Subject Index to Secondary Antebellum History Research Sources

The sources in this index are listed by subject and then alphabetically by last name of author or title of work (if author unknown). This subject index is limited to books, theses and dissertations, and journal articles only. For primary sources such as newspapers and manuscript collections, please click here.


African Americans | Agriculture | Archaeology | Architecture | Bibliographic | Census


Correspondence | Court Records | Disasters | Education | Financial | Genealogical


     Geographical | Indians | Law | Literary | Medical | Migration | Military | Miscellaneous


Municipal | Newspapers | Political | Recreation | Religion | Transportation | Women


African Americans

Andrews, Johnnie Jr. and William David Higgins. Creole Mobile: A Compendium of the Colonial Families of the Central Gulf Coast, 1702-1813. Prichard, Ala., 1974.

Beam, James Herman Jr. "Mobile and the Slavery Question: Public Debate Over the Slavery Controversy of 1850." MA Thesis, University of South Alabama, 1995.

DeLeon, T. C. Creole Carnivals, 1830-1890. Reprinted by Bienville Books, originally published 1890.

Gould, Lois Virginia Meacham. "In Full Enjoyment of Their Liberty: The Free Women of Color of the Gulf Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola, 1769-1860." Ph.D. Dissertation, Emory University, 1991.

Holmes, Jack D. L. "The Role of Blacks in Spanish Alabama: The Mobile District, 1780-1813." Alabama Historical Quarterly 37 (spring 1975).

Hulse, Thomas. "The Military Slave System and the Construction of Army Fortifications along the Antebellum Gulf Coast, Mobile Point and Pensacola, 1818-1854." MA Thesis, University of South Alabama, 2003.

Hyland, Lawrence. "The Development of the Runaway Slave Management System in the Deep South, 1820-1865." MA Thesis, University of South Alabama, 1997.

LeBlanc, John R. "The Context of Manumission: Imperial Rome and Antebellum Alabama." Alabama Review 46 (October 1993).

Mannhard, Marilyn Ann. "Free People of Color in Antebellum Mobile County, Alabama." MA Thesis, University of South Alabama, 1982.

Mansfield, Michael W. "Ever Selfish Passion: The Contradiction of Slavery in Revolutionary Virginia." MA Thesis, University of South Alabama, 1998.

McMillan, Malcolm Cook. Constitutional Development in Alabama, 1798-1901: A Study in Politics, the Negro, and Sectionalism. Spartanburg, 1978.

Shelley, Dian Lee. "The Effects of Increasing Racism on the Creole Colored in Three Gulf Coast Cities between 1803 and 1860." MA Thesis, University of West Florida, 1971.

Whatley, George C. III. "The Alabama Presbyterian and His Slave, 1830-1864." Alabama Review 13 (January 1960).

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Agriculture

Amos, Harriet E. Cotton City: Urban Development in Antebellum Mobile [Alabama]. Tuscaloosa, 1985.

Blevins, Brooks. "Cattle Raising in Antebellum Alabama." Alabama Review 51 (October 1998).

Bowers, Douglas. A List of References for the History of Agriculture in the United States, 1790-1840. Davis, Calif., 1969.

Jordan, Weymouth T. "Agricultural Societies in Ante-Bellum Alabama." Alabama Review 4 (October 1951).

Miller, Randall M. "Daniel Pratt's Industrial Urbanism: The Cotton Mill Town in Ante-Bellum Alabama." Alabama Historical Quarterly 34 (spring 1972).

Rogers, William W. Jr. "'The Husbandman that Laboureth Must be First Partaker of the Fruits,' (2 Timothy 2:6): Agricultural Reform in Ante Bellum Alabama." Alabama Historical Quarterly 40 (spring and summer 1978).


Archaeology

Waselkov, Gregory A. & Bonnie L. Gums. Plantation Archaeology at Riviere Aux Chiens, ca. 1725-1848. Mobile, 2000.

Architecture

Gould, Elizabeth Barrett. From Fort to Port: An Architectural History of Mobile, Alabama, 1711-1918. Tuscaloosa, 1988.

Sharp, Andrew D. and Greta J. Sharp. "Investigating the Impact of Property Taxation on the Architecture of Antebellum Homes in Natchez, Vicksburg, and Mobile." Gulf South Historical Review 19 (fall 2003).

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Bibliographic

Brewer, Willis. Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record and Public Men, From 1540 to 1872. Spartanburg, 1975.

Browning, Judkin. "Foundations of Sand: Evaluating the Historical Assessments of White Unity in the Antebellum South." Gulf South Historical Review 19 (spring 2003).

Davids, Robert S. "Research Needs and Opportunities: Blountsville, Alabama: A Cast Study in the Use of the R. G. Dunn & Company Credit Reports, 1847-1880." Alabama Review 56 (April 2003).

Ellison, Rhoda Coleman. A Check List of Alabama Imprints, 1807-1870. Tuscaloosa, 1946.

Pickett, Albert James & Thomas McAdory Owen. History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, From the Earliest Period, and Annals of Alabama, 1819-1900. Originally published in 1900; reprinted in 1975, 1988 by the Reprint Co.


Census

"Abstracts of Territorial Census, 1818." Alabama Historical Quarterly 18 (spring 1956).

"An Abstract of the Census of the State of Alabama, together with the Assessment in Each County for the Year 1820." Alabama Historical Quarterly 6 (fall 1944).

"An Abstract of the Federal Census of Alabama for the Year 1832." Alabama Historical Quarterly 6 (fall 1944).

