Description:
The Battle for the University of Alabama uncovers the turbulent post-Civil War struggle to rebuild Alabama's flagship university amid political upheaval, racial tensions, and partisan conflict. William Warren Rogers Jr. offers a gripping account of how Reconstruction-era debates over academic freedom, integration, and governance shaped the university's future--and echoed across the South. This revelatory study sheds light on a pivotal moment in the history of higher education and civil rights.
Review Quotes:
"Rogers adds precision to a less understood era in the UA and Reconstruction-era higher education. The author moves beyond the Sellers' classic and offers fresh insights." --Hilary Green, author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890
"The text is lean and disciplined. It relies on an erudite diction and a lamentably antique style. Students, as well as scholars of the mid-nineteenth century and higher education, will benefit by absorbing Rogers's work." --The Journal of Southern History