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Books by Robert David Ward






August Reckoning(1st Edition)
Jack Turner and Racism in Post Civil War Alabama (Library Alabama Classics)
by Robert David Ward, William Warren Rogers, William Sr Rogers
Paperback, 207 Pages, Published 2004 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-5119-9, ISBN: 0-8173-5119-1

"An important story of one man's life, lived with courage and principle. During the decades of Bourbon ascendancy after 1874, Alabama institutions like those in other southern states were dominated by whites. Former slave and sharecropper Jack Turner refused to accept a society so structured. Highly intelligent, physically imposing, and an orator of persuasive talents, Turner was fearless before whites and emerged as a leader of his race ..."






Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy(1st Edition)
by Robert David Ward, William Warren Rogers
Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2002 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-1213-8, ISBN: 0-8173-1213-7

"In the late 1870s, Jefferson County, Alabama, and the town of Elyton (near the future Birmingham) became the focus of a remarkable industrial and mining revolution. Together with the surrounding counties, the area was penetrated by railroads. Surprisingly large deposits of bituminous coal, limestone, and iron ore—the exact ingredients for the manufacture of iron and, later, steel—began to be exploited. Now, with transportation, modern e ..."






Alabama(3rd Edition)
The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition
by William Warren Rogers, Robert David Ward, Leah Rawls Atkins, Wayne Flynt, Robert Powell
Hardcover, 816 Pages, Published 2018 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-1974-8, ISBN: 0-8173-1974-3

"A new and up-to-date edition of Alabama’s history to celebrate the state’s bicentennialAlabama: The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition is a comprehensive narrative account of the state from its earliest days to the present. This edition, updated to celebrate the state’s bicentennial year, offers a detailed survey of the colorful, dramatic, and often controversial turns in Alabama’s evolution. Organized chronologically a ..."






Alabama(3rd Edition)
The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition
by William Warren Rogers, Robert David Ward, Leah Rawls Atkins, Wayne Flynt
Paperback, 816 Pages, Published 2018 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-5917-1, ISBN: 0-8173-5917-6

"A new and up-to-date edition of Alabama’s history to celebrate the state’s bicentennialAlabama: The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition is a comprehensive narrative account of the state from its earliest days to the present. This edition, updated to celebrate the state’s bicentennial year, offers a detailed survey of the colorful, dramatic, and often controversial turns in Alabama’s evolution. Organized chronologically a ..."






Labor Revolt In Alabama(1st Edition)
The Great Strike of 1894 (Library Alabama Classics)
by Robert David Ward, William Warren Rogers
Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 2003 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-5057-4, ISBN: 0-8173-5057-8

"The Alabama coal miners’ strike of 1894 to gain improved working conditions and to protect themselves from wage reductions. The authors recount the depression of the early 1890s, which set the stage for the strike, and the subsequent use of convict labor, which became a catalyst. The gripping story of the strike includes the dramatic decision to strike and corporate attempts to break the strike by the use of company guards and "scab" la ..."






Alabama s Response to the Penitentiary Movement, 1829-1865
(Hardback)
by Robert David Ward, William Warren Rogers
Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2003 by University Press Of Florida
ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-2663-3, ISBN: 0-8130-2663-6

"A modern study of prison reform, this work demonstrates that Alabama's penitentiary system was established in direct response to the humanitarian prison reform movement that swept the country in the first half of the 19th century."






Time Has Made A Change in Me(Illustrated)
by Robert David Ward
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 1999 by Xlibris Corp
ISBN-13: 978-0-7388-0866-6, ISBN: 0-7388-0866-0

"This collection of individual memories of children growing up is filled with the hilarity of youthful ignorance played out in a time over fifty years ago, in a place that had its own unique differences, its own way of doing things. We can bring back the past and we can even profit from it."






Alabama
The History of a Deep South State
by Robert David Ward, William Warren Rogers, Leah Rawls Atkins, Wayne J. Flynt, Professor Wayne Flynt, Wayne Flint
Paperback, 768 Pages, Published 1994 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-0714-1, ISBN: 0-8173-0714-1

"   Once the home of aboriginal inhabitants, Alabama was claimed and occupied by European nations, later to become a permanent part of the United States. A cotton and slave state for more than half of the 19th century, Alabama declared its independence and joined another nation, the Confederate States of America, for its more than four-year history. The state assumed an uneasy and uncertain place in the 19th century’s last 35 years. Its ..."






