Publications

The following publications are available for purchase from the University Archives. Please add $3.50 postage and handling for the first book and $1.00 for each additional book. *Alabama residents add 4% sales tax; **Mobile residents add an additional 5% for city and county sales tax.

Michael Thomason, ed. Down the Years:  Articles on Mobile's History.   Mobile, Ala., 2000.  308 pp.  Paper, $19.95.

This recently published volume commemorates the tricentennial of Alabama's oldest city by reprinting seventeen of the best articles on Mobile published over the years in the Gulf Coast Historical Review (now the Gulf South Historical Review). This book of  readings begins with precolonial days and extends to World War II.  An order form and table of contents are available on this website. 

 

University of South Alabama Archives, ed. and comp. Index to Divorce Cases of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court, 1816-1918.  Mobile, Ala., 1994. 125 pp. Cloth. $18.00.

     This index provides the names of complainants and respondents involved in 4,773 divorce proceedings in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court of Alabama between 1816 and 1918.  Most of the cases heard in this circuit are from Mobile County, although some are from Baldwin and Washington counties.  An introduction describes the information contained in the records and provides definitions for understanding frequently used legal terms.  The actual cases are available to researchers at the University of South Alabama Archives.(See Mobile Circuit Court in MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION.)

 

King, Clinton P. and Meriem A. Barlow, comp. and eds. Naturalization Records, Mobile, Alabama, 1833-1906.   Baltimore, Maryland, 1986. 138 pp. Cloth. $17.50.

      This research tool lists some 7,000 persons who arrived from the British Isles and Europe from the time of the earliest extant naturalization records for Mobile (1833) until the time of the Immigration and Naturalization Act (1906). All essential data from the naturalization papers are included: name of the petitioner, country or place of origin, age, length of residence (usually in the U.S.) prior to the petition, date, with full documentation as to the location of the court record where the naturalization is located. All state, county, local, and federal records were employed for this reference book, including sources of the National Archives. (See Mobile Circuit Court in MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION.)

 

King, Clinton P. and Meriem A. Barlow, comp. and eds. Marriages of Mobile County, Alabama, 1856-1875. Mobile, Alabama,1986. 224 pp. Cloth. $20.00.

      This publication is a compilation of names of approximately 12,000 persons, taken from the Marriage Records, Volumes 14-26, of the Probate Court of Mobile County, Alabama, covering the years 1856-75. It is arranged alphabetically, under the name of bride and groom, with date of license/marriage and volume, number, and page where recorded. A brief forward explains information contained in the records and instructions for ordering copies of the complete record.

 

King, Clinton P. and Meriem A. Barlow, comp. and eds. Abstracts of Orphans Court Minutes, Mobile County, Alabama, 1813-1837. Mobile, Alabama,1987. 229 pp. Cloth. $22.50.

      The original source volume, Minute Book 1 of the Orphan's Court (now the Probate Court), contains 592 pages, but the compilers have made use of abbreviations and omitted excessive verbiage to conserve space.  The original pagination has been indicated so that researchers may order copies of original entries from the Probate Court. Full names as found in records are retained in these abstracts. There is an index to all surnames including the name of the Testator or Intestate.

                                

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          Gulf South Historical Review
    
   The Gulf South Historical Review, formerly the Gulf Coast Historical Review, focuses on the history of the coastal region from Florida's Big Bend to Texas. Published twice a year, it is sponsored by the history department of the University of South Alabama.  Since its inception in 1985 the journal  has brought historical research and writing of the highest caliber to the interested public within academe and beyond. The Review seeks to foster communication between the academic historian and those in all walks of life who are interested in history. Since 1989 the Review has published the Proceedings volume for the Gulf Coast History and Humanities Conference (now the Gulf South History and Humanities Conference). Please refer to the following style guidelines when submitting material for publication.
     
    Back issues of the Gulf Coast / Gulf South Historical Review and the Gulf Coast / Gulf South History and Humanities Conference Proceedings may be ordered from the University Archives.  Regular and proceedings issues are $10.00 each ($15.00 for cloth if available).  Please add $2.00 shipping for the first issue, $1.00 for the second issue, and $.50 for each additional issue.  For GCHR and GSHR table of contents, see Auburn University's web page at www.lib.auburn.edu/special/docs/gchr.html.   A subject index to volumes 1 through 20 is available on this website.

      Subscriptions for the current year should be addressed to: Gulf South Historical Review, History Department, Humanities Bldg. 344, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688. Telephone (251) 460-6210. An order form is available on this website. Subscriptions are $20.00 for one year and include two newsletters from the Gulf South Historical Association.
        

  Gulf South History and Humanities Conference Proceedings
   Vol. Title Price
      I Out of Print  
     II Spain and Her Rivals on the Gulf Coast  (1971) $10.00 paper
    III Out of Print  
    IV Gulf Coast Politics in the Twentieth Century (1973) $10.00 paper
     V Out of Print  
    VI The Cultural Legacy of the Gulf Coast  (1976) $10.00 paper
   VII The Military Presence on the Gulf Coast  (1978) $10.00 paper
   VIII Ethnic Minorities in Gulf Coast Society  (1979) $10.00 paper
    IX Anglo-Spanish Confrontation on the Gulf Coast during the American Revolution  (1982) $10.00 paper
     X Threads of Tradition and Culture along the Gulf Coast (1986) $15.00 cloth
    XI Civil War and Reconstruction on the Gulf Coast  (1989) $10.00 paper
   XII Maritime History of the Gulf Coast  (1990) $10.00 paper
   XIII Discovery and Exploration of the Gulf Coast  (1992) $10.00 paper
   XIV The Gilded Age on the Gulf Coast  (1994) $10.00 paper
   XV The Roaring Twenties on the Gulf Coast (1996) $10.00 paper
   XVI Gulf Coast History and Historical Archaeology $10.00 paper