University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
1865 Alabama
From Civil War to Uncivil Peace
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
A detailed history of a vitally important year in Alabama history.
The year 1865 is critically important to an accurate understanding of Alabama’s present. In 1865 Alabama: From Civil War to Uncivil Peace Christopher Lyle McIlwain Sr. examines the end of the Civil War and the early days of...
Alabama
The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
A new and up-to-date edition of Alabama’s history to celebrate the state’s bicentennial.
Alabama: The History of a Deep South State*,* Bicentennial Edition is a comprehensive narrative account of the state from its earliest days to the present. This edition, updated to celebrate the state’s...
First Books
The Printed Word and Cultural Formation in Early Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
This case study in cultural mythmaking shows how antebellum Alabama created itself out of its own printed texts, from treatises on law and history to satire, poetry, and domestic novels.
Early 19th-century Alabama was a society still in the making. Now Philip Beidler tells how the...
From Civil War to Civil Rights, Alabama 1860–1960
An Anthology from The Alabama Review
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
To understand Alabama history one must appreciate the impact of the failure of secession of the state in the subsequent half century as well as the causes for the success of the Civil Rights Movement in the state in the mid-twentieth century. The prophet of the first revolution was William Lowndes...
Patterson for Alabama
The Life and Career of John Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2009
John Patterson, Alabama governor from 1959 to 1963, was thrust into the Alabama political arena after the brutal murder of his father, attorney general Albert Patterson in 1954. Allowed by the Democratic Party to take his father’s place and to complete the elder’s goal of cleaning up corruption...
Stand Up for Alabama
Governor George Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Whereas other studies have focused on George Wallace’s career as a national figure, Stand Up for Alabama provides a detailed, comprehensive, and analytical study of Wallace’s political life that emphasizes his activities and their impact within the state of Alabama. Jeff Frederick answers two...
by William H. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Why does Alabama rank so low on many of the indicators of quality of life? Why did some of the most dramatic developments in the civil rights revolution of the 1960s take place in Alabama? Why is it that a few interest groups seem to have the most political power in Alabama? William H. Stewart’s...
Letters from Alabama
Chiefly Relating to Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
This new and improved edition of Letters from Alabama offers a valuable window into pioneer Alabama and the landscape and life-forms encountered by early settlers of the state.
Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888), a British naturalist, left home at age seventeen and made his way to Alabama in...
Ante-Bellum Alabama
Town and Country
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Ante-Bellum Alabama: Town and Country was written to give the reader insight into importaant facers of Alabama’s ante-bellum history. Presented in the form of case studies from the pre—Civil War period, the book deals with a city, a town, a planter’s family, rural social life, attitudes...
by Virginia O. Foscue
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Place Names in Alabama is the first systematic attempt to account for all the names of the counties, cities, town, water courses, bodies of water, and mountains that appear on readily available maps of Alabama.
In dictionary format, this volume contains some 2,610 place...
by Thomas Abernethy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815-1828 is a beautifully crafted history of the evolution of the state written by Thomas Perkins Abernethy in 1922. The work shows how Alabama grew out of the Mississippi Territory and discusses the economic and political development during the years just before...
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...
These Rugged Days
Alabama in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
An accessibly written and dramatic account of Alabama’s role in the Civil War.
The Civil War has left indelible marks on Alabama’s land, culture, economy, and people. Despite its lasting influence, this wrenching story has been too long neglected by historians preoccupied by events elsewhere....
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...