Alabama Historical Association
Annual Meeting Presentations
1948–1979
1st Annual Meeting — 1948
"James M. Torbert's 1848 Day Book"
Peter A. Brannon, Curator, Department of Archives and History, Montgomery
"Ante-Bellum Mobile: Alabama's Agricultural Emporium"
Dr. Weymouth T. Jordan, Auburn
"Some Pioneer Alabama Historians"
Dr. Wendell H. Stephenson, Tulane University
2nd Annual Meeting — 1949
"Stories and Facts Told by Some Old Marble Tombstones in Alabama"
Mrs. Mynatt Winston Peace, Sylacauga
"Famous Outlaws of Alabama"
Dr. George R. Stuart, President, Birmingham-Southern College
"An Alabama Confederate Soldier's Report to His Wife"
Dr. Robert L. Partin, Auburn
"Student Life at the University of Alabama Prior to 1860"
Dr. James B. Sellers, University
"Blount Springs: Alabama's Foremost Watering Place of Yesteryear"
James F. Sulzby Jr., Birmingham (Presidential Address)
"The C. C. Clay Family in Early Alabama History"
Dr. Frank L. Owsley, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
3rd Annual Meeting — 1950
"Selma, 1861–65"
Rucker Agee, Birmingham
"The Alabama Constitution of 1819: A Study in Constitution Making on the Frontier"
Dr. Malcolm C. McMillan, Auburn
"River Ferries in Alabama Prior to 1861"
Dr. George V. Irons, Howard College, Birmingham
"Source Material for Histories of Alabama Families"
Mrs. B. W. Gandrud, Tuscaloosa
"The Career of Admiral Raphael Semmes Before the Cruise of the Sumter"
Dr. Charles G. Summersell, University
"The Confederate Military Prison at Cahawba" (Presidential Address)
Peter A. Brannon, Montgomery
4th Annual Meeting — 1951
"County Agricultural Societies in Alabama to 1860"
Dr. W. T. Jordan, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
"A Half Century of Science on Alabama Farms"
P. O. Davis, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and M. J. Funchess, Alabama
Polytechnic Institute
"Penicaut as Alabama's First Literary Figure"
Richebourg C. McWilliams, Birmingham-Southern College
"Henry Hitchcock of Mobile, 1818–1839"
William H. Brantley Jr., Birmingham
"Development Pattern of North Alabama Towns before 1830"
Dr. Gordon Chappell, Huntingdon College, Montgomery
"Mrs. A. F. Hopkins and the Alabama Military Hospitals"
Miss Lucille Griffith, Alabama College, Montevallo
"Steamboats on the Coosa"
Marvin B. Small, Gadsden
"William Manning Lowe and the Greenback Party in Alabama"
Miss Frances Roberts, Huntsville High School, Huntsville
"Rummaging in Alabama's Background" (Presidential Address)
Alfred B. Moore, University
"The De Luna Expedition"
N. H. Holmes, Mobile
"The Alabama Negro Colony in Mexico, 1894–96"
Dr. A. W. Reynolds, Alabama Polytechnic Institute
5th Annual Meeting — 1952
"Railroads of the Confederate States"
Robert S. Henry, Association of American Railroads, Washington, D.C.
"A Connecticut Yankee in Ante-Bellum Alabama"
William Pratt Dale, Howard College
"William R. King in Public Life"
Walter M. Jackson, Superintendent of Schools, Decatur
"Negro Colloquialisms in the Alabama Black Belt"
Hamner Cobbs, Editor, the Greensboro Watchman
"Madame Octavia Walton Le Vert: The South's Most Famous Belle"
Dean Caldwell Delaney, University Military School, Mobile
"The Alabama Republican Party in the Nineteenth Century"
Dr. Allen J. Going, University of Alabama
"An Appraisal of the Leading Alabama Congressmen in the First Wilson Administration"
Dr. Jack E. Kendrick, Alabama Polytechnic Institute
"Marking Historic Sites in Alabama" (Presidential Address)
Rucker Agee, Birmingham
6th Annual Meeting — 1953
"The Thirty-first Division in World War II"
Lieutenant General John C. Persons, Birmingham
"A Daughter's Recollections of Peter J. Hamilton, Mobile Historian"
Mrs. R. D. Hamilton Cannon, Mobile
"The Southern Commercial Congress in Mobile, 1913"
Dr. Leon F. Sensabaugh, Birmingham-Southern College
"The Confederate Defenses of Mobile"
Ralph G. Holberg Jr., Mobile
"The Alabama State Docks, A Quarter of a Century"
Jerry P. Turner, Mobile
'The History of Spring Hill College"
Rev. Roy W. Vollenweider, S. J., Spring Hill College
"History of the Oil Industry in Alabama"
Dr. Walter B. Jones, State Geologist, University
"History of Conservation in Alabama"
Earl M. McGowin, Director of Conservation, Montgomery
"John Williams Walker, Pioneer Statesman of Alabama"
Dr. Frank L. Owsley, University of Alabama
"The O'Neals of Florence, Alabama"
Dr. Malcolm C. McMillen, Alabama Polytechnic Institute
"Mary Gordon Duffee, History of the Hill Country"
Mrs. Bester Brown and Mrs. Drayton Nabers, Birmingham
"Women's Patriotic Societies in Alabama"
Mrs. Joe E. Cooper, Huntsville
"Some Aspects of Alabama Bond Issues" (Presidential Address)
Dr. Ralph B. Draughon
7th Annual Meeting — 1954
"Alabama Iron Manufacturing: 1860–1865"
Joseph H. Woodward, Woodward
"James Asbury Tait — Wilcox County Pioneer"
Perry Cochran, University of Alabama
"Early Man in the Tennessee Valley"
Frank J. Soday, Decatur
"Outpost of Empire: David Wedderburne at Mobile, 1765"
Robert R. Rhea, Alabama Polytechnic Institute
"Old Mobile Recipes"
Ladies of the Historic Mobile Preservation Society
"Alabama Secedes"
William H. Brantley Jr., Birmingham (Presidential Address)
"The Kolb-Jones Gubernatorial Race, 1892"
Charles G. Summersell, University of Alabama
"Social Life in the Alabama Black Belt, 1875–1917"
Glenn N. Sisk, Georgia Institute of Technology
"The Registration of Voters and Elections of Delegates to the Reconstruction Convention
in Alabama"
Robert Rhodes, Montgomery
"Landowning Patterns in Ante-Bellum Montgomery County"
Warren I. Smith, Judson College
"Old Schools in Alabama"
Mary S. Butler, Selma
"Medical Education in Alabama"
Dr. Howard Holley, Medical College of Alabama, Birmingham
"Dueling in Alabama"
Peter A. Brannon, Department of Archives and History, Montgomery
8th Annual Meeting — 1955
"Mobile During Reconstruction"
Charles DiMassio and James Fowler, Mobile
"Mardis Gras in Mobile"
N. J. Stallworth, Mobile
"Albert J. Pickett, Historian of Alabama"
Frank L. Owsley Jr., University of Alabama
"Two Early Letters from Alabama"
Mark E. Fretwell, West Point, Georgia
"The Evolution of Alabama's Legislature"
Hallie Farmer, Alabama College
"The War of the Roses; A Neglected Chapter in Alabama History"
Austin L. Venable, University of Alabama, Montgomery Center
"The Election of 1912 in Alabama"
Howard W. Smith, Spring Hill College
"Oscar W. Underwood and the Democratic National Convention of 1924"
Hugh D. Reagan, Alabama Polytechnic Institute
NO TITLE (Presidential Address)
George R. Stuart, Birmingham-Southern College
"Old Gainesville"
Thad Holt, Birmingham
"History of Decatur"
Walter M. Jackson, Decatur
"History of Huntingdon College"
Rhoda C. Ellison, Huntingdon College
"Howard College as a Confederate Hospital During the War for Southern Independence"
George V. Irons, Howard College
"The Baptist Influence on the Negro before the Civil War"
Nancy C. Roberson, Jacksonville State College and Calhoun Historical Society
"Huntsville's John Williams Walker and the 'Georgia Machine' in Early Alabama
Politics"
Hugh Bailey, Howard College
"The Big Spring in Huntsville History"
Mrs. J. F. Harbarger, Huntsville
"Early Settlements in North Madison County"
Alice Thomas, Huntsville
9th Annual Meeting — 1956
"The Greatest Music in the World"
Roger Thames, Radio and Television editor, The Birmingham News
"Gold Mining in Alabama before 1860"
Robert A Russell, Russell Manufacturing Company, Alexander City
"A History of Alabama's 167th Infantry Regiment"
Sam Perry Given, Birmingham
"This is Birmingham: The Story of the Founding and Development of an American City"
John C. Henley III, Birmingham
"Comer, Smith, and Jones: Alabama's Railroad War of 1907–1914"
Dr. James F. Doster, University of Alabama
"Bibb Graves as a Progressive, 1927–1930"
William E. Gilbert, Jacksonville State Teachers College
"Conservatism in Old Montgomery"
Dr. Clanton W. Williams, Vice-President, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
"Jefferson Davis Comes to Montgomery"
Dr. Hudson Strode, University of Alabama
"An Alabama Student, J. Y. Bassett, M. D."
