Archival Resources

Suggested Reading - Birmingham History

 

Books and Booklets

Articles

Theses and Dissertations

Miscellaneous

Books and Booklets:

 

Armes, Ethel, The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama. Birmingham: The Book-Keepers Press,1972 (reprint of original 1910 edition).
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XXVIII, No. 1 (January 1975)

 

Atkins, Leah Rawls, The Valley and the Hills: An Illustrated History of Birmingham and Jefferson County. Tarzana, California and Birmingham: Preferred Marketing and the Birmingham Public  Library, 1996 (revised edition of original 1981 edition).
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXV, No. 2 (April 1982)

 

The Best People in the World Live in Wylam. Birmingham: Birmingfind, 1981.

 

Birmingham's Lebanese: "The Earth Turned to Gold". Birmingham: Birmingfind, 1981.

 

Branch, Taylor, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
Reviewed: The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LVI, No. 3 (August 1990)

 

Branch, Taylor, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.
Reviewed: The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXV, No. 3 (August 1999)

 

Brown, Edwin L. and Colin J. Davis (eds.), It Is Union and Liberty: Alabama Coal Miners, 1898- 1998. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1999.

 

Brown, Virginia Pounds, Grand Old Days of Birmingham Golf. Birmingham: Beechwood Books, 1984.

 

Burkhardt, Ann McCorquodale, House Detective: A Guide to Researching Birmingham Buildings. Birmingham: Birmingham Historical Society, 1988.

 

Caldwell, H. M., History of the Elyton Land Company and Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham: Southern University Press, 1972 (reprint of original 1892 edition).

 

Corley, Robert G., Paying "Civic Rent": The Jews of Emanu-El and the Birmingham Community. Birmingham: A.H. Cather Publishing Company, 1982.

 

Cowett, Mark, Birmingham’s Rabbi: Morris Newfield and Alabama, 1895-1940. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1986.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLI, No. 2 (April 1988); The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LIII, No. 4 (November 1987)

 

Cruikshank, George M., A History of Birmingham and Its Environs. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1920.

 

Davis, Townsend, Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1998.

 

Dismukes, Otis, The Other Side: The Story of Birmingham's Black Community. Birmingham: Birmingfind, 1981

 

DuBose, John Witherspoon, Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama: Historical and Biographical. Birmingham: Teeple and Smith, 1887.

 

Durr, Virginia Foster, Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1985 Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXIX, No. 4 (October 1986); 
The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LII, No. 4 (November 1986)

 

Elovitch, Mark H., A Century of Jewish Life in Dixie: The Birmingham Experience. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1974.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review Vol. XXIX, No. 4 (October 1976)

 

Elyton-West End: Birmingham's First Neighborhood. Birmingham: Birmingfind, 1981.

 

Eskew, Glenn T., But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

 

Fallin, Wilson, The African American Church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1815-1963: A Shelter in the Storm. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997.

 

Feldman, Glenn, From Demagogue to Dixiecrat: Horace Wilkerson and the Politics of Race. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1995.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 50, No. 2 (April 1997); The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXII, No. 4 (November 1996)

 

Feldman, Glenn, Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1999.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 55, No. 1 (January 2002).
Reviewed: The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXVIII, No. 3 (August 2001) 

 

Feldman, Lynn B., A Sense of Place: Birmingham's Black Middle-Class Community, 1890-1930. Tuscaloosa: the University of Alabama Press, 1999.
 Reviewed: The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXVIII, No. 3 (August 2001) 

 

Franklin, Jimmie Lewis, Back to Birmingham: Richard Arrington, Jr. and His Times. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1989.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 3 (July 1990); The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LVII, No. 1 (February 1991)

 

Fullerton, Christopher D., Every Other Sunday: The Story of the Birmingham Black Barons. Birmingham: R. Boozer Press, 1999.

 

Garrow, David J., Birmingham, Alabama, 1956-1963: The Black Struggle for Civil Rights. New York: Carlson Publishing Inc., 1989.
Reviewed: The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LVII, No. 3 (August 1991)

 

Garrow, David J., Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. New York: W. Morrow, 1986.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLI, No. 2 (April 1988); The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LIV, No. 1 (February 1988)

 

Hamilton, Virginia Van der Veer and Jacqueline A. Matte, Seeing Historic Alabama: Fifteen Guided Tours. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1996.

