{"id":1719,"date":"2012-09-24T14:26:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T21:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2018-10-10T08:23:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T15:23:19","slug":"martin-bessie-1891-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1719","title":{"rendered":"MARTIN, BESSIE, 1891-1959"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; college professor; librarian. Born&#8211; 1891. Parents&#8211; Robert Lavaga and Minnie Gordon Cunninghame Martin. Education&#8211; Judson College, A.B. 1911; University of Alabama, A.B.; Columbia University, M.A., Ph.D. Taught at Judson College, 1913-1940; librarian, Thomasville (Ala.) High School, 1940-1959. Honored with an endowment in her name by Judson Alumnae; history section of Judson&#8217;s Bowling Library was named the Bessie Martin Memorial Collection in her honor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Staff of Bowling Library, Judson College.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Desertion of Alabama Troops from the Confederate Army; a Study in Sectionalism. New York; Columbia University Press, 1932.<\/p>\n<p>A Rich Man&#8217;s War, A Poor Man&#8217;s Fight; Desertion of Alabama Troops from the Confederate Army.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; college professor; librarian. Born&#8211; 1891. Parents&#8211; Robert Lavaga and Minnie Gordon Cunninghame Martin. Education&#8211; Judson College, A.B. 1911; University of Alabama, A.B.; Columbia University, M.A., Ph.D. Taught at Judson College, 1913-1940; librarian, Thomasville (Ala.) High School, 1940-1959. Honored with an endowment in her name by Judson Alumnae; history section of Judson&#8217;s Bowling Library [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8922,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/8922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}