James Alex Baggett

James Alex Baggett
Born	(1932-02-02) February 2, 1932 (age 93)
Occupations	Historian, Author
Notable work	The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction
Spouse	Lillian Faulkner Baggett

James Alex Baggett (born February 2, 1932 ^[1] ) is an American historian, author, and former university dean. He worked at Union University and wrote a book about it.

In 2003 his talk on his book about "Scalawags" was aired on C-Span. ^[2] He discussed the book at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. He has written several entries for the Texas State Historical Association's Handbook. ^[3]

He is married to Lillian Faulkner Baggett, a fellow educator and author. ^[4]

William Harris Bragg described his book on "Scalawags" as "detailed, balanced, and convincing." ^[5] Michael Perman called it groundbreaking. ^[6] Union University holds an annual history research paper competition in his honor. ^[7]

Work

• The rise and fall of the Texas radicals, 1867-1883 ^[8]
• Bemis: Continuity and Change in a West Tennessee Cotton Mill Town (1992)
• Memories of Madison County (1993)
• So Great a Cloud of Witnesses: Union University, 1823-2000 (Union University Press, 2000) ISBN   9780970370709
• Homegrown Yankees: Tennessee's Union Cavalry in the Civil War (LSU Press, 2009) ISBN   9780807133989
• The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (LSU Press, 2004) ISBN   9780807130148 ^{[9] [10]}

Articles

• "The Constitutional Union Party in Texas” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 82 (January 1979)

References

1. "Baggett, James Alex - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". Library of Congress. Retrieved July 9, 2022.
2. "James Alex Baggett | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org.
3. "TSHA | James Alex Baggett". www.tshaonline.org.
4. "Lillian Faulkner Baggett - View Obituary & Service Information". Lillian Faulkner Baggett Obituary.
5. Bragg, William Harris (2006). "Review of The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 90 (1): 144–146. ISSN   0016-8297. JSTOR   40584898.
6. Perman, Michael (June 29, 2005). "The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (review)" . Civil War History. 51 (1): 115–116. doi:10.1353/cwh.2005.0014. S2CID   143936362 – via Project MUSE.
7. "History Students Win Prizes in Dr. James Alex Baggett History Research Paper Competition | News | Department of History | Union University, a Christian College in Tennessee". www.uu.edu.
8. "James Alex Baggett". id.oclc.org.
9. "Rubin on Baggett, 'The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction' | H-NC | H-Net". networks.h-net.org.
10. Joe P. Dunn (2003). "Book review". The South Carolina Historical Magazine. Vol. 104, no. 4. pp. 281–283. JSTOR   27570654.

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN