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Unloose My Heart

A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree

by Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817321451

Pub Date: January 2023

Format: Hardcover

A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight

The Other Movement

Indian Rights and Civil Rights in the Deep South

by Denise E. Bates

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817356910

Pub Date: November 2022

Format: Paperback

Examines the most visible outcome of the Southern Indian Rights Movement: state Indian affairs commissions

No One to Meet

Imitation and Originality in the Songs of Bob Dylan

by Raphael Falco

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817321413

Pub Date: October 2022

Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking appreciation of Dylan as a literary practitioner

Of Mules and Mud

The Story of Alabama Folk Potter Jerry Brown

by Jerry Brown

Introduction by Joey Brackner

Edited by Joey Brackner

Preface by Joey Brackner

Price: $22.95

ISBN: 9780817360375

Pub Date: March 2022

Format: Paperback

The life and times of Alabama folk potter Jerry Brown, as told in his own words

The Species Maker

A Novel

by Kristin Johnson

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817360153

Pub Date: October 2021

Format: Paperback

A historical novel about the role of science in modern life, set against the backdrop of the 1925 Scopes Trial

Modernizing Solitude

The Networked Individual in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

by Yoshiaki Furui

Price: $54.95

ISBN: 9780817320065

Pub Date: February 2019

Format: Hardcover

An innovative and timely examination of the concept of solitude in nineteenth-century American literature

Doc

The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man

by Frank Adams and Burgin Mathews

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780817359591

Pub Date: December 2018

Format: Paperback

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.

Deep in the Piney Woods

Southeastern Alabama from Statehood to the Civil War, 1800–1865

by Tommy Craig Brown

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780817319977

Pub Date: October 2018

Format: Hardcover

A chronicle of the Civil War era in one of Alabama’s most overlooked and least studied regions

Immersive Words

Mass Media, Visuality, and American Literature, 1839–1893

by Shelly Jarenski

Price: $54.95

ISBN: 9780817318673

Pub Date: April 2015

Format: Hardcover

Immersive Words traces how innovations in visual practices and aesthetics in the nineteenth century changed the aesthetics of American literature with profound consequences for America’s evolving national identity.

Panic Fiction

Women and Antebellum Economic Crisis

by Mary Templin

Price: $49.95

ISBN: 9780817318109

Pub Date: February 2014

Format: Hardcover

Panic Fiction explores a unique body of antebellum American women’s writing that illuminates women’s relationships to the marketplace and the links between developing ideologies of domesticity and the formation of an American middle class.

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