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Author:   William Warren Rogers
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
Imprint:   The University of Alabama Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.367kg
ISBN:  

9780817362003

ISBN 10:   0817362002
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   15 April 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. “I Do Not Know that the Un__y of Ala. Will Ever Be Rebuilt” Chapter 2. “Peace Is the Indispensable Condition of Education”: The Reinvigoration of Southern State Universities, 1865‒1868 Chapter 3. Faltering Renaissance Chapter 4. “A Position Connected with the University Is Not at Present a Very Pleasant One” Chapter 5. In Search of a President Chapter 6. “Mrs. Partington and the Sea” Chapter 7. “The Revered Old Intellectual Mother Will Weather the Storm” Chapter 8. “We Have a University to Resuscitate” Chapter 9. Courting the Commodore: The University of Alabama Lures a President Chapter 10. Aftermath Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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""From a wealth of scattered details, Rogers has constructed an engaging narrative of the postwar struggles to set the path for Alabama's future leaders. To call the book well researched and documented is to understate the case."" --G. Ward Hubbs, author of Searching for Freedom after the Civil War ""Rogers adds precision to a less understood era in the UA and Reconstruction-era higher education. The author moves beyond the Sellers' classic and offers fresh insights."" --Hilary Green, author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890

""From a wealth of scattered details, Rogers has constructed an engaging narrative of the postwar struggles to set the path for Alabama's future leaders. To call the book well researched and documented is to understate the case."" --G. Ward Hubbs, author of Searching for Freedom after the Civil War ""Warren Rogers' book on the college experience during Reconstruction raises an important and timely topic, campus life in a time of political passion. The focus--the University of Alabama--was beset by a local Ku Klux Klan and a newspaper editor who revelled in personal violence. The result was chaos, and Republican attempts at bipartisan balance didn't help. Rogers' book demonstrates the impossibility of protecting free speech for Alabama's few white Republicans while maintaining racial exclusion as state policy. The outcome set the stage for the integration conflict on the campus in the mid-1950s, and on the famed George Wallace confrontation in 1963. The book thus offers a bracing look at academic freedom that will be of interest to modern readers."" --Michael W. Fitzgerald, author of Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South ""Rogers adds precision to a less understood era in the UA and Reconstruction-era higher education. The author moves beyond the Sellers' classic and offers fresh insights."" --Hilary Green, author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890

Author Information

William Warren Rogers Jr. is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Georgia. He is author of Reconstruction Politics in a Deep South State: Alabama, 1865–1874; A Scalawag in Georgia: Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction; Confederate Home Front: Montgomery during the Civil War; and Black Belt Scalawag: Charles Hays and the Southern Republicans in the Era of Reconstruction.

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