The Battle for the University of Alabama: and the Perilous Path of Higher Education in the Reconstruction South - Softcover
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The University of Alabama was burned to the ground in the final days of the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, survivors constructed a new collection of buildings using many of the bricks left from the original campus. Nevertheless, the university's presidency changed frequently, Alabama had a new egalitarian constitution created by a racially diverse coalition of Republicans, the fate of the University of Alabama soon became a key battleground in the contested nature of state. In The Battle for the University of Alabama, historian William Warren Rogers, Jr. traces this incredible yet little-known story of the bitter contest for the fate of a cultural citadel in relation to the histories of other public universities in the former states of the Confederacy as they struggled to make their own way after the war.
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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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