Project MUSE®: Alabama Review - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Alabama Review.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 60 (2007) through current issueLatest Articles: Alabama ReviewTWOProject MUSE®Alabama Review2166-99610002-4341Latest articles in Alabama Review. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Convict Leasing and the University of Alabama’s Coal Lands
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981377
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In 1884, congress granted the state of alabama 46,080 acres of federal land. The funds generated by these coal-rich properties were used to rebuild the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, which had been destroyed in the closing days of the Civil War. During this same period, the workforce in Alabama’s coal mines included hundreds of convicts, who had been sentenced to hard labor by the State of Alabama and its counties. These men ---Black men, primarily--- lived and worked under often-horrendous conditions in Alabama’s mine prisons.1 This article explores the connections between Alabama’s oldest state university and the system that Alabama legislators referred to as “slavery in its worst aspect,” “that octopus of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/576/image/coversmallConvict Leasing and the University of Alabama’s Coal Lands2026-01-24text/htmlen-USConvict Leasing and the University of Alabama’s Coal Lands2026-01-242026TWOProject MUSE®1402612026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-24The Unfulfilled Vision of the National Strength Research Center
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981378
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We had a training room which was next to the football training room. If you would call anything a strength center, that would have been it. But it was a theory or concept and not an office.1From 1960 to 1980, higher education in the United States experienced an unprecedented expansion. It was a period when baby boomers were coming of age and seeking a college education to propel upward mobility. Demand was high. According to Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California and architect of the multi-university concept, student enrollments more than tripled, from 3.5 million to twelve million in two decades, mostly in public institutions. This growth was especially evident in the number of community
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/576/image/coversmallThe Unfulfilled Vision of the National Strength Research Center2026-01-24text/htmlen-USThe Unfulfilled Vision of the National Strength Research Center2026-01-242026TWOProject MUSE®1457522026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-24Native American Women and the Burdens of Southern History by Daniel H. Usner (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981379
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Daniel Usner’s new work on Indigenous women in the Lower Mississippi Valley is an insightful, meditative love-letter to the scholars and scholarship related to the study of Native American history in the South. Based on his talk as part of the Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History, an annual series hosted by Louisiana State University’s Department of History, Usner explores the “burdens” that Native women in the South have endured for centuries on account of their many contacts, exchanges, and relationships with Euro-Americans. Usner also illustrates how erasure of Native women from our national mythos, southern memory, and the documentary record has not only proved willful and pervasive throughout
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/576/image/coversmallNative American Women and the Burdens of Southern History by Daniel H. Usner (review)2026-01-24text/htmlen-USNative American Women and the Burdens of Southern History by Daniel H. Usner (review)2026-01-242026TWOProject MUSE®96892026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-24Mobile and Havana: Sisters across the Gulf by John S. Sledge and Alicia E. García-Santana (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981380
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Mobile and Havana: Sisters Across the Gulf is a novel examination of the “500-year drama” of intertwined history between the cities of Mobile, Alabama, and La Habana, Cuba (22). With its wide page dimensions, thick glossy paper, and large, high-quality photographs, Mobile and Havana would feel right at home sitting on a coffee table. Those physical qualities signal the fact that this is not a traditional academic monograph, but rather a work of public history unto itself. Though aimed at a wide general audience, scholars will still find value in the book’s source-driven approach to examining Alabama’s too-often-forgotten historical relationship with Cuba and the broader Gulf World.This book is the result of an
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/576/image/coversmallMobile and Havana: Sisters across the Gulf by John S. Sledge and Alicia E. García-Santana (review)2026-01-24text/htmlen-USMobile and Havana: Sisters across the Gulf by John S. Sledge and Alicia E. García-Santana (review)2026-01-242026TWOProject MUSE®99952026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-24From Every Stormy Wind that Blows: The Idea of Howard College and the Origins of Samford University by S. Jonathan Bass (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981381
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S. Jonathan Bass’s From Every Stormy Wind that Blows: The Idea of Howard College and the Origins of Samford University is effectively a history of Alabama’s Howard College from its incorporation in 1841 to its emergence from chronic debt in 1899. Twenty subsequent years of the school’s history are skipped while an epilogue of six pages covers the period between 1919 and 1965 when the school changed its name to Samford University.Baptists founded Howard College in Marion, Alabama, and named the institution after British philanthropist, prison reformer, and reputed Baptist, John Howard. For its first few years the school provided only preparatory classes until initiating collegiate courses in 1846. Although a Baptist