Dr. Carey V. Stabler, Florence State Teachers College
"Alabama During the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878"
Dr. Robert Partin, Alabama Polytechnic Institute
"The Early Life of Oscar W. Underwood"
Chester Evan Johnson, Stetson College, Deland, Florida
"Dr. Henry Tutwiler and the Green Springs School"
Judge Walter B. Jones, Montgomery
"Braxton Bragg: Citizen of Alabama and General of the Confederacy"
Dr. Norborne R. Clarke Jr., Mobile
"Governor Charles Henderson"
Mrs. Margaret Pace Farmer, Troy
"Early Settlers of Talladega County"
Miss E. Grace Jemison, Talladega
"Some Aspects of Waning British Influence in the Middle Gulf Region" (Presidential Address)
N. Floyd McGowin, Chapman
10th Annual Meeting — 1957
"Captain Slick, Arbiter of Community Ethics and Morals"
James Bragg, Gadsden
"Early Mapping of Alabama"
Rucker Agee, Birmingham
"Chapters in the History of Alabama College"
Dr. Anne Eastman, Alabama College
"The Founding of Old Southern University"
Dr. Joseph H. Parks, Birmingham-Southern College
"A Decade of the Alabama History Association"
James F. Sulzby Jr., Birmingham
"Re-appraisal of the Battle of New Orleans"
Major General William H. Brown, U. S. Marin Corps (ret.), University of Alabama
"Andrew Jackson's Forgotten Army"
Walter W. Stephen, Oxford
"Early Alabama Physicians"
Dr. Emmette B. Carmichael, University of Alabama Medical College
"Henry Hotze and the London Index"
William Ward, Birmingham
"Alabama Female Academies, 1830–1865"
Richard W. Massey Jr., Birmingham
"The Activities of the Benedictine Monks in Alabama, 1875–1956"
Rev. Aloysius Plaisance, O.S.B., St. Bernard College
"Alabama and the Supreme Court: The First Case" (Presidential Address)
Dr. Charles G. Summersell, University
"John McKinley: Alabama's First Federal Supreme Court Justice"
George Whatley II, University of Alabama
"Decorative Plants around Alabama Historic Homes"
Dr. Henry Orr, Alabama Polytechnic Institute
"N. B. Forrest as a Railroad Builder in Alabama"
John G. Jay, Greensboro
"William Weatherford and the Creek War"
Colonel Edward Weatherford, Huntsville
"Ante-Bellum Gospel of Manufacturing in Alabama"
Dr. Weymouth T. Jordan, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
"Joel D. Murphee, Merchant of Troy"
Dr. H. E. Sterkx, State Teachers College, Troy
"Superstitions of the Black Belt"
Hamner Cobb, Greensboro
11th Annual Meeting — 1958
"Old Glennville: Its Cultural Background"
Peter A. Brannon, Department of Archives and History, Montgomery
"Gadsden from Teepees to Steamboats"
Rev. Elbert L. Watson, East Gadsden
"The Beginnings of Alabama: Early Settlements on the Tombigbee and Tensaw Rivers"
Dr. James F. Doster, University of Alabama
"Towns of the Past in Alabama"
William H. Jenkins, Decatur
"Henry Minor, Lawyer and Public Servant, 1783–1838"
Philip M. Mason, University of Alabama, Huntsville Center
"Civil War Days in Calhoun County"
Jack D. Boozer, Jacksonville
"Wandering Newspapermen in Early Alabama"
F. Wilbur Helmbold, Howard College
"The Significance of Persistent Whiggery in Alabama and the Lower South during Civil
War and Reconstruction"
Thomas B. Alexander, University of Alabama
"The Life and Times of A. C. Ramsay—Frontier Circuit Rider"
Ralph M. Tanner, Walker College, Jasper
"Higher Education in Alabama's Tennessee Valley Region, 1830–1899"
Richard W. Griffin, Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Illustrated by Maxine Gatewood Aycock,
Birmingham.
