Keeping the faith : ordinary people, extraordinary lives : a memoir /
This historical memoir by the widely recognized scholar, Wayne Flynt, chronicles the inner workings of his academic career at Samford and Auburn Universities, as well as his many contributions to the general history of Alabama. Flynt has traveled the state and the South lecturing and teaching both l...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | Religion & American Culture.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=420293 |
Table of Contents:
- Ancestors, real and imagined
- An Alabama childhood
- Discoveries and awakenings
- Going home
- Sweet Auburn, stormiest village of the plain
- "Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain"
- "Where my possessions lie" : writing about ordinary people
- Democratizing learning : university outreach
- "The lord is the maker of them all" : black, white, and poor in America
- Reforming American education
- Principalities and powers : battling for a new constitution and a new politics
- In the eye of the storm : Auburn University, 1989-2000
- "Ever to conquer, never to yield" : inside the Auburn tigers, 1977-2005
- Valhalla on the Plains
- Ken's barbeque and other third places.