"An Act Authorizing the Taking of the Census of Alabama Territory, passed by Legislative Council, Feb. 9th, 1818." Alabama Historical Quarterly 6 (fall 1944).

"Baldwin County Census Returns for 1820." Alabama Historical Quarterly 6 (fall 1944).

"Conecuh County Census Returns for 1820." Alabama Historical Quarterly 6 (fall 1944).

"Dallas County Census Returns for 1820." Alabama Historical Quarterly 6 (fall 1944).

Foley, Helen S. U.S. Census of 1850 for Barbour County, Alabama (1976).

"Franklin County Census Returns for 1820." Alabama Historical Quarterly 6 (fall 1944).

"Limestone County Census Returns for 1820." Alabama Historical Quarterly 6 (fall 1944).

"St. Clair County Census Returns for 1820." Alabama Historical Quarterly 6 (fall 1944).

"Shelby County Census Returns for 1820." Alabama Historical Quarterly 6 (fall 1944).

"Wilcox County Census Returns for 1820." Alabama Historical Quarterly 6 (fall 1944).

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Correspondence

Brannon, Peter A., ed. "The Journal of James Tait for the Year 1813." Alabama Historical Quarterly 2 (winter 1940).

"Capt. Tennent Lomax Letters to His Sister, Eliza, 1848." Alabama Historical Quarterly 19 (fall 1957).

Ellison, Rhoda Coleman. "Caroline Lee Hentz's Alabama Diary 1836." Alabama Review 4 (October 1951).

Gorgas, Josiah. The Journals of Josiah Gorgas, 1857-1878. Edited by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins. Tuscaloosa, 1995.

Holt, Rebecca Agnew and Mary Lightfoot Garland. "Landon Gabell Garland's Letter Book While President of the Northeast and Southwest Alabama Railroad Company (1854-1855)." Alabama Historical Quarterly 34 (spring 1972).

Jackson Harvey H. Jr. and Harvey H. Jackson III. "Moving to Alabama: The Joel Spigener-William K. Oliver Letters, 1833-1834." Alabama Review 48 (January 1995).

"James M. Torbert's Journal for 1856." Alabama Historical Quarterly 18 (summer 1956).

"James M. Torbert's Journal for 1857-1874." Alabama Historical Quarterly 22 (spring and summer 1960).

Jones, Virginia K., ed. "Bowie Letters, 1819 and 1821." Alabama Historical Quarterly 22 (winter 1960).

McCrary, Royce C. "Henry W. Hilliard and the Southern Caucus of 1848-49: A Letter to John Macpherson Berrien." Alabama Historical Quarterly 37 (summer 1975).

Reagan, Hugh D. "Journey to Texas, 1854: The Diary of Robert Seaborn Jemison of Talladega." Alabama Historical Quarterly 33 (fall and winter 1971).

Royall, Anne Newport. Letters from Alabama, 1817-1822. Tuscaloosa, 1969.

Torrey-Dallet Correspondence, 1843-1845." Alabama Historical Quarterly 19 (1957).

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Court Records

Alabama Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. Index to Alabama Wills, 1808-1870. Baltimore, 1977, originally published 1955.

Hahn, Marilyn Davis. Old Cahaba Land Office Records & Military Warrants, 1817-1853. Mobile, 1981.

"Index to Alabama Wills, 1808-1870." Alabama Historical Quarterly 18 (summer 1956).

Jones, Blair Mrs. Clarke County, Alabama, Marriage Records, 1814-1865. Gadsden, Ala., 1964.

King, Clinton P. & Meriem Allison Barlow. Marriages of Mobile County, Alabama, 1813-1855. Baltimore, 1985.

-------. Abstracts of Orphans Court Minutes, Mobile County, Alabama, Book I, 1813-1837 (1987).

Strickland, Ben & Jean. Washington County, Mississippi Territory Tax List, 1803-1816 (1980).

USA Archives. Index to Divorce Cases of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court of Alabama, 1816-1918. Mobile, 1994.

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Disasters

Dean, Lewis S. "'Tecumseh's Prophesy': The Great New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812 and 1843 in Alabama." Alabama Review 47 (July 1994).

Holmes, Jack D. L. "Mobile's Great Hurricane of 1819." Alabama Historical Quarterly 43 (winter 1981).


Education

A Register of the Officers and Students of the University of Alabama, 1831-1901.

Atkins, Leah. "Williamson R. W. Cobb and the Graduation Act of 1854." Alabama Review 28 (January 1975).

Crowther, Edward R. "Antebellum Community Support for Judson and Howard Colleges." Alabama Review 44 (January 1991).

History of Education in Alabama, 1702-1889. Washington, D.C., 1889.

Hunt, Robert E. "Home, Domesticity, and School Reform in Antebellum Alabama." Alabama Review 49 (October 1996).

Kenney, Michael, S.J. Catholic Culture in Alabama: Centenary Story of Spring Hill College, 1830-1930. New York, 1931.

Pyburn, Nita Katharine. "Mobile Public Schools before 1860." Alabama Review 11 (July 1958).

Rogers, Tommy W. "Libraries in the Ante Bellum South." Alabama Historical Quarterly 30 (summer 1968).

Sellers, James B. "Student Life at the University of Alabama before 1860." Alabama Review 2 (October 1949).

Taylor, Elizabeth A. "Regulations Governing Student Life at the Judson Female Institute During the Decade Preceding Civil War." Alabama Historical Quarterly 3 (spring 1941).

