New! Selma: A Bicentennial History
March 10, 2017
In 1989, Alston Fitts III published a brief history of Selma, Alabama, from its founding through the aftermath of the civil rights movement. Selma: A Bicentennial History is a greatly… READ MORE
Year: 2017
New from FC2, “The Ace of Lightning”
March 7, 2017
The Ace of Lightning is a series of interconnected stories focused on a turning point in Western history: the assassination in Sarajevo that led to World War I, and the… READ MORE
New in Paper! The Eleventh House with an Introduction by Don Noble
February 21, 2017
The Eleventh House is a remarkable memoir by an influential critic, teacher, world traveler, and raconteur whose sheer exuberance helped to form a network of literary friendships unparalleled in twentieth-century… READ MORE
New in our Jews and Judaism: History and Culture Series!
February 17, 2017
Though well known to many scholars and critics in the field of Judaic studies, Hayim Greenberg remains relatively unknown. Since his death in 1953, Greenberg’s contributions to modern Jewish thought… READ MORE
New in Our Atlantic Crossings Series!
February 14, 2017
Memoir of My Youth in Cuba: A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895-1898 is a translation of the memoir Memorias de mi juventud en Cuba: Un… READ MORE
New in Our Studies in American Realism and Naturalism Series
February 7, 2017
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman’s Place in America is a pioneering collection that probes how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female… READ MORE
Three University of Alabama Press Books Selected for Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Titles List
January 27, 2017
The University of Alabama Press Press Contact Blanche Sarratt, Marketing Coordinator bsarratt@uapress.ua.edu 205-348-3476 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Three University of Alabama Press Books Selected for Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Titles List Tuscaloosa,… READ MORE
New in our Religion and American Culture Series!
January 20, 2017
By presenting African American Protestantism in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism, Doctrine and Race: African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars demonstrates that African American Protestants were acutely… READ MORE
New! A Visual and Textual Narrative of Alabama’s Photographic History
January 17, 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… READ MORE
New in Our Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique Series
January 13, 2017
James Wynn’s timely investigation highlights scientific studies grounded in publicly gathered data and probes the rhetoric these studies employ. Many of these endeavors, such as the widely used SETI@home project,… READ MORE
Witness the Wonder: A Glimpse of “Southern Rivers” by Scot R. Duncan