University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Dismembering the American Dream
The Life and Fiction of Richard Yates
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature
Since his death in Alabama in 1992, the work of American writer Richard Yates has enjoyed a renaissance, culminating in director Sam Mendes’s adaption of the novel Revolutionary Road (starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet). Dismembering...
Old Mobile
Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
“Higginbotham has given to American historiography a microcosmic view of one of the earliest and most important outposts in the colonial new world. The Latin South can henceforth not be ignored.” – Alabama Historical Quarterly
“The definitive account . . . superbly recounted.” –...
Selma
A Bicentennial History
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
In 1989, Alston Fitts published a brief history of the city of Selma, Alabama, from its founding through the aftermath of the civil rights movement. Selma: A Bicentennial History is a greatly revised and expanded version of Fitts’s history of the city, replete with a wealth of new, never-before-published...
The Moundville Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore
Clarence Bloomfield Moore
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 1996
The two works reprinted in this volume represent the pinnacle of the career of one of the most remarkable American archaeologists of the early 20th century, Clarence Bloomfield Moore.
Moore's Certain Aboriginal Remains of the Black Warrior River (1905) and Moundville Revisited (1907) brought...
by John H. Blitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
Within the last 50 years archaeologists have discovered that around the 10th century A.D., native southeastern peoples began a process of cultural change far more complex than anything that had occurred previously. These late prehistoric societies—known...
To Stand Aside or Stand Alone
Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
A landmark collection of previously unpublished interviews with Reform rabbis concerning their roles in the civil rights movement.
In 1966, a young rabbinical student named P. Allen Krause conducted interviews with twelve Reform rabbis from southern congregations concerning their thoughts,...
by Wayne Flynt
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century is a collection of fifteen essays by award-winning scholar Wayne Flynt that explores and reveals the often-forgotten religious heterogeneity of the American South.
Throughout its dramatic history, the American South has wrestled...
The Search for Mabila
The Decisive Battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
One of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa. The site of this battle was a small fortified border town within...
by John H. Blitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Inaugural pocket guide from our new series of illustrated guidebooks
In the 13th century, Moundville was one of the largest Native American settlements north of Mexico. Spread over 325 acres were 29 earthen mounds arranged around a great plaza, a mile-long stockade, and dozens of dwellings...
by Benjamin Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A comprehensive collection of the most important sources on the late historic Creek Indians and their environment.
In 1795 Benjamin Hawkins, a former U.S. senator and advisor to George Washington, was appointed U.S. Indian agent and superintendent of all the tribes south of the Ohio River....
by E. B. Sledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
From the respected author of one of the best books on World War II combat, comes an equally captivating saga of battle recovery, healing, and homecoming.
China Marine is the long-awaited sequel to E. B. Sledge’s critically acclaimed memoir, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. Picking...
Thirteen Loops
Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
*Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America *recounts the story of three innocent victims, all of whom suffered violent deaths through no fault of their own: Vaudine Maddox in 1933 in Tuscaloosa, Sergeant Gene Ballard in 1979 in Birmingham, and Michael Donald in 1981 in Mobile.
The...
Rhetorical Exposures
Confrontation and Contradiction in US Social Documentary Photography
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Documentary photography aims to capture the material reality of life. In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter demonstrates how the creation and display of documentary photographs—often now called “imagetexts”—both invite analysis and raise persistent questions about the political and social...
The Pecan Orchard
Journey of a Sharecropper's Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
This is a true story of the struggle, survival, and ultimate success of a large black family in south Alabama who, in the middle decades of the 20th century, lifted themselves out of poverty to achieve the American dream of property ownership. Descended from slaves and sharecroppers in the Black Belt...