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• Leaders of the Colored Race in Alabama (Mobile, AL: News Publishing Co., c1928), by O. O. Sarver, ed. by Joseph H. Moorman and E. L. Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Alabama and Her People (3 volumes; Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1927), by Albert Burton Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography (4 volumes; Chicago: S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1921), by Thomas McAdory Owen and Marie Bankhead Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of public men in Alabama, for thirty years. (Plantation publishing company's press, 1872), by William Garrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography (The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921), by Thomas McAdory Owen and Marie Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our state--Alabama (Birmingham Printing Company, 1927), by Thomas McAdory Owen and Marie Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Muscle Shoals Baptist Association from 1820 to 1890, a period of 70 years ; with a history of the churches of the same and a biographical sketch of its ministers (The author, 1891), by Josephus Shackleford and Mathew Lyon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Makers and romance of Alabama history, embracing sketches of the men who have been largely instrumental in shaping the policies and in molding the conditions in the rapid growth of Alabama--together with the thrilling and romantic scenes with which our history is resplendent ([Birmingham, Ala., 1914), by B. F. Riley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alabama, her history, resources, war record, and public men : from 1540 to 1872 (Barrett & Brown, 1872), by W. Brewer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Northern Alabama, historical and biographical... (Smith & De Land, 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of public men in Alabama, for thirty years. With an appendix. (Atlanta, Ga., 1872), by William Garrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ariosto A. Wiley (late a representative from Alabama) : memorial addresses, sixtieth Congress, second session, House of Representatives, February 21, 1909, Senate of the United States, February 27, 1909 (Govt. Print. Off., 1909), by 2nd session : 1909) United States. Congress (60th and United States Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notable men of Alabama: personal and genealogical (Southern historical assoc., 1904), by Joel Campbell DuBose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Makers and romance of Alabama history, embracing sketches of the men who have been largely instrumental in shaping the policies and in molding the conditions in rapid growth of Alabama - together with the thrilling and romantic scenes with which our history is resplendent. ([n. p., 1915), by B. F. Riley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of my life (J.R. Phillips, 1923), by John R. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heads of the Alabama Legislature at the session of 1842-3 (Printed and published by M. D. J. Slade, 1843), by Tuscaloosa Independent monitor and Alabama Legislature (page images at HathiTrust)
• Centennial (1812)-(1912) remembrance book of Col. John Forsyth, editor, publicist, soldier, diplomat. (Old. Vet. Gossip, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A state, a father and a son (Weatherford Printing, 1930), by Lemuel Orah Dawson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Revolutionary soldiers in Alabama, being a list of names, comp. from authentic sources, of soldiers of the American revolution, who resided in the state of Alabama. (The Brown printing company, printers, 1911), by Alabama Department of Archives and History and Thomas McAdory Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial record of Alabama. A concise account of the state's political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people. (Brant & Fuller, 1893), by William Wallace Screws, Jerome Cochran, Hilary A. Herbert, Thomas Harvey Clark, Willis G. Clark, Joseph Wheeler, Hannis Taylor, and Brant & Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Alabama, a history of the state. (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1949), by Marie Bankhead Owen and Thomas McAdory Owen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama during the Civil War, by Parthenia Antoinette Hague (Gutenberg ebook)
• Makers and Romance of Alabama History, by B. F. Riley (Gutenberg ebook)

• Alabama official and statistical register. (Brown Printing Co., 1903), by Alabama Department of Archives and History (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Barbour county, Alabama (Eufaula, Ala., 1939), by Mattie Crocker Thomas Thompson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The mineral wealth of Alabama and Birmingham illustrated. (N.T. Green, 1886), by John Witherspoon Du Bose (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of Birmingham and its environs : a narrative account of their historical progress, their people, and their principal interests (Lewis Pub. Co., 1920), by George M. Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama; historical and biographical. (Teeple & Smith, 1887), by John Witherspoon Du Bose (page images at HathiTrust)

• They Served Here: Thirty-Three Maxwell Men (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1999), by Jeffrey C. Benton (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Mobile: fact and tradition, noteworthy people and events (The Powers printing company, 1930), by Erwin Craighead (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history, philosophy, and fruits of medical organization in Alabama (s. n.], 1914), by William Henry Sanders (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mobile, her trade, commerce and industries, 1883-4 : manufacturing advantages, business and transportation facilities, together with sketches of the principal business houses and manufacturing concerns in the "Gulf City". (J.E. Land, 1884), by John E. Land (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reminiscences of a long life; historical, political, personal and literary. (W.R. Smith, sr., 1889), by William Russell Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Walker county, its towns and its people (Cayce Publishing Company, 1937), by John Martin Dombhart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Alabama : with biographical sketches (Nashville, Tenn. : A.M.E. Church Sunday School Union, 1902., 1902), by Winfield Henri Mixon, Henry McNeal Turner, and A.M.E. Sunday School Union (page images at HathiTrust)

• Up from slavery : an autobiography (Thompson, Brown, 1915), by Booker T. Washington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Leaders of the Colored Race in Alabama (Mobile, AL: News Publishing Co., c1928), by O. O. Sarver, ed. by Joseph H. Moorman and E. L. Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume I, Alabama Narratives, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)

• An Alabama student (The Friedenwald company, 1896), by William Osler and John Y. Bassett (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Narrative of Events of the Life of J. H. Banks, an Escaped Slave, from the Cotton State, Alabama, in America (Liverpool: M. Rourke, Printer, 1861), by J. H. Banks and James W. C. Pennington (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Centennial (1812)-(1912) remembrance book of Col. John Forsyth, editor, publicist, soldier, diplomat. (Old. Vet. Gossip, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ebenezer Hearn, founder of the First Methodist Church, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (Nottingham - SWS for the Official Board of the Church, 1961), by James Benson Sellers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Presbyterian Pioneers in Congo (ca. 1917), by William H. Sheppard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Musical Alabama (Paragon Press, 1925), by Alabama Federation of Music Clubs and Margaret F. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Alabama student (The Friedenwald company, 1896), by William Osler and John Y. Bassett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hugh Davis and his Alabama plantation (Negro Universities Press, 1974), by Weymouth Tyree Jordan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Narrative of Events of the Life of J. H. Banks, an Escaped Slave, from the Cotton State, Alabama, in America (Liverpool: M. Rourke, Printer, 1861), by J. H. Banks and James W. C. Pennington (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, by James Williams (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Authentic narrative of James Williams, an American slave (New York : American Anti-Slavery Society ; Boston : Isaac Knapp, 1838., 1838), by James Williams, Thomas Moore, Patrick Henry Reason, R. Cooke, Isaac Knapp, John Greenleaf Whittier, and American Anti-Slavery Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume I, Alabama Narratives, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)

• Two Boys in the Civil War and After, by W. R. Houghton and M. B. Houghton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Two boys in the Civil War and after (Paragon Press, 1912), by W. R. Houghton and M. B. Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)

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