Antebellum History Research Sources at The McCall Library
Four young ladies in period dress, 1940. S. Blake McNeely Collection
This guide is comprised of primary sources, including records of businesses and churches, and the papers of individuals. The guide provides a brief description of each collection, including dates, size, and links to any online guides. In addition, this guide lists secondary sources held by The McCall Library, including books and journal articles, as well as theses and dissertations. This guide was researched by Thomas Ashby and Carol Ellis and prepared by Carol Ellis (2005-2006).
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Please note that the following list includes books, theses and dissertations, and journal articles, which are arranged alphabetically by last name of author or title of book or article. Titles in the subjects "Manuscript Material" and "Other Material" are also arranged alphabetically. The journal articles were taken from three periodicals, the Alabama Review, the Alabama Historical Quarterly, and the Gulf Coast/South Historical Review. These three journals are housed, among other places, at our repository.
Books
A Century of Service for the Sacred Heart in the United States by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, 1847-1947.
A Register of the Officers and Students of the University of Alabama, 1831-1901.
Abernathy, Thomas Perkins. The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815-1828. Tuscaloosa, 1965.
Alabama Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. Index to Alabama Wills, 1808-1870. Baltimore, 1977, originally published in 1955.
Amos, Harriet, E. Cotton City: Urban Development in Antebellum Mobile. Tuscaloosa, 1985.
Andrews, Jr., Johnnie and William David Higgins. Creole Mobile: A Compendium of the Colonial Families of the Central Gulf Coast, 1702-1813. Prichard, Ala., 1974.
Ball, Rev. T.H. Clarke County, Alabama and Its Surroundings from 1540 to 1877. Grove Hill, Ala., 1973.
Barnett, Cora Chastang. Citronelle [Alabama] Then and Now, 1811-1988.
Big Zion A.M.E. Zion Church Sesquicentennial Celebration, 1842-1992.
Bowers, Douglas. A List of References for the History of Agriculture in the United States, 1790-1840. Davis, Calif., 1969.
Brewer, Willis. Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record and Public Men, From 1540 to 1872. Spartanburg, 1975.
Brown, Wilburt S. The Amphibious Campaign for West Florida and Louisiana, 1814-1815. Tuscaloosa, 1969.
Carter, Clarence Edwin. The Territorial Papers of the United States, Vol. XVIII, The Territory of Alabama, 1817-1819. Washington, D.C., 1952.
Clark, Willis G. History of Education in Alabama, 1702-1889. Washington, D.C., 1889.
Connick, Lucille Mallon. Lists of Ships Passengers, Mobile, Alabama, 1838-1839-1840, Vol. 1. Mobile, 1988.
---------. Lists of Ships Passengers, Mobile, Alabama, 1841-1860. Mobile, 1989.
Crow, Anna B. Behind the Wall: The Sisters of the Visitation, Mobile, Alabama, Their Community, Academy and Retreat House, 1833-2002. Mobile, 2002.
Delaney, Caldwell. The Phoenix Volunteer Fire Company of Mobile, 1838-1888. Mobile, 1967.
DeLeon, T.C. Creole Carnivals, 1830-1890. Reprinted by Bienville Books, originally published 1890.
Ellison, Rhoda Coleman. A Check List of Alabama Imprints, 1807-1870. Tuscaloosa, 1946.
Foley, Helen S. U.S. Census of 1850 for Barbour County, Alabama, 1976.
Gorgas, Josiah. The Journals of Josiah Gorgas, 1857-1878. Edited by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins. Tuscaloosa, 1995.
Gould, Elizabeth Barrett. From Fort to Port: An Architectural History of Mobile, Alabama, 1711-1918. Tuscaloosa, 1988.
Hahn, Marilyn Davis. Old Cahaba Land Office Records & Military Warrants, 1817-1853. Mobile, 1981.
The History of Bayou La Batre, 1786-1963.
History of First Baptist Church of Mobile, 1845-1945, 1959.
Jones, Blair Mrs. Clarke County, Alabama Marriage Records, 1814-1865. Gadsden, Ala., 1964.
Jordan, Weymouth T. Antebellum Alabama: Town and County. Tuscaloosa, 1987.
Kenney, Michael, S.J., Ph.D., Litt. D. Catholic Culture in Alabama: Centenary Story of Spring Hill College, 1830-1930. New York, 1931.
Kennington, S. Albert. From the Day of Small Things: The Story of Trinity Church, Mobile, 1845-1995. Mobile, 1996.
King, Clinton P. & Meriem Allison Barlow. Marriages of Mobile County, Alabama, 1813-1855. Baltimore, 1985.
---------. Abstracts of Orphans Court Minutes, Mobile County, Alabama, Book I, 1813-1837 (1987).
Lights and Shadow: The Story of the Convent, Academy and Retreat House of the Visitation, Mobile, Alabama, 1833-1983.
Lytle, William M. and Forrest R. Holdcamper; revised by C. Bradford Mitchell. Merchant Steam Vessels of the United States, 1790-1868, "The Lytle-Holdcamper List." Staten Island, NY, 1975.
McMillan, Malcolm Cook. Constitutional Development in Alabama, 1798-1901: A Study in Politics, the Negro, and Sectionalism. Spartanburg, 1978.
Mitchell, Lois Dumas. Mobile Ship News, Vol. 1, 1821-1822. Mobile, 1964.
-------- & Dorothy Ivison Moffett. Burial Records, Mobile County, Alabama, 1820-1856. Mobile, 1963.
Mueller, Edward A. Perilous Journeys: A History of Steamboating on the Chattahoochee, Apalachicola, and Flint Rivers, 1828-1928. Eufaula, Ala., 1990.
Muskat, Beth Taylor and Mary Ann Neeley. The Way It Was, 1850-1930: Photographs of Montgomery and Her Central Alabama Neighbors. Montgomery, 1985.
Pickett, Albert James and Thomas McAdory Owen. History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, From the Earliest Period, and Annals of Alabama, 1819-1900. Original