{"id":7616,"date":"2018-02-19T09:24:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T16:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=7616"},"modified":"2018-02-19T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T19:24:11","slug":"bass-s-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=7616","title":{"rendered":"BASS, S. JONATHAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; professor of history.\u00a0 Born:\u00a0 Fairfield.\u00a0 Parents;\u00a0 Samuel and Clara Faye Bass.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Jennifer Synott, July 20, 1992.\u00a0 Education:\u00a0 B.A., University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1986; M.A., Uniiversity of Alabama, 1990; Ph.D., University\u00a0 of Tennessee, 1996.\u00a0 Sports information director at Birmingham-Southern, 1986-1990. Joined the Samford Faculty in 1997; became Professor and Chair of the Department of History and University Historian.\u00a0 Member Alabama Historical\u00a0Association and the Southern Historical Association. Pulitzer Prize nominee, 2002, for <em>Blessed are the Peacemakers.<\/em> Received the Thomas Jefferson Award from the Jefferson County Historical Society, 2001, and the Interracial Friendship Award from the National Urban League in 2006.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King Jr., Eight Religious Leaders, and the Letter from the Birmingham Jail.<\/p>\n<p>He Calls Me by Lightning:\u00a0 The Life of Caliph Washington\u00a0 and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty.\u00a0 Liveright Publishing Co., 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; professor of history.\u00a0 Born:\u00a0 Fairfield.\u00a0 Parents;\u00a0 Samuel and Clara Faye Bass.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Jennifer Synott, July 20, 1992.\u00a0 Education:\u00a0 B.A., University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1986; M.A., Uniiversity of Alabama, 1990; Ph.D., University\u00a0 of Tennessee, 1996.\u00a0 Sports information director at Birmingham-Southern, 1986-1990. Joined the Samford Faculty in 1997; became Professor and Chair of the Department [&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-7616","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\/7616","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=7616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7618,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616\/revisions\/7618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}