University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Butterflies of Alabama
Glimpses into Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Butterflies of Alabama is a full-color, richly illustrated guide to the 84 known species of “true” butterflies (Papilionoidea) found within the state’s borders. For more than 14 years, the authors have made a close study of these showy, winged stars of the insect world, pursuing them in a great...
by Mary Duffee
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Mary Gordon Duffee's father, Matthew Duffee was born in Ireland and immigrated to Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1823. In Tuscaloosa he operated a popular tavern, and he later bought a resort hotel at Blount Springs. Mary Duffee was born in Alabama in 1840 and spent many summers with her family at the resort....
A Century of Controversy
Constitutional Reform in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This timely examination of Alabama’s severely criticized state constitution will serve as an indispensable guide for legislators and citizens considering reform of the outdated document.
Alabama’s present constitution, adopted in 1901, is widely viewed as the source of many, if not most,...
by Ethel Armes, James R. Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
“The principal authority for the general treatment of the history of coal, and of iron and steel, in
Alabama is the work of Miss Ethel Armes. The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama is a comprehensive
and scholarly work portraying in attractive style the growth of the mineral industries in its
relation...
by Craig Guyer, Mark A. Bailey, Robert H. Mount
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
For nearly 200 million years, Earth has been occupied by reptiles—a lineage of terrestrial vertebrates that includes some, like birds, that have invaded the aerial environment, and others, like turtles, that have invaded aquatic environments. With thirty-nine known species, Alabama harbors more...
Mythical Trickster Figures
Contours, Contexts, and Criticisms
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Mythical Trickster Figures, is the first substantial collection of essays about the trickster to appear since Radin's 1955 The Trickster. Contributions by leading scholars treat a wide range of manifestations of this mischievous character, ranging from the Coyote of the American Southwest to such...
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...
by Glenn Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
This first book-length examination of the Klan in Alabama represents
exhaustive research that challenges traditional interpretations.
The Ku Klux Klan has wielded considerable power both as
a terrorist group and as a political force. Usually viewed as appearing
in distinct incarnations, the...
Two-Party Politics in the One-Party South
Alabama's Hill Country, 1874–1920
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
A challenge to the long-held view that the only important and influential politicians in post-Reconstruction Deep South states were Democrats.
In this insightful and exhaustively researched volume, Samuel L. Webb presents new evidence that, contrary to popular belief, voters in at least one...
Prehistoric Indians of the Southeast
Archaeology of Alabama and the Middle South
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
This book deals with the prehistory of the region encompassed by the present state of Alabama and spans a period of some 11,000 years—from 9000 B.C. and the earliest documented appearance of human beings in the area to A.D. 1750, when the early European settlements were well established. Only within...
Schools in the Landscape
Localism, Cultural Tradition, and the Development of Alabama's Public Education System, 1865-1915
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
This richly researched and impressively argued work is a history of public schooling in Alabama in the half century following the Civil War. It engages with depth and sophistication Alabama’s social and cultural life in the period that can be characterized by the three “R”s: Reconstruction,...
by Allen Johnston Going
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Hailed as the definitive study of the subject when it appeared in 1951, Bourbon Democracy in Alabama analyzes and describes the state government of Alabama during the Bourbon Period as it operated under the Democratic and Conservative party. For this edition, the author has prepared a new foreword...
John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court
Circuit Riding in the Old Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780–1852) and provides a penetrating analysis of McKinley’s time and place, the exigencies of his circuit work, and the contributions he made to both American legal history and Alabama.
Steven...
A Right to Read
Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama's Public Libraries, 1900–1965
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
This original and significant contribution to the historiography of the civil rights movement and education in the South details a dramatic and disturbing chapter in American cultural history.
The tradition of American public libraries is closely tied to the perception that these institutions...