Newsouth Classics imprint: 36 books
by Daniel J. Meador
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Transformative Years is Daniel Meador's account of his four years as dean of the School of Law at the University of Alabama from 1966 to 1970. Those were indeed transformative years, bridging the Law School of the past to the Law School of the future. Working on the premise that this institution was...
The Secret Ingredient
More Musings from the Ronald McDonald House
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Tom Soma's weekly "musings" on the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Oregon and Southwest Washington web page have helped him to share and understand all that he's witnessed while working at the Ronald McDonald House. In this follow-up to Soma's first collection, No Small Thing, he shares...
Charles Darwin
A Celebration of His Life and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Charles Darwin (1809–82) changed the world forever with the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy is an anthology of critical writings that grew out of a lecture series, hosted by Auburn University, held on...
The Chairman
The Rise and Betrayal of Jim Greer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The Chairman, a Shakespearean tale of friendship and betrayal that rivals that of Hamlet, is the harrowing story of Jim Greer, a man loyal to a fault to Florida Governor Charlie Crist, his benefactor. Greer trusts Crist to protect him from the onslaught of the Tea Party wing of the party, only to...
The Forest and the Trees
A Memoir of a Man, a Family, and a Company
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Norman Floyd McGowin Jr., author of The Forest and the Trees: A Memoir of a Man, a Family, and a Company, was born into a prosperous family whose W. T. Smith Lumber Company dominated the small town of Chapman in Butler County in south Alabama. Family members achieved distinction in business, politics,...
by Clifton L. Taulbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
When international lecturer Clifton Taulbert receives an unexpected invitation to supper in Allendale, South Carolina, he brings with him Little Cliff, the colored boy from the Mississippi Delta who is also Clifton Taulbert, carrying all he was taught as a child about staying "in his place"...
Standards Matter
The Why and What of Common Core State Standards in Reading and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
While critics rail against Common Core State Standards for national school learning guides, few know exactly what these Standards are, and fewer can assess if these Standards are a positive step for education. Standards are simply the high-level literacy skills and understandings that have been traditionally...
Bitter Harvest
Richmond Flowers and the Civil Rights Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Bitter Harvest traces the development of Richmond Flowers, a color politician who began his career as a segregationist but who, as Attorney General of Alabama, fought bitterly against Governor George Wallace in trying to support the Constitution. In the process, he sacrificed his political career....
The Books That Mattered
A Reader’s Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Frye Gaillard’s first encounters with books were disappointing. As a child he never cared much for fairy tales – “stories of cannibalism and mayhem in which giants and witches, tigers and wolves did their best to eat small children.” But at the age of nine, he discovered Johnny Tremain, a...
Emigration to Liberia
From the Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia and Alabama, 1853-1903
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Between 1853 and 1903, some 500 African Americans left the Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia and Alabama to start new lives in the West African Republic of Liberia. Most of the emigrants departed for Liberia during the uncertainty of the post-Civil War years of 1867 and 1868. Most sought safety and...
Here We May Rest
Alabama Immigrants in the Age of HB 56
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Hailed as the most restrictive immigration bill in the nation, the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer & Citizen Protection Act (known as HB 56) went into effect in September 2011. Its intent was to create jobs for Alabamians by making the lives of undocumented immigrants in the state impossible, so...
A Home for Wayward Boys
The Early History of the Alabama Boys’ Industrial School
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
As Elizabeth Johnston walked among the convicts in an Alabama prison mining camp, she was stunned to see teenage boys working alongside hardened criminals. As a result of that disturbing experience, she vowed to remove youngsters from such wretched conditions by establishing a home for wayward boys....
From Brooklyn to the Olympics
The Hall of Fame Career of Auburn University Track Coach Mel Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
From Brooklyn to the Olympics follows Mel Rosen from the streets of Brooklyn during the 1930s–’40s to his selection as head coach for United States track and field for the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics. The book describes how a Jewish kid from Brighton Beach, New York, followed his dream to become...
The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail
Its History and Economic Impact
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail tells how a bold, imaginative investment by a public employee pension fund turned into a world-class tourist attraction that helped change the image and boost the economy of an entire state. The pension fund was the Retirement Systems of Alabama, and its alternative...