, The Battle of New Orleans in History and Memory

McPherson, James. Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief

McPherson, James. Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg

McPherson, James. The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters

McPherson, James. War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865

McWilliams, Richebourg Gaillard McWilliams, ed. Fleur de Lys and Calumet: Being the Narrative of French Adventure in Louisiana

Meachem, Jon. American Gospel: God, The Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation

Meacham, Jon. American Lion

Meachem, Jon. The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

Meyers, Christopher C., ed. The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays

Meyers, Christopher C., and David Williams. Georgia: A Brief History

Mellown, Robert. The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campus and Its Architecture

Mertz, Gregory. Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862

Miles, Edwin. Jacksonian Democracy in Mississippi

Millard, Candice. Destiny of the Republic

Miller, Donald. Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

Milne, George Edward. Natchez Country

Misulia, Charles. Columbus, Georgia 1865: The Last True Battle of the Civil War

Morris, Edmund. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Moye, Andy. Understanding Christianity: A Primer for Both Christians and Non-Believer

Mullen, Gary R. and Taylor D. Littleton. Philip Henry Gosse: Science and Art in Letters from Alabama and Entomologia Amensis

 

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Narrett, David. Adventurism and Empire: The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana-Florida Borderlands, 1762-1803.

National Park Service, The Handbook of the American Revolution

National Park Service, The War of 1812: Official NPS Handbook

Neiberg, Michael S. Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I

Noe, Kenneth. Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle

Noe, Kenneth, ed. The Yellowhammer War: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama

Nuwer, Deanne. Plague Among the Magnolias

 

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O’Brien, Sean Michael. Mobile 1865: Last Stand of the Confederacy

Odom, Wesley S. The Longest Siege of the American Revolution: Pensacola

Oller, John. The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the Revolution

Olliff, Martin T., Getting Out of the Mud: The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898-1928

Owings, David M. Images of America: Columbus

 

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Palmer, Dave R. George Washington’s Military Genius

Parker, Jr., Foxhall. The Battle of Mobile Bay

Pate, James P. The Annotated Pickett’s History of Alabama.

Pauketat, Timothy. Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi

Persico, Joseph E. 11th Month, 11th Day, 11th Hour: Armistice Day 1918

Peterson, Larry. Decisions of the 1862 Kentucky Campaign: The Twenty-Seven Critical Decisions that Defined the Operation

Philbrick, Nathaniel. Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution

Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown

Philbrick, Nathaniel. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Philbrick, Nathaniel. Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery; The U.S. Exploring Expedition 1838-1842

Philbrick, Nathaniel. The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of Little Bighorn

Pinnen, Christian, and Charles Weeks. Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land

Piston, William G. and Richard W. Hatcher, III. Wilson’s Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It

Pound, Merritt B. Benjamin Hawkins, Indian Agent

Powell, Lawrence. The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans

Pruitt, Jr., Paul M., David I. Durham, and Sally E. Hadden. Traveling the Beaten Trail: Charles Tait’s Charges to Federal Grand Juries, 1822-1825

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Raines, Ben. The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning.

Randall, Willard Sterne. Ethan Allen: His Life and Times

Rasmussen, Daniel. American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt

Resendez, Andres. A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca

Roberts, Andrew. Napoleon: A Life

Roberts, Frances Cabaniss. The Founding of Alabama: Background and Formative Period in the Great Bend and Madison County

Robertson, Steve. Dawg Pile: A Celebration of Mississippi State’s 2021 National Championship Season

Rogers, Jr., William Warren. Confederate Home Front: Montgomery During the Civil War

Rothman, Joshua D. Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson

Rutherford, Kenneth R. America’s Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War

Ryan, William. Osceola: His Capture and Seminole Legends

 

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Sanders, Stuart W. The Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky

Sandlin, Lee. Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild

Saunt, Claudio. West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776

Savage, Douglas, The Last Years of Robert E. Lee: From Gettysburg to Lexington

Savage, Phil. 4th and Goal Every Day: Alabama’s Relentless Pursuit of Perfection

Shaffer, Michael K. Day By Day Through the Civil War in Georgia

Serafin, Faith. Wicked Phenix City

Severance, Ben H. A War State All Over: Alabama Politics and the Confederate Cause

Shea, William L. War in the West: Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove

Sledge, Eugene B. With the Old Breed: At Pelilieu and Okinawa

Sledge, John. The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History

Sledge, John. The Mobile River

Sledge, John. These Rugged Days: Alabama in the Civil War

Sledge, John, and Sheila Hagler. An Ornament to the City: Old Mobile Ironwork

Sledge, John, and Sheila Hagler. Cities of Silence: A Guide to Mobile’s Historic Cemeteries

