University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Constance Baker Motley
One Woman's Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
When the name Constance Baker Motley is mentioned, more often than not, the response is “Who was she?” or “What did she do?” The answer is multifaceted, complex, and inspiring.
Constance Baker Motley was an African American woman; the daughter of immigrants from Nevis, British West...
The Presidency and Public Policy
The Four Arenas of Presidential Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Spitzer's classic study of presidential power, The Presidency and Public Policy examines the annual domestic legislative programs of US presidents from 1954-1974 to show how and in what ways the characteristics of their proposals affected their success in dealing with Congress (success being defined...
Opposing the Second Corps at Antietam
The Fight for the Confederate Left and Center on America's Bloodiest Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
With a tally of more than five thousand killed, twenty thousand wounded, and three thousand missing, the Battle of Antietam made September 17, 1862, the deadliest day of combat in American history. In Opposing the Second Corps at Antietam, Antietam scholar Marion V. Armstrong Jr. completes his magisterial...
On Strawberry Hill
The Transcendent Love of Gifford Pinchot and Laura Houghteling
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
While not a biography of legendary American forester and conservationist Gifford Pinchot, *On Strawberry Hill: The Transcendent Love of Gifford Pinchot and Laura Houghteling* explores a vital and transformative facet of his personal life that, until now, has remained relatively unknown.?**
At...
Jim Crow Guide to the U.S.A.
The Laws, Customs and Etiquette Governing the Conduct of Nonwhites and Other Minorities as Second-Class Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Jim Crow Guide documents the system of legally imposed American apartheid that prevailed during what Stetson Kennedy calls "the long century from Emancipation to the Overcoming." The mock guidebook covers every area of activity where the tentacles of Jim Crow reached. From the texts of state...
Among the Garifuna
Family Tales and Ethnography from the Caribbean Coast
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Among the Garifuna is the first ethnographic narrative of a Garifuna family. The Garifuna are descendants of the “Black Carib,” whom the British deposited on Roatan Island in 1797 and who settled along the Caribbean coast from Belize City to Nicaragua.
In 1980, medical anthropologist Marilyn...
Island No. 10
Struggle for the Mississippi Valley
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
By February 1862 Confederate forces in Kentucky and Tennessee were falling back in disorder. Fort Henry on the Tennessee River and Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River fell to combined land and naval forces under Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant and Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote. These losses necessitated...
Henry Hotze, Confederate Propagandist
Selected on Revolution, Recognition, and Race
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
The life of Henry Hotze encompasses the history of antebellum Mobile, Confederate military recruitment, Civil War diplomacy and international intrigue, and the development of a Darwinian-based effort to find scientific evidence for differences among human “races.” When civil war broke out in his...
Disability, Civil Rights, and Public Policy
The Politics of Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
An examination of US public policymaking and securing rights for people with disabilities.
Following on the heels of other Civil Rights movements, disability rights laws emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Often these laws were more symbolic than precise in terms of objectives and strategies...
by Phyllis A. Morse, Ian W. Brown, Marvin T. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
Specialists from archaeology, ethnohistory, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology bring their varied points of view to this subject in an attempt to answer basic questions about the nature and extent of social change within the time period. The...
Societies in Eclipse
Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands Indians, A.D. 1400-1700
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2005
While contact with explorers, missionaries, and traders made a significant impact on natives of the Eastern Woodlands, Indian peoples cannot be solely understood from the historical record. Here, in Societies in Eclipse, archaeologists combine recent research with insights from anthropology, historiography,...
by Edward Shannon LaMonte
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
This well-written volume explores the relationships between politics and welfare programs for low-income residents in Birmingham during four periods in the twentieth century:
• 1900-1917, the formative period of city building when welfare was predominantly a responsibility of the private...
Mormons and Cowboys, Moonshiners and Klansman
Federal Law Enforcement in the South and West, 1870-1893
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
In the decades immediately following the Civil War, the United States expanded rapidly. As the nation grew, so too did federal law, moving into areas of citizens’ lives previously regulated by local custom and state and territorial statutes.
Drawing on contemporary accounts and...
Heaven's Soldiers
Free People of Color and the Spanish Legacy in Antebellum Florida
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Heaven’s Soldiers chronicles the history of a community of free people of African descent who lived and thrived, while resisting the constraints of legal bondage, in East Florida in the four decades leading up to the Civil War.
Historians have long attributed the relatively flexible system...