University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
St. Elmo
Or, Saved at Last
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
St. Elmo was the most famed and beloved novel by Augusta Jane Evans, a June 2015 inductee into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. First published in 1866, Evans’s rich tale of the relationship between the dashing and worldly St. Elmo and Edna Earl, an exemplar of virtuous Southern womanhood, sold...
The Voyage of the CSS Shenandoah
A Memorable Cruise
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The only Confederate ship to circumnavigate the globe.
The Confederate cruiser Shenandoah was the last of a group of commerce raiders deployed to prey on Union merchant ships. Ordered to the Pacific Ocean to "greatly damage and disperse" the Yankee whaling fleet in those waters, the...
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs
Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with Taking the Census and Other Alabama Sketches
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Originally published in 1845, Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs is a series of sketches written in part to parody some the campaign literature of the era. The character, Simon Suggs, with his motto, “it is good to be shifty in a new country,” fully incarnates a backwoods version of the national...
The Confederados
Old South Immigrants in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 1998
This collection of essays--which also includes a previously unpublished narrative by an original settler-- examines the fascinating experiences of southern Confederate exiles in Brazil and their continuing legacy.
During the late 1860s Southerners dissatisfied with the outcome of the Civil...
The Marengo Jake Stories
The Tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Between 1885 and 1894 The Montgomery Advertiser, The Birmingham-Age Herald, and The New Orleans Times Democrat featured a series of about 80 humorous black-dialect sketches by Robert Wilton Burton, a bookseller and writer from Auburn, Alabama. According to Burton, these tales were based on various...
More Than Science and Sputnik
The National Defense Education Act of 1958
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the National Defense Education Act.
Sparked by dramatic Soviet achievements, particularly in nuclear technology and the development of the Sputnik space orbiter, the United States responded in the late 1950s with an extraordinary federal investment...
Ceramics, Chronology, and Community Patterns
An Archaeological Study at Moundville
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2009
Moundville, located on the Black Warrior River in west-central Alabama, is one of the best known and most intensively studied archaeological sites in North America. Yet, in spite of all these investigations, many aspects of the site's internal chronology remained unknown until the original 1983 publication...
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...
A Fire You Can't Put Out
The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
When Fred Shuttlesworth suffered only a bump on the head in the 1956 bombing of his home, members of his church called it a miracle. Shuttlesworth took it as a sign that God would protect him on the mission that had made him a target that night. Standing in front of his demolished home, Shuttlesworth...
Fanning the Spark
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013
In 1986, after years of publishing stories in literary magazines and periodicals, Mary Ward Brown published her first book, the story collection Tongues of Flame. It soon received regional and national attention, and the following year won the PEN/Hemingway Award for fiction. Mary Ward Brown was sixty-nine...
Forging a Cherokee-American Alliance in the Creek War
From Creation to Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
The Creek War of 1813–1814 is studied primarily as an event that impacted its two main antagonists, the defending Creeks in what is now the State of Alabama and the expanding young American republic. Scant attention has been paid to how the United States’ Cherokee allies contributed to the war...
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,...
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...