Watts, Charles W. "Student Days at Old LaGrange, 1844-1862." Alabama Review 24 (January 1971).

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Financial

Schweikart, Larry. "Alabama's Antebellum Banks: New Interpretations, New Evidence." Alabama Review 35 (July 1985).


Genealogical

A Register of the Officers and Students of the University of Alabama, 1831-1901.

Alabama Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. Index to Alabama Wills, 1808-1870. Baltimore, 1977, originally published 1955.

Andrews, Johnnie Jr. and William David Higgins. Creole Mobile: A Compendium of the Colonial Families of the Central Gulf Coast, 1702-1813. Prichard, Ala., 1974.

Brewer, Willis. Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record and Public Men, From 1540 to 1872. Spartanburg, 1975.

Connick, Lucille Mallon. Lists of Ships Passengers, Mobile, Alabama. Vol. 1, 1838-1839-1840. Mobile, 1988.

-------. Lists of Ships Passengers, Mobile, Alabama. Vol. 2, 1841-1860. Mobile, 1989.

Hahn, Marilyn Davis. Old Cahaba Land Office Records & Military Warrants, 1817-1853. Mobile, 1981.

Jones, Blair Mrs. Clarke County, Alabama, Marriage Records, 1814-1865. Gadsden, Ala., 1964.

King, Clinton P. & Meriem Allison Barlow. Marriages of Mobile County, Alabama, 1813-1855. Baltimore, 1985.

-------. Abstracts of Orphans Court Minutes, Mobile County, Alabama, Book I, 1813-1837 (1987).

Mitchell, Lois Dumas & Dorothy Ivison Moffett. Burial Records, Mobile County, Alabama, 1820-1856. Mobile, 1963.

"Muster Roll, Tallassee Guards, Indian War 1836." Alabama Historical Quarterly 19 (fall 1957).

Thornton, J. Mills III. "Register of Lawyers, United States District Court for Middle District of Alabama of Period about 1835-1866." Alabama Historical Quarterly 40 (fall and winter 1978).

USA Archives. Index to Divorce Cases of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court of Alabama, 1816-1918. Mobile, 1994.

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Geographical

Florida | Louisiana | Mississippi | Mobile and Its Surroundings

Other Alabama Cities | Other Alabama Counties | Other


Other Alabama Cities

Daniel, Adrian G. "Navigational Development of Muscle Shoals, 1807-1890." Alabama Review 14 (October 1961).

Davids, Robert S. "Research Needs and Opportunities: Blountsville, Alabama: A Case Study in the Use of the R. G. Dunn & Company Credit Reports, 1847-1880." Alabama Review 56 (April 2003).

Glisson, Martha McGhee. "The Role of the Good Hope Baptist Church in the Community of Uchee, 1837-1987." Alabama Review 42 (July 1989).

Hahn, Marilyn Davis. Old Cahaba Land Office Records & Military Warrants, 1817-1853. Mobile, 1981.

"List of Voters at an Election Held at Notasulga, 1849." Alabama Historical Quarterly 18 (summer 1956).

McKenzie, Robert H. "Newspapers and Newspaper Men during Tuscaloosa's Capital Period, 1826-1846." Alabama Historical Quarterly 34 (fall and winter 1982).

Muskat, Beth Taylor & Mary Ann Neeley. The Way it Was, 1850-1930: Photographs of Montgomery and Her Central Alabama Neighbors. Montgomery, 1985.

Napier, John H. III. "Martial Montgomery: Ante Bellum Military Activity." Alabama Historical Quarterly 29 (fall and winter 1967).

"Postmasters at Claiborne, 1817 to Date." Alabama Historical Quarterly 19 (1957).

Reagan, Hugh D. "Journey to Texas, 1854: The Diary of Robert Seaborn Jemison of Talladega." Alabama Historical Quarterly 33 (fall and winter 1971).

Sterkx, H. E. "Joel Dyer Murphree, Troy Merchant, 1843-1868." Alabama Review 11 (April 1958).

"Washington Hall, Claiborne's Leading Hotel, 1844." Alabama Historical Quarterly 19 (1957).

White, Walter Belt. History of the First Baptist Church of Talladega, Alabama: Its Pastors, People, and Programs Through One Hundred Fifty Years, 1835-1985. Macon, 1985.

Williams, Abner. "Talladega in 1833." Alabama Historical Quarterly 8 (winter 1946).

Williams, Clanton W. "Conservatism in Old Montgomery, 1817-1861." Alabama Review 10 (April 1957).

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Other Alabama Counties

"Alabama License Returns, Limestone County, 1826, 1827." Alabama Historical Quarterly 18 (fall 1956).

Ball, Rev. T. H. Clarke County, Alabama and Its Surroundings From 1540-1877. Grove Hill, Ala., 1973.

Brooks, Daniel Fate. "Henry Stiles Atwood: An Antebellum Eccentric of Wilcox County." Alabama Review 34 (January 1981).

Horton, Paul. "The Culture, Social Structure, and Political Economy of Antebellum Lawrence County." Alabama Review 41 (October 1988).

Jones, Blair Mrs. Clarke County, Alabama, Marriage Records, 1814-1865. Gadsden, Ala., 1964.

Jordan, Weymouth T. "Early Ante-Bellum Marion, Alabama: A Black Belt Town." Alabama Historical Quarterly 5 (spring 1943).

"Map of Russell County, 1836." Alabama Historical Quarterly 21 (spring, summer, fall, and winter 1959).

"Republicanism in Jefferson County, Alabama, 1857-1858." Alabama Historical Quarterly 22 (spring and summer 1960).

