University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Confederate Home Front
Montgomery during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
With this superbly written, meticulously researched, and concisely argued study, Rogers has helped deepen our understanding of the Confederate civilian experience.
Drawing from a wealth of historic documents and personal papers, William Warren Rogers, Jr., provides a fascinating and detailed...
Transitions
Legal Change, Legal Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings illustrates the various intersections, crises, and shifts that continually occur within the law, and how these moments of change interact with and comment on contemporary society.
Together the essays in this volume investigate the transformation of...
Edgar and Brigitte
A German Jewish Passage to America
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Edgar and Brigitte: A German Jewish Passage to America is the fruit of an extraordinary archive of personal journals, letters, speeches, and published writings left by Edgar and Brigitte Bodenheimer, who emigrated from Nazi Germany in 1933 and became American law professors. More German than Jewish,...
Once They Had a Country
Two Teenage Refugees in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Muriel Gillick draws from a remarkable set of primary source materials, including letters, telegrams, and police records to relate the story of two teenage refugees during World War II. Once They Had a Country conveys well what it was like to establish a new life in a foreign country—over and over...
Norman Corwin and Radio
The Golden Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Norman Corwin is regarded as the most acclaimed creative artist of radio’s Golden Age (mid 1930s to late 1940s). Corwin worked as a producer for CBS at a time when radio was the centerpiece of American family life. His programs brought high moments to the medium during a period when exceptional...
Rabbi Max Heller
Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
This biography of a pioneering Zionist and leader of American Reform Judaism adds significantly to our understanding of American and southern Jewish history.
Max Heller was a man of both passionate conviction and inner contradiction. He sought to be at the center of current affairs, not as...
The Quiet Voices
Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
These wide-ranging essays reveal the various roles played by southern rabbis in the struggle for black civil rights since Reconstruction
The study of black-Jewish relations has become a hotbed of controversy, especially with regard to the role played by Jewish leaders during the Civil Rights...
Bombast And Broadsides
George Johnstone, 1730-1787
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
George Johnstone has never received the scholarly attention he fully merits. Historians have assessed him, usually briefly, as governor of West Florida, or as naval commander, or as a member of parliament. Nevertheless, none has considered his important role in East India Company politics, nor,...
After War Times
An African American Childhood in Reconstruction-Era Florida
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
T. Thomas Fortune was a leading African American publisher, editor, and journalist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who was born a slave in antebellum Florida lived through emancipation, and rose to become a literary lion of his generation. In T. Thomas Fortune's “After War...
by William N. Denman, Thomas P. Miller, Shirley Wilson Logan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
A timely collection of essays by prominent scholars in the field—on the past, present, and future of rhetoric instruction.
From Isocrates and Aristotle to the present, rhetorical education has consistently been regarded as the linchpin of a participatory democracy, a tool to foster civic...
A-Train
Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
A-Train is the story of one of the black Americans who, during World War II, graduated from Tuskegee (AL) Flying School and served as a pilot in the Army Air Corps’ 99th Pursuit Squadron. Charles W. Dryden presents a fast-paced, balanced, and personal account of what it was like to prepare for a...
The Domesticated Penis
How Womanhood Has Shaped Manhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The Domesticated Penis challenges long-held assumptions that, in the development of Homo sapiens, form follows function alone. In this fascinating exploration, Loretta A. Cormier and Sharyn R. Jones explain the critical contribution that conscious female selection has made to the attributes of the...
by Sarah Gilbreath Ford
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
In Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White, Sarah Gilbreath Ford explores how both black and white southern writers such as Joel Chandler Harris, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Ellen Douglas, and Ernest Gaines have employed oral storytelling...
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 17
Outdoor Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Outdoor drama takes many forms: ancient Greek theatre, open-air performances of Shakespeare at summer festivals, and re-enactments of landmark historical events. The essays gathered in "Outdoor Performance," Volume 17 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium, address outdoor theatre's many...