{"id":5897,"date":"2016-09-26T14:22:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T21:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5897"},"modified":"2016-09-26T14:23:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T21:23:26","slug":"benton-jeffrey-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5897","title":{"rendered":"BENTON, JEFFREY C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Air Force officer; historian.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Karen; children&#8211;two.\u00a0 Education; B.A., The Citadel; M.A. English, UNC; M.A. political science, Auburn University at Montgomery; M.A. history, Auburn University. Served as an Air Force Officer for 28 years; retired as colonel.\u00a0 Author of many newspaper articles on Montgomery history;\u00a0 editor of local history books for NewSouth publishers.\u00a0 Taught history at the University of Maryland Far East Division; the Citadel; the Air War College; and several Alabama institutions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Publishers websites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Air Force Officer&#8217;s Guide.\u00a0 35th edition.\u00a0 Stackpole Books, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Respectable and Disreputable: Leisure Time in Antebellum Montgomery.\u00a0 NewSouth Books, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>They Served Here:\u00a0 Twenty-Three Maxwell Men.\u00a0 Maxwell Air Force Base, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Through Others&#8217; Eyes: Published\u00a0Accounts of Antebellum Montgomery.\u00a0 NewSouth Boooks, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Very Worst Road:\u00a0 Travellers&#8217;\u00a0Accounts of Crossing Alabama&#8217;s Old Creek Indian Territory, 1820-47.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Sense of Place:\u00a0 Montgomery&#8217;s Architectural Heritage.\u00a0 River City Publishers, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Air Force officer; historian.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Karen; children&#8211;two.\u00a0 Education; B.A., The Citadel; M.A. English, UNC; M.A. political science, Auburn University at Montgomery; M.A. history, Auburn University. Served as an Air Force Officer for 28 years; retired as colonel.\u00a0 Author of many newspaper articles on Montgomery history;\u00a0 editor of local history books for NewSouth publishers.\u00a0 Taught history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5900,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions\/5900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}