Watson, Fred S. Forgotten Trails: A History of Dale County, Alabama, 1824-1966. Birmingham, 1968.

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Florida

Gould, Lois Virginia Meacham. "In Full Enjoyment of Their Liberty: The Free Women of Color of the Gulf Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola, 1769-1860." Ph.D. diss., Emory University, 1991.

Hulse, Thomas. "The Military Slave System and the Construction of Army Fortifications along the Antebellum Gulf Coast, Mobile Point and Pensacola, 1818-1854." MA Thesis, University of South Alabama, 2003.

Pearce, George. "Pensacola, the Deep-Water Harbor of the Gulf: Its Development, 1825-1930." Gulf Coast Historical Review 5 (spring 1990).

Shelley, Dian Lee. "The Effects of Increasing Racism on the Creole Colored in Three Gulf Coast Cities between 1803 and 1860." MA Thesis, University of West Florida, 1971.


Louisiana

Coker, William S. "The Last Battle of the War of 1812: New Orleans, No Fort Bowyer!" Alabama Historical Quarterly 43 (spring 1981).

Gould, Lois Virginia Meacham. "In Full Enjoyment of Their Liberty: The Free Women of Color of the Gulf Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola, 1769-1860." Ph.D. diss., Emory University, 1991.

Shelley, Dian Lee. "The Effects of Increasing Racism on the Creole Colored in Three Gulf Coast Cities between 1803 and 1860." MA Thesis, University of West Florida, 1971.

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Mississippi

Sharp, Andrew D. and Greta J. Sharp. "Investigating the Impact of Property Taxation on the Architecture of Antebellum Homes in Natchez, Vicksburg, and Mobile." Gulf South Historical Review 19 (fall 2003).

Strickland, Ben & Jean. Washington County, Mississippi Territory Tax List, 1803-1816 (1980).


Mobile

Amos, Harriet E. "'City Belles': Images and Realities of the Lives of White Women in Antebellum Mobile." Alabama Review 34 (January 1981).

-------. Cotton City: Urban Development in Antebellum Mobile [Alabama]. Tuscaloosa, 1985.

-------. "From Old South to New South Trade in Mobile, 1850-1900." Gulf Coast Historical Review 5 (spring 1990).

Andrews, Johnnie Jr. and William David Higgins. Creole Mobile: A Compendium of the Colonial Families of the Central Gulf Coast, 1702-1813. Prichard, Ala., 1974.

Barnett, Cora Chastang. Citronelle Then and Now, 1811-1988.

Beam, James Herman Jr. "Mobile and the Slavery Question: Public Debate Over the Slavery Controversy of 1850." MA Thesis, University of South Alabama, 1995.

Big Zion A.M.E. Zion Church Sesquicentennial Celebration, 1842-1992.

Bigham, Darrel E. "From the Green Mountains to the Tombigbee: Henry Hitchcock in Territorial Alabama, 1817-1819." Alabama Review 26 (July 1973).

Brantley, William H. Jr., "Henry Hitchcock of Mobile." Alabama Review 5 (January 1952).

Burnett, Lonnie Alexander. "The Pen Makes a Good Sword: John Forsyth and the Mobile Register, 1837-1877." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 2000.

Connick, Lucille Mallon. Lists of Ships Passengers, Mobile, Alabama. Vol. 1, 1838-1839-1840. Mobile, 1988.

-------. Lists of Ships Passengers, Mobile, Alabama. Vol. 2, 1841-1860. Mobile, 1989.

Crow, Anna B. Behind the Wall: The Sisters of the Visitation, Mobile, Alabama, Their Community, Academy and Retreat House, 1833-2002. Mobile, 2002.

Delaney, Caldwell. The Phoenix Volunteer Fire Company of Mobile, 1838-1888. Mobile, 1967.

Gould, Elizabeth Barrett. From Fort to Port: An Architectural History of Mobile, Alabama, 1711-1918. Tuscaloosa, 1988.

Gould, Lois Virginia Meacham. "In Full Enjoyment of Their Liberty: The Free Women of Color of the Gulf Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola, 1769-1860." Ph.D. diss., Emory University, 1991.

The History of Bayou La Batre [Alabama], 1786-1963.

History of First Baptist Church of Mobile, 1845-1945 (1959).

Holmes, Jack D. L. "Alabama's Forgotten Settler: Notes on the Spanish Mobile District, 1780-1813." Alabama Historical Quarterly 33 (summer 1971).

-------. "The Role of Blacks in Spanish Alabama: The Mobile District, 1780-1813." Alabama Historical Quarterly 37 (spring 1975).

-------. "Mobile's Great Hurricane of 1819." Alabama Historical Quarterly 43 (winter 1981).

-------. "An 1858 View on Historical Preservation in Mobile." Alabama Historical Quarterly 44 (summer 1982).

Hulse, Thomas. "The Military Slave System and the Construction of Army Fortifications along the Antebellum Gulf Coast, Mobile Point and Pensacola, 1818-1854." MA Thesis, University of South Alabama, 2003.

Kennington, S. Albert. From the Day of Small Things: The Story of Trinity Church, Mobile, 1845-1995. Mobile, 1996.

King, Clinton P. & Meriem Allison Barlow. Marriages of Mobile County, Alabama, 1813-1855. Baltimore, 1985.

-------. Abstracts of Orphans Court Minutes, Mobile County, Alabama, Book I, 1813-1837 (1987).

Lights and Shadows: The Story of the Convent, Academy and Retreat House of the Visitation, Mobile, Alabama, 1833-1983.

