Alabama: A Bicentennial History

by Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton

Book Overview

Pause for a moment before a gallery of fading portraits, and you will sense the beginnings of Alabama's troubled history--homespun pioneers gripped by Alabama fever, chained and manacled black people... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039305621X
• ISBN13: 9780393056211
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Riveting Alabama History

I loved this book and I can't let that one star review go by unchallenged. I came up through the Alabama public school system and graduated from the University of Alabama, so I took required Alabama history four times. Not all of it was fascinating. I thought this little book was riveting reading. Virginia Van Der Veer Hamilton wrote a concise history of our state. Any student of Alabama history will not stop with this book, but it is a good starting point. I recommend that serious students go on to read Dr. Wayne Flynt's excellent Alabama histories.