Wayne Flynt

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The Confederados

Old South Immigrants in Brazil

University of Alabama Press

This collection of essays--which also includes a previously unpublished narrative by an original settler-- examines the fascinating experiences of southern Confederate exiles in Brazil and their continuing legacy.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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Up Before Daylight

Life Histories from the Alabama Writers' Project, 1938-1939

University of Alabama Press

These compelling accounts of hard times and hard work reveal human courage, dignity, and resilience from a generation that endured the Great Depression.

  • Copyright year: 1982
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Poor but Proud

Alabama's Poor Whites

University of Alabama Press

This meticulous reconstruction of the lives of poor whites in the heart of Dixie is a model study inviting new respect for a people who have suffered from widespread and continuing stereotyping.

1991 James F. Sulzby Book Award, sponsored by Alabama Historical Association
1991 Alabama Library Author Award, sponsored by Alabama Library Association
1990 Lillian Smith Book Award, sponsored by Southern Regional Council
1989 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, sponsored by Choice Magazine


  • Copyright year: 2001
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A Century of Controversy

Constitutional Reform in Alabama

University of Alabama Press

A timely examination of Alabama’s severely criticized state constitution

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Recovering the Margins of American Religious History

The Legacy of David Edwin Harrell Jr.

Edited by B. Dwain Waldrep and Scott Billingsley; Preface by Grant Wacker; Foreword by Wayne Flynt
University of Alabama Press

Recovering the Margins of American Religious History, a celebration of the life and work of David Edwin Harrell Jr., brings together essays from Harrell’s colleagues, peers, and students that explore his impact and legacy in the field of American religious studies.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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For the Love of Alabama

Journalism by Ron Casey and Bailey Thomson

Edited by Sam Hodges; By Ron Casey and Bailey Thomson; Foreword by Wayne Flynt
University of Alabama Press

For the Love of Alabama is a compilation of the most poignant and trenchant writing—editorials, reportage, and columns—by two of Alabama’s most committed and reform-minded journalists. Ron Casey and Bailey Thomson both died young: Casey at forty-eight and Thomson at fifty-four. Nevertheless, through their work at the Birmingham News and the Mobile Press-Register, respectively, they labored tirelessly to illuminate and confront the state’s chronic and interrelated problems of race, government, education, and poverty.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Alabama

The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition

University of Alabama Press

A new and up-to-date edition of Alabama’s history to celebrate the state’s bicentennial

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Taking Christianity to China

Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850–1950

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2017
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Alabama in the Twentieth Century

University of Alabama Press

An authoritative popular history that places the state in regional and national context
 

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Alabama Baptists

Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

The definitive history of the dominant religious group within the state during the last two centuries

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Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century

University of Alabama Press

Essays by the distinguished historian of southern religion Wayne Flynt, that illuminate the often overlooked complexity among southern Protestants

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Keeping the Faith

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives

University of Alabama Press

Wayne Flynt tells the story of his life and his courageous battles against an indifferent or hostile power structure with modesty but always with honesty. In doing so he tells us the story of how Alabama institutions really are manipulated, and why we should care.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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