Mannhard, Marilyn Ann. "Free People of Color in Antebellum Mobile County, Alabama." MA Thesis, University of South Alabama, 1982.

Mitchell, Lois Dumas. Mobile Ship News. Vol. 1, 1821-1822. Mobile, 1964.

Mitchell, Lois Dumas & Dorothy Ivison Moffett. Burial Records, Mobile County, Alabama, 1820-1856. Mobile, 1963.

"Mobile Custom House Entries, 1817-1818." Alabama Historical Quarterly 20 (winter 1958).

Point Clear Cavalcade, 1519-1941. Point Clear, Ala.: Grand Hotel.

Pruitt, Paul M. Jr. and Robert Bond Higgins. "Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Mobile: The Long Story of Charles R. S. Boyington." Gulf Coast Historical Review 11 (spring 1996).

Pyburn, Nita Katharine. "Mobile Public Schools before 1860." Alabama Review 11 (July 1958).

Richardson, Frederick Douglas. The Stone Street Baptist Church -- Alabama's First, 1806-1982. Boynton Beach, Fla.: Future Printing.

St. John, Sam B. History of the Mobile Yacht Club, est. 1847. Mobile, 2000.

Sharp, Andrew D. and Greta J. Sharp. "Investigating the Impact of Property Taxation on the Architecture of Antebellum Homes in Natchez, Vicksburg, and Mobile." Gulf South Historical Review 19 (fall 2003).

Shelley, Dian Lee. "The Effects of Increasing Racism on the Creole Colored in Three Gulf Coast Cities between 1803 and 1860." MA Thesis, University of West Florida, 1971.

Thompson, Alan S. "Southern Rights and Nativism as Issues in Mobile Politics, 1850-1861." Alabama Review 35 (April 1982).

USA Archives. Index to Divorce Cases of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court of Alabama, 1816-1918. Mobile, 1994.

Waselkov, Gregory A. & Bonnie L. Gums. Plantation Archaeology at Riviere Aux Chiens, ca. 1725-1848. Mobile, 2000.

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Other

Mansfield, Michael W. "Ever Selfish Passion: The Contradiction of Slavery in Revolutionary Virginia." MA Thesis, University of South Alabama, 1998.

"Nameplaces Affected by the Indian War of 1813-14." Alabama Historical Quarterly 13 (spring, summer, fall, and winter 1951).

Watts, Charles W. "Student Days at Old LaGrange, 1844-1862." Alabama Review 24 (January 1971).

Wolfe, Margaret Ripley. "Dunn, Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community, 1818-1937." Alabama Review 43 (January 1990).

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Indians

Coley, C. J. "Creek Treaties, 1790-1832." Alabama Review 11 (July 1958).

"Creek Indian War." Alabama Historical Quarterly 13 (spring, summer, fall, winter 1951).

"Fort Mitchell in the Indian Uprising of 1818." Alabama Historical Quarterly 21 (spring, summer, fall, and winter 1959).

Hathorn, Stacye and Robin Sabino. "Views and Vistas: Traveling through the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Cherokee Nations in 1830." Alabama Review 54 (July 2001).

Heidler, David S. and Jeanne T. Heidler. "'Between a Rock and a Hard Place': Allied Creeks and the United States, 1814-1818." Alabama Review 54 (July 2001).

Lengel, Leland L. "The Road to Fort Mims: Judge Harry Toulmin's Observations on the Creek War, 1811-1813." Alabama Review 29 (January 1976).

"Muster Roll, Tallassee Guards, Indian War 1836." Alabama Historical Quarterly 19 (fall 1957).

"Nameplaces Affected by the Indian War of 1813-14." Alabama Historical Quarterly 13 (spring, summer, fall, and winter 1951).

Plaisance, Aloysius. "The Choctaw Trading House, 1803-1822." Alabama Historical Quarterly 16 (1954).

Shuck, S. Marie. "Power-Brokers of the Spanish Borderlands: Alabamas and the Coushattas, 1805-1809." Gulf South Historical Review 14 (fall 1998).

Southerland, Henry DeLeon Jr. & Jerry Elijah Brown. The Federal Road Through Georgia, the Creek Nation, and Alabama, 1806-1836. Tuscaloosa, 1989.

Tarvin, Dr. Marion E. "The Muscogees or Creek Indians from 1519 to 1893." Alabama Historical Quarterly 17 (1955).

Watts, Charles W. "Colbert's Reserve and the Chickasaw Treaty of 1818." Alabama Review 12 (October 1959).

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Law

Briceland, Alan V. "Land, Law, and Politics on the Tombigbee Frontier, 1804." Alabama Review 33 (January 1980).

Pruitt, Paul. "An Antebellum Law Reformer: Passages in the Life of Benjamin F. Porter." Gulf Coast Historical Review 11 (fall 1995).

Pruitt, Paul M. Jr. and Robert Bond Higgins. "Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Mobile: The Long Story of Charles R. S. Boyington." Gulf Coast Historical Review 11 (spring 1996).

Thornton, J. Mills III. "Register of Lawyers, United States District Court for Middle District of Alabama of Period about 1835-1866." Alabama Historical Quarterly 40 (fall and winter 1978).

Williams, Jack K. "Crime and Punishment in Alabama." Alabama Review 6 (January 1953).


Literary

Shields, Johanna Nichol. "A Social History of Antebellum Alabama Writers." Alabama Review 43 (January 1990).


Maps

"Map of Alabama, 1820" - "Map of Alabama, 1860." Alabama Historical Quarterly 6 (fall 1944).