 

Harris, Carl V., Political Power in Birmingham, 1871-1921. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1977.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXII, No. 2 (April 1979); The Journal of Southern History, Vol. XLIV, No. 3 (August 1978)

 

Hudson, Alvin W., The First Iron Bowl: Alabama versus Auburn, February 22, 1893. Birmingham: Birmingham Public Library, 1996.

 

Hudson, Alvin W. and Harold E. Cox, Street Railways of Birmingham. Forty Fort, Pennsylvania: Harold E. Cox, 1976.

 

Jefferson County Historical Commission, Birmingham and Jefferson County: A Postcard Pictorial. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 1998.

 

Kelley, Robin D. G., Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
Reviewed: The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LVIII, No. 1 (February 1992)

 

LaMonte, Edward S., George B. Ward: Birmingham’s Urban Statesman. Birmingham: Birmingham Public Library, 1974.

 

LaMonte, Edward S., Politics and Welfare in Birmingham, 1900-1975. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1995.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 50, No. 1 (January 1997)

 

Lewis, Pierce and Marjorie Longenecker White, Birmingham View: Through the Years in Photographs. Birmingham: Birmingham Historical Society, 1996.

 

Lewis, W. David, Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District: An Industrial Epic. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1994.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 51, No. 2 (April 1998); The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXII, No. 3 (August 1996)

 

Like It Ain’t Never Passed: Remembering Life in Sloss Quarters. Birmingham: Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, 1985.

 

McDowell, Deborah E., Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin. New York: Scribner, 1997.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 51, No. 3 (July 1998)

 

McKiven, Henry M., Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 50, No. 3 (July 1997); The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXII, No. 3 (August 1996)

 

Manis, Andrew M., A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1999.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 54, No. 4  (October 2001)

 

Moore, Geraldine, Behind the Ebony Mask. Birmingham: Southern University Press, 1961.

 

Morgan, Charles, A Time to Speak. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.

 

Morris, Philip A., Vulcan and His Times. Birmingham: Birmingham Historical Society, 1995.

 

Morris, Philip A. and Marjorie Longenecker White (eds.), Designs on Birmingham: A Landscape History of a Southern City and Its Suburbs. Birmingham: Birmingham Historical Society, 1989.

 

The New Patrida: The Story of Birmingham's Greeks. Birmingham: Birmingfind, 1981.

 

Newman, Zipp and Frank McGowan, 50 Years of Professional Baseball in Alabama Since 1900. Birmingham: Cather Brothers, 1950.

 

Norrell, Robert J., The Italians from Bisacquino to Birmingham. Birmingham: Birmingfind, 1981.

 

Norrell, Robert J., James Bowron: The Autobiography of a New South Industrialist. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LIX, No. 2 (May 1993)

 

Nunnelley, William A., Bull Connor. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1991.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLV, No. 3 (July 1992); The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LVIII, No. 4 (November 1992)

 

Raines, Howell, My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1977.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXII, No. 3 (July 1979)

 

Riley, James A., The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers, 1994.

 

Satterfield, Carolyn Green, Historic Sites of Jefferson County, Alabama. Birmingham: Jefferson County Historical Commission, 1985 (revised publication of original 1976 edition).
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXI, No. 2 (April 1978)

 

Schnorrenberg, John M., Remembered Past, Discovered Future: The Alabama Architecture of Warren, Knight & Davis, 1906-1961. Birmingham: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1999.

 

Sikora, Frank, Until Justice Rolls Down: The Birmingham Church Bombing Case. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1991.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLVI, No. 2 (April 1993)

 

Smith, Douglas L., The New Deal in the Urban South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 1 (January 1990); The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LVI, No. 1 (February 1990)

 

Smith, Petric J., Long Time Coming: An Insider’s Story of the Birmingham Church Bombing that Rocked the World. Birmingham: Crane Hill Publishers, 1994.

