{"product_id":"the-battle-for-the-university-of-alabama-the-perilous-path-of-higher-education-in-the-reconstruction-south-paperback-softback-9780817362003","title":"The Battle for the University of Alabama; The Perilous Path of Higher Education in the Reconstruction South (Paperback \/ softback) 9780817362003","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Battle for the University of Alabama\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Perilous Path of Higher Education in the Reconstruction South\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam Warren Rogers (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817362003, The University of Alabama Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 April 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e286 pages, 18 bw figures\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.367 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Rogers adds precision to a less understood era in the UA and Reconstruction-era higher education. The author moves beyond the Sellers' classic and offers fresh insights.\" —Hilary Green, author of \u003ci\u003eEducational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"From a wealth of scattered details, Rogers has constructed an engaging narrative of the postwar struggles to set the path for Alabama's future leaders. To call the book well researched and documented is to understate the case.\" —G. Ward Hubbs, author of \u003ci\u003eSearching for Freedom after the Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Warren Rogers' book on the college experience during Reconstruction raises an important and timely topic, campus life in a time of political passion. The focus—the University of Alabama—was beset by a local Ku Klux Klan and a newspaper editor who revelled in personal violence.  The result was chaos, and Republican attempts at bipartisan balance didn't help.  Rogers' book demonstrates the impossibility of protecting free speech for Alabama's few white Republicans while maintaining racial exclusion as state policy.  The outcome set the stage for the integration conflict on the campus in the mid-1950s, and on the famed George Wallace confrontation in 1963. The book thus offers a bracing look at academic freedom that will be of interest to modern readers.\"—Michael W. Fitzgerald, author of \u003ci\u003eSplendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTraces the little-known story of the bitter contest for the fate of the University of Alabama after the Civil War\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Battle for the University of Alabama\u003c\/i\u003e, William Warren Rogers Jr. gives a fascinating account of the fierce struggle over the nature of the University of Alabama after the Civil War. Union forces reduced the campus to ruins as the war ended, and the university did not reopen until 1869. In the interregnum, powerful forces shifted the trajectory of the school. Alabama Republicans authored an egalitarian state constitution that delivered oversight of the university to the Republican Party. That set the stage for turmoil and confrontation. This book tells the story of that conflict. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In the next few years, Democrats charged Republicans with turning the university into a “radical” institution. They alleged that a handful of unqualified individuals had gained faculty positions because of their political allegiance, which resulted in the university’s academic desecration. Professors were bitterly denounced in the state newspaper press and quite personally in Tuscaloosa. Administration of the university became part of the fratricidal political debate in the state. Political violence and questions concerning race, specifically the possible integration of the university, illuminated the controversies of the Reconstruction years. Many of these questions resonate even today. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This authoritative account sets events at the University of Alabama against the backdrop of what occurred at other state universities in the Reconstruction South. The University of North Carolina experienced controversy similar to Alabama’s. At the University of Georgia, however, calm prevailed. This story of the incendiary events at Alabama’s flagship university charts new ground and provides a revelatory look into the extraordinary partisanship that characterized the South after the Civil War. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e List of Figures \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Chapter 1. “I Do Not Know that the Un__y of Ala. Will Ever Be Rebuilt” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Chapter 2. “Peace Is the Indispensable Condition of Education”: The Reinvigoration of Southern State Universities, 1865‒1868 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Chapter 3. Faltering Renaissance \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Chapter 4. “A Position Connected with the University Is Not at Present a Very Pleasant One” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Chapter 5. In Search of a President \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Chapter 6. “Mrs. Partington and the Sea” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Chapter 7. “The Revered Old Intellectual Mother Will Weather the Storm” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Chapter 8. “We Have a University to Resuscitate” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Chapter 9. Courting the Commodore: The University of Alabama Lures a President \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Chapter 10. Aftermath \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Conclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52744448147736,"sku":"9780817362003","price":25.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-battle-for-the-university-of-alabama-the-perilous-path-of-higher-education-in-the-reconstruction-south-paperback-softback-9780817362003","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}