{"id":1741,"date":"2012-10-16T11:17:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T18:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2019-01-02T15:26:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T22:26:04","slug":"mcwilliams-richebourg-gaillard-1901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1741","title":{"rendered":"McWILLIAMS, RICHEBOURG GAILLARD, 1901-1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; College professor. Born&#8211; June 24, 1901, Oak Hill, Ala. Married&#8211; Dorothy Schultz, 1937. Education&#8211; B.S., 1922; A.M., 1925; A.M., University of Alabama, 1933; University of Wisconsin; University of Puerto Rico; Columbia University; University of Munich, Germany. Employed by Continuation School, Cabo Rojo, P.R., 1922-1923; University of Alabama, 1923-1925; Birmingham Southern College, 1928-1970; head, Department of English; chairman, Humanities Division, Birmingham Southern College; research professor, University of South Alabama, 1970-73. Member&#8211; American Council of\u00a0Learned Societies. Awarded emeritus status at Birmingham-Southern\u00a0on his retirement in 1970.\u00a0 Friends and colleagues published festschrift, Essays in Honor of Richebourg Gaillard McWilliams, in 1970. Died February 1986.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directory of American Scholars, 1974, 1982.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>History of Beautiful Dauphin Island; Origin of Street Names. Dauphin Island, Ala.; Dauphin Island Park and Beach Board in cooperation with Mobile County Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners, 1956?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor_and_Translator;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fleur de Lys and Calumet; Being the Penicaut Narrative of French Adventure in Louisiana. Baton Rough; Louisiana State University Press, 1953.<\/p>\n<p>Iberville&#8217;s Gulf Journals. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; College professor. Born&#8211; June 24, 1901, Oak Hill, Ala. Married&#8211; Dorothy Schultz, 1937. Education&#8211; B.S., 1922; A.M., 1925; A.M., University of Alabama, 1933; University of Wisconsin; University of Puerto Rico; Columbia University; University of Munich, Germany. Employed by Continuation School, Cabo Rojo, P.R., 1922-1923; University of Alabama, 1923-1925; Birmingham Southern College, 1928-1970; head, [&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-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","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=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9178,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/9178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}