Description
A handsome, richly illustrated guide to the A. S. Williams III Americana Collection at the University of Alabama, From a Love of History introduces one of the most important archives of southern history and literature ever gathered in one place. The collection includes some twenty thousand volumes and pamphlets published between the late seventeenth century and early twenty-first century.
Stephen M. Rowe is archivist and curator of the Eufaula Athenaeum, Eufaula, Alabama, USA. He was an assistant archivist at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation from 1974 to 1977. Since 1983 he has worked as an antiquarian bookseller and appraiser.