The Battle for the University of Alabama (Paperback)

Language: English

Published by The University of Alabama Press, Alabama, 2025

0817362002 / 9780817362003

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Paperback. Traces the little-known story of the bitter contest for the fate of the University of Alabama after the Civil War In The Battle for the University of Alabama, William Warren Rogers Jr. gives a fascinating account of the fierce struggle over the nature of the University of Alabama after the Civil War. Union forces reduced the campus to ruins as the war ended, and the university did not reopen until 1869. In the interregnum, powerful forces shifted the trajectory of the school. Alabama Republicans authored an egalitarian state constitution that delivered oversight of the university to the Republican Party. That set the stage for turmoil and confrontation. This book tells the story of that conflict. In the next few years, Democrats charged Republicans with turning the university into a radical institution. They alleged that a handful of unqualified individuals had gained faculty positions because of their political allegiance, which resulted in the universitys academic desecration. Professors were bitterly denounced in the state newspaper press and quite personally in Tuscaloosa. Administration of the university became part of the fratricidal political debate in the state. Political violence and questions concerning race, specifically the possible integration of the university, illuminated the controversies of the Reconstruction years. Many of these questions resonate even today. This authoritative account sets events at the University of Alabama against the backdrop of what occurred at other state universities in the Reconstruction South. The University of North Carolina experienced controversy similar to Alabamas. At the University of Georgia, however, calm prevailed. This story of the incendiary events at Alabamas flagship university charts new ground and provides a revelatory look into the extraordinary partisanship that characterized the South after the Civil War. Traces the little-known story of the bitter contest for the fate of the University of Alabama after the Civil War Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
The Battle for the University of Alabama (Paperback)
Author
William Warren Rogers
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press, Alabama
Publication year
2025
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0817362002
ISBN 13
9780817362003

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