University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
by Michael F. Johnson, Lisa D. O'Steen, Dena F. Dincauze
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The southeastern United States has one of the richest records of early human settlement of any area of North America. This book provides the first state-by-state summary of Paleoindian and Early Archaic research from the region, together with an appraisal of models developed to interpret the data....
The Other Movement
Indian Rights and Civil Rights in the Deep South
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The Other Movement: Indian Rights and Civil Rights in the Deep South examines the most visible outcome of the Southern Indian Rights Movement: state Indian affairs commissions. In recalling political activism in the post-World War II South, rarely does one consider the political activities of American...
Isaac Taylor Tichenor
The Creation of the Baptist New South
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The influential role Tichenor played in shaping both the Baptist denomination and southern culture
Isaac Taylor Tichenor worked as a Confederate chaplain, a mining executive, and as president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama (now Auburn University). He also served as corresponding...
The Historian behind the History
Conversations with Southern Historians
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The Historian behind the History brings together a collection of valuable interviews with prominent southern historians conducted over the course of a decade by graduate students in the University of Alabama’s history program for the journal Southern History. In the interviews, ten notable southern...
Mythography
The Study of Myths and Rituals
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This new edition of William Doty's critically acclaimed study provides a comprehensive guidebook to the many schools of interpretation in this burgeoning field. William Doty's popular text has been hailed as the most comprehensive work of its kind. Extensively rewritten and completely restructured,...
Inside the Teaching Machine
Rhetoric and the Globalization of the U.S. Public Research University
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Advocates of higher education have long contended that universities should operate above the crude material negotiations of economics and politics. Such arguments, ignore the historical reality that the American university system emerged through, and in service to, a capitalist political economy that...
Science as Service
Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded...
Creating Citizens
Liberal Arts, Civic Engagement, and the Land-Grant Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
In Creating Citizens, professors and administrators at Auburn University’s College of Liberal Arts recount valuable, first-hand experiences teaching Community and Civic Engagement (CCE). They demonstrate that, contrary to many expectations, CCE instruction both complements the mission of liberal...
Here I Stand
The Life and Legacy of John Beecher
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Biography of a forgotten poet who used his name and influence to speak up for those on the margins of society.
Few surnames resonate in American history more than Beecher. The family’s abolitionist ministers, educators, and writers are central figures in the historical narrative of the United...
by William J. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Born in Snow Hill, in 1869, William J. Edwards graduated in 1893 from Tuskegee Institute, then under the direction of Booker T. Washington, and set out to find a way to use in his own life the values he had learned at Tuskeegee. He did not have to look far. Edwards toured Wilcox, Monroe, Butler, and...
A Fire You Can't Put Out
The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
When Fred Shuttlesworth suffered only a bump on the head in the 1956 bombing of his home, members of his church called it a miracle. Shuttlesworth took it as a sign that God would protect him on the mission that had made him a target that night. Standing in front of his demolished home, Shuttlesworth...
Fanning the Spark
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013
In 1986, after years of publishing stories in literary magazines and periodicals, Mary Ward Brown published her first book, the story collection Tongues of Flame. It soon received regional and national attention, and the following year won the PEN/Hemingway Award for fiction. Mary Ward Brown was sixty-nine...
W. C. Handy
The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
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David Robertson charts W. C. Handy’s rise from a rural-Alabama childhood in the last decades of the nineteenth century to his emergence as one of the most celebrated songwriters of the twentieth century. The child of former...
Forging a Cherokee-American Alliance in the Creek War
From Creation to Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
The Creek War of 1813–1814 is studied primarily as an event that impacted its two main antagonists, the defending Creeks in what is now the State of Alabama and the expanding young American republic. Scant attention has been paid to how the United States’ Cherokee allies contributed to the war...