"Thousands of Years in Alabama"
Brittain Thompson, Alabama Anthropological Society
"The Shaping of Alabama"
Dr. J. Allen Tower, Birmingham-Southern College
"Legend of Noccalula"
Mrs. Mary Harrison Lister, Gadsden
"Treaties before and after the Horseshoe" (Presidential Address)
Judge C. J. Coley, Alexander City
"Monberaut of Mobile: A Question of Loyalty in British West Florida"
Milo B. Howard Jr., Alabama Polytechnic Institute
"Salt Mining in Washington County, 1800–1957"
Theodore Bowling Pearson, Chatom
"Hernando De Soto's Route Through Alabama"
James Y. Brame, Montgomery
"A Senate Hearing in 1883"
Mervyn H. Sterne, Birmingham
"Some Experiences with Local History"
Hon. Carl Elliott, Member of Congress, Jasper
12th Annual Meeting — 1959
"St. Andrews in Prairieville"
William M. Spencer, Birmingham
"Old Homes of Tuscaloosa"
Matthew W. Clinton, Tuscaloosa
"Pioneer Baptist Historian: Hosea Holcombe"
Dr. Davis C. Woolley, Howard College
"A Brief on the Alabama Presbyterian and His Slave, 1830–1860"
George C. Whatley III, Jacksonville State College
"Brigadier General James H. Clanton"
William H. Davidson, West Point, Georgia
"The C. S. S. Tuscaloosa"
Dr. Wm. Stanley Hoole, University of Alabama
"Letters from a High Shelf: Sumter County Court House"
Judge Wilbur E. Dearman, Livingston
"The Confederate Veteran Magazine: Champion of the Lost Cause"
Dr. Bernarr Cresap, Florence State College
"South Carolina's Concern in Fort Alabama, Focal Point of Frontier Rivalry, 1714–1753"
Dr. Lucille Griffith, Alabama College, Montevallo
"Colbert's Reserve and the Chickasaw Treaty of 1818"
Charles W. Watts, Cherokee
"Dr. Jerome Cochran (1831–1896), a Dedicated Nineteenth Century Yellow Fever Fighter"
Dr. Robert L. Partin, Alabama Polytechnic Institute
"J. W. Worthington, Promoter of Muscle Shoals Power"
Adrian George Daniel, University of Alabama
"Old Alabama Forts" (Presidential Address)
William H. Jenkins, Decatur
"Admiral Raphael Semmes after the War"
Dr. Charles G. Summersell, University of Alabama
"Mobile in Fiction"
Caldwell Delaney, Mobile
"John H. Dent, an Alabama Planter During Reconstruction"
Dr. Thomas A. Belser, Alabama Polytechnic Institute
"A Scandinavian Colony in Alabama"
Mrs. R. C. Peterson, Jemison
"The Early Beginnings in the Tennessee Valley"
Dr. Frances Cabaniss Roberts, University of Alabama, Huntsville Center
"Counties of North of the Tennessee River"
Dr. Perry B. James,, President of Athens College
"The Rooster Bridge Story"
Dr. George R. Stuart Jr., Birmingham
13th Annual Meeting — 1960
"Archaeological Search for the Indian Village of Coosa"
David L. Dejarnette, Moundville
"Thomas C. DeLeon, Blind Author of Alabama"
Mrs. Ruffin Durham, Fairhope
"Tuscaloosa's Confederate Generals"
Devane K. Jones, Tuscaloosa
"William C. Jordan and Reconstruction in Bullock County"
Dr. H. E. Sterkx, Troy State College
"Alabama Food Ways"
Miss Sallie Hill, Birmingham
"William LeRoy Brown: Soldier Scientist and Pioneer in Agricultural and Industrial Education in
the South"
Dr. Malcolm C. McMillan, Auburn University
"Miss Howard Weeden, Poet and Artist"
Mrs. Burton Fisk, Huntsville
"'Come Unto Me . . .', A Brief History of St. Paul's"
The Rev. T. Frank Matthews, Rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma
"Selma and the Confederate States Navy"
William N. Still, Mississippi State College for Women, Columbus
"Canoeing on the Coosa"
Marvin B. Small, Gadsden
"Henry Ford and Muscle Shoals"
Dr. Leslie S. Wright, President, Howard College, Birmingham
"Early Selma"
Col. Joseph R. Bibb, Selma
"History as a Hobby" (Presidential Address)
Mrs. Margaret Pace Farmer, Troy
"Alabama Fights the Free Soilers in the Thirty-First Congress"
Carlton Jackson, Alabama College, Montevallo
"Early Days in East Alabama"
Miss Nella Jean Chambers, Cusseta. Paper to be read by William H. Davidson,
West Point, Georgia.
"Geography of the Vine and Olive Colony"
Hamner Cobbs, Greensboro
"William Patrick Lay, Pioneer of Hydro-Electric Power"
De Witt Robinson, Gadsden
"Fort Toulouse—In Tradition and In Fact"
Dr. Daniel H. Thomas, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, R. I.
"Charles Crow, 1775–1845, Pioneer Baptist Minister, First President of the Alabama
Baptist Convention"
Dr. Howard L. Holley, Medical College of Alabama, Birmingham
"This is War: The Odyssey of Corporal Wesley L. Roberts and the 31st Alabama Infantry During
the Civil War"
Dr. Thomas A. Belser Jr., Auburn University
"The Approach of War in 1860"
Stanley F. Horn, Nashville, Tennessee
14th Annual Meeting — 1961
"Confederate Bishop and Federal Generals"
The Rev. Emmet Gribben, The Episcopal Church and Student Center, University of
Alabama
"LaGrange College"
Dr. Virgil B. McCain Jr., President, Athens College.
"Senator Tom Heflin, A Story Teller and Humorist"
Ralph Tanner, Birmingham-Southern College
"A Mexican Monarchist Views the American Civil War"
Dr. Robert A Naylor, Auburn University
"The Attempt to Oust Governor Peter Chester from West Florida, 1778–1780"
Dr. Lucille Griffith, Alabama College, Montevallo
"William L. Yancey, Statesman of Secession"
Drs. A. L. Garner and Nathan Stott, Howard College
"Popular Confederate Music in Alabama During the Civil War"
Howard A Sadler, Birmingham
"Some Beacon Lights in Alabama Medicine in the 1860s"
Dr. Emmett B. Carmichael, Medical College of Alabama, Birmingham
"Alabama Civil War Poets"
Benjamin B. Williams, University of Alabama, Montgomery Center
"A Federal Raid into Southeast Alabama"
Allen W. Jones, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina
"Navigational Improvement of Muscle Shoals, 1806–1890"
Adrian Daniel, Florence State College
"The Battle of Mobile Bay"
Arthur Owens, Mobile
"John Coffee: Surveyor and Land Agent" (Presidential Address)
Dr. Gordon T. Chappell, Montgomery
"Early Alabama History in Pictures"
Dr. Charles G. Summersell, University of Alabama
"A Marshall County Boy Goes to War"
Misses Eva Dendy and Ann Ratagick, Waterloo
"Senator John Tyler Morgan, E. D. Morel, and the Congo Reform Association"
Dr. Joseph O. Baylen, Mississippi State University
"Peripatetic Newspapers of the South"
Dr. Lewis W. Wetzler, University of Alabama
"The Organization and Practice of Medicine in the Confederate Army"
Dr. W. J. Donald, Montgomery
"The C. S. S. Florida's Tour de Force at Mobile Bay"
Dr. Frank L. Owsley Jr., Auburn University
"The James Mallory Journal, Talladega County, 1834–1877"
Edgar A. Stewart, Selma
"The Adventures of an Archivist"
Dr. William D. McCain, President, Mississippi-Southern College, Hattiesburg,
Mississippi
15th Annual Meeting — 1962
"The King's Agent for British West Florida"
Dr. Robert R. Rea, Auburn University
"Three Alabama Baptist Chaplains, 1861–1865"
Dr. Arthur L. Walker, Jr., Howard College
"Enoch Hooper Cook"
L. O. Brackeen, Auburn University. Paper read by Mrs. Ralph B. Draughon,
Auburn
"The Misunderstood Lorenzo Dow"
Richard J. Stockham, Birmingham
"David W. Baine: A Confederate from the North"
Rev. Elbert Watson, Pastor, First Church of the Nazarene, Montgomery
"Who were the Alabama Whigs?"
Dr. Thomas B. Alexander, Kit C. Carter, Jack R. Lester, Jerry C. Oldshue and Winfred G.
Sandlin, University of Alabama
"Three Montgomerians: H. W. Hilliard, J. J. Seibels, E. Fair, U. S. Diplomatic
Representatives in Brussels in the 1840s & 50s"
Prof. John W. Rooney, Jr., Spring Hill College
"Land Titles and Public Land Sales in Early Alabama"
Dr. James F. Doster, University of Alabama
"The Exotic Dream of Mathieu Sagean"
Dr. Richebourg McWilliams, Birmingham-Southern College
"The Catholic Church and the Confederacy"
Rev. Aloysius Plaisance, St. Bernard College
"Tennessee Valley Railroads—Their Military Significance During the Civil War"
Karl A. Woltersdorf, Jr., Huntsville
"Battle of Mobile Bay"
Rear Admiral E. M. Eller USN (Ret.), Director of Naval History, Department of
the Navy, Washington, D. C.
