{"id":1808,"date":"2015-07-08T12:34:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T19:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2015-07-08T12:53:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T19:53:54","slug":"posey-walter-brownlow-1900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1808","title":{"rendered":"POSEY, WALTER BROWNLOW, 1900-1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian;\u00a0college professor. Born&#8211; October 22, 1900, Smyrna, Tenn. Parents&#8211; Wilson Yandell and Myrtle (Omohundro) Posey. Married&#8211; Margaret Grisham, September 1, 1926. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; University of Chicago, Ph.B., 1923; M.A., 1930; Vanderbilt University, Ph.D., 1933. Taught at Cumberland University, 1923-1925; Birmingham-Southern College, 1925-1943; head of History Department at BSC, 1932-1943; head of History Department, Agnes Scott College, 1943-1970. Exchange professor at the University of Hawaii, and Shrivenham American University in England. Organized the Organization of American Historians; member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Southern Historical Association, and American Historical Association.. Awarded the honorary L.H. D. by Birmingham-Southern, 1955. Died October 22, 1990.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Baptist Church in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1776-1845. Lexington, Ky.; University of Kentucky Press, 1957.<\/p>\n<p>The Development of Methodism in the Old Southwest, 1783-1824. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Weatherford Printing Co., 1933.<\/p>\n<p>Frontier Mission; a History of Religion West of the Southern Appalachians to 1861. Lexington, Ky.; University of Kentucky Press, 1966.<\/p>\n<p>LaGrange, Alabama&#8217;s Earliest College. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Southern College, 1933.<\/p>\n<p>The Presbyterian Church in the Old Southwest, 1778-1838. Richmond, Va.; John Knox Press, 1952.<\/p>\n<p>Religious Strife on the Southern Frontier. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1965.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama in the 1830s as Recorded by British Travellers. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Southern College, 1938.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian;\u00a0college professor. Born&#8211; October 22, 1900, Smyrna, Tenn. Parents&#8211; Wilson Yandell and Myrtle (Omohundro) Posey. Married&#8211; Margaret Grisham, September 1, 1926. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; University of Chicago, Ph.B., 1923; M.A., 1930; Vanderbilt University, Ph.D., 1933. Taught at Cumberland University, 1923-1925; Birmingham-Southern College, 1925-1943; head of History Department at BSC, 1932-1943; head of History Department, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","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=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4612,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/4612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}