 

Sulzby, James F., Birmingham Sketches, From 1871 Through 1921. Birmingham: Birmingham Printing Company, 1945.

 

Sulzby, James F., Historic Alabama Hotels and Resorts. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1960.

 

Tarry, Ellen, The Third Door: The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1992 (reprint of original 1955 edition and 1966 reprint). 
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLVII, No. 3 (July 1994)

 

Thomas, Mary Martha, The New Woman in Alabama: Social Reforms and Suffrage, 1890-1920. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1992.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLVI, No. 4 (October 1993); The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LX, No. 1 (February 1994)

 

Thomas, Mary Martha, Riveting and Rationing in Dixie: Alabama Women and the Second World War. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1987.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLI, No. 3 (July 1988); The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LIV, No. 4 (November 1988)

 

Ward, Robert David and William Warren Rogers, Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1987.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLI, No. 3 (July 1988); The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LIV, No. 3 (August 1988)

 

Weiner, Jonathan M., Social Origins of the New South: Alabama, 1860-1885. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXIII, No. 1 (January 1980); The Journal of Southern History, Vol. XLV, No. 3 (August 1979)

 

White, Marjorie Longenecker, The Birmingham District: An Industrial History and Guide. Birmingham: Birmingham Historical Society, 1981.

 

White, Marjorie Longenecker, Downtown Birmingham: Architectural and Historical Walking Tour Guide. Birmingham: Birmingham Historical Society, 1980.

Wilson, Bobby M., America's Johannesburg: Industrialization and Racial Transformation in Birmingham. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 55, No. 1 (January, 2002)

Wilson, Bobby M., Race and Place in Birmingham: The Civil Rights and Neighborhood Movements. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 55, No. 1 (January, 2002)

Witt, Timothy, Bases Loaded with History, The Story of Rickwood Field: America’s Oldest Baseball Park. Birmingham: The R. Boozer Press, 1995.

 

Woodward Iron Company, Alabama Blast Furnaces. Woodward, Alabama: Woodward Iron Company, 1940

 

Wooster, Louise C., The Autobiography of a Magdalen. Birmingham: Birmingham Publishing Company, 1971 (reprint of the original 1911 edition).

 

Articles:

 

Alsobrook, David E., "Mobile v. Birmingham: The Alabama Medical College Controversy, 1912-1920." The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXVI, No. 1 (January 1983).

 

Anderson, Fletcher, "Foundations of Musical Culture in Birmingham, Alabama, 1971-1900." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. VI, No. 3 (January 1980).

 

Armbrester, Margaret E., "John Temple Graves II: A Southern Liberal Views the New Deal." The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXII, No. 3 (July 1979).

 

Armbrester, Margaret E., "Samuel Ullman: Birmingham Progressive." The Alabama Review,  Vol. XLVII. No. 1 (January 1994).

 

Atkins, Leah Rawls, "Feuds, Factions, and Reform: Politics in Early Birmingham." Alabama Heritage, Summer 1986.

 

Atkins, Leah Rawls, "Growing Up Around Edgewood Lake." The Alabama Review, Vol. XLIV, No. 2 (April 1991).

 

Atkins, Leah Rawls, "Senator James Am Simpson and Birmingham Politics of the 1930s: His Fight Against the Spoilsmen and the Pie-Men." The Alabama Review, Vol. XLI, No. 1 (January 1988).

 

Baggett, James L., "Birmingham and the Picture Postcard." Alabama Heritage, No. 52, (Spring 1999)

 

Barnard, William D., "George Huddleston, Sr. and the Political Tradition of Birmingham." The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXVI, No. 4 (October 1983).

 

Bass, S. Jonathan, "Bishop C.C.J. Carpenter: From Segregation to Integration." The Alabama Review, Vol. XLV, No. 3 (July 1992).

 

Bigelow, Martha Mitchell, "Birmingham’s Carnival of Crime, 1871-1910." The Alabama Review, Vol. III, No. 2 (April 1950).

 

Bloomer, John W., "’The Loafers’ in Birmingham in the Twenties." The Alabama Review, Vol. XXX, No. 2 (April 1977).