"The Locale of the Luna Settlement"
J. Y. Brame, Montgomery
"Incidents of Reconstruction in Mobile"
Caldwell Delaney, Mobile
"'My Loved Native Place': Peter J. Hamilton's Colonial Mobile"
Frank C. Marshall Jr., Birmingham
"General Ormsby M. Mitchel and the First Occupation of the Tennessee Valley, April 11–August
31, 1862"
Dr. Malcolm C. McMillan, Auburn University
"Adventures of an Amateur Historian" (Presidential Address)
Jack N. Helms, Selma
16th Annual Meeting — 1963
"Alabama Appetites"
Mrs. Leslie S. Wright, Birmingham
"One Hundred Years of Ornamentals in Eufaula"
Dr. Henry P. Orr, Auburn University
"History in the Field"
Frank M. Jones, Birmingham
"General Nathan B. Forrest at Sulphur Branch Trestle"
Philip Kyle, Decatur
"Nicola Marschall, Confederate Patriot and Artist"
B. M. Miller Childers, Selma
"Admiral Raphael Semmes at Gibraltar"
Dr. Charles G. Summersell, University of Alabama
"Public Relations and the Alabama Politician"
Dr. Lee N. Allen, Howard College
"Tallapoosa and Elmore Counties: Litigants"
Judge C. J. Coley, Alexander City
"Lt. Col. James M. Williams and the Fort Powell Incident"
Johnny Kent Folmar, Mobile
"The Ku Klux Investigation and the Republican Party in Alabama, 1868–1872"
John Z. Sloan, St. Bernard College
"Lanier in Alabama"
Dr. Cecil E. Abernathy, Dean, Birmingham-Southern College
"Interests of Nineteenth Century Alabamians as Reflected in Their Folk Tales"
Mrs. Margaret Gillis Figh, Huntingdon College
"The Election of 1874"
Dr. Edward C. Williamson, Auburn University
"Five Men Called Scalawags"
Miss Sarah Van V. Woolfolk, University of Alabama
"Captain Mims: A Prattville Dragoon in Mexico"
William H. Davidson, West Point, Georgia
"Edwin Theodore Winkler: The Baptist Bayard"
Hugh C. Davis, Vanderbilt University
"From Steel to Iron: Alabama's Industrial Evolution"
Justin Fuller, Alabama College, Montevallo
"Mary McNeil Fenellosa, an Alabama Woman of Letters" (Presidential Address)
Caldwell Delaney, Mobile
17th Annual Meeting — 1964
"Canoeing on the Tennessee"
Marvin B. Small, Gadsden
"Pipe and People: A Brief History of the Cast Iron Pipe Industry in Alabama with Especial
Reference to the Company founded by John J. Eagan"
Kenneth R. Daniel, Birmingham
"Catholic Missionaries in Alabama"
The Rev. Oscar Lipscomb, Mobile
"Newspaper Humor in the Cradle of the Confederacy during Reconstruction"
Dr. Robert Partin, Auburn University
"Why Home Remedies Worked"
Mrs. Lela L. Legare, Montgomery
"Colonel John W. Lapsley"
John W. Lapsley, Selma
"Through the Years with the Auburn Library"
Dr. Ralph B. Draughon, Auburn University
"Margaret Lee of Alabama, Mrs. Sam Houston"
Mrs. Charles K. Hartwell, Mobile
"Dr. David Moore, Urban Pioneer of the Old Southwest"
Dr. Frances Roberts, University of Alabama, Huntsville Center
"Capt. Jack Shackleford and the Red Rovers of Lawrence County: Martyrs in the Texas
War for Independence"
William H. Jenkins, Decatur
"A New Viewpoint on Alabama Black Belt Whigs during the Secession Crisis"
Dr. Thomas B. Alexander and Miss Peggy J. Duckworth, University of Alabama
"Look Away, Dixie Land: John Tyler Morgan and Expansionism in the New South"
Dr. O. Lawrence Burnette Jr., Birmingham-Southern College
"Edgar Gardner Murphy and the Child Labor Movement"
Dr. Hugh C. Bailey, Howard College
"Henry B. Steagall: The Conservative as a Reformer"
Jack B. Key, Ozark
"Year of Turbulence: The Alabama Labor Front, 1934"
Dr. Thomas A. Belser, Auburn University
"Give Me the Black Belt" (Presidential Address)
Hamner Cobbs, Greensboro
18th Annual Meeting — 1965
"A Newly Discovered French Journal of 1720"
Caldwell Delaney, Mobile
"The Career of John Archibald Campbell: A Study in Politics and the Law"
James McPherson, Birmingham, Student, Birmingham-Southern College (Assignment of
Prof. Ralph M. Tanner)
"The Patona Lynchings of 1870"
Jack D. Boozer, Jacksonville
"Vignettes of the Pine Log and Greek Revival Trail"
William H. Davidson, West Point, Georgia
"Race as a Factor in the Presidential Election of 1928 in Alabama"
Dr. Hugh D. Reagan, Auburn University
"Elk County in the Bend of the Tennessee"
Mrs. Katherine T. Wallace, Huntsville
"Wilson's Guards of St. Stephens; or the Travail of Company A, 32nd Alabama Infantry, C. S. A."
Theodore B. Pearson, Chatom
"John Allan Wyeth, M.D., Soldier, Physician and Author"
Dr. W. J. Donald, Alabama State Department of Public Health, Montgomery
"Of University Press Publishing"
Ernest A. Seemann, University of Alabama Press
"Decatur, Alabama, Noblesse Oblige"
William H. Jenkins, Decatur
"Apologia for 'The Law of the Land'"
Mrs. Memory L. Robinson, Birmingham
"Bayou La Batre, A Unique Chapter in Alabama History"
The Rev. Oscar H. Lipscomb, Mobile
"The Young Manhood of William L. Yancey"
Ralph Draughon Jr., Chapel Hill, N. C.
"Fort Mims—A Challenge"
Comdr. Lawrence H. Marks, Alabama Department of Conservation, Montgomery
"The Social Order of DUDs"
Dr. D. P. Culp, President, Alabama College, Montevallo
"Willis Brewer as Novelist"
Dr. W. Stanley Hoole, University of Alabama
"The Problems of the Selma Post Office, 1861–1865"
Art Lewis, Selma
"Historical Notes on the Spanish Fort San Esteban de Tombecbee, or St. Stephens"
Dr. Jack D. L. Holmes, University of Alabama, Birmingham Center
"Marietta Johnson and the School of Organic Education"
George A. Brown, Bon Secour
"The Forks of Cypress"
Dr. Leslie S. Wright, Howard College
19th Annual Meeting — 1966
"A Short History of The Church of Saint Michael and All Angels"
The Rev. Earl Ray Hart, Rector
"Early French Settlers in Alabama"
Dr. H. Wynn Rickey, Alabama College
"Antoine DeLaval, S. J., at Dauphin Island, 1720"
The Rev. Thomas F. Mulcrone, S. J., Spring Hill College
"Hilary A. Herbert: Bourbon Apologist"
Dr. Hugh C. Davis, Auburn University
"Judge Anderson Crenshaw: Pioneer Alabama Jurist"
Mrs. Richard C. Crenshaw, Greenville
"Four Autaugans: Their Place in Alabama History"
Merrill E. Pratt, Prattville
"Lycurgus Breckenridge Musgrove: Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Prohibitionist"
Winfred G. Sandlin, Jasper
"Alabama Whigs" — A Symposium under the direct of Dr. Thomas B. Alexander,
University of Alabama
"Questions and Approaches: A Commentary on Research Techniques"
Dr. Thomas B. Alexander, University of Alabama
"Original Whigs in their Heyday in Alabama"
Miss Mary Jane Skinner, Choctaw County High School
"Whigs in Distress: the 1850s"
Frank M. Lowery, University of Alabama
"Whigs in Alabama's Secession Crisis"
Miss Peggy J. Duckworth, University of Alabama
"Glimpses of Early Anniston"
Dr. Houston Cole, President, Jacksonville State College
"Bearmeat Cabin Frontier"
Chriss H. Doss, Samford University
"Andrew Jackson's Capture of Pensacola in November, 1814"
Dr. Frank L. Owsley, Jr., Auburn University
"T. S. Stribling: Alabama Writer"
Miss Betty Gene Britt, Huntsville
"Tournaments in the Black Belt"
Hamner Cobbs, Greensboro
"Trade Day in Scottsboro"
Mrs. Ben Hunt, Mrs. H. G. Jacobs, Miss Leola Matthews, all from Scottsboro
"The Southern Club in Birmingham"
T. H. Benners, Jr., Birmingham
"The Story of the Nickajack"
Elbert L. Watson, Nashville
"White Republicanism in Alabama During Reconstruction"
Miss Sarah Van V. Woolfolk, University of Alabama
"Origins of the Direct Primary in Alabama"
Dr. Allen W. Jones, Greenville, S. C.
