Down the Years: Articles on Mobile's History

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Archaeology of Old Mobile, 1702-1711                                       
Gregory A. Waselkov

Suppressing the Anglo-American Trade at Mobile, 1733-1737                     
Michael James Forêt  

Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Mobile: The Long Story of Charles R. S. Boyington
Paul M. Pruitt, Jr. and Robert Bond Higgins

An Ornament to the City: Mobile's Government Street Prebysterian Church
John S. Sledge

James Copeland and Sheriff Pitts: A Gulf Coast Legend
James Penick

Incidents on the Blockade of Mobile                                         
Frank L. Owsley, Jr.

Trials of a Unionist: Gustavus Horton, Military Mayor of Mobile during Reconstruction
Harriet E. Amos

No Compromise:The End of Presidential Reconstruction in Mobile, Alabama, January-May 1867
Joseph E. Brent

The Beginning of Military Reconstruction in Mobile, Alabama, May-November 1867
Billy G. Hinson

An Aesthete at Large: Oscar Wilde in Mobile           
William Warren Rogers and Robert David Ward

The Politics of Food: Mobile's Public Markets in the Gilded Age
George Ewert

Rudolph Benz: Mobile's Gilded Age Architect
John S. Sledge

Commercial Photography in the Gilded Age in Mobile                             
Michael Thomason

Mardi Gras in Mobile: Excerpts from the 1908 Diary of a Young Visitor
Senta Jonas

"Without Conscious Hypocrisy": Woodrow Wilson's Mobile Address of 1913           
Gordon E. Harvey

Riveters, Volunteers, and WACS: Women in Mobile during World War II            
Patricia G. Harrison

The Mobile Homefront during the Second World War                           
Mary Martha Thomas