Includes bibliographical references and index.

Civil War and reconstruction. The young manhood of William L. Yancey / Ralph B. Draughon, Jr. -- Selma and the Confederate States Navy / William N. Still -- The Cahawba military prison, 1863-1865 / Peter A. Brannon -- The 1863 raid of Abel D. Streight : why it failed / James F.Cook -- Five men called scalawags / Sarah Van V. Woolfolk -- Carpetbaggers in Alabama : tradition versus truth / Sarah Van Woolfolk -- Josiah Gorgas and the Brierfield Iron Works / Frank E. Vandiver -- Female planters and planters' wives in Civil War and reconstruction : Alabama, 1850-1870 / Jonathan M. Wiener -- Bourbonism and Populism. The revolution in nineteenth-century Alabama agriculture / Grady McWhiney -- The Alabama state grange / William Warren Rogers -- William Manning Lowe and the greenback party in Alabama / Frances Roberts -- The farmers' alliance in Alabama / William Warren Rogers -- Governor Johnston's attempt to unseat Senator Morgan, 1899-1900 / Roseph A. Fry -- Progressive era. Political reforms of the progressive era / Allen W. Jones -- Comer, Smith, and Jones : Alabama's railroad war of 1907-1914 / James F. Doster -- Edgar Gardner Murphy and the child labor movement / Hugh C. Bailey -- George Gordon Crawford : man of the new south / Marlene Hunt Rikard -- Religion in the urban south : the divided religious mind of Birmingham, 1900-1930 / Wayne Flynt -- The woman suffrage movement in Alabama, 1910-1920 / Lee N. Allen -- The twenties. Henry Ford and Muscle Shoals / Leslie S. Wright -- Fiery crosses in the roaring twenties : activities of the revised Klan in Alabama, 1915-1930 / william R. SNell -- The 1924 Underwood campaignin Alabama / Lee N. Allen -- Bibb Graves as a progressive, 1927-1930 / William E. Gilbert -- Alabama politics, J. Thomas Heflin, and the expulsion movement of 1929 / J. Mills Thornton III -- The great depression. Spindle, mine, and mule : the poor white experience in post-civil war Alabama / Wayne Flynt -- World War II and beyond. The old order changes : graves, sparks, Folsom, and the gubernatorial election of 1942 / William D. Barnard -- The senate's rejection of Aubrey Williams as rural electrification administrator / Leonard Dinnerstein -- James E. Folsom's 1946 campaign / Carl Grafton -- Challenge and response in the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-1956 / J. Mills Thornton III.