{"id":6140,"date":"2016-10-04T19:20:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T23:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/04\/a-history-of-alabama\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:31:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:31:37","slug":"a-history-of-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-history-of-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"A History of Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After retiring as director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Edwin Bridges decided to write a new book about the history of the state.\u00a0 The book, <em>Alabama: The Making of an American State<\/em>, was released just as the state approaches its 200<sup>th<\/sup> birthday.\u00a0 Bridges, who graduated from Furman in 1967 and received his Master of Arts and doctorate in history from the University of Chicago, was featured in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annistonstar.com\/the_daily_home\/ed-bridges-will-debut-his-new-alabama-history-book-at\/article_311d1630-89bd-11e6-849e-577bc7ae70a9.html\">Anniston Star<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After retiring as director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Edwin Bridges decided to write a new book about the history of the state.\u00a0 The book, Alabama: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}