University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Cuarto oscuro
Recuerdos en blanco y negro
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 9, 2018
A visually stunning graphic memoir of an Argentinian immigrant’s experience during the civil rights movement.
Cuarto oscuro: Recuerdos en blanco y negro is the long-awaited Spanish-language translation of Lila Quintero Weaver’s critically acclaimed Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White....
Bonapartists in the Borderlands
French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815–1835
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Bonapartists in the Borderlands recounts how Napoleonic exiles and French refugees from Europe and the Caribbean joined forces with Latin American insurgents, Gulf pirates, and international adventurers to seek their fortune in the Gulf borderlands. The U.S. Congress welcomed the French to America...
"Fear God and Walk Humbly"
The Agricultural Journal of James Mallory, 1843-1877
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
James Mallory was an uncommon Southerner. Most inhabitants of the Old South, especially the plain folk, devoted more time to leisurely activities--drinking, gambling, hunting, fishing, and just loafing--than did Mallory, a workaholic agriculturalist, who experimented with new plants, orchards, and...