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Wayne Flynt's Degrees

PhD History Florida State University
Masters History Florida State University
Bachelors History Samford University

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According to Wikipedia, James Wayne Flynt is University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Auburn University. He has won numerous teaching awards and been a Distinguished University Professor for many years. His research focuses on Southern culture, Alabama politics, Southern religion, education reform, and poverty. He was the first Editor-in-Chief of the online Encyclopedia of Alabama. Flynt received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard College in 1961 before taking his Master of Science and Ph.D. from Florida State University. After teaching at Samford for 12 years, he joined the faculty at Auburn University in 1977, where he remained until his retirement in 2005. He was a friend of author Harper Lee.

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Wayne Flynt's Published Works

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Alabama in the twentieth century (2004) (31)
The Confederados: Old South Immigrants in Brazil (1996) (23)
Florida's Gubernatorial Politics in the Twentieth Century (1981) (14)
Religion for the Blues: Evangelicalism, Poor Whites, and the Great Depression (2005) (8)
Dissent in Zion: Alabama Baptists and Social Issues, 1900-1914 (1969) (8)
The ethics of democratic persuasion and the Birmingham crisis (1969) (7)
Religion in the contemporary South : diversity, community, and identity (1996) (6)
Southern Higher Education and the Civil War (2013) (4)
In His Image, But . . . Racism in Southern Religion, 1780-1910 (review) (2013) (4)
All According to God's Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945-1970 (2005) (4)
Florida labor and political “radicalism,” 1919–1920 (1968) (4)
A Century of Controversy (2002) (4)
Judgment & Grace in Dixie Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis (review) (2012) (3)
Recovering the Margins of American Religious History: The Legacy of David Edwin Harrell Jr. (2012) (2)
A Century of Controversy: Constitutional Reform in Alabama (2002) (2)
2003 Biennial focus: baptist heritage in the south : Not an Island unto itself: Southern Baptists and the new theological trends (liberalism, ecumenism, and the social gospel), 1890-1940 (2003) (2)
A History of Florida Baptists. (1973) (2)
The Transformation of Southern Politics, 1954 to the Present (2007) (2)
Keeping the Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives (2011) (1)
Reading Southern Poverty Between the Wars, 1918-1939 (review) (2008) (1)
Reform oratory in Alabama, 1890–1896 (1963) (1)
Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century (2016) (1)
Alabama: The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition (2018) (1)
Keeping the Faith (2011) (0)
Cultural Perspectives on the American South. Vol. 5: Religion. Ed. by Charles Reagan Wilson. (New York: Gordon and Breach, 1991. xvi + 185 pp. $35.00, ISBN 2-88124-394-0.) (1992) (0)
United States (1990) (0)
The Texas Legion at Vicksburg (1979) (0)
Regions of Alabama (2005) (0)
Temperature-sensitive orifice: A pre-test report (1977) (0)
United States (1990) (0)
Common Whites: Class and Culture in Antebellum North Carolina (review) (2012) (0)
Sweet Home, Alabama: A Bicentennial Essay (2019) (0)
Announcement (1992) (0)
Books Received (2005) (0)
General Lee's College: The Rise and Growth of Washington and Lee University (review) (2013) (0)
Alabama Baptists and the Second World War (2001) (0)
Editor's Note (2019) (0)
The Spearless Leader: Senator Borah and the Progressive Move 1920's (1973) (0)
Apples on the Flood: The Southern Mountain Experience. By Rodger Cunningham. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. xxxiii + 214 pp. $21.50.) (1988) (0)
“God Ordained This War”: Sermons on the Sectional Crisis, 1830–1865 . Edited by David B. Chesebrough. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. viii + 372 pp. $34.95. (1994) (0)
Professor-Politician: The Biography of Alabama Congressman Glen Browder (2012) (0)
The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience (review) (2013) (0)
Voices from Alabama: A Twentieth-Century Mosaic (review) (2012) (0)
Recovering the Margins of American Religious History (2012) (0)
Southern Baptists and American Evangelicals: The Conversation Continues . Edited by David S. Dockery. Nashville, Tenn.: Broadman a Holman Publishers, 1993. xiv + 242 pp. (1996) (0)

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