"The General Ticket" (Presidential Address)
Milo B. Howard, Jr., Auburn University
20th Annual Meeting — 1967
"Dixon Hall Lewis: Stout Gentleman from Alabama"
William H. Davidson, West Point, Ga.
"The Invisible Empire in Alabama"
William R. Snell, Samford University
"The Phoenix Fire Company of Mobile, 1838–1888"
Caldwell Delaney, Mobile
"Sumter County in the Ante-Bellum Period"
William E. Gilbert, Jacksonville State University
"Mobile's Tragedy: The Great Magazine Explosion of 1865"
Mrs. Hugh C. Bailey, Samford University
"Coming 'Round Chandler's Mountain"
Capt Eugene A. Maynor, USN (Ret.), Oneonta
"The Climax of Gold Mining in Alabama"
Judge C. J. Coley, Alexander City
"Colonel John Cullman: Founder of a Country"
Stanley T. Johnson, Cullman
"Iberville and the Southern Indians"
Prof. Richebourg G. McWilliams, Birmingham-Southern College
"Benjamin Lloyd: A Pioneer Primitive Baptist in Alabama"
Dr. O. C. Weaver, Birmingham-Southern College
"Old Erie as a Memory of Greene and Hale Counties"
Mrs. Cecil R. Glass, Eutaw
"What Has Happened to Coal Mining in Alabama?"
Russell D. Lanier, Birmingham
"Red Eagle: Gallant Warrior of the Creeks"
Maj. Gen. Wilburt S. Brown, USMC, (Ret.), University of Alabama
"The Pelican Girls"
Mrs. Gladys King Burns, Jefferson State Junior College
"Huntsville as an Occupied City"
James W. Thomas Jr., Huntsville
"Anne Royall—Traveler and Common Scold"
Dr. Lucille Griffith, Alabama College
"Catholics During the Civil War in Alabama"
The Rev. Oscar H. Lipscomb, Mobile
"Private Schools in Ante-Bellum Alabama"
Prof. G. O. Hamner, Headmaster, Montgomery Academy
"Researching and Writing Alabama and Southern History" (Presidential Address)
Dr. Malcolm C. McMillan, Auburn University
21st Annual Meeting — 1968
"An Unbroken String: Baptist and Women's Education in Alabama"
Dr. James Edmondson, President, Judson College
"Robert Loveman, Lyric Poet: His Life in Tuscaloosa"
Matthew W. Clinton, Tuscaloosa
"The Early History of the Alabama Midland Railroad"
Dr. Dudley S. Johnson, Southeastern Louisiana College
"Plank Roads and Railroads in Early Alabama"
Dr. James F. Doster, University of Alabama
"Newspaper Humor in Selma During the Gay Nineties"
Dr. Robert L. Partin, Auburn University
"Navigation on the Coosa-Alabama River System"
Robert F. Henry, Montgomery
"Political Reforms of the Progressive Era"
Dr. Allen W. Jones, Auburn University
"A Presidential Visit and a Major Policy Statement: Harding in Birmingham"
Prof. James A. Milner, Jefferson State Junior College
"John Hardy and John Reid: Two Selma Men of Letters"
Milo B. Howard Jr., Director, Department of Archives and History, Montgomery
"Selma Naval Foundry" (Presidential Address)
Richard J. Stockham, Birmingham
"Joseph Jefferson's Southern Circuit"
Mrs. Frederick L. Ingate, Mobile
"Press Reaction in Alabama to the Attempted Assassination of Judge Richard Busteed"
Dr. Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins, University of Alabama
"The Marquis and the Myth: LaFayette's Visit to Alabama, 1825"
Prof. Tennant S. McWilliams, Walker College
"Selma's Newspapers, 1827–1968"
Roswell L. Falkenberry, Selma
"The Steamboat, A Factor in Ante-Bellum Alabama History"
Dr. William J. Ikerman, Florence State College
"Pick and the Cross: The Story of a Town"
Dr. Ralph M. Tanner, Birmingham-Southern College
"The Life and Times of William R. Smith"
Prof. Ray Jones, Troy State University
"Alabama Baptists and Social Issues, 1900–1914"
Dr. J. Wayne Flynt, Samford University
"The Pelican Girls: Epilogue"
Mrs. Gladys K. Burns, Jefferson State Junior College
22nd Annual Meeting — 1969
"Furnishing Merchants and Share Croppers"
Mrs. Margaret Pace Farmer, Troy
"Historic Caves in Northern Alabama"
Bert Umpingco, Decatur
"Dread Diseases in Alabama During the Reconstruction Era"
Mrs. Besse T. Terry, Alabama College
"Andrew Jackson's Interests in North Alabama"
William H. Jenkins, Decatur
"Happenings at Fort Condé"
Nicholas Holmes, Mobile
"George Steele, Architect: His Life and Works"
Eugene E. Burr, Huntsville
"The First Session of the Alabama State Legislature, 1819"
Mrs. Leah R. Atkins, Auburn University
"Michael Portier — The First Bishop of Mobile, 1829–1859"
Mrs. S. P. Van Antwerp, Mobile
"A Hundred and Fifty Years of State Historiography"
Milo B. Howard, Director, Department of Archives and History, Montgomery
"Education and the Mind of the South"
Dr. David Matthews, University of Alabama
"Attics, Ancestors, and Anecdotes: The Local Community as a Source of History"
Miss Lucille Griffith, Alabama College
"Readjustment of Alabamians to Defeat in the Civil War, 1865–1866"
Mrs. Sylvia Cook, West Georgia College
"Alabama's First Two Governors: William Wyatt Bibb and Thomas Bibb"
Judge C. J. Coley, Alexander City
"Goetzel of Mobile, Alabama's Leading Ante-Bellum Publisher"
Caldwell Delaney, Mobile
"Nathan Bozeman—Pioneer Gynecologist"
Dr. Emmett B. Carmichael, Medical College of Alabama
"N. H. R. Dawson: A Bourbon Educator in Washington"
Kenneth R. Johnson, Florence State University
"Constantine Blackman Sanders: The Sleeping Preacher of North Alabama"
Elbert L. Watson, Anniston
"Ethel Armes and Coal and Iron in Alabama"
Dr. Hugh C. Bailey, Samford University
"Politics and Public Land Disposal in Alabama's Formative Period"
Miss. Frances C. Roberts, Huntsville
23rd Annual Meeting — 1970
"My Father: Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill"
Hon. Lister Hill, Montgomery
"Dr. John A. Wyeth, Biographer and Historian"
Dr. Lee N. Allen, Samford University
"From Cotton to the Missile Era—Madison County Governmental Changes"
Hon. James Record, Huntsville
"John Barley Corn Subdued—the Enforcement of Prohibition in Alabama"
Arthur F. Howington, Walker College
"Plum Nelly—Georgia's Treat to Alabamians"
Howard A. Sadler, Jefferson State Junior College
"The Story of the Beginning of Public Library Service in Alabama"
Mrs. Elizabeth Parks Beamguard, Montgomery
"Alabama Had an Oxford College"
Jack D. Boozer, Jacksonville
"Francis Scott Key's Mission to Alabama in 1833"
Dr. Frank L. Owsley Jr., Auburn University
"The ALABAMA has a new Companion at Mobile"
Henri M. Aldridge, Mobile
"Wharf Days in Montgomery"
Mrs. Edna Pickett Dismukes, Montgomery
"Highlights of the Alabama Secession Convention which convened herein"
Dr. Malcolm C. McMillan, Auburn University
"Highlights of the Confederate Government Sessions with convened herein"
Dr. Charles G. Summersell, University of Alabama
"'The More General Diffusion of Learning' . . . . In Alabama"
Dr. David Matthews, University of Alabama
"Historical Findings in East Alabama"
Mrs. Hugh Smith, Langdale
"Samuel M. Peck, Alabama's First Poet Laureate"
Edward L. Darden, Gadsden
