University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Motorcycling Alabama
50 Ride Loops through the Heart of Dixie
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Motorcycling Alabama is a much-needed guidebook for one of the most beautiful states to explore on two wheels. From the rocky outcrops of the Appalachian plateau to the sugar-white beaches and teal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Alabama is a rider’s paradise.
David Haynes offers...
Taking Christianity to China
Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850–1950
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Beginning early in the 19th century, the American missionary movement made slow headway in China. Alabamians became part of that small beachhead. After 1900 both the money and personnel rapidly expanded, peaking in the early 1920s. By the 1930s many American denominations became confused and divided...
Jeffrey Introduces Thirteen More Southern Ghosts
Commemorative Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Jeffrey was the resident apparition in the Selma, Alabama, home of nationally-known folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham and the inspiration for Windham’s best-selling collection of macabre tales that reveal two hundred years of Alabama’s ghostly secrets, 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. One of the...
Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey
Commemorative Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
One of the best-known and widely shared books about the South, Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey has haunted the imaginations of generations of delighted young readers since it was first published in 1969. Written by nationally acclaimed folklorists Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh,...
Cussing Dixie, Loving Dixie
Fifty Years of Commentary by H. Brandt Ayers
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Cussing Dixie, Loving Dixie: Fifty Years of Commentary by H. Brandt Ayers collects in one volume the essential writing of the legendary publisher and editor of the Anniston Star.
The decades-long ribbon of prose that spilled from Ayers’s pen captured the epochal milestones of our times, such...
Two-Party Politics in the One-Party South
Alabama's Hill Country, 1874–1920
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
A challenge to the long-held view that the only important and influential politicians in post-Reconstruction Deep South states were Democrats.
In this insightful and exhaustively researched volume, Samuel L. Webb presents new evidence that, contrary to popular belief, voters in at least one...
Labor Revolt In Alabama
The Great Strike of 1894
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
The Alabama coal miners’ strike of 1894 to gain improved working conditions and to protect themselves from wage reductions. The authors recount the depression of the early 1890s, which set the stage for the strike, and the subsequent use of convict labor, which became a catalyst. The gripping...
Schools in the Landscape
Localism, Cultural Tradition, and the Development of Alabama's Public Education System, 1865-1915
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
This richly researched and impressively argued work is a history of public schooling in Alabama in the half century following the Civil War. It engages with depth and sophistication Alabama’s social and cultural life in the period that can be characterized by the three “R”s: Reconstruction,...
by Allen Johnston Going
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Hailed as the definitive study of the subject when it appeared in 1951, Bourbon Democracy in Alabama analyzes and describes the state government of Alabama during the Bourbon Period as it operated under the Democratic and Conservative party. For this edition, the author has prepared a new foreword...
Writing Religion
The Case for the Critical Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
In 2002, the University of Alabama's Department of Religious Studies established the annual Aronov Lecture Series to showcase the works of nationally recognized scholars of religion capable of reflecting on issues of wide relevance to scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. Writing...
Before Brown
Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Before Brown details the ferment in civil rights that took place across the South before the momentous Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954. This collection refutes the notion that the movement began with the Supreme Court decision, and suggests, rather, that the movement originated in the...
Rivers of History
Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Four streams make up the Alabama River system, the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama. Together they flow for more than 900 miles, through some of the most historic regions of the state. This book looks at the way these streams have shaped the lives of the people who lived along them, and how,...
Poor but Proud
Alabama's Poor Whites
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
First published in 1989 by The University of Alabama Press, Poor but Proud was met with critical acclaim and awarded the 1990 Lillian Smith prize in nonfiction, as well as being named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book. This new paperback version will make the classic work available for general...
Taming Alabama
Lawyers and Reformers, 1804-1929
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Taming Alabama focuses on persons and groups who sought to bring about reforms in the political, legal, and social worlds of Alabama. Most of the subjects of these essays accepted the fundamental values of nineteenth and early twentieth century white southern society; and all believed, or came to...