University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Pioneer Family
Life on Florida's Twentieth-Century Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Pioneer Family is based on the recollections of Hugie and Oleta Oesterreicher, who lived in rural northeast Florida in the early decades of the twentieth century. Northeast Florida was frontier country then, and Hugie and Oleta were pioneers. Although the time and setting of their story are particular,...
by William Warren Rogers, Robert David Ward
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
In the late 1870s, Jefferson County, Alabama, and the town of Elyton (near the future Birmingham) became the focus of a remarkable industrial and mining revolution. Together with the surrounding counties, the area was penetrated by railroads. Surprisingly large deposits of bituminous coal, limestone,...
Birmingham's Rabbi
Morris Newfield and Alabama, 1895-1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
American Jewish history has been criticized for its parochial nature because it has consisted largely of chronicles of American Jewish life and has often failed to explore the relationship between Jews and other ethnic groups in America.
Rabbi Morris Newfield led Temple Emanu-El...
More than a Game
The Best of Alf Van Hoose
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
The best work of one of Alabama's longest-serving and most beloved sports journalists.
Although he spent 43 years at the same job, Alf Van Hoose was not a man limited by the boundaries of his profession. As Birmingham News sports editor for 21 years and a columnist for a decade before that,...
Death at Cross Plains
An Alabama Reconstruction Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Reconstruction in the South is a much studies and yet little understood dark epoch in the region’s history; in many areas it was marked by such violence as to have been in all but name guerrilla warfare. Death and Cross Plains is the history of one such clash, and the story of one of its casualties...
The Perfect Lion
The Life and Death of Confederate Artillerist John Pelham
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
The South has made much of J. E. B. Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, but no individual has had a greater elevation to divine status than John Pelham, remembered as the “Gallant Pelham.” An Alabama native, Pelham left West Point for service in the Confederacy and distinguished himself as an artillery...
Raphael Semmes
The Philosophical Mariner
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Naval hero for all the South, Raphael Semmes (1809-1877) sailed two famous Confederate raiders. He outfitted CSS Sumter in 1861 and captured 18 Union merchant ships in six months before the raider was blockaded at Gibraltar. Next he took command of CSS Alabama, an English-built raider, and terrorized...
Almost Family
35th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The complex friendship between a black housekeeper and her Jewish employer is at the heart of Hoffman’s prize-winning novel about life in the civil rights era South
Nebraska Waters is black. Vivian Gold is Jewish. In an Alabama kitchen where, for nearly thirty years, they share cups of coffee,...
Doc
The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Autobiography of jazz elder statesman Frank “Doc” Adams, highlighting his role in Birmingham, Alabama’s, historic jazz scene and tracing his personal adventure that parallels, in many ways, the story and spirit of jazz itself.
Doc tells the story of an accomplished jazz master, from his...
The House by the Side of the Road
The Selma Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
On Sunday, March 7, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. and six hundred followers set out on foot from Selma, Alabama, bound for Montgomery to demand greater voting rights for African Americans. As they crossed the city’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, state and local policemen savagely set on the marchers with...
John Archibald Campbell
Southern Moderate, 1811–1889
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Saunders presents the first full biography of the southern U.S. Supreme
Court justice who championed both the U.S. Constitution and states' rights.
The life of John Archibald Campbell reflects nearly every
major development of 19th-century American history. He participated either
directly or...
Cattle in the Cotton Fields
A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Cattle raising today is the most widely practiced form of agriculture in Alabama and ranks second only to the poultry industry in terms of revenue. Brooks Blevins not only relates the development and importance of the industry to agricultural practices but also presents it as an integral component...
Isaac Taylor Tichenor
The Creation of the Baptist New South
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The influential role Tichenor played in shaping both the Baptist denomination and southern culture
Isaac Taylor Tichenor worked as a Confederate chaplain, a mining executive, and as president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama (now Auburn University). He also served as corresponding...
The Historian behind the History
Conversations with Southern Historians
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The Historian behind the History brings together a collection of valuable interviews with prominent southern historians conducted over the course of a decade by graduate students in the University of Alabama’s history program for the journal Southern History. In the interviews, ten notable southern...