"Student Days at Old LaGrange, 1844–1845"
Charles W. Watts, Florence State University
"W. B. Crumpton, an Eminent Baptist Missionary, Reformer and Politician"
Mrs. Lonnie W. Funderburg, Birmingham
"Ghost Towns of Pickens County"
Mrs. Harold N. Colvin, Carrollton
"Montgomery's Notorious Gentleman Robber: James Chastain"
Dr. Gordon T. Chappell, Huntingdon College
"The Jubilee Phenomenon on the Eastern Shores of Mobile Bay"
Jack C. Gallalee, Mobile
"Michael Tuomey and His Geological Knowledge of Alabama"
Dr. Douglas E. Jones, University of Alabama
"Verbena: A Town Born of Yellow Fever"
Mrs. J. C. McKinney, Clanton
"Historic McIntosh Bluff, Alabama's First County Seat" (Presidential Address)
Theodore B. Pearson, Leroy
24th Annual Meeting — 1971
"Decatur Has a History"
William H. Jenkins, Decatur
"Thomas M. Owen: The Historians' Historian"
Milo B. Howard Jr., Director, Alabama State Department of Archives and History,
Montgomery
"The Town of Cardiff"
Mrs. Bernard Weinstein, Jasper
"William Warner and the Rise and Fall of the Iron Industry in Tecumseh, Alabama"
John B. Ryan Jr., Auburn University
"Fort Strother: An Advance Base of Andrew Jackson's Army"
Erman L. Crew, Anniston
"The Loves of Pike County"
Mrs. Margaret Pace Farmer, Troy
"Alabama Chemists in the Civil War"
Richard C. Sheridan, Sheffield
"Mooresville, the Jewel of the Tennessee Valley"
Edward G. McEvoy, Decatur
"The 1938 Democratic Gubernatorial Contest in Alabama"
John D. Bevis, Salem College, Salem, West Virginia
"The First Confederate Capital Surrenders — April 1865"
Nimrod T. Frazer, Montgomery
"Tanchi Toska and Other Goodies"
Dr. Lucille Griffith, University of Montevallo
"English-Indian Trade in Alabama to 1756"
Louis R. Smith Jr., Patrick Henry Junior College
"Ostracism of White Republicans in Alabama during Reconstruction"
Dr. Sarah Wiggins, University of Alabama
"Strickland the Bookseller: His Banishment from Mobile"
Caldwell Delaney, Mobile
"Cypress Land Company: A Dream of Empire"
Turner Rice, Birmingham
"Frank M. Dixon and the States' Right Revolt of 1948"
William Dr. Barnard, University of South Alabama
"Huntsville's Indian Creek Canal"
Mrs. Burke S. Fisk, Huntsville
"Three Eras of James Mallory"
Mrs. Lee N. Allen, Birmingham
"The 'Dead Shoe' Senatorial Primary of 1906"
Dr. Allen W. Jones, Auburn University
"Alabama Obsolete Paper Currency"
Dr. Walter B. Jones, University of Alabama
"Unlikely Conquistadores: Alabamians and the Mexican Border Crisis of 1916" (Presidential
Address)
Dr. H. E. Sterkx, Montgomery
25th Annual Meeting — 1972
"Birmingham is Celebrating"
Joseph M. Farley, President, Birmingham Centennial Committee
"Birmingham's Horror of 1888"
George R. Stewart, Birmingham
"Lindbergh Comes to Birmingham"
Dr. Wesley Phillips Newton, Auburn University
"The Newest Publication Dealing with an Alabama Political Figure"
Dr. Virginia V. Hamilton, University of Alabama in Birmingham
"Admiral on Horseback: The Diary of Brigadier-General Raphael Semmes, February–
May, 1865"
Dr. William Stanley Hoole, University of Alabama
"Religion in Ante Bellum Alabama"
Dr. Sidney E. Sandridge, Athens College
"Huntsville Under Federal Occupation"
Elbert L. Watson, Huntsville
"Assault on the Mississippi—The Loftus Expedition, 1764"
Dr. Robert R. Rhea, Auburn University
"The Fort of the Confederation: The Spanish on the Upper Tombigbee"
Dr. James P. Pater, Livingston University
"Antoine de Laval, S. J.'s 'Description of Dauphin Island' (1720)"
Thomas F. Mulcrone, S. J., Springhill College
"The Paths We Came By—Our Silver Anniversary"
James F. Sulzby Jr., Birmingham
"Covered, Stone and Early Wooden and Iron Bridges of Alabama"
W. Warner Floyd, Montgomery
"The Early Days of Dothan, Alabama"
Fred Shelton Watson, Dothan
"The Upper Little Cahaba River Valley"
Mrs. Harris Blackmon, Leeds
"The Work and Works of Booker T. Washington"
Mervyn H. Sterne, Birmingham
"Aunt Jennie Brooks"
Thomas C. Pettus, Moulton
"The Life and Times of an Irish Patriot, Member of Parliament and Marshal of Dublin in Chambers
County, Alabama, 1767–1891"
Mrs. Hugh Smith, Langdale
"Campaigning in the Bloody Seventh: The 1894 Election in Alabama's Seventh
Congressional District"
Dr. D. Alan Harris, Old Dominion University, Norfolk
"The Enforced Visit of Frank James to Huntsville"
James Record, Huntsville
"Horace Ware: Alabama Iron Pioneer"
Dr. Robert h. McKenzie, University of Alabama
"Some Unpublished Poems of Abram J. Ryan" (Presidential Address)
Rev. Oscar H. Lipscomb, Mobile
26th Annual Meeting — 1973
"Ghost Towns of Butler County"
Mrs. Richard Crenshaw, Greenville
"Pioneers in Cullman County"
Chriss H. Doss, Birmingham
"The Sims War: Moonshine and Mayhem in Choctaw County"
Terrence H. Nolan, Florida State University
"The Ingenious John R. Remington: Alabama Inventor"
Ralph B. Draughon Jr., University of Georgia
"Gen. Nathan Bryan Whitfield, Architect-Planter"
Walter Steele Patton, Montgomery
"John J. Eagan, Alabama Pioneer in Industrial Human Relations"
Kenneth R. Daniel, Birmingham
"Indian Trading in Alabama"
Dr. David White, University of Alabama in Birmingham
"Fort Mitchell, Frontier Gateway to Alabama"
David Chase, Auburn University
"Alabamians: Whence They Came and Whither They Went"
Dr. Alexander Nunn, Loachapoka
"The World of Almanacs"
Judge C. J. Coley, Alexander City
"Marion, Alabama: Black Belt Cultural Center"
Marshall Schavland Knudsen, Marion Institute
"Human Interests in the Building of Gadsden"
Mrs. Gladys King Burns, Jefferson State Junior College
"Mobile, Mother of Mystics"
Mrs. Sidney Van Antwerp, Mobile
"Dr. Peter Bryce and the Alabama Insane Hospital"
Matthew W. Clinton, Tuscaloosa
"James Lawrence Pugh: Half a Century in Politics"
Miss Mary Jane Davidson, Columbus College
"Alfred J. Dickinson, The Great Disturber"
John Howard Burrows, Auburn University
"Violence in Ante Bellum Montgomery"
Arthur Howington, Vanderbilt University
"Designers of the Confederate Uniform and Flag—The Controversy"
Mrs. Cherry Crawford, Birmingham
"The Lively Wilderness Movement in Alabama"
Carl Elliot, Jasper
"Frank L. Owsley and 'King Cotton Diplomacy'" (Presidential Address)
Dr. Bernarr Cresap, Florence
27th Annual Meeting — 1974
"Another Look at Mobile's Famous Historian, Peter J. Hamilton"
Dr. Charles G. Summersell, University of Alabama
"Human Interest Stories of Champ Pickens, Alabama's Rebel of Sports"
Dr. Hudson Baggett, Birmingham, Editor, "The Alabama Baptist"
"Talladega Homes: By-passed and Almost Forgotten"
Mrs. Tessie Hand Watts, Talladega
"The Sacred Harp"
Mrs. Margaret Pace Farmer, Troy
"The King's Pilot"
Stephens G. Croom, Mobile
"Jefferson County's Pinson Valley: Then and Now"
Dr. George L. Layton, President, Jefferson State Junior College
