Author Index - W

W : 48 Authors Found

Elizabeth Crabtree Wells

Judson College
Alabama's only college specifically for women, Judson College was founded by Baptists in 1838 to...

Charles R. Westmoreland

Charles Barkley
Former basketball player and Hall of Famer Charles Barkley (1963- ) is one of Alabama's most recognizable...

 Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)
In the 1985 case Wallace v. Jaffree, the United States Supreme Court struck down sections of an Alabama...

Steve Wheat

Forts Morgan and Gaines
Forts Morgan and Gaines, located on opposite sides of the Mobile Channel at the entrance to Mobile Bay,...

Cynthia Quinn White

Dennis Covington
Dennis Covington (1948- ) is an award-winning author from Alabama known for his ability to delve into...

Charles Ghigna
Known as "Father Goose," poet Charles Ghigna (1946- ) is the author of more than 5,000 poems and has...

Johnson Jones Hooper
Johnson Jones Hooper (1815-1862) was a southern humorist known for his stories about the archetypal trickster...

Robert R. McCammon
Alabama native Robert Rick McCammon (1952- ) is an award-winning and bestselling author whose body of...

D. Jonathan White

States' Rights
The question of which powers belong to the states and which powers belong to the federal government,...

Leroy Pope Walker
Leroy Pope Walker (1817-1884) was a member of one of the most politically powerful families in early...

J. Mark White

Oscar William Adams Jr.
Oscar William Adams Jr. (1925-1997) was the first African American Supreme Court Justice appointed in...

Kim Whitehead

Minnie Bruce Pratt
Minnie Bruce Pratt (1946- ), one of Alabama's best-known contemporary poets, is also widely recognized...

Gregory N. Whitis

Inland Shrimp Culture in Alabama
The Alabama shrimp farming industry, centered in west-central Greene County, began in 1999. As of 2007,...

Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins

John Gayle (1831-35)
John Gayle (1792-1859) was Alabama's seventh governor and also served as a U.S. congressman, state...

Lewis Eliphalet Parsons (1865)
Lewis Eliphalet Parsons (1817-1895) was an attorney, state legislator, and provisional governor of Alabama...

David P. Lewis (1872-74)
David P. Lewis (ca. 1820-1884) was Alabama's governor from 1872-74. Lewis represented Alabama Unionists...

Josiah Gorgas
Josiah Gorgas (1818-1883), a career army officer and chief of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance, was...

William Crawford Gorgas
William Crawford Gorgas (1854-1920) was a pioneer in the field of public health and tropical medicine....

Blake Wilhelm

Election Riots of 1874
On November 3, 1874, during statewide elections in Alabama, deadly riots occurred in the Barbour County...