University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Earline's Pink Party
The Social Rituals and Domestic Relics of a Southern Woman
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
In Earline’s Pink Party Elizabeth Findley Shores sifts through her family’s scattered artifacts to understand her grandmother’s life in relation to the troubled racial history of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
A compelling, genre-bending page-turner, Earline’s Pink Party: The Social Rituals and...
Let Us Now Praise Famous Women
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
An affectionate, humorous account of small town Alabama during the civil rights era.
When Frank Sikora's six-year-old daughter contracted pneumonia in 1962, his wife Millie vowed that would be the last winter she would spend in Ohio. Despite their misgivings about the racial tensions erupting...
The Irony of the Solid South
Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865–1944
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The Irony of the Solid South examines how the south became the “Solid South” for the Democratic Party and how that solidarity began to crack with the advent of American involvement in World War II.
Relying on a sophisticated analysis of secondary research—as well as a wealth...
History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie
Scholarship, Activism, and Wayne Flynt in the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Social and political history of the modern South.
This collection of essays on the social and political history of the modern South consider the region’s poor, racial mores and race relations, economic opportunity, Protestant activism, political coalitions and interest groups, social...
Flowing Through Time
A History of the Lower Chattahoochee River
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
This handsome, illustrated book chronicles the history of the Lower Chattahoochee River and the people who lived along its banks from prehistoric Indian settlement to the present day.
In highly accessible, energetic prose, Lynn Willoughby takes readers down the Lower Chattahoochee...
Dismembering the American Dream
The Life and Fiction of Richard Yates
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature
Since his death in Alabama in 1992, the work of American writer Richard Yates has enjoyed a renaissance, culminating in director Sam Mendes’s adaption of the novel Revolutionary Road (starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet). Dismembering...
Inside Alabama
A Personal History of My State
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
An affectionate, irreverent, candid look at the "Heart of Dixie."
This book tells Alabama's history in a conversational style with an unapolo-getically subjective approach. Accessible to general readers and students alike, it recounts the history and politics of a state known for...
The Moundville Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore
Clarence Bloomfield Moore
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 1996
The two works reprinted in this volume represent the pinnacle of the career of one of the most remarkable American archaeologists of the early 20th century, Clarence Bloomfield Moore.
Moore's Certain Aboriginal Remains of the Black Warrior River (1905) and Moundville Revisited (1907) brought...
To Stand Aside or Stand Alone
Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
A landmark collection of previously unpublished interviews with Reform rabbis concerning their roles in the civil rights movement.
In 1966, a young rabbinical student named P. Allen Krause conducted interviews with twelve Reform rabbis from southern congregations concerning their thoughts,...
by Wayne Flynt
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century is a collection of fifteen essays by award-winning scholar Wayne Flynt that explores and reveals the often-forgotten religious heterogeneity of the American South.
Throughout its dramatic history, the American South has wrestled...
The Search for Mabila
The Decisive Battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
One of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa. The site of this battle was a small fortified border town within...
by Benjamin Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A comprehensive collection of the most important sources on the late historic Creek Indians and their environment.
In 1795 Benjamin Hawkins, a former U.S. senator and advisor to George Washington, was appointed U.S. Indian agent and superintendent of all the tribes south of the Ohio River....
by E. B. Sledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
From the respected author of one of the best books on World War II combat, comes an equally captivating saga of battle recovery, healing, and homecoming.
China Marine is the long-awaited sequel to E. B. Sledge’s critically acclaimed memoir, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. Picking...
Rhetorical Exposures
Confrontation and Contradiction in US Social Documentary Photography
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Documentary photography aims to capture the material reality of life. In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter demonstrates how the creation and display of documentary photographs—often now called “imagetexts”—both invite analysis and raise persistent questions about the political and social...