Sledge, John, and Sheila Hagler. The Pillared City: Greek Revival Mobile

Smith, F. Todd. Louisiana and the Gulf South Frontier, 1500-1821

Smith, James David. One Morning in Sarajevo, 1914: The Assassination that Changed the World

Smith, Robert Leslie. Gone to the Swamp: Raw Materials for the Good Life in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta

Smith, Timothy. Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation

Smith, Timothy. Mississippi in the Civil War: The Homefront

Smith, Timothy. Shiloh: Conquer or Perish

Smithweck, David. Fort Bowyer: Defender of Mobile Bay 1814-1815

Smithweck, David. Historic Cannons of Mobile, Alabama: An Illustrated Guide

Smithweck, David. In Search of the CSS Huntsville and CSS Tuscaloosa, Confederate Ironclads

Smithweck, David. Mobile Bay Bar Pilots

Smithweck, David. The USS Tecumseh in Mobile Bay: The Sinking of a Civil War Ironclad

Starobin, Paul. Madness Rules the Hour: Charleston, 1860 and the Mania for War

Stelpflug, Peggy A. and Richard Hyatt. Home of the Infantry: The History of Fort Benning

Still, Jr., William N. Confederate Shipbuilding

Stoltz, III, Joseph F. The Gulf Theater, 1813-1815

Stone, Norman. World War One: A Short History

Strachan, Hew. The First World War

Stringer, Helen. No Better Thing Under the Sun: Making the First Thanksgiving

Sword, Wiley. Shiloh: Bloody April

Sword, Wiley. The Confederacy’s Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville

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Thomas, Daniel, Fort Toulouse: French Outpost at the Alabamas on the Coosa

Ticcino, M.J. Valley Forge: Traditional Land, Contemporary Vision

Tilden, Freeman. Interpreting Our Heritage

Tobin, Jacqueline. From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad

Tuchman, Barbara W. The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I

Turnbow, Tony L. Hardened to Hickory: The Missing Chapter in Andrew Jackson’s Life

  

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Unger, Harlow Giles, John Quincy Adams

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Vidal, Gore. Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson

Vogel, Steve. Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks That Saved the Nation

  

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Walker, Sue, and Dennis Holt. In the Realm of Rivers: Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw Delta

Wallis, Michael. David Crockett: Lion of the West

Ward, Andrew. The Slaves’ War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves

Ward, Rufus. The Tombigbee River Steamboats: Rollodores, Deadheads, and Side-Wheelers

Warren, Robert Penn. Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back

Waselkov, Gregory, Old Mobile Archaeology

Watkins, Samuel R. Company H: A Confederate Soldier’s Memoirs

Waugh, John C. Last Stand at Mobile

Webb, Paula. Mobile Under Siege: Surviving the Union Blockade

Webb, Paula. Such a Woman: The Life of Madame Octavia Walton LeVert

Weir, III, Howard T. A Paradise of Blood: The Creek War of 1813-14

Wells, Mary Ann. Native Land: Mississippi 1540-1798

White, William Lee. Bushwacking on a Grand Scale: The Battle of Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863

White, Jr., Richard D. Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long

Wilentz, Sean. Andrew Jackson

Williams, David. The Old South: A Brief History in Documents

Wills, Bryan Steel. The River Was Dyed With Blood: Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow

Wills, Glenn. Forgotten Alabama

Wilson, Charles Reagan. The American South: A Very Short Introduction

Wilson, Edward O., and Alex Harris. Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City

Winschel, Terrence. Vicksburg: Fall of the Confederate Gibraltar

Winkler, John F. Fallen Timbers 1794

Winkler, John F. Tippecanoe 1811

Winkler, John F. Wabash 1791

Winn, William W. The Magic and Mystery of Westville

Wood, Gordon S. The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States

Woodard, Colin. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

Woodrick, Jim. The Civil War Siege of Jackson

Woodward, C. Vann. The Battle for Leyte Gulf: The Incredible Story of World War II’s Largest Naval Battle

Woodworth, Steven E. Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns

Woodworth, Steven E., ed. The Shiloh Campaign

Woodworth, Steven, and Charles D. Grear, eds. The Vicksburg Campaign, March 29-May 18, 1863

Wortman, Marc. The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta

Wright, Allan C. Huntsville in Vintage Postcards

 

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Zambone, Albert Louis. Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life