University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink
Foodways Archaeology in the American Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Archaeological case studies that explore the rituals and cultural significance of foods in the southeastern United States
Understanding and explaining societal rules surrounding food and foodways have been the foci of anthropological studies since the early days of the discipline. Baking, Bourbon,...
A Small but Spartan Band
The Florida Brigade in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A unit that saw significant action in many of the engagements of the Civil War’s eastern theater.
Until this work, no comprehensive study of the Florida units that served in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) had been attempted, and problems attend the few studies...
The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash
J. Edgar Hoover and Florida's Lindbergh Case
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Informed by thousands of pages of newly released FBI files, The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash tells the gripping story of the only crime investigated by J. Edgar Hoover himself, the sensational 1938 murder of a five-year-old boy from the Florida Everglades.
In his long and storied...
To Save My Race from Abuse
The Life of Samuel Robert Cassius
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
A fascinating and important figure in black American religious history.
Samuel Robert Cassius was born to a slave mother and a white father in Virginia in 1853 and became a member of the Restorationist Movement (Disciples of Christ) while a coal miner in Indiana. For the rest of his long life...
Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors
Edith Wharton and Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
In Edith Wharton’s works, references to architecture, interior decoration, painting, sculpture, and fashion abound. As these essays demonstrate, art and objects are for Wharton evidence of cultural belief and reflect the values, assumptions, and customs of the burgeoning consumer culture in which...
by Edmond A. Boudreaux
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
The sequence of change for public architecture during the Mississippian period may reflect a centralization of political power through time. In the research presented here, some of the community-level assumptions attributed to the appearance of Mississippian mounds are tested against the archaeological...
Sacrifice and Survival
Identity, Mission, and Jesuit Higher Education in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Recounts the history and development of Jesuit higher education in the American South
R. Eric Platt examines in Sacrifice and Survival the history and evolution of Jesuit higher education in the American South and hypothesizes that the identity and mission of southern Jesuit colleges and universities...
Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey
Commemorative Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Petrifying the Peach State, hosts of haints have beset the state of Georgia throughout its storied history. In Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey, best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham, along with her trusty spectral companion Jeffrey, introduce thirteen of Georgia’s most famous ghost...
The Blues Muse
Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blues artists
The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry focuses on five key blues musicians and singers—Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson, and Lead...
The Great War in the Air
Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
"For the general reader as well as the specialist, Morrow's history of the development and significance of airpower during WWI will be considered definitive. He compares the military, technological, and industrial aspects of the air services of the major powers--France, Germany, England, Italy,...
A Final Reckoning
A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Ruth Herskovits Gutmann’s powerful memoir recounts her life not only as a concentration camp inmate and survivor, but also as a sister and daughter. Born in 1928, Gutmann and her twin sister, Eva, escaped the growing Nazi threat in Germany on a Kindertransport to Holland in 1939. The false expectation...
by John H. Blitz, Karl G. Lorenz
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
An overview and model of complex society in the prehistoric Southeast.
Along the banks of the lower Chattahoochee River, the remains of ancient settlements are abundant, including archaeological sites produced by Native Americans between 900 and 350 years ago, and marked by the presence...
A New Vision of Southern Jewish History
Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Essays from a prolific career that challenge and overturn traditional narratives of southern Jewish history
Mark K. Bauman, one of the foremost scholars of southern Jewish history working today, has spent much of his career, as he puts it, “rewriting southern Jewish history” in ways that...
Florida and the Mariel Boatlift of 1980
The First Twenty Days
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Winner of the Florida Historical Society's 2015 Stetson Kennedy Award
The 1980 Mariel Boatlift was a profound episode in twentieth-century American history, impacting not just Florida, but the entire country. During the first twenty days of the boatlift, with little support from the federal...