University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Alabama Wildlife, Volume 5 collects the most recent findings of virtually all experts in the field as of 2012, when the Third Alabama Nongame Wildlife Conference was convened at Auburn University.
Alabama Wildlife, Volume 5 offers a comprehensive update and provides a wealth of new information...
The University of Alabama
A Guide to the Campus and Its Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campus**and Its Architecture is a richly illustrated guidebook to the architecture and development of the University of Alabama’s campus as it has evolved over the last two centuries.
In 1988 the University of Alabama Press published Robert Oliver...
Alabama's Civil Rights Trail
An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
No other state has embraced and preserved its civil rights history more thoroughly than Alabama. Nor is there a place where that history is richer. Alabama’s Civil Rights Trail tells of Alabama’s great civil rights events, as well as its lesser-known moments, in a compact and accessible narrative,...
Alabama Afternoons
Profiles and Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
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Alabama Afternoons is a collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman. Written as Sunday feature stories for the Mobile Press-Register with additional...
by Amos J. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2003
Identifies town site locations and clarifies entries from the earliest documents and maps of explorers in Alabama.
This encyclopedic work is a listing of 398 ancient towns recorded within the present boundaries of the state of Alabama, containing basic information on each village's ethnic affiliation,...
Opening the Doors
The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Opening the Doors is a wide-ranging account of the University of Alabama’s 1956 and 1963 desegregation attempts, as well as the little-known story of Tuscaloosa, Alabama’s, own civil rights movement.
Whereas E. Culpepper Clark’s The Schoolhouse Door remains the standard history of the...
Jeffrey's Latest Thirteen
More Alabama Ghosts, Commemorative Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Accompanied by her faithful companion, Jeffrey, a friendly spirit who resided in her home in Selma, Alabama, Kathryn Tucker Windham traveled the South, visiting the sites of spectral legends in Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee, among other places. In Jeffrey’s Latest Thirteen: More Alabama Ghosts,...
Sixteen and Counting
The National Championships of Alabama Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Dramatic accounts of every University of Alabama National Championship football season recounted by noted sports writers, players, and Alabamians.
Dating back to 1925, when Wallace Wade coached the Crimson Tide to an undefeated season and earned a spot in the Rose Bowl, the driving goal of...
by Christopher Lyle McIlwain
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Christopher McIlwain’s Civil War Alabama is a landmark book that sheds invigorating new light on the causes, the course, and the outcomes in Alabama of the nation’s greatest drama and trauma. Based on twenty years of exhaustive research that draws on a vast trove of primary sources such as letters,...
by Sheldon Hackney
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Library of Alabama Classics
Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association
“In this excellent study of Alabama politics, Hackney deftly analyzes the leadership, following, and essential character of Populism and Progressivism during the period...
To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down
Tuskegee University’s Advancements in Human Health, 1881–1987
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
An important historical account of Tuskegee University’s significant advances in health care, which affected millions of lives worldwide.
Alabama’s celebrated, historically black Tuskegee University is most commonly associated with its founding president, Booker T. Washington, the scientific...
Captain Billy's Troopers
A Writer's Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
In this audacious memoir, William Cobb reveals the tumultuous creative life of a distinguished practitioner of southern and Alabama storytelling. As poignant and inspiring as his own fiction, Captain Billy’s Troopers traces Cobb’s early life, education, and struggles with alcohol and the debilitating...
Shot in Alabama
A History of Photography, 1839–1941, and a List of Photographers
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Shot in Alabama by Frances Osborn Robb is a visual and textual narrative of Alabama’s photographic history from 1839 to 1941. It describes the phenomenon of photography as practiced in Alabama as a major cultural force, paying close attention to the particular contexts from which each image emerges...
Alabama Founders
Fourteen Political and Military Leaders Who Shaped the State
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
A biographical history of the forefathers who shaped the identity of Alabama politically, legally, economically, militarily, and geographically.
While much has been written about the significant events in the history of early Alabama, there has been little information available about the people...