"The Eminent Patrick O'Reilly, Priest, Builder and Soldier"
Rev. Aloysius Plaisance, President, St. Bernard College
"The Barn: A Vanishing Landmark in Blount County"
Mrs. C. Y. Linder, Oneonta
"Miss Julia Strudwick Tutwiler—Pioneer Woman Educator"
William E. Gilbert, Livingston University
"Characteristics of Early Land Companies in Northern Alabama"
Dr. Ralph M. Tanner, President, Birmingham-Southern College
"Thomas M. Owen, Alabama's Greatest Bibliographer"
Milo B. Howard Jr., Director, Department of Archives and History, Montgomery
"Indian Influence in Alabama"
H. Lindy Martin, Samford University
"The Cotton Factorage System in the Tennessee Valley"
Dr. Frances C. Roberts, University of Alabama at Huntsville
"Truss Company, Barbiere's/Davenport's Battalion of Alabama"
Douglas Clare Purcell, Eufaula
"Profiting from Mistakes in Alabama History"
Gen. George B. Pickett, Montgomery
"Goose Pond and How it Grew"
Mrs. J. C. McKinney, Clanton
"Thomas C. DeLeon: Blind Laureate of the Confederacy"
Dr. William K. Weaver Jr., President, Mobile College
"Reaction to Reconstruction: Editorial Policy of the 'Mobile Advertiser-Register,' 1865–67"
John K. Folmar, California State College, Pennsylvania
"Andrew Jackson's Activities in the Tennessee Valley"
Prof. Henry S. Marks, Huntsville
"Born in Alabama—World Citizen, La Fayette Hoyt DeFrise" (Presidential Address)
Mrs. Hugh Smith, Langdale
28th Annual Meeting — 1975
"Preserving Huntsville's History"
Elbert L. Watson, Huntsville
"Alabama Before the Era of Research"
Dr. William M. Murray Jr., Birmingham
"Choctaw County and the Gold Rush"
Judge Daniel T. McCall, Montgomery
"Dallas Academy, Backbone of the Permanent School System of Selma"
Jack N. Nelms, Selma
"Fade-out of the Small 'Flick Houses' (Theaters) in Birmingham"
Lane Carter, Birmingham
"Boom Towns and Blast Furnaces: Town Promotion in Alabama, 1871–93"
Dr. Justin Fuller, University of Montevallo
"Word from Camp Pollard, C. S. A."
William H. Davidson, West Point, Georgia
"The Art and Artists In an Around Marion"
Miss Betty L. Martin, Dean, Judson College
"Destruction of the University of the State of Alabama"
Tom S. Birdsong, Tuscaloosa
"The Indian Policy of Juan Vincente Folch: Governor of Spanish Mobile, 1787–92"
Dr. David H. White, University of Alabama in Birmingham
"Twenty Years Under the Capitol Dome: Recollections and Reflections of an Alabama
Congressman"
Hon. Albert M. Rains, Gadsden
"Visiting Alabama Caves"
Dr. Walter B. Jones, Huntsville, State Geologist, Retired.
"No Sterile Monster: Hannis Taylor, the New South and American Expansion"
Dr. Tennant S. McWilliams, University of Alabama in Birmingham
"Frederick Bromberg of Mobile, an Illustrious Character"
Mrs. Margaret D. Sizemore, Samford University
"The Tombigbee River and Its Impact on Central Alabama"
Col. Jack L. Lerner, Livingston
"Mardisville vs. Talladega, Historically"
Mrs. J. L. Barta, Talladega
"Ante Bellum Alabama Maverick: Henry Washington Hilliard, 1845–51"
Dr. Johanna Shields, University of Alabama in Huntsville
"Mobile as the Travelers Saw it in the Ante Bellum Days"
Dr. Melton McLaurin, University of South Alabama
"Auburn's Petrie Studies in Review"
Dr. Clyde H. Cantrell, Auburn University
"John Horry Dent, Ante Bellum Planter in Alabama's Old Creek Nation, 1838–66"
Dr. G. Ray Mathis, Troy State University
"The Use and Control of Slaves by the Town of Florence, 1840–60"
Dr. Kenneth R. Johnson, University of Alabama
"Clio's Partners: The Significance of Alabama History and the Contributions of Its Contemporary
Historians" (Presidential Address)
Dr. Robert H. McKenzie, University
29th Annual Meeting — 1976
"Confederate Imprints in Dutch and French"
Dr. Samuel N. Stayer, Birmingham-Southern College
"Reptile Story of Opp"
John S. Dee, Opp
"The Eminent Dr. Josiah C. Nott of Mobile—A Sketch"
Dr. John M. Shackleford, University of South Alabama, College of Medicine
"Alabama Pharmacy in Retrospect"
James R. Kuykendall, Fort Payne
"Alabama Herdsmen, 1840–1880"
Dr. Grady McWhiney, University
"Birmingham's Fiction Factory of the 'Twenties'"
John W. Bloomer, Birmingham
"Captain John Grant and Grant's Pass"
Dr. Virgil S. Davis, Mobile College
"Lee and Russell Communities: Past, Present, and Ghostlike"
Gordon L. Cooksey, Columbus, Georgia
"Accounts of Escambia County's 'Railroad Bill'"
Mrs. Carolyn Pugh McLendon, Brewton
"Education and the Founding Fathers"
Dr. Harry M. Philpott, President, Auburn University
"The Episcopalians Spoke Out for the Confederacy and It Happened at St. John's"
Nimrod T. Frazer, Montgomery
"The Creek War After Horseshoe Bend"
Dr. Frank L. Owsley Jr., Auburn University
"Felix Grundy McConnell: Demagogue of the Old South"
Dr. Leah R. Atkins, Samford University
"Home Remedies in the Earlier Days of the State"
Mrs. Wayne L. Smith, Huntsville
"Origins of the French-Alabama Conflict, 1703–04"
Prieur Jay Higgonbotham, Mobile
"Cherokee Missions in Alabama"
Dr. Paul H. Spence, University of Alabama in Birmingham
"Alabama Creoles: Their Living Habits"
Yates Simonson, Bayou La Batre
"The Choctaw Factory: Fort St. Stephens and Confederation, 1802–1822"
Dr. James P. Pate, Livingston University
"Signs on the Old Highways"
Mrs. Vivian B. Qualls, Steele
"'The Spirit of What is There Called Liberty': The Stamp Act in British West Florida"
Dr. J. Barton Starr, Troy State University at Fort Rucker
"Firsts in Alabama for Madison County" (Presidential Address)
James Record, Huntsville
30th Annual Meeting — 1977
"The Founding of Birmingham"
J. Morgan Smith, President, Birmingham-Jefferson Historical Society
"Historical Archaeology on the University of Alabama Campus"
Dr. Jerry C. Oldshue, University of Alabama
"John McDuffie: Fight for Party Leadership in the House"
Dr. Ralph Brannen, Jacksonville State University
"Post Cards as Historical Evidence"
Dr. Marvin Whiting, Birmingham
"Free Silver and White Supremacy: The Reconstitution of the Democratic Party in Alabama,
1895–1896"
Jerry DeVine, Auburn
"Early Settlers of Summerfield"
Judge B. M. Miller Childers, Selma
"Three Famous Fires in Birmingham"
Samuel A. Rumore, Jr., Birmingham
"The Martial Spirit in Ante-Bellum Alabama"
Lt. Col. John H. Napier, III, USAF, Air University, Maxwell AFB, Montgomery
"George Gordon Crawford: Man of the New South"
Mrs. Marlene Rikard, University of Alabama in Birmingham
"A Steam Dream: The Opening Day of the Alabama and Tennessee Rivers Railroad at
Montevallo"
W. L. D. Johnston, Montevallo
"A World of Wondermont with Senator Tom Heflin"
Dr. Ralph M. Tanner, Birmingham-Southern College
"John C. C. Sanders: Lee's Boy Brigadier"
Bailey Thomson, Huntsville
"Anniston: Model City or Rival City?"
