Literature

This Bright Light of Ours offers a tightly focused insider’s view of the community-based activism that was the heart of the civil rights movement. A celebration of grassroots heroes, this book details through first-person accounts the contributions of ordinary people who formed the nonviolent army that won the fight for voting rights.Combining memoir and oral history, Maria Gitin fills a vital gap in civil rights history by focusing on the neglected Freedom Summer of 1965 when hundreds of...

The photographs created by Edith Morgan in Camden depict a multifaceted view of her hometown and time. The photographs include portraits, genre works, landscapes, still life, and documentary studies. Through a Woman's Eye explores both the reminiscent and precient aspects of her work.

Through Others' Eyes includes descriptions of traveling to and from Montgomery, but it focuses on the travelers' descriptions of Montgomery itself. The twenty-eight published accounts between 1825 and 1861 were written by Americans and Europeans with a variety of backgrounds. A few are as objective as can reasonably be expected considering the short durations of the writers' visits. Some are prone to display their preconceptions and prejudices. Most exaggerate-they had to make their books...

When The Dinner Bell Rings is a delightful collection of recipes and personal stories from Alabama's First Family and friends.Join Alabama's top hostess Patsy Riley as she presents recipes served during grand dinners at the Governor's Mansion. She's also collected recipes from the other state's executive residences. Proceeds from the sale of this cookbook will help maintain the Governor's Mansion as well as benefit the 1910 Farley-Hill House, a "sister" home next door to the mansion. ...

In 1910, Orville and Wilbur Wright opened the first American civilian flight school in Montgomery, Alabama. The Wright brothers hoped to find a climate warmer and more hospitable to flying than their company base of snowy Dayton, Ohio. Forward-thinking Montgomerians welcomed the Wrights and heralded the school as a way to rise above the shadow of the Civil War. Author Julie Hedgepeth Williams chronicles the short life of this flight school as seen mainly through the eyes of the Alabama press,...