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Canal Morgan
By Lawrence A. Clayton
The idea of constructing a canal through Nicaragua became John Tyler Morgan’s lifelong dream. He devoted his 69 years in the United States Senate and almost photographic memory to seeing the fruition of the canal, and the dream of a “two ocean” navy. The idea of a Nicaraguan canal rode a rollercoaster of great victory and irreversible defeat throughout the latter part of the 19 th century. During one Senate session, though the canal had been set to be built in Panama, Morgan was estimated to have spoken over 200,000 words on the issue of his Nicaraguan obsession.
On the Road
By the Editors
The roads were impassable, the cars were undependable, and spare parts were unavailable. None of it mattered; southerners were ready to take to the road. The car offered people in the South a source of adventure and mobility, and acted as a catalyst to improve state roads. The editors of Alabama Heritage depict the South’s love affair with the car, from the early 1900s to the late 1950s, with snapshots of Alabamians from Birmingham to Prague.
The Mitcham War
By Harvey H. Jackson III
Political and class wars came to a head in post-Reconstruction Clark County, with a series of brutal murders, known as the Mitcham War. In the area of Mitcham Beat, tenant farming and the crop lien system put many poor farmers in a precarious financial position. Many farmers felt the Democratic government of Clark County did not care about the problems of the working man and were more interested in securing the upper-class’s hold over Alabama politics. When one small-time farmer lost his land to an upper-middle-class store owner, the anger of the community erupted into literal class warfare, the outcome of which left Mitcham Beat an isolated and introverted community.
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