Sarah Van Voorhis Woolfolk Wiggins (June 29, 1934 - April 12, 2020) was a history professor at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She was the first woman in the university's history department and edited ''The Alabama Review'' for 20 years. She was born in Montgomery, Alabama. She studied at Huntingdon College and then Louisiana State University under professor T. Harry Williams. She married and had children. She raised them on her own after her husband died. In the 1960s and 1970s she wrote several articles and a book on

Reconstruction era The Reconstruction era was a period in American history following the American Civil War (1861–1865) and lasting until approximately the Compromise of 1877. During Reconstruction, attempts were made to rebuild the country after the bloo ...

politics in Alabama.

Bibliography

*''The Role of the Scalawag in Alabama Reconstruction'' by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins, Louisiana State University, 1965 *''The Scalawag In Alabama Politics, 1865–1881'' by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins, University of Alabama Press, July 30, 1977 *"Amelia Gayle Gorgas: A Victorian Mother." In ''Stepping Out of the Shadows: Alabama Women, 1819-1990'', edited by Mary Martha Thomas. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1995. pp 57–74. *''Love and Duty: Amelia and Josiah Gorgas and Their Family'' by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins, University of Alabama Press, 2005 *''The Journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, 1827–1835: A Substitute for Social Intercourse'' edited by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins with Ruth Truss Smith, University of Alabama Press, November 5, 2013

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wiggins, Sarah 1934 births American women historians 2020 deaths Historians from Alabama 20th-century American historians 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American historians 21st-century American women writers Writers from Montgomery, Alabama Huntingdon College alumni Louisiana State University alumni University of Alabama faculty Historians of the Reconstruction Era