{"id":2027,"date":"2013-05-08T09:38:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2013-05-08T09:38:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:38:21","slug":"ward-robert-david-1929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2027","title":{"rendered":"WARD, ROBERT DAVID, 1929-2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; college professor.\u00a0 Born&#8211; February 15, 1929, in Montevallo, Ala. Parents&#8211; James Skillman Ward and Lillian Kiber Ward.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Jane Harless, August 19, 1950.\u00a0 Children&#8211;four.\u00a0 Education&#8211; Auburn University B.S., 1950, M.S., 1951; University of North Carolina, Ph.D., 1957. Taught at Georgia Southern College, 1955-19; head History Dept., 1969-1971. Member&#8211; Southern Historical Association, American Military Institute and Company of Military Historians.\u00a0 Died April 6, 2005.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directory of American Scholars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lamar and Me. Statesboro, Ga.; Montevallo Press, 1983.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Alabama Legacy; Images of a State.\u00a0 Virginia Beach, Va.; Donning Co., 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama; The History of a Deep South State.\u00a0 Tuscaloosa; University of Alabama Press, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama&#8217;s Response to the Penitentiary Movement, 1829-1865.\u00a0 Gainesville; University Press of Florida, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>August Reckoning; Jack Turner and Racism in Post Civil War Alabama. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Labor Revolt in Alabama; The Great Strike of 1894.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 1965.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bibliography of the County Histories of Alabama.\u00a0 Birmingham Public Library, 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; college professor.\u00a0 Born&#8211; February 15, 1929, in Montevallo, Ala. Parents&#8211; James Skillman Ward and Lillian Kiber Ward.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Jane Harless, August 19, 1950.\u00a0 Children&#8211;four.\u00a0 Education&#8211; Auburn University B.S., 1950, M.S., 1951; University of North Carolina, Ph.D., 1957. Taught at Georgia Southern College, 1955-19; head History Dept., 1969-1971. Member&#8211; Southern Historical Association, American Military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","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=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3355,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/3355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}