University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
The De Soto Chronicles Vol 1 & 2
The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1995
1993 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, sponsored by Choice Magazine.
The De Soto expedition was the first major encounter of Europeans with North American Indians in the eastern half of the United States. De Soto and his army of over 600 men, including 200 cavalry, spent four years traveling...
From Conciliation to Conquest
The Sack of Athens and the Court-Martial of Colonel John B. Turchin
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
In the summer of 1862, the U.S. Army court martialed Colonel John B. Turchin, a Russian-born Union officer, for offenses committed by his troops in Athens, Alabama, including looting, safe cracking, the vandalization of homes, and the rape of young black woman. The pillage of Athens violated a government...
The Perfect Scout
A Soldier’s Memoir of the Great March to the Sea and the Campaign of the Carolinas
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
A rare and dramatic first-person account by a Union scout who served General William Tecumseh Sherman on his “march to the sea”
After his father-in-law passed away, Stephen Murphy found, among the voluminous papers left behind, an ancestral memoir. Murphy quickly became fascinated with the...
Keep Your Airspeed Up
The Story of a Tuskegee Airman
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Inspiring memoir of Colonel Harold H. Brown, one of the 930 original Tuskegee pilots, whose dramatic wartime exploits and postwar professional successes contribute to this extraordinary account.
Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman is the memoir of an African American man who,...
by Thomas Jefferson Cypert
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
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Tried Men and True, or Union Life in Dixie highlights in emotional detail the local tensions between Unionists and Confederates in the Civil War South and offers a rare first-person...
The Pen Makes a Good Sword
John Forsyth of the Mobile Register
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This book is a biography of Alabama native John Forsyth Jr. and documents his career as a southern newspaper editor during the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction periods. From 1837 to 1877 Forsyth wrote about many of the most important events of the 19th century. He used his various positions...
by William Fidler
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
A fascinating biography about Augusta Jane Evans, a nearly forgotten writer who was nevertheless one of the most popular writers of her era. She wrote nine novels about southern women, including St. Elmo, which sold a staggering million copies within four months of its release in 1866. William Fidler...
Desert Rose
The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
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Desert Rose details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound devotion to the ideals of social equality and the values of education, as well as her later role...
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...
Selma, Lord, Selma
Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Sheyann Webb was eight years old and Rachel West was nine when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Selma, Alabama, on January 2, 1965. He came to organize non-violent demonstrations against discriminatory voting laws. Selma, Lord, Selma is their firsthand account of the events from that turbulent...
by Joseph Camp
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
In 1881, Joseph Camp, an elderly and self-trained Methodist minister from TalladegaCounty in eastern Alabama, was brought by his family to BryceHospital, an insane asylum in Tuscaloosa, where he remained for over five months. Camp, misled by relatives concerning the purpose of the trip, was shocked...
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...