University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Bibb County, Alabama
The First Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
**This model county history chronicles one hundred years in the life of a representative Deep South county. **
The history of Bibb County between 1818 and 1918 is in many ways representative of the experience of central Alabama during that period. Bibb County shares physical characteristics...
The Great Melding
War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Model for America's New Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Audacious in its scope, subtle in its analysis, and persuasive in its arguments, The Great Melding is the second book in Glenn Feldman’s magisterial recounting of the South’s transformation from a Reconstruction-era citadel of Democratic Party inertia...
A Blockaded Family
Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
A memorable and fascinating glimpse into the Civil War home front.
Parthenia Hague experienced the Civil War while employed as a schoolteacher on a plantation near Eufaula, Alabama. This book recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during the blockade imposed...
They Live on The Land
Life in an Open Country Southern Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
"First published in 1940 as part of the information-gathering effort of the TVA, the work examines Gorgas, Alabama, a predominantly white farming settlement. Hailed as the most intensive case study ever made in the South, the book provides a detailed portrait of southern rural life on the verge...
by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Who was this scalawag? Simply a native, white, Alabama Republican! Scorned by his fellow white Southerners, he suffered, in his desire for socioeconomic reform and political power, more than mere verbal abuse and social ostracism; he lived constantly under the threat of physical violence. When first...
by Mary Ward Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
These beautifully crafted stories depict the changing relationships between black and white southerners, the impact of the civil rights movement, and the emergence of the New South.
Mary Ward Brown is a storyteller in the tradition of such powerful 20th-century writers as William Faulkner,...
by Juan Carlos Flores
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Alamar, the home of award-winning Cuban poet Juan Carlos Flores, is the setting for his collection, The Counterpunch and Other Horizontal Poems) / El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales). Constructed as a self-help community in eastern Havana, Alamar is the largest housing complex in the world....
Pioneer Family
Life on Florida's Twentieth-Century Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Pioneer Family is based on the recollections of Hugie and Oleta Oesterreicher, who lived in rural northeast Florida in the early decades of the twentieth century. Northeast Florida was frontier country then, and Hugie and Oleta were pioneers. Although the time and setting of their story are particular,...
Doc
The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Autobiography of jazz elder statesman Frank “Doc” Adams, highlighting his role in Birmingham, Alabama’s, historic jazz scene and tracing his personal adventure that parallels, in many ways, the story and spirit of jazz itself.
Doc tells the story of an accomplished jazz master, from his...
Darkroom
A Memoir in Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is an arresting and moving personal story about childhood, race, and identity in the American South, rendered in stunning illustrations by the author, Lila Quintero Weaver.
In 1961, when Lila was five, she and her family emigrated from Buenos...
The House by the Side of the Road
The Selma Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
On Sunday, March 7, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. and six hundred followers set out on foot from Selma, Alabama, bound for Montgomery to demand greater voting rights for African Americans. As they crossed the city’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, state and local policemen savagely set on the marchers with...
Recollections of War Times
By An Old Veteran while under Stonewall Jackson and Lieutenant General James Longstreet
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Recollections of War Times is a dramatically improved edition of William A. “Gus” McClendon’s memoir of his service in the 15th Alabama Infantry. It has long been recognized among the rarest books by any veteran of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Keith Bohannon has conducted relentless...
John Archibald Campbell
Southern Moderate, 1811–1889
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Saunders presents the first full biography of the southern U.S. Supreme
Court justice who championed both the U.S. Constitution and states' rights.
The life of John Archibald Campbell reflects nearly every
major development of 19th-century American history. He participated either
directly or...
Welcome the Hour of Conflict
William Cowan McClellan and the 9th Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Vivid and lively letters from a young Confederate in Lee’s Army.
In the spring of 1861 a 22-year-old Alabamian did what many of his friends and colleagues were doing—he joined the Confederate Army as a volunteer. The first of his family to enlist, William Cowan McClellan, who served as...