 

Breedlove, Michael A., "Progressivism and Nativism: The Race for the Presidency of the City Commission of Birmingham, Alabama in 1917." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. VI, No. 4 (July 1980).

 

Brewer, David M., "Blount County Mineral Industry: Its Growth and Role in the Development of the Birmingham Industrial District." The Vulcan Historical Review, Volume One (Spring 1997).

 

Brown, Virginia Pounds and Mabel Thuston Turner, "The Birmingham Public Library: From Its Beginning Until 1927, Chapters I and II." The Journal of the Birmingham  Historical Society, Vol. V, No. 4 (July 1978).

 

Brown, Virginia Pounds and Mabel Thuston Turner, "The Birmingham Public Library: From Its Beginning Until 1927, Chapters III and IV." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. VI, No. 1 (January 1979).

 

Brownell, Blaine A., "The Notorious Jitney and the Urban Transportation Crisis in Birmingham in the 1920’s." The Alabama Review, Vol. XXV, No. 2 (April 1971).

 

Burkhardt, Ann McCorquodale, "Town Within a City: The Five Points South Neighborhood,  1880-1930." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society (Special Issue), Vol. 3-4 (November 1982).

 

Cary, Tim, "Slidin’ and Ridin’: At Home and on the Road with the 1948 Birmingham Black Barons." Alabama Heritage, Fall 1986.

 

Corley, Robert G., "Images of the Past: Selections from the Work of O.V. Hunt." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. VI, No. 2 (July 1979).

 

Corley, Robert G., "In Search of Racial Harmony: Birmingham Business Leaders and Desegregation," in Jacoway, Elizabeth and David S. Colburn (eds), Southern Businessmen and Desegregation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

 

Draper, Alan, "The New Southern Labor History Revisited: The Success of the Mine, Mill and Smelter  Workers Union in Birmingham, 1934-1938." The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXII, No. 1 (February 1996).

 

Erdreich, Ellen Cooper, "Birmingham Craftsman: An Introduction." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 8, No. 1 (December 1983).

 

Erdreich, Ellen Cooper, "The Red Mountain Residence of Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Woodward." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 7, No. 2 (November 1981).

 

Eskew, Glenn T., "Demagoguery in Birmingham and the Building of Vestavia." The Alabama Review, Vol. XLII, No. 3 (July 1989).

 

Eskew, Glenn T., "The Freedom Ride Riot and Political Reform in Birmingham, 1961-1963." The Alabama Review, Vol. XLIX, No. 3 (July 1996).

 

Flynt, Wayne, "Religion in the Urban South: The Divided Religious Mind of Birmingham, 1900-1930." The Alabama Review, Vol. XXX, No. 2 (April 1977).

 

Fuller, Justin, "Boom Towns and Blast Furnaces: Town Promotion in Alabama, 1885-1893." The Alabama Review, Vol. XXIX, No. 1 (January 1976).

 

Fuller, Justin, "Henry F. DeBardeleben, Industrialist of the New South." The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXIX, No. 1 (January 1986).

 

Goodrich, Gillian, "Romance and Reality: The Birmingham Suffragists, 1892-1920." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. V, No. 3 (January 1978).

 

Gutwillig, Robert, "Six Days in Alabama." Mademoiselle, September 1963.

 

Harris, Carl V., "Annexation Struggles and Political Power in Birmingham, Alabama, 1890-1910." The Alabama Review, Vol. XXVII, No. 3 (July 1974).

 

Harris, Carl V., "Stability and Change in Discrimination Against Black Public Schools: Birmingham, Alabama, 1871-1931." The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LI, No. 3 (August 1985).

 

Hudgins, Carter Lee, "A Natural History of Village Creek." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 9, No. 1 (December 1985).

 

Huntley, Horace, "The Rise and Fall of Mine Mill in Alabama: The Status Quo Against Interracial  Unionism, 1933-1949." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. VI, No. 1 (January 1979).

 

Ingalls, Robert P., "Antiradical Violence in Birmingham During the 1930s." The Journal of Southern History, Vol. XLVII, No. 4 (November 1981).

 

Johns, Lyn, "Early Highlands and the Magic City, 1884-1893: Including Willis J. Milner’s ‘History of Highland Avenue’." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. VI, No. 2 (July 1979).

