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Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton
Books by Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton Alabama: The States and the Nation Series (1980) Hugo Black and the Bill of Rights (1978) Know Your Alabama (1986) Lister Hill - Statesman from the South (2004) Looking for Clark Gable and Other 20th-Century Pursuits (1996) Seeing Historic Alabama (1980) The Story of Alabama (1980) Teddy's Child: Growing Up in the Anxious Southern Gentry Between the Great Wars (2009)
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During and after World War II, Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton became a pioneer in journalism and academia—two careers in which only a small minority of women then participated. Hired as a typist in the Washington, D.C., bureau of the Associated Press, she rose to become the AP reporter for the "women's beat" at the Truman White House. While a wife and a mother, she became the second woman to earn a Ph.D. from the history department of the University of Alabama. She later taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, chaired its history department for ten years, and wrote eight award-winning articles in scholarly journals, American Heritage, and the New York Times.