{"id":1439,"date":"2011-09-13T10:54:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T17:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2015-08-10T14:27:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T21:27:06","slug":"jackson-carlton-luther-1933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1439","title":{"rendered":"JACKSON, CARLTON LUTHER, 1933-2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; college professor. Born&#8211; January 15, 1933, Sand Mountain,\u00a0Blount County. Parents&#8211; Luther H. and Winnie (Forrester) Jackson. Married&#8211; Patricia Dow, 1954. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Birmingham Southern College, B.A., M.A., 1959; University of Georgia, Ph.D., 1963; graduate study at Exeter College of\u00a0Oxford University, 1966. \u00a0Served in the U.S. Air Force, 1951-1954.\u00a0\u00a0Reporter for the Birmingham Post Herald, 1956-1957; taught in the Birmingham public schools, 1957-1959; taught at Western Kentucky University, 1961-2001. Fulbright lecturer, University of Bangalore, India and Quad-e-Azam University, Pakistan; visiting professor at William and Mary, Tufts University, University of Graz (Austria), and University of Maryland&#8217;s overseas program at Upper Hayford A.F.B. in England. A University Distinguished Professor at WKU, 1996-2001. First &#8220;Honorable Mace&#8221; at WKU, named a Kentucky Colonel.\u00a0\u00a0Awarded the status of \u00a0Distinguished Professor Emeritus on his retirement in 2001.\u00a0 Died February 10, 2014.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online; obituary online, February 13, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Dreadful Month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Child of the Sit-Downs:\u00a0 The Revolutionary Life of Genora Dollinger.\u00a0 Kent State University Press, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The Dreadful Month. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Forgotten Tragedy:\u00a0 The Sinking of HMT <em>Rohna.<\/em>\u00a0 Annapolis:\u00a0 Naval Institute Press, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The Great Lili. Harrisburg, Penn.; Stackpole, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Hattie; the Life of Hattie McDaniel. Lanham, Md.; Madison Books, 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Hounds of the Road. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1984.<\/p>\n<p>J. I. Rodale; Apostle of Nonconformity. New York; Pyramid Press, 1974.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I Love You.\u00a0 Lexington:\u00a0 University Press of Kentucky, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Vetoes, 1792-1945. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1967<\/p>\n<p>Who Will Take Our Children. New York; Methuen, 1985<\/p>\n<p>Zane Grey. Boston; Twayne, 1973.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Challenge to Change. River Forest, Ill.; Laidlaw Bros., 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Foundation of Freedom. River Forest, Ill.; Laidlaw Bros., 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky Outlaw Man:\u00a0 A Novel Based on the Life of George Al Edwards.\u00a0 Bell Buckle TN:\u00a0 Iris Press, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Two Centuries of Progress. River Forest, Ill.; Laidlaw Bros., 1974.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dickens, Monica.\u00a0 Befriending:\u00a0 The American\u00a0Samaritans.\u00a0 Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Grey, Zane.\u00a0 George Washington, Frontiersman.\u00a0 Lexington:\u00a0 University Press of Kentucky, 1994.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The papers of Carlton Luther Jackson are held by the Special Collections Library at Western Kentucky University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; college professor. Born&#8211; January 15, 1933, Sand Mountain,\u00a0Blount County. Parents&#8211; Luther H. and Winnie (Forrester) Jackson. Married&#8211; Patricia Dow, 1954. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Birmingham Southern College, B.A., M.A., 1959; University of Georgia, Ph.D., 1963; graduate study at Exeter College of\u00a0Oxford University, 1966. \u00a0Served in the U.S. Air Force, 1951-1954.\u00a0\u00a0Reporter for the Birmingham Post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","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=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4792,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/4792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}