 

Keeton, Jane E., "Birmingham’s First Three Decades: A Photographic Essay." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 9, No. 2 (1987).

 

LaMonte, Edward S., "The Mercy Home and Private Charity in Early Birmingham." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. V, No. 4 (July 1978).

 

LaMonte, Ruth Bradbury, "The Origins of an Urban School System: Birmingham, 1873-1900." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. V, No. 2 (July 1977).

 

Lennox, Tim, "Rosa Zinszer: Birmingham Entrepreneuse Extraradinary." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. VI, No. 3 (January 1980).

 

Letwin, Daniel, "Interracial Unionism, Gender, and ‘Social Equality’ in the Alabama Coalfields, 1878-1908." The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXI, No. 3 (August 1995).

 

Manis, Andrew Michael, "Religious Experience, Religious Authority, and Civil Rights Leadership: The Case of Birmingham’s Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth," in Wilson, Charles Reagan (ed), Cultural Perspectives on the American South, Volume 5. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1991.

 

Menzer, Mitch and Mike Williams, "Images of Work: Birmingham, 1894-1937." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 7, No. 1 (June 1981).

 

Newton, Wesley Phillips, "Lindbergh Comes to Birmingham." The Alabama Review, Vol. XXVI, No. 2 (April 1973).

 

Norrell, Robert J., "Caste in Steel: Jim Crow Careers in Birmingham, Alabama." The Journal of American History, Vol. 73, No. 3 (December 1986).

 

Northrup, Jeff, "The Hawes Riot: All the News Unfit to Print." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. V, No. 4 (July 1978).

 

Northrup, Jeff, "The Hawes Affair: Part II." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. VI, No. 1 (January 1979).

 

Painter, Nell Irvin, "Hosea Hudson and the Progressive Party in Birmingham," in Black, Merle and John Shelton Reed (eds.), Perspectives on the American South, Volume 1. New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1981.

 

Pruitt, Paul M., "Private Tragedy, Public Shame." Alabama Heritage, Fall 1993.

 

Rikard, Marlene Hunt, "George Gordon Crawford: Man of the New South." The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXI, No. 3 (July 1978).

 

Rikard, Marlene Hunt, "’Take Everything You Are … And Give It Away’: Pioneer Industrial Workers at TCI." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 7, No. 2 (November 1981).

 

Rikard, Marlene Hunt, "Wenonah: The Magic Word." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 7, No. 1 (June 1981).

 

Rockaway, Robert A., "Notes and Documents: Jewish Immigrant Removals in Birmingham, Alabama." The Alabama Review, Vol. XLVI, No. 1 (January 1993).

 

Rumore, Samuel A., "Noteworthy Birmingham Fires." The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXI, No. 1 (1978).

 

Scribner, Christopher MacGregor, "Federal Funding, Urban Renewal, and Race Relations: Birmingham in Transition, 1945-1955." The Alabama Review, Vol. XLVII, No. 4

(October 1995).

 

Slaughter, Ellen, "DeBardeleben, Bessemer, and the Montezuma Hotel." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 9, No. 2 (1987).

 

Starr, J. Barton, "Birmingham and the ‘Dixiecrat’ Convention of 1948." Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 32, Nos. 1-2 (Spring and Summer 1970).

 

Stein, Judith, "Southern Workers in National Unions: Birmingham Steelworkers, 1936-1951," in Zieger, Robert H. (ed), Organized Labor in the Twentieth-Century South. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991.

 

Straw, Richard A., "Soldiers and Miners in a Strike Zone: Birmingham, 1908." The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 4 (October 1985).

 

Straw, Richard A., "The United Mine Workers of American and the 1920 Coal Strike in Alabama" The Alabama Review, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2 (April 1975).

 

Thomas, Rebecca L., "John J. Egan and Industrial Democracy at ACIPCO." The Alabama Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 4 (October 1990).

 

Thompson, George Clinton, "Vulcan: Birmingham’s Man of Iron." Alabama Heritage, Spring 1991.

 

Trimmer, Steve, "The Enslen House." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 8, No. 2 (December 1984).

