University Of Alabama Press: 939 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....
Hugo Black
The Alabama Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
“Hamilton writes well and Alabama politics is always fascinating. As narrative history the book is outstanding, and it is easily the best study of Black’s political career.” —American Historical Review
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...
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...
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...
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...