"Map of Alabama Territory as Created, 1817." Alabama Historical Quarterly 24 (spring 1962).

"Map of Russell County, 1836." Alabama Historical Quarterly 21 (spring, summer, fall, and winter 1959).


Medical

"Alabama Doctors." Alabama Historical Quarterly 2 (summer 1940).

Mellown, Robert O. "The Construction of the Alabama Insane Hospital, 1852-1861." Alabama Review 38 (April 1985).

Weaver, Bill L. "Establishing and Organizing the Alabama Insane Hospital, 1846-1861." Alabama Review 48 (July 1995).

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Migration

Barrett, Kayla. "The Whitfields Move to Alabama: A Case Study in Westward Migration, 1825-1835." Alabama Review 48 (April 1995).

Jackson Harvey H. Jr. and Harvey H. Jackson III. "Moving to Alabama: The Joel Spigener-William K. Oliver Letters, 1833-1834." Alabama Review 48 (January 1995).

Reagan, Hugh D. "Journey to Texas, 1854: The Diary of Robert Seaborn Jemison of Talladega." Alabama Historical Quarterly 33 (fall and winter 1971).

Rogers, Tommy W. "Migration Patterns of Alabama's Population, 1850 and 1860." Alabama Historical Quarterly 28 (spring and summer 1966).


Military

"Alabama Militia, Election Returns, 1821." Alabama Historical Quarterly 18 (1956).

Brown, Wilburt S. The Amphibious Campaign for West Florida and Louisiana, 1814-1815. Tuscaloosa, 1969.

Coker, William S. "The Last Battle of the War of 1812: New Orleans, No Fort Bowyer!" Alabama Historical Quarterly 43 (spring 1981).

"Fort Mitchell in the Indian Uprising of 1818." Alabama Historical Quarterly 21 (spring, summer, fall, and winter 1959).

Hulse, Thomas. "The Military Slave System and the Construction of Army Fortifications along the Antebellum Gulf Coast, Mobile Point and Pensacola, 1818-1854." MA Thesis, University of South Alabama, 2003.

Jenkins, William H. "Alabama Forts, 1700-1838." Alabama Review 12 (July 1959).

Napier, John H. III. "Martial Montgomery: Ante Bellum Military Activity." Alabama Historical Quarterly 29 (fall and winter 1967).

Parker, James W. "Fort Jackson after the War of 1812." Alabama Review 38 (April 1985).

Ricketts, Sir Robert. "The Men and the Ships of the British Attack on Fort Bowyer -- February 1815." Gulf Coast Historical Review 5 (spring 1990).

Rucker, Brian L. "Nixon's Raid and the Other Precursors to Jackson's 1814 Invasion of Spanish West Florida." Gulf South Historical Review 14 (spring 1999).

Roscoe, Theodore & Fred Freeman. From Old Navy to New, 1776-1897: Picture History of the U.S. Navy. New York, 1956.

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Miscellaneous

Abernathy, Thomas Perkins. The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815-1828. Tuscaloosa, 1965.

Bigham, Darrel E. "From the Green Mountains to the Tombigbee: Henry Hitchcock in Territorial Alabama, 1817-1819." Alabama Review 26 (July 1973).

Brantley, William H. Jr., "Henry Hitchcock of Mobile." Alabama Review 5 (January 1952).

Briceland, Alan V. "Ephraim Kirby: Mr. Jefferson's Emissary to the Tombigbee-Mobile Frontier in 1804." Alabama Review 24 (April 1971).

-------. "The Mississippi Territorial Land Board East of the Pearl River, 1804." Alabama Review 32 (January 1979).

Brooks, Daniel Fate. "Henry Stiles Atwood: An Antebellum Eccentric of Wilcox County." Alabama Review 34 (January 1981).

Carter, Clarence Edwin. The Territorial Papers of the United States. Vol. XVIII, The Territory of Alabama, 1817-1819. Washington, D.C., 1952.

Carter, Kit C. III. "William Howland Robertson: His Early Years on the Gulf Coast, 1804-1808." Gulf Coast Historical Review 8 (fall 1992).

Collins, Donald E. "A Georgian's View of Alabama in 1836." Alabama Review 25 (July 1972).

Corgan, James X. and Michael A. Gibson, eds. "The Beginning of Geographical Exploration in Northern Alabama: Gerard Troost's Travels in 1834." Alabama Review 48 (April 1995).

Cox, Richard J. "Alabama's Archival Heritage, 1850-1900." Alabama Review 40 (October 1987).

Daniel, Adrian G. "Navigational Development of Muscle Shoals, 1807-1890." Alabama Review 14 (October 1961).

Dean, Lewis S. "Michael Toumey and the Pursuit of a Geological Survey of Alabama, 1847-1857." Alabama Review 44 (April 1991).

Draughon, Ralph B. Jr. "George Smith Houston and Southern Unity, 1846-1849." Alabama Review 19 (July 1966).

-------. "A Honeymoon in 1850." Alabama Historical Quarterly 36 (summer 1974).

"General Lafayette's Visit to Alabama in 1825." Alabama Historical Quarterly 14 (1952).

Jordan, Weymouth T. Antebellum Alabama: Town and Country. Tuscaloosa, 1987.

Marks, Henry S., ed. "The Alabama Coastline in 1854." Alabama Historical Quarterly 38 (fall 1976).

Mason, Philip M. "Henry Minor, 1783-1838." Alabama Review 12 (April 1959).