 

Wainwright, Paige, "Rickwood Field: Grand Old Lady of Baseball." Alabama Heritage, Fall 1995.

 

Waldrep, B. Dwain, "Fundamentalism, Interdenomionalism, and the Birmingham School of the Bible." The Alabama Review, Vol. XLIX, No. 1 (January 1996).

 

Waldrep, B. Dwain, "Henry Edmonds and His Controversy With the Southern Presbyterian Church, 1913-1915." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 9, No. 1 (December 1985).

 

White, Marjorie Longenecker, "Glen Iris Park and the Residence of Robert Jemison, Jr." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. VI, No. 2 (July 1979).

 

White, Marjorie Longenecker, "Images of Smithfield: A Photo Essay." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 9, No. 1 (December 1985).

 

Whiting, Marvin Yeomans, "James R. Powell and ‘This Magic Little City of Our’s’: A Perspective on Local History." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 8, No. 1 (December 1983).

 

Whiting, Marvin Yeomans (ed), "Landmark: Giuseppe Moretti." The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 9, No. 1 (December 1985).

 

Willard, Jennifer M., "Giuseppe Moretti." Alabama Heritage, Spring 1991.

 

Theses and Dissertations:

 

Bass, S. Jonathan, "Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight Religious Leaders, and the ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Tennessee, 1996.

 

Callins, Jothan McKinley, "The Birmingham Jazz Community: The Role and Contributions of Afro-Americans (Up to 1940)." M.A. Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1982.

 

Coleman, Larry W., "A History of Birmingham Children’s Theatre, 1947-1978." M.A. Thesis, University of Montevallo, 1979.

 

Corley, Robert G., "The Quest for Racial Harmony: Race Relations in Birmingham, Alabama, 1947-1963." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1979.

 

Eskew, Glenn Thomas, "The Alabama Christian Movement and the Birmingham Struggle for Civil Rights, 1956-1963." M.A. Thesis, University of Georgia, 1987.

 

Eskew, Glenn Thomas, "But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Georgia, 1993.

 

Feldman, Glenn, "The Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, 1915-1954." Ph.D. Dissertation, Auburn University, 1995.

 

Fuller, Juston, "History of the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company, 1852-1907." Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1966.

 

Fullerton, Christopher Dean, "Striking Out Jim Crow: The Birmingham Black Barons." M.A. Thesis, The University of Mississippi, 1994.

 

Housch-Collins, Linda Gail, "Selling Bread and Freedom: The Aircraft Organizing Drives of the United Automobile Workers in Birmingham, Alabama, 1943 to 1952." Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Michigan, 1998.

 

Ingham, Vicki Leigh, "Women, Art and the New South: From the Birmingham Art Club to the Birmingham Museum of Art." M.A. Thesis, The University of Alabama at Birmingham and The University of Alabama, 1994.

 

Mitchell, Martha Carolyn, "Birmingham: Biography of a City of the New South." Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Chicago, 1946.

 

See also: Crumpler, Yvonne Anne Shelton, "Index, Birmingham: Biography of a City of the New South." Birmingham: Birmingham Public Library, 1979.

 

Richards, Johnetta Gladys, "The Southern Negro Youth Congress: A History." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 1987.

 

Rikard, Marlene Hunt, "An Experiment in Welfare Capitalism: The Health Care Services of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company." Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Alabama, 1983.

 

Snell, William Robert, "The Ku Klux Klan in Jefferson County, Alabama, 1916-1930." M.A. Thesis, Samford University, 1967.

 

Sterne, Ellin, "Prostitution in Birmingham, Alabama, 1890-1925." M.A. Thesis, Samford University, 1977.

 

Straw, Richard Alan, "Birmingham Miners Struggle for Power, 1894-1908." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1980.

 

Miscellaneous:

 

Johnson, John W., "A History of Birmingham’s Zoos." 1972. Typescript available in the Southern History Department, Birmingham Public Library.

 

Schnorrenberg, John M. (ed), "Papers on Some Buildings of Birmingham." Birmingham: The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1994. Typescript available in the Southern History Department, Birmingham Public Library.