Labor Revolt in Alabama(1st Edition)
by Robert David Ward, William Warren Rogers.
Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 1965 by Univ Of Alabama Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-5214-1, ISBN: 0-8173-5214-7

"Book by Ward, Robert David, Rogers, W. W."






Alabama(2nd Edition)
The History of a Deep South State
by Robert David Ward, Professor Wayne Flynt, Dr William Warren Rogers, Leah Rawls Atkins, Wayne J. Flynt
Hardcover, 790 Pages, Published 2010 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-1699-0, ISBN: 0-8173-1699-X

"Once the home of aboriginal inhabitants, Alabama was claimed and occupied by European nations, later to become a permanent part of the United States. A cotton and slave state for more than half of the 19th century, Alabama declared its independence and joined another nation, the Confederate States of America, for its more than four-year history. The state assumed an uneasy and uncertain place in the 19th century’s last 35 years. Its rol ..."






Alabama(2nd Edition)
The History of a Deep South State
by Robert David Ward, Professor Wayne Flynt, Dr William Warren Rogers, Leah Rawls Atkins, Wayne J. Flynt, Rene Girard, Robert Powell
Paperback, 790 Pages, Published 2010 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-5598-2, ISBN: 0-8173-5598-7

"Once the home of aboriginal inhabitants, Alabama was claimed and occupied by European nations, later to become a permanent part of the United States. A cotton and slave state for more than half of the 19th century, Alabama declared its independence and joined another nation, the Confederate States of America, for its more than four-year history. The state assumed an uneasy and uncertain place in the 19th century’s last 35 years. Its rol ..."






Alabama(1st Edition)
The History of a Deep South State
by Robert David Ward, William Warren Rogers, Leah Rawls Atkins, Professor Wayne Flynt, Wayne J. Flynt, Wayne Flint
Hardcover, 768 Pages, Published 1994 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-0712-7, ISBN: 0-8173-0712-5

"Once the home of aboriginal inhabitants, Alabama was claimed and occupied by European nations, later to become a permanent part of the United States. A cotton and slave state for more than half of the 19th century, Alabama declared its independence and joined another nation, the Confederate States of America, for its more than four-year history. The state assumed an uneasy and uncertain place in the 19th century’s last 35 years. Its rol ..."






Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy
by Robert David Ward, William Warren Rogers
Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 1987 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-0304-4, ISBN: 0-8173-0304-9

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Inventing a School
Expanding the Boundaries of Learning
by Jane Kern, Robert David Ward
Hardcover, 298 Pages, Published 1999 by Jane Kern Neapolitan Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9676416-1-4, ISBN: 0-9676416-1-6

"A true story of vision and shared power, INVENTING A SCHOOL; EXPANDING THE BOUNDARIES OF LEARNING offers a message of hope at a time of disenchantment with decades of reforms in an educational system that has become obsolete in today's society. Set in the Gulf Coast town of Naples, Florida, Seacrest School is launched with a dream of creating the best possible learning environment for children. The message Jane Kern puts forth represen ..."






Alabama
The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition
by William Warren Rogers, Robert David Ward, Wayne Flynt, Leah Rawls Atkins
816 Pages, Published 2018
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-9166-9, ISBN: 0-8173-9166-5






Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy
by William Warren Rogers, Robert David Ward
Published 2015
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-9040-2, ISBN: 0-8173-9040-5






Alabama Governors(2nd Edition)
A Political History of the State
by Professor Margaret E. Armbrester, Samuel L. Webb, Albert P. Brewer, David E. Alsobrook, Hugh C. Bailey, Jonathan Bass, Michael Breedlove, Daniel Dupre, Glenn T. Eskew, Glenn Feldman, Michael W. Fitzgerald, Carl Grafton, John Mayfield, Mary Jane Mcdaniel, Henry Mel Mckiven, Anne Permaloff, Michael Perman, Marlene Hunt Rikard, Randy B. Rosenburg, Robert David Ward, Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins, Lee Allen, D. Alan Harris, Professor Wayne Flynt, Gordon E. Harvey, Dr William Warren Rogers, Leah Rawls Atkins, William H. Stewart, J. Mills Thornton, Kit Carson Carter, Harvey H. Jackson, Dr Samuel L. Webb, Paul M. Pruitt, Margaret England Armbrester, University Alabama Press
Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2014 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-1843-7, ISBN: 0-8173-1843-7