McWilliams, Tennant S. "The Marquis and the Myth: Lafayette's Visit to Alabama, 1825." Alabama Review 22 (April 1969).

Morgan, David T. "Philip Phillips and Internal Improvements in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Alabama." Alabama Review 34 (April 1981).

Morris, Sylvia B. "Ignatius Pollak (1846-1915): Alabama Entrepreneur." Alabama Review 55 (July 2002).

Owsley, Frank L. Jr. "Francis Scott Key's Mission to Alabama in 1833." Alabama Review 23 (July 1970).

Penicaut, M. "Annals of Louisiana from 1868 to 1922." Alabama Historical Quarterly 5 (fall 1943).

Sarkesian, Barbara. "Alabama in 1845 Compiled." Alabama Review 26 (April 1973).

Shields, Johanna Nicole. "An Antebellum Maverick: Henry Washington Hilliard, 1845-1851." Alabama Review 30 (July 1977).

Sterkx, H. E. "Joel Dyer Murphree, Troy Merchant, 1843-1868." Alabama Review 11 (April 1958).

Stone, James H. "Surveying the Gaines Trace, 1807-1808." Alabama Historical Quarterly 33 (summer 1971).

-------. "Edmund Pendleton Gaines' Description of the Upper Tombigbee River, January 1808." Alabama Historical Quarterly 33 (fall and winter 1971).

Toulmin's Digest, 1823.

"United States Land Offices in Alabama, 1803-1879." Alabama Historical Quarterly 17 (fall 1955).

Viccars, Marion. "A Swedish Writer Visits the Deep South in 1851." Alabama Historical Quarterly 38 (spring 1976).

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Municipal

Delaney, Caldwell. The Phoenix Volunteer Fire Company of Mobile, 1838-1888. Mobile, 1967.

Sharp, Andrew D. and Greta J. Sharp. "Investigating the Impact of Property Taxation on the Architecture of Antebellum Homes in Natchez, Vicksburg, and Mobile." Gulf South Historical Review 19 (fall 2003).


Newspapers

Burnett, Lonnie Alexander. "The Pen Makes a Good Sword: John Forsyth and the Mobile Register, 1837-1877." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 2000.

Current-Garcia, Eugene. "Newspaper Humor in the Old South, 1835-1855." Alabama Review 2 (April 1949).

Gray, Daniel Savage. "Frontier Journalism: Newspapers in Antebellum Alabama." Alabama Historical Quarterly 37 (fall 1975).

Helmbold, F. Wilbur. "Early Alabama Newspapermen, 1810-1820." Alabama Review 12 (January 1959).

McKenzie, Robert H. "Newspapers and Newspaper Men during Tuscaloosa's Capital Period, 1826-1846." Alabama Historical Quarterly 34 (fall and winter 1982).

Mitchell, Lois Dumas. Mobile Ship News. Vol. 1, 1821-1822. Mobile, 1964.

Poore, Ralph E. Jr. Alabama's Enterprising Newspaper: The Mobile Press Register and Its Forebears, 1813-1991 (1992).

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Political

"Alabama Militia, Election Returns, 1821." Alabama Historical Quarterly 18 (1956).

Atkins, Leah. "Williamson R. W. Cobb and the Graduation Act of 1854." Alabama Review 28 (January 1975).

Briceland, Alan V. "Land, Law, and Politics on the Tombigbee Frontier, 1804." Alabama Review 33 (January 1980).

Draughon, Ralph B. Jr. "George Smith Houston and Southern Unity, 1846-1849." Alabama Review 19 (July 1966).

Evans, Curt J. "He 'Dared Mountain' His Views: Daniel Pratt's 1855 Senate Race." Alabama Review 50 (January 1997).

Golden, B. G. "The Presidential Election of 1840 in Alabama." Alabama Review 23 (April 1970).

Horton, Paul. "The Culture, Social Structure, and Political Economy of Antebellum Lawrence County." Alabama Review 41 (October 1988).

"List of Voters at an Election Held at Notasulga, 1849." Alabama Historical Quarterly 18 (summer 1956).

Martin, John M. "The Senatorial Career of Jeremiah Clemens, 1849-1853." Alabama Historical Quarterly 43 (fall 1981).

Mayer, Henry. "'A Leaven of Disunion': The Growth of the Secessionist Faction in Alabama, 1847-1851." Alabama Review 22 (April 1969).

McCrary, Royce C. "Henry W. Hilliard and the Southern Caucus of 1848-49: A Letter to John Macpherson Berrien." Alabama Historical Quarterly 37 (summer 1975).

McGregor, Robert C. "Between Two Wars: Alabama in the House of Representatives, 1849-1861." Alabama Historical Quarterly 42 (fall and winter 1980).

McMillan, Malcolm Cook. "The Alabama Constitution of 1819: A Study of Constitution- Making on the Frontier." Alabama Review 3 (October 1950).

-------. "Taylor's Presidential Campaign in Alabama, 1847-1848." Alabama Review 13 (April 1960).

-------. Constitutional Development in Alabama, 1798-1901: A Study in Politics, the Negro, and Sectionalism. Spartanburg, 1978.

"Proceedings of Alabama Legislature, December 8, 1820." Alabama Historical Quarterly 18 (fall 1956).

"Republicanism in Jefferson County, Alabama, 1857-1858." Alabama Historical Quarterly 22 (spring and summer 1960).

Rogers, William Warren Jr. "Alabama and the Presidential Election of 1836." Alabama Review 35 (April 1982).

