University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Keeping the Faith
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
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This historical memoir by the widely recognized scholar, Wayne Flynt, chronicles the inner workings of his academic career at Samford and Auburn Universities, as well as his many contributions to the general history of Alabama....
Tennesseans at War, 1812–1815
Andrew Jackson, the Creek War, and the Battle of New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Tennesseans at War, 1812–1815 by Tom Kanon tells the often forgotten story of the central role citizens and soldiers from Tennessee played in the Creek War in Alabama and War of 1812.
Although frequently discussed as separate military conflicts, the War of 1812 against Great Britain and the...
Uplifting the People
Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Uplifting the People is a history of the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention—its origins, churches, associations, conventions, and leaders. Fallin demonstrates that a distinctive Afro-Baptist faith emerged as slaves in Alabama combined the African religious emphasis on spirit possession,...
by William March
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
William March's debut novel, Company K, introduced him to the reading public as a gifted writer of modern fiction. Of that World War I classic, Graham Greene wrote: "It is the only war book I have read which has found a new form to fit the novelty of the protest. The prose is bare, lucid, without...
Magical Muse
Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
In this unique and engaging collection, twelve essays celebrate the legacy of one of America's most important playwrights and investigate Williams's enduring effect on America's cultural, theatrical, and literary heritage.
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Like Faulkner before him, Tennessee Williams gave universal appeal...
by L. J. Davenport
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2010
Nature Journal is an innovative presentation of the best columns and photographs from L. J. Davenport’s popular column in Alabama Heritage magazine. Readers of the magazine have come to relish his artful and often witty descriptions of common species encountered in the Alabama outdoors....
Reborn in America
French Exiles and Refugees in the United States and the Vine and Olive Adventure, 1815-1865
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
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The history of the Vine and Olive Colony in Demopolis, Alabama, has long been clouded by romantic myths. The notion that it was a doomed attempt by Napoleonic exiles in America to plant a wine- and olive-growing community in...
Cradle of Freedom
Alabama and the Movement That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Cradle of Freedom puts a human face on the story of the black American struggle for equality in Alabama during the 1960s. While exceptional leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph Abernathy, John Lewis, and others rose up from the ranks and carved their places...
Beside the Troubled Waters
A Black Doctor Remembers Life, Medicine, and Civil Rights in an Alabama Town
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Beside the Troubled Waters is a memoir by an African American physician in Alabama whose story in many ways typifies the lives and careers of black doctors in the south during the segregationist era while also illustrating the diversity of the black experience in the medical profession. Based on interviews...
Ain't Nothin' But a Winner
Bear Bryant, The Goal Line Stand, and a Chance of a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
No university has won more football championships than Alabama, and Barry Krauss played a key role in one of them. The linebacker’s fourth down stop of Penn State’s Mike Guman in the Sugar Bowl on January 1, 1979, was recently named by ESPN as one of the ten most important plays of the 20th century.
The...
The Great War in the Heart of Dixie
Alabama During World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
There has been much scholarship on how the U.S. as a nation reacted to World War I, but few have explored how Alabama responded. Did the state follow the federal government’s lead in organizing its resources or did Alabamians devise their own solutions to unique problems they faced? How did the...
Thomas Goode Jones
Race, Politics, and Justice in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This first comprehensive biography of Thomas Goode Jones records the life of a man whose political career reflects the fascinating and unsettled history of Alabama and the Deep South at the turn of the twentieth century.
Often overshadowed by the pharaonic antebellum period, the Civil War, and...
Sold Down the River
Slavery in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In the New World, the buying and selling of slaves and of the commodities that they produced generated immense wealth, which reshaped existing societies and helped build new ones. From small beginnings, slavery in North America expanded until it furnished the foundation for two extraordinarily rich...
Getting Out of the Mud
The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898–1928
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Martin T. Olliff recounts the history of the Good Roads Movement that arose in progressive-era Alabama, how it used the power of the state to achieve its objectives of improving market roads for farmers and highways for automobilists, and how state and federal highway administrations replaced the...