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Acknowledgments
Introduction by Kenneth W. Noe
1. Precipitating a Revolution: Alabama's Democracyin the Election of 1860 by Lonnie A. Burnett
2. "The Aggressions of the North Can Be Borne No Longer": White Alabamian Women during the Secession Crisis and Outbreak of War by Jennifer Ann Newman Treviño
3. Confederate Alabama's Finest Hour: The Battle of Salem Church, May 3, 1863 by Ben H. Severance
4. The Confederate Sun Sets on Selma: Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Defense of Alabama in 1865 by Brian Steel Wills
5. Fighting for the Cause? An Examination of the Motivations of Alabama’s Confederate Soldiers from a Class Perspective by Kristopher A. Teters
6. Voices from the Margins: Non-Elites in Confederate Alabama by Victoria E. Ott
7. Augusta Jane Evans: Alabama's Confederate Macaria by Jennifer Lynn Gross
8. "The Best Southern Patriots": Jews in Alabama during the Civil War by Patricia A. Hoskins
9. Every Man Should Consider His Own Conscience: Black and White Alabamians' Reactions to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Harriet E. Amos Doss
10. Alabama's Reconstruction after 150 Years by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins
11. Of Ambition and Enterprise: The Making of Carpetbagger George E. Spencer by Terry L. Seip
12. "He Was Always Preaching the Union": The Wartime Origins of White Republicanism during Reconstruction by Michael W. Fitzgerald
13. Labor, Law, and the Freedmen's Bureau in Alabama, 1865<n>1867 by Jason J. Battles
14. Freedom's Church: Sociocultural Construction, Reconstruction, and Post-Reconstruction in Perry County, Alabama's African American Churches by Bertis English
Suggestions for Further Reading
Contributors
Index