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Alabama Heritage: Alabama Heritage is an academic publication providing historical analysis of the people, places and events that helped shape Alabama and the South.

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Alabama Heritage Turns Twenty
Dear Readers: Twenty years ago this summer, many of you read your first issue of Alabama Heritage, and you've been with us ever since. Our staff...
7/1/06 by Cox, Donna L · More from publication
Toulmin & Hitchcock
Pioneering Jurists of the Alabama Frontier Harry Toulmin and Henry Hitchcock wrote the law books of the Alabama frontier, revealing the raffish,...
7/1/06 by Beidler, Philip · More from publication
"MOSQUITO SUITS", THE
As THE RESERVOIR BEHIND LAY DAM SLOWLY FILLED, local residents claimed to notice a dramatic increase in the mosquito population. Their complaints...
7/1/06 by Jackson, Harvey H III · More from publication
BANGOR CAVE CASINO
TO FIND BANGOR CAVE today, you must know where to look in the deep piney woods of Central Alabama. That was not always the case. For a short but...
7/1/06 by Jones, Pam · More from publication
ALABAMA'S VINE AND OLIVE COLONY
MYTH AND FACT In Vine and Olive Colony myth, dashing aristocrats struggle in vain to tame the wilderness, but the truth is just as compelling-and...
7/1/06 by Blaufarb, Rafe · More from publication
VINE AND OLIVE: THE UNFOLDING LEGACY
SOME YEARS AGO, ERIC SAUGERA, a French historian known in academic circles for his several books on the slave trade that flourished in France between...
7/1/06 by Wolfe, Suzanne · More from publication