G. Ward Hubbs
G. Ward Hubbs was a professor emeritus, reference librarian, and archivist at Birmingham-Southern College. The college closed in May 2024, due to declining enrolment and financial distress. He wrote a book on Tuscaloosa's history to commemorate its bicentennial and authored the books Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman and Voices from Company D: Diaries by the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia. He has won several literary awards. He is the editor of a book of humorous and "rowdy" tales from John Gorman Barr.
He is a protege of George Rable.
Written work
- Tuscaloosa: 200 Years in the Making
- Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman
- Voices from Company D: Diaries by the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, University of Georgia Press
- Rowdy Tales from Early Alabama: The Humor of John Gorman Barr, editor