{"id":1188,"date":"2016-03-29T12:39:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T19:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2018-03-02T11:34:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T18:34:29","slug":"fleming-walter-lynwood-1874-1932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"FLEMING, WALTER LYNWOOD, 1874-1932"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historian; University professor and administrator. Born&#8211; April 8, 1874, Brundidge. Parents&#8211; William Leroy and Mary Love (Edwood) Fleming. Married&#8211; Mary Wright Boyd, September 17, 1902. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1896; M.A., 1897; Columbia University, A.M., 1901; Ph.D., 1904.\u00a0 Instructor in history and English and\u00a0assistant librarian at Auburn, 1896-1900.\u00a0 Served as an officer in the 3rd Alabama\u00a0Infantry Regiment in\u00a0the Spanish-American War, 1898. Taught at West Virginia University, 1903-1907; Louisiana State University, 1907-1917; Vanderbilt University, 1917-1928; dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Vanderbilt, 1923-1929. Author of 166 articles and reviews. \u00a0Member of the editorial board of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 1922.\u00a0 Nashville Agrarian volume, <em>I&#8217;ll Take My Stand<\/em> (1930) was dedicated to him.\u00a0 LSU established the Walter Lynwood Fleming lecture series in Southern history in his\u00a0 honor. Died August 3, 1905.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online; Owen&#8217;s The Story of Alabama; and Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama. New York; Columbia University Press, 1905.<\/p>\n<p>Documentary History of Reconstruction; Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational &amp; Industrial, 1861 to the Present Time. Cleveland, Ohio; A. H. Clarke Co., 1906-1907.<\/p>\n<p>The Freedman&#8217;s Savings Bank. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1927.<\/p>\n<p>History of Louisiana State University (1860-1896). Sewanee, Tenn.; The University of the South Press, 1931.<\/p>\n<p>The Reconstruction of the Seceded States, 1865-76. Albany, N.Y.; New York State Education Department, 1905.<\/p>\n<p>The Reconstruction Period; a Syllabus &amp; Reference List. Morgantown, W. Va.; A. G. Sturgiss, 1904.<\/p>\n<p>The Sequel to Appomatox &#8230;. New Haven, Conn.; Yale University Press, 1921.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Biography. (Vols. 11 &amp; 12 in The South in the Building of the Nation) Richmond, Va.; Southern Historical Publication Society, 1909-1913.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Documents Relating to Reconstruction. Morgantown, W. Va.; s.n., 1904.<\/p>\n<p>General W.T. Sherman as College President; a Collection of Letters, Documents, and Other Material &#8230;. Cleveland, Ohio; The Arthur M. Clarke Co., 1912.<\/p>\n<p>Ku Klux Klan, its Origin, Growth and Disbandment. New York; Neale Pub. Co., 1905.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historian; University professor and administrator. Born&#8211; April 8, 1874, Brundidge. Parents&#8211; William Leroy and Mary Love (Edwood) Fleming. Married&#8211; Mary Wright Boyd, September 17, 1902. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1896; M.A., 1897; Columbia University, A.M., 1901; Ph.D., 1904.\u00a0 Instructor in history and English and\u00a0assistant librarian at Auburn, 1896-1900.\u00a0 Served as an officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7672,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/7672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}