Dr. Grace Hooten Gates, Gadsden State College
"The Magic Image Revisited: The Photograph as an Historical Source"
Dr. Michael Thomason, University of South Alabama, Mobile
"The Ethnic Factor in Alabama History: A Neglected Dimension"
Dr. Forrest McDonald, University of Alabama
"Milford W. Howard: Success at Failure"
Mrs. Elizabeth S. Howard, Fort Payne (Paper read by Dr. Ellann McCrory, Fort
Payne)
"The View from Europe: Two Decades of Press Coverage of George C. Wallace"
Dr. Daniel S. Gray, Troy State University
"East Alabama Male College: The Beginning of Auburn University"
Dr. Ralph Draughon, Jr., University of Georgia
"A Year of Crisis and of Beginning Anew: Birmingham, 1963"
Dr. William D. Barnard, University of Alabama
"Trade Cards in the Interest of History"
Mrs. Lee N. Allen, Birmingham
"A British Naval Person: Governor John Eliot of West Florida" (Presidential Address)
Dr. Robert R. Rae, Auburn University
31st Annual Meeting — 1978
"Mobile's Museum System"
Mrs. Sidney P. Van Antwerp, Mobile
"The Navigation Company of the Chattahoochee"
William H. Davidson, West Point, Georgia
"John Temple Graves: A Southern Liberal Views the New Deal"
Mrs. Margaret Armbrester, University of Alabama in Birmingham
"The Racial Enlightenment of an Alabama Populist: Joseph C. Manning and 'The Rise and Reign
of the Bourbon Oligarchy'"
Paul M. Pruitt, Jr., Alexander City State Junior College
"The Bell Factory: Pride of Huntsville"
Miss Cecelia J. Thorn, Huntsville
"Northport in Retrospect"
Marvin L. Harper, Tuscaloosa
"Prophet of Confrontation: The Revelance of George M. Troup."
Dr. Joseph H. Harrison, Jr., Auburn University
"Tecumseh's Visits to the Creeks"
Dr. Mary Jane McDaniel, University of North Alabama
"Unrest in the Alabama Coal Fields, 1920–21"
George E. Sims, Selma
"Glances into Iberville's Gulf Journals"
Prof. Richebourg G. McWilliams, Mobile
"Mobile Finds Its History"
Caldwell Delaney, Director, Museums of the City of Mobile
"A Pinkerton Operation in Alabama"
William Cassell Stewart, Birmingham
"The French Company of Bombardier-Gunners at Mobile"
Dr. David P. Hardcastle, Stark Technical College, Canton, Ohio
"The Banking Hiatus of George D. Shortridge"
Mrs. Barbara Roberts, Birmingham
"The Physical History of the Capitol Building of the State of Alabama"
Nicholas H. Holmes, Jr., Mobile
"The Hall Family and Twentieth Century Journalism in Alabama"
Dr. Daniel W. Hollis III, Jacksonville State University
"Another Look at the Black Belt"
Nicholas H. Cobbs Jr., Greensboro
"Mobile's Forgotten Progressive: A. N. Johnson, Editor and Entrepreneur"
David Alsobrook, Office of Presidential Libraries, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
"Montgomery: The Years of Jubilee, 1855–1857"
Mrs. Aubrey Neeley, Montgomery
"An Educational Awakening in Alabama: 1915–1939"
Dr. Marvin Thomas, Gordon Junior College, Barnesville, Georgia
"Mobile to China: A Valiant Woman's Mission"
Mrs. Charles K. Hartwell, Mobile
32nd Annual Meeting — 1979
"Early Days in Troy and Pike County"
Mrs. Margaret Pace Farmer, Troy
"Variation of Church Spirals in Jefferson County"
Jack E. Brymer, Managing Editor, The Alabama Baptist, Birmingham
"Happenings at Toomer's Corner in Auburn"
Neil O. Davis, Auburn University
"Another Exception to the Rule: DeKalb County Politics, 1934"
Maurice McGee, DeKalb County Board of Education, Fort Payne
"Mirror of Change: The Mobile Press Register and the Coming of War, 1895–1898"
Dr. Tennant S. McWilliams, University of Alabama in Birmingham
"The Lightning Route in Montgomery"
Mrs. Jeanette E. Barrett, Wetumpka
"Postal History of Huntsville"
Mike O'Reilly, Huntsville
"The End of the Open Range: Alabama Fencing and Stock Laws"
J. Crawford King, Jr., University of Alabama
"'Good Morning Yesterday' in Shelby County"
Mrs. Tommie Harrison, Thompson High School, Alabaster
"The Heyday of Resort Hotels on Lookout Mountain"
Walter T. Sumner, Mentone
"The Real Jefferson Davis"
Dr. Holman Hamilton, President of the Southern Historical Association, and Emeritus
Professor of History at the University of Kentucky, Lexington
"History of Troy State University System Feature"—"The Troy Statement"
Comments by Dr. Duane C. Tway
"Saltpeter Mining in North Alabama for the Confederacy"
Richard C. Sheridan, Sheffield
"Steamboat Wrecks on the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers"
Dr. W. Stuart Harris, Marion Military Institute
"The Judicial System in Alabama"
Supreme Court Chief Justice C. C. Torbert, Jr., Opelika and Montgomery
"Johnny Reb and Women's Lib: Alabama Confederates' View of the Southern Woman"
Dr. G. Ray Mathis, Troy State University
"Henry Stiles Atwood: Antebellum Eccentric of Wilcox County"
Daniel Fate Brooks, Camden
"'Birds of Passage': Northerners and Foreigners Among the Urban Leaders of Antebellum
Mobile"
Dr. Harriet E. Amos, University of Alabama in Birmingham
"Congressman Henry D. Clayton, Jr., New South Politician, 1897–1914"
Dr. Karl Rodabaugh, East Carolina University
"Steamboats to the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay"
Mrs. Kay Nuzum, Fairhope
"The Free Negro and the Courts of Law in Antebellum Alabama"
Dr. Gary B. Mills, University of Alabama, Gadsden Center
"Saving the Best form the Past" (Presidential Address)
Dr. Grady McWhiney, University