"An entirely revised and updated edition of the best-selling 2001 original   This collection of biographical essays, written by thirty-four noted historians and political scientists, chronicles the times, careers, challenges, leadership, and legacies of the fifty-seven men and one woman who have served as the state's highest elected official. The book is organized chronologically into six sections that cover Alabama’s years as a US terri ..."






Ancestors and Relatives(1st Edition)
the Tasker and Blackburn Families of Rawcliffe, Hook, Snaith and Goole
by Robert David Ward
Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2011 by Lulu.Com
ISBN-13: 978-1-4457-8386-4, ISBN: 1-4457-8386-X

"This book follows the genealogy of the Tasker and Blackburn families who originated in the area around Goole in Yorkshire. There were branches of the Tasker family in Rawcliffe, Airmyn, Hook, Cowick and Snaith. The Blackburn family farmed at Spaldington and Holme on Spalding Moor, near Howden in the East Riding, before moving to Goole Fields. Later, members of both families lived in Goole itself. The title of the book reflects these mov ..."






Alabama Governors(1st Edition)
A Political History of the State
by Contributor-Glenn Feldman, Contributor-Carl Grafton, Contributor-Hugh Bailey, Contributor-Michael Breedlove, Contributor-Professor Wayne Flynt, Contributor-Lee Allen, Professor Margaret E. Armbrester, Albert P. Brewer, Glenn T. Eskew, Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins, Henry Mel Mckiven, Mary Jane Mcdaniel, Robert David Ward, Jonathan Bass, Anne Permaloff, Marlene Hunt Rikard, Daniel Dupre, John Mayfield, Michael W. Fitzgerald, Michael Perman, David E. Alsobrook, D. Alan Harris, Randy B. Rosenburg, William Barney, Samuel L. Webb, Gordon E. Harvey, Kit Carson Carter, William H. Stewart, Leah Rawls Atkins, William Warren Rogers, Harvey H. Jackson, J. Mills Thornton, Paul M. Pruitt, Dr Samuel L. Webb, Sammuel L. Webb
Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2001 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-1082-0, ISBN: 0-8173-1082-7

"The story of Alabama's governors has been often bizarre, occasionally inspiring, but never dull. Several of the state's early governors fought duels; one killed his wife's lover. A Reconstruction era-governor barricaded himself in his administrative office and refused to give it up when voters failed to reelect him. A 20th-century governor, an alumnus of Yale, married his first cousin and served as an officer in the Ku Klux Klan. This c ..."






Alabama Governors(2nd Edition)
A Political History of the State (NONE)
by Glenn Feldman, Carl Grafton, Contributor-Professor Wayne Flynt, Michael Breedlove, Contributor-Lee Allen, Contributor-Hugh Bailey, Anne Permaloff, Marlene Hunt Rikard, Albert P. Brewer, Professor Margaret E. Armbrester, Jonathan Bass, Daniel Dupre, Glenn T. Eskew, John Mayfield, Michael Perman, Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins, Henry Mel Mckiven, Robert David Ward, Mary Jane Mcdaniel, Michael W. Fitzgerald, David E. Alsobrook, D. Alan Harris, Randy B. Rosenburg, William Barney, Gordon E. Harvey, Leah Rawls Atkins, William Warren Rogers, William H. Stewart, Samuel L. Webb, Kit Carson Carter, J. Mills Thornton, Harvey H. Jackson, Margaret England Armbrester, Dr. Harvey Ph.D, Paul M. Pruitt
Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2001 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-1083-7, ISBN: 0-8173-1083-5

"The story of Alabama's governors has been often bizarre, occasionally inspiring, but never dull. Several of the state's early governors fought duels; one killed his wife's lover. A Reconstruction era-governor barricaded himself in his administrative office and refused to give it up when voters failed to reelect him. A 20th-century governor, an alumnus of Yale, married his first cousin and served as an officer in the Ku Klux Klan. This ..."



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