University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Dixie Walker of the Dodgers
The People's Choice
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Fred “Dixie” Walker was a gifted ballplayer from a family of gifted athletes. (His father, uncle, and brother all played major league baseball.) Dixie Walker played in the majors for 18 seasons and in 1,905 games, assembling a career batting average of .306 while playing for the Yankees, White...
Speak Truth to Power
The Story of Charles Patrick, a Civil Rights Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2010
On December 11, 1954, Charles Patrick drove to downtown Birmingham to buy a Boy Scout uniform for his son. Christmas traffic around the downtown department stores was heavy, and Patrick circled unsuccessfully until at last a streetside spot opened up and he began to pull in. As he did so, he was cut...
Montgomery in the Good War
Portrait of a Southern City, 1939-1946
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2000
Montgomery in the Good War is a richly textured account of a southern city and its people during World War II.
Using newspaper accounts, interviews, letters, journals, and his own memory of the time, Wesley Newton reconstructs wartime-era Montgomery, Alabama--a sleepy southern capital...
Back Home
Journeys through Mobile
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
After twenty years in New York City, a prize-winning writer takes a "long look back" at his hometown of Mobile, Alabama.
In Back Home: Journeys through Mobile, Roy Hoffman tells stories—through essays, feature articles, and memoir—of one of the South's oldest and most colorful port...
by Barbara A. Baker, Louis A Rabb, Roberta S. Maguire
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
This collection consists of essays written by prominent African American literature, jazz, and Albert Murray scholars, reminiscences from Murray protégés and associates, and interviews with Murray himself. It illustrates Murray’s place as a central figure in African American arts and...
Simple Story Of A Soldier
Life And Service in the 2d Mississippi Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This fast-paced memoir was written in 1905 by 61-year-old Samuel W. Hankins while he was living in the Soldiers Home in Gulfport, Mississippi. It vividly details his years as a Confederate rifleman from the spring of 1861, when at a mere sixteen years of age he volunteered for the 2d Mississippi Infantry,...
Traveling the Beaten Trail
Charles Tait's Charges to Federal Grand Juries, 1822–1825
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
In Traveling the Beaten Trail: Charles Tait’s Charges to Federal Grand Juries 1822–1825, a concise and essential addition to the Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library, authors Paul M. Pruitt Jr., David I. Durham, and Sally E. Hadden capture the life, achievements, and legacy of federal...
Ninety-Nine Iron
The Season Sewanee Won Five Games in Six Days
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The fascinating story of a remarkable, unassailable winning streak.
Ninety-Nine Iron is the story of the 1899 Sewanee football team. The University of the South, as it is formally called, is a small Episcopal college on Mounteagle Mountain in southeastern Tennessee. It is a respected academic...
Renaissance Man of Cannery Row
The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
This portrait of one of John Steinbeck's closest friends illuminates the life and work of a figure central to the development of scientific and literary thought in the 20th century.
Marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts is perhaps best known as the inspiration for John Steinbeck's most empathic...
by Fanny Howe
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
A woman travels among geographies both real and imagined looking for her daughter.
Cannoneers in Gray
The Field Artillery of the Army of Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Winner of the 1984 Mrs. Simon Baruch University Award from the United Daughters of the Confederacy
Winner of the 1984 Fletcher Pratt Award from the Civil War Roundtable of New York
This enlarged edition of Cannoneers in Gray provides new detail concerning the activities of artillery units operating...
My War against the Nazis
A Jewish Soldier with the Red Army
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
A poignant account of the perils and fortunes of an indomitable survivor of violence in Eastern Europe during World War II.
In 1939, to escape Nazi occupation, 14-year-old Adam Broner and his older brother Sam left their home and family in Lodz, Poland, and made their way to the Soviet Union....
The Bird is Gone
A Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Imagine a world where the American government signed a conservation act to "restore all indigenous flora and fauna to the Great Plains," which means suddenly the Great Plains are Indian again. Now fast-forward fourteen years to a bowling alley deep in the Indian Territories. People that...
From Cape Charles to Cape Fear
The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Examines naval logistics, tactics, and strategy employed by the Union blockade off the Atlantic coast of the Confederacy.