Thompson, Alan S. "Southern Rights and Nativism as Issues in Mobile Politics, 1850-1861." Alabama Review 35 (April 1982).

Williams, Clanton W. "Conservatism in Old Montgomery, 1817-1861." Alabama Review 10 (April 1957).

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Recreation

"Principle Stage Stops and Taverns in What is Now Alabama." Alabama Historical Quarterly 17 (spring and summer 1955).

St. John, Sam B. History of the Mobile Yacht Club, est. 1847. Mobile, 2000.

"Washington Hall, Claiborne's Leading Hotel, 1844." Alabama Historical Quarterly 19 (1957).


Religion

A Century of Service for the Sacred Heart in the United States by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, 1847-1947.

"A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Alabama." Alabama Historical Quarterly 17 (winter 1955).

Big Zion A.M.E. Zion Church Sesquicentennial Celebration, 1842-1992.

Crow, Anna B. Behind the Wall: The Sisters of the Visitation, Mobile, Alabama, Their Community, Academy and Retreat House, 1833-2002. Mobile, 2002.

Glisson, Martha McGhee. "The Role of the Good Hope Baptist Church in the Community of Uchee, 1837-1987." Alabama Review 42 (July 1989).

History of First Baptist Church of Mobile, 1845-1945 (1959).

Kenney, Michael, S.J. Catholic Culture in Alabama: Centenary Story of Spring Hill College, 1830-1930. New York, 1931.

Kennington, S. Albert. From the Day of Small Things: The Story of Trinity Church, Mobile, 1845-1995. Mobile, 1996.

Lights and Shadows: The Story of the Convent, Academy and Retreat House of the Visitation, Mobile, Alabama, 1833-1983.

Richardson, Frederick Douglas. The Stone Street Baptist Church -- [Mobile] Alabama's First, 1806-1982. Boynton Beach, Fla.: Future Printing.

Rogers, William W. Jr. "'The Husbandman that Laboureth Must be First Partaker of the Fruits,' (2 Timothy 2:6): Agricultural Reform in Ante Bellum Alabama." Alabama Historical Quarterly 40 (spring and summer 1978).

Whatley, George C. III. "The Alabama Presbyterian and His Slave, 1830-1864." Alabama Review 13 (January 1960).

White, Walter Belt. History of the First Baptist Church of Talladega, Alabama: Its Pastors, People, and Programs Through One Hundred Fifty Years, 1835-1985. Macon, 1985.

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Transportation

Holt, Rebecca Agnew and Mary Lightfoot Garland. "Landon Gabell Garland's Letter Book While President of the Northeast and Southwest Alabama Railroad Company (1854-1855)." Alabama Historical Quarterly 34 (spring 1972).

Irons, George Vernon. "River Ferries in Alabama before 1861." Alabama Review 4 (January 1951).

Knetsch, Joe. "The Canal Era in West Florida: 1821-1845." Gulf Coast Historical Review 7 (fall 1991).

Lytle, William M. & Forrest R. Holdcamper; Revised by C. Bradford Mitchell. Merchant Steam Vessels of the United States, 1790-1868, "The Lytle-Holdcamper List." Staten Island, 1975.

Miller, Grace Lewis. "Mobile and Ohio Railroad in Ante Bellum Times." Alabama Historical Quarterly 7 (spring 1945).

Mitchell, Lois Dumas. Mobile Ship News. Vol. 1, 1821-1822. Mobile, 1964.

Mueller, Edward A. Perilous Journeys: A History of Steamboating on the Chattahoochee, Apalachicola, and Flint Rivers, 1828-1928. Eufaula, Ala., 1990.

"Principle Stage Stops and Taverns in What is Now Alabama." Alabama Historical Quarterly 17 (spring and summer 1955).

Sloan, Edward W. "The Roots of a Maritime Fortune: E. K. Collins and the New York-Gulf Coast Trade, 1821-1848." Gulf Coast Historical Review 5 (spring 1990).

Southerland, Henry Jr. "The Federal Road, Gateway to Alabama, 1806-1836." Alabama Review 39 (April 1986).

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Women

Amos, Harriet E. "'City Belles': Images and Realities of the Lives of White Women in Antebellum Mobile." Alabama Review 34 (January 1981).

Crow, Anna B. Behind the Wall: The Sisters of the Visitation, Mobile, Alabama, Their Community, Academy and Retreat House, 1833-2002. Mobile, 2002.

Ellison, Rhoda Coleman. "Caroline Lee Hentz's Alabama Diary 1836." Alabama Review 4 (October 1951).

Gould, Lois Virginia Meacham. "In Full Enjoyment of Their Liberty: The Free Women of Color of the Gulf Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola, 1769-1860." Ph.D. diss., Emory University, 1991.

Hunt, Robert E. "Home, Domesticity, and School Reform in Antebellum Alabama." Alabama Review 49 (October 1996).

Johnson, Kenneth R. "White Married Women in Antebellum Alabama." Alabama Review 43 (January 1990).

Lights and Shadows: The Story of the Convent, Academy and Retreat House of the Visitation, Mobile, Alabama, 1833-1983.

Taylor, Elizabeth A. "Regulations Governing Student Life at the Judson Female Institute During the Decade Preceding Civil War." Alabama Historical Quarterly 3 (spring 1941).

Thomas, Mary Martha. Stepping Out of the Shadows: Alabama Women, 1819-1990. Tuscaloosa, 1995.

*This guide was compiled by Thomas Ashby and Carol Ellis, 2005-2006, and prepared by Carol Ellis, 2006.