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  • Mockingbird Songs

    My Friendship with Harper Lee

    by Wayne Flynt ...
    An indelible portrait of one of the most famous and beloved authors in the canon of American literature—a collection of letters between Harper Lee and one of her closest friends that reveals the famously private writer as never before, in her own words.The violent racism of the American South drove Wayne Flynt away from his home state of Alabama, but the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Afternoons with Harper Lee

    by Wayne Flynt ...
    Imagine sitting with an esteemed writer on his or her front porch somewhere in the world and swapping life stories. Dr. Wayne Flynt got the opportunity to do just this with Nelle Harper Lee. In a friendship that blossomed over a dozen years starting when Lee relocated back to Alabama after having had a stroke, Flynt and his wife Dartie became regular visitors at the assisted living facility that ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Civil Wars, Civil Beings, and Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt

    A History of Perry County

    by Bertis D. English ...
    Reconstruction politics and race relations between freed blacks and the white establishment in Perry County, AlabamaIn his fascinating, in-depth study, Bertis D. English analyzes why Perry County, situated in the heart of a violence-prone subregion of Alabama, enjoyed more peaceful race relations and less bloodshed than several neighboring counties. Choosing an atypical locality as central to his ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Alabama in the Twentieth Century

    by Wayne Flynt ...
    Series series The Modern South
    An authoritative popular history that places the state in regional and national context.Penned by one of Alabama’s most distinguished historians, this masterful work offers a sweeping yet intimate portrait of a century that reshaped both the state and the nation. With clarity, wit, and deep insight, the author traces the dramatic arc of the 20th century—from the dawn of flight and the rise of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Confederados

    Old South Immigrants in Brazil

    by Wayne Flynt, Cecil Ataide Melo, Elizabeth Weisbrod, Eugene C. Harter, James M. Gravois, Laura Jarnagin, William C. Griggs, John Charles Dawson, Michael B. Montgomery ...
    The story of exiles from the Confederate South who fled to Brazil after the US Civil War. The collection includes a previously unpublished narrative by an original settlerIn the wake of the American Civil War, thousands of disillusioned Southerners sought refuge far from Reconstruction’s reach—many found it in Brazil. The Confederados is a compelling exploration of this little-known migration, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Alabama

    The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition

    by Robert David Ward, Leah Rawls Atkins, Wayne Flynt, William Warren Rogers Sr. ...
    A definitive bicentennial history of Alabama and its place in the American South.Alabama: The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition is a comprehensive narrative account of the state from its earliest days to the present. This edition, updated to celebrate the state’s bicentennial year, offers a detailed survey of the colorful, dramatic, and often controversial turns in Alabama’s ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Keeping the Faith

    Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives

    by Wayne Flynt ...
    Series series Religion & American Culture
    Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4This historical memoir by the widely recognized scholar, Wayne Flynt, chronicles the inner workings of his academic career at Samford and Auburn Universities, as well as his many contributions to the general history of Alabama. Flynt has traveled the state and the South lecturing and teaching both lay and academic groups, calling on ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • A Century of Controversy

    Constitutional Reform in Alabama

    by Wayne Flynt, G. Alan Tarr, Howard P. Walthall, James W. Williams, Jr., William H. Stewart III, H. Bailey Thomson III, Bradley Moody III, Anne Permaloff III, Robert Martin Schaefer III, Joe A Sumners III, Samuel L. Webb III, Harvey H. Jackson III ...
    A timely examination of Alabama’s severely criticized state constitutionAlabama’s present constitution, adopted in 1901, is widely viewed as the source of many, if not most, of the state’s historic difficulties and inequities. Chief among these is a poorly funded school system, an imbalanced tax system that favors special business interests, legislated racism, and unchecked urban sprawl. Many ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Taking Christianity to China

    Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850–1950

    by Wayne Flynt, Gerald W. Berkley-Coats ...
    Beginning early in the 19th century, the American missionary movement made slow headway in China. Alabamians became part of that small beachhead. After 1900 both the money and personnel rapidly expanded, peaking in the early 1920s. By the 1930s many American denominations became confused and divided over the appropriateness of the missionary endeavor. Secular American intellectuals began to ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Recovering the Margins of American Religious History

    The Legacy of David Edwin Harrell Jr.

    by Grant Wacker, Samuel S. Hill, Richard T. Hughes, Charles Reagan Wilson, John C. Hardin, Beth Barton Schweiger, James R. Goff Jr., Dr. B. Dwain Waldrep, Ph.D. Scott Billingsley, Ph.D.1 ...
    Series series Religion and American Culture
    Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Recovering 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. Raised in an upper-class family in mid-twentieth-century Jacksonville, Florida, ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century

    by Wayne Flynt ...
    Series series Religion and American Culture
    Essays by the distinguished historian of southern religion Wayne Flynt, that illuminate the often overlooked complexity among southern Protestants.Throughout its dramatic history, the American South has wrestled with issues such as poverty, social change, labor reform, civil rights, and party politics, and Flynt’s writing reaffirms religion as the lens through which southerners understand and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Poor but Proud

    Alabama's Poor Whites

    by Wayne Flynt ...
    First published in 1989 by The University of Alabama Press, Poor but Proud was met with critical acclaim and awarded the 1990 Lillian Smith prize in nonfiction, as well as being named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book. This new paperback version will make the classic work available for general readers, bookstores, and classrooms.Wayne Flynt addresses the life experiences of poor whites through ... Read more

    $25.19 USD