The Battle for the University of Alabama: The Perilous Path of Higher Education in the Reconstruction South

by Rogers, William Warren
ISBN: 9780817362003
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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.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Rogers, William Warren
  • ISBN: 9780817362003
  • Condition: New
  • Number Of Pages: 272
  • Publication Year: 2025
Language: English

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