Historian; professor of history. Born– February 16, 1952, Hazel Green. Parents– Robert D. and Mary Ann Graham Norrell. Married Kelly Dowe, August 6, 1977. Children– four. Education– University of Virginia, B.A., 1974; M.A., 1978; Ph. D., 1983. Professor of history at the University of Alabama, 1986-1998; at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, after 1998. Member of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association. Received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, 1986, and the Booker T. Washington Legacy Prize, 2006.<\/p>\n
Source;<\/strong> Publications;<\/strong> The Alabama Story:\u00a0 State History and Geography.\u00a0 Yellowhammer Press, 1993.<\/p>\n Eden Rise. NewSouth Books, 2012.<\/p>\n The House I Live In:\u00a0 Race in the American Century.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Oxford University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n James Bowron:\u00a0 Autobiography of a New South Industrialist.\u00a0 Chapel Hill:\u00a0 University of North Carolina Press, 1991.<\/p>\n The Making of Modern Alabama.\u00a0 Yellowhammer, 1993.<\/p>\n A Promising Field: Engineering at Alabama, 1837-1987.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 1990.<\/p>\n Reaping the Whirlwind:\u00a0 The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee.\u00a0 New York: Knopf, 1985.\u00a0 Revised edition, 1998.<\/p>\n Up from History:\u00a0 The Life of Booker T. Washington.\u00a0 Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.<\/p>\n We Want Jobs! A Story of the Great Depression. Austin, TX:\u00a0 Raintree\/Steck-Vaughan, 1993.<\/p>\n Joint_Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n Opening Doors: Perspectives on Race Relations in Contemporary America.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 1991.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Historian; professor of history. Born– February 16, 1952, Hazel Green. Parents– Robert D. and Mary Ann Graham Norrell. Married Kelly Dowe, August 6, 1977. Children– four. Education– University of Virginia, B.A., 1974; M.A., 1978; Ph. D., 1983. Professor of history at the University of Alabama, 1986-1998; at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, after 1998. Member […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5521","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\/5521","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5521"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5539,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions\/5539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nContemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n
\nThe Alabama Journey: State History and Geography. [Fourth-grade textbook]. Yellowhammer Press, 1998.<\/p>\n