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/576/image/coversmallFrom Every Stormy Wind that Blows: The Idea of Howard College and the Origins of Samford University by S. Jonathan Bass (review)2026-01-24text/htmlen-USFrom Every Stormy Wind that Blows: The Idea of Howard College and the Origins of Samford University by S. Jonathan Bass (review)2026-01-242026TWOProject MUSE®99342026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-24Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White by Andrew Sillen (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981382
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In Kidnapped at Sea, paleoanthropologist Andrew Sillen tells the story of a freeborn Black teenager, David Henry White, who took his chances on the high seas to earn a living as a sailor on commercial vessels but ultimately became part of the Lost Cause mythology emphasizing Black fealty to the Confederacy.Sillen chronicles White’s early life as a free Black child and teenager in slave state Delaware. By 1860, at the age of about fourteen, White freely worked for a Delaware businessman, Edward Watson, who accumulated debts and faced seizure of his property. Eventually, sources portrayed Watson as White’s enslaver and master, but Sillen definitively proves that White never worked as either an enslaved person or an
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/576/image/coversmallKidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White by Andrew Sillen (review)2026-01-24text/htmlen-USKidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White by Andrew Sillen (review)2026-01-242026TWOProject MUSE®79022026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-24The Proof is in the Dough: Rural Southern Women, Extension, and Making Money Kathryn L. Beasley (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981383
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The Proof is in the Dough: Rural Southern Women, Extension, and Making Money is about rural women, extension, and money-making specifically in Alabama and Florida, so the book’s title is perhaps a bit broad, suggestive of a wider perspective than its actual narrative. Although the cover-wording may not really make clear the two-state socioeconomics within, the topics of rural extension programming and how women financially benefited southern households as critical income producers for farm families are spot on. The detailed Alabama and Florida scholarship Kathryn Beasley presents with extensive examples and case studies is what makes the study unique. In particular, Florida’s descriptions are unusual and expand our
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/576/image/coversmallThe Proof is in the Dough: Rural Southern Women, Extension, and Making Money Kathryn L. Beasley (review)2026-01-24text/htmlen-USThe Proof is in the Dough: Rural Southern Women, Extension, and Making Money Kathryn L. Beasley (review)2026-01-242026TWOProject MUSE®117322026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-24Teaching Public History Creatively in Alabama: About (Public) Face by Sharony Green (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981384
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Readers coming to Teaching Public History Creatively in Alabama expecting a textbook treatment of the topic will be either disappointed or pleasantly surprised. This reviewer was pleasantly surprised.While author Sharony Green, a professor of history at the University of Alabama, discusses her philosophy and teaching methods, and why sharing historical knowledge with the public is vital to understanding our past and our present, the book is also a personal memoir of Green’s life, the experiences of her family and ancestors, and how her status as a woman and a person of color inform her teaching. An experienced filmmaker, painter, and trained dancer, Green works with colleagues across disciplines and incorporates
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/576/image/coversmallTeaching Public History Creatively in Alabama: About (Public) Face by Sharony Green (review)2026-01-24text/htmlen-USTeaching Public History Creatively in Alabama: About (Public) Face by Sharony Green (review)2026-01-242026TWOProject MUSE®61792026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-24Speaking of Alabama: The History, Diversity, Function and Change of Language ed. by Thomas E. Nunnally (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981385
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In this collection of essays, Thomas Nunnally has assembled fourteen short and informative chapters on language in Alabama. The work builds off of an earlier collection of research, published in the 2007–2008 issue of Tributaries, the journal of the Alabama Folklife Association, with updates, revisions, and three new essays. Nunnally, a professor emeritus of English at Auburn University, bridges the gap between linguistics scholars and the general public interested in what he calls “that most human of human abilities” (xviii). To that end, the collected authors provide common-sense explanations where terms or concepts might be overly specialized, and Nunnally has included three appendices to provide “an
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/576/image/coversmallSpeaking of Alabama: The History, Diversity, Function and Change of Language ed. by Thomas E. Nunnally (review)2026-01-24text/htmlen-USSpeaking of Alabama: The History, Diversity, Function and Change of Language ed. by Thomas E. Nunnally (review)2026-01-242026TWOProject MUSE®46892026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-24