G. Ward Hubbs is a professor emeritus, reference librarian, and archivist, who worked at Birmingham-Southern College. 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 was a protege of George Rable.
Written work Tuscaloosa: 200 Years in the Making (2019) 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
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