Harvey Jackson III

Dr Jackson started work as an Assistant Professor of History at Clayton Junior College in Morrow, Georgia, in 1973. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1977. Jackson published his first book on Lachlan McIntosh and Revolutionary Georgia in 1979.

He wrote a second book on Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence with co-authors Harvey Young, Edwin Bridges and Kenneth Thomas, published in 1981. Jackson became Professor of History and Chairman of Social Sciences in 1982.

Jackson worked with Phinizy Spaulding on editing a collection of essays on colonial Georgia published in 1984 and on writing a biography of General James Oglethorpe in 1989.

He published two works on the history of Alabama rivers in the 1990s. In 1990 he became Professor and head of the Department of History and Foreign Languages at Jacksonville State University. In 2003, he published a history of Alabama that he had been working on for five years. In 2008 he became Eminent Scholar in History at Jacksonville State University.

• Lachlan McIntosh and the Politics of Revolutionary Georgia University of Georgia Press 1979
• (With Harvey Young, Edwin Bridges and Kenneth Thomas) Georgia Signers and the Declaration of Independence Cherokee Press 1981
• (Editor with Phinizy Spaulding) Forty Years of Diversity: Essays on Colonial Georgia University of Georgia Press 1984
• (Editor with Phinizy Spaulding) Oglethorpe in Perspective: Georgia's Founder After Two Hundred Years University of Alabama Press 1989
• Rivers of History: Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba and Alabama University of Alabama Press 1995
• Putting "Loafing Streams" to Work: The Building of Lay, Mitchell, Martin and Jordan Dams 1910-1929 University of Alabama Press 1997
• Inside Alabama: A Personal History of My State University of Alabama Press/Fire Ant Books 2003
• The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: An Insider's History of the Florida-Alabama Coast University of Georgia Press 2012

• Contemporary Authors Online Gale 2001 Reproduced in Biography Resource Center Thomson Gale 2005
• Alabama Booksmith list of Jackson's works
• Article by Jackson in the Anniston Star about his history of Alabama^{[permanent dead link‍]}