Gaining Independence,
1763-1783

Westward Expansion & Transition,
1877-1900

Maps of the Southeast before 1800

Timeline of Alabama

Letters, Diaries, Journals

• Letter, John Adams to Thomas Jefferson

Images and Photographs

• American Revolution

Documents

• George Washington's first inaugural address
• Subpoena served on Thomas Jefferson to testify at Aaron Burr's trial for treason

Forming and Growth of a Nation,
1776-1859

Maps of North America 1776-1800

Timeline of Alabama

Letters, Diaries, Journals, Proceedings

• A Trip from Talbotton Georgia to Irvinton
  (Now Eufaula) Alabama (letter)
• North American Slave Narratives

Images and Photographs

• Lewis and Clark

• Regionalism in the United States 1800-1860

Documents

• Alabama Constitution of 1819

Civil War 1860-1865

Maps

• Maps of Alabama 1856-1870

• Defense of Fort Morgan

• Mobile Bay 1864

Timeline of Alabama

Alabama Oral Histories

• From the LOC American Memory

Letters, Diaries, Journals, Proceedings

• The History and Debates of the Convention of the People of Alabama

• Confederate States of America: An Act Relative to Prisoners of War

• Southern Homefront, 1861-1865

• Camp Hardtimes

Iron in the Civil War

Education

• Chaudron's Spelling Book

Music of the Time

Reconstruction 1865-1877

Timeline of Alabama

Building Birmingham

• Elyton Land Company

• The Birmingham Cholera Epidemic of 1873

New Relationships

• Labor Contracts between owners and former slaves

Resources

Maps of the U.S. & the Americas after 1850

• Alabama 1885

Timeline of Alabama

Letters, Diaries, Journals

• Spanish-American War

Images and Photographs

• BPL Digital Collection

Sloss Furnaces 1881

The Emergence of Modern American,
1900-1930
Maps of the U.S. and the Americas 1900 - 1930

Timeline of Alabama

Images and Photographs

• Birmingham Business District 1903

• Skyline of Birmingham 1916

• BPL Digital Collection

Women's Suffrage:

• National League of Women Voters: What It Is, Why It Is, How It Works (pamphlet)

• Mrs. Oscar R. Hundley Leaves Today On a Cross State Trip (newspaper article)

• Tom Heflin’s Tilt With Woman Suffrage Leader Features Barbecue (newspaper clipping)

• Mrs. Oscar Hundley Makes Reply (newspaper clipping)

• Votes for Women a Success (poster)

• Letter from J. W. Grayson explaining opposition to women’s suffrage (letter)

• Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment (Failure is Impossible Script)

Tuskegee Institute and Education

• Industrial Education

• Wallace Rayfield - Architect

• An Autobiography : The Story of My Life and My Work

• Booker T. Washington: Builder of a Civilization (written at the time of his death)

Alabama and World War I

Great Northern Migration

• Seven Letters

Baseball

• Negro League History

• Birmingham Black Barons

• Satchel Paige

• Legends Today

• Rickwood Field

Great Depression & World War II 1929-1945

Timeline of Alabama

Alabama Oral Histories

• From the LOC American Memory

Images and Photographs

• BPL Digital Collections

Prisoners of War in Alabama

Resources

• Great Depression

• World War II

Post War United States 1945-1969

Timeline of Alabama

Images and Photographs

• BPL Digital Collections

Resources

• Civil Rights Movement

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BPL's Databases

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American History