University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
The Reminiscences of George Strother Gaines
Pioneer and Statesman of Early Alabama and Mississippi, 1805–1843
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
This first book-length, annotated edition of Gaines' Reminiscences provides a fascinating glimpse into the early history of the Mississippi-Alabama Territory and antebellum Alabama.
The two sections of the Reminiscences of George Strother Gaines form one of the most important primary sources...
by Wayne Flynt
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
An authoritative popular history that places the state in regional and national context.
Alabama is a state full of contrasts. On the one hand, it has elected the lowest number of women to the state legislature of any state in the union; yet according to historians it produced two of the ten...
Turning the Tide
The University of Alabama in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
This book documents the period when a handful of University of Alabama student activists formed an alliance with President Frank A. Rose, his staff, and a small group of progressive-minded professors in order to transform the university during a time of social and political turmoil. Together they...
The Village on the Plain
Auburn University, 1856–2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Long overdue for an institutional history, Auburn University possesses a rich and storied past. Dwayne Cox’s The Village on the Plain traces the school’s history in authoritative detail from its origins as a private college through its emergence as a complex land-grant university.
Originally...
After Wallace
The 1986 Contest for Governor and Political Change in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
All Alabama elections are colorful, but the 1986 gubernatorial contest may trump them all for its sheer strangeness. With the retirement of an aging and ill George Wallace, both the issues and candidates contending for the office were able to set the course of Alabama politics for generations to follow....
Negro Education in Alabama
A Study in Cotton and Steel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Horace Mann Bond was an early twentieth century scholar and a college administrator who focused on higher education for African Americans. His Negro Education in Alabama won Brown University’s Susan Colver Rosenberger Book Prize in 1937 and was praised as a landmark by W. E. B. Dubois in American...
In the Shadow of Hitler
Alabama's Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
In the Shadow of Hitler chronicles the experiences of Alabama Jews as they worked to overcome their own divisions in order to aid European Jews before, during, and after the Second World War.
In this extensive study of how southern Jews in the United States responded to the Nazi persecution...
Green Gold
Alabama's Forests and Forest Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Green Gold is a thorough and valuable compilation of information on Alabama’s timber and forest products industry, the largest manufacturing industry in the state.
Alabama has the third-largest commercial forest in the nation, after only Georgia and Oregon. Fully two-thirds of the state’s...
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...
Southern Wonder
Alabama's Surprising Biodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Southern Wonder explores Alabama’s amazing biological diversity, the reasons for the large number of species in the state, and the importance of their preservation.
Alabama ranks fifth in the nation in number of species of plants and animals found in the state, surpassed only by the much...
The Remembered Gate
Memoirs By Alabama Writers
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This collection of reflective essays–all exploring themes of artistic self-discovery and regional awareness–showcases 19 nationally known writers who have roots in Alabama.
In The Remembered Gate, nationally prominent fiction writers, essayists, and poets recall how their formative years...
by Carl Carmer
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Stars Fell on Alabama is truly a classic. The book enjoyed enormous popularity and notoriety when it was first published (it was a selection of The Literary Guild and also sold widely in Europe). It can be described as a book of folkways—not journalism, or history, or a novel. At times it is...
Diamonds in the Rough
A History of Alabama's Cahaba Coal Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Diamonds in the Rough reconstructs the historical moment that defined the Cahaba Coal Field, a mineral-rich area that stretches across sixty-seven miles and four counties of central Alabama.
Combining existing written sources with oral accounts and personal recollections, James Sanders...
Alabama and the Borderlands
From Prehistory To Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
Born of a concern with Alabama's past and the need to explore and explain that legacy, this book brings together the nation's leading scholars on the prehistory and early history of Alabama and the southeastern U.S. Covering topics ranging from the Mississippian Period in archaeology and the de Soto...