UAP has won numerous awards for its publications over the years and has developed a solid list of titles in archaeology, public administration, and several areas of literature and history. With a staff of 17, the Press publishes between 80 to 85 books a year and has a backlist of approximately 1,800 titles in print.
Overturned
The Rhetoric of Overruling in the United States Supreme Court
- Copyright year: 2025
Connections after Colonialism
Europe and Latin America in the 1820s
- Copyright year: 2013
A Carpetbagger in Reverse
Arthur W. Mitchell, America's First Black Democratic Congressman
A long overdue account of the pioneering life and work of controversial African American Congressman Arthur Wergs Mitchell of Chicago
- Copyright year: 2025
None a Stranger There
England and/in Europe on the Early Modern Stage
A wide-ranging group of scholarly essays that probe the historical nature of English identity, both through self-definition and in relationship to the rest of Europe
- Copyright year: 2025
None a Stranger There
England and/in Europe on the Early Modern Stage
- Copyright year: 2025
The Tensaw River
Alabama's Hidden Heritage Corridor
An introduction to the rich history of the Tensaw River
- Copyright year: 2025
The Flat Woman
A Novel
Asks who gets the right to call themselves a good person in a morally bankrupt world
- Copyright year: 2025
Pleasure and Pain in US Public Culture
Unraveling the intricate dance of pleasure and pain in contemporary American culture
- Copyright year: 2025
The Haunted West
Memory and Commemoration at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West
An engrossing exploration of conflicting and complex narratives about the American West and its Native American heritage, violent colonial settlement, and natural history
- Copyright year: 2024
Race and Gender at War
Writing American Military History
- Copyright year: 2024
Patton's Shadow
The Making of a Hero in Modern Memory
General George S. Patton’s legendary image was carefully crafted during World War II and continues to shape our understanding of American history and culture today. Historian Nathan C. Jones explores the creation of the Patton legend and its enduring legacy in Patton’s Shadow.
- Copyright year: 2024
Oligarchy in America
Power, Justice, and the Rule of the Few
A fascinating survey of the history of political and economic ideas in the US that have led to an increasingly entrenched ultra-rich class of oligarchs
- Copyright year: 2024
The Way to Hell
Machiavelli for Catastrophic Times
An incisive and erudite survey of Machiavelli, the catastrophes of his times and ours, and his counsel for responding to an era of constant crises
- Copyright year: 2024
The Way to Hell
Machiavelli for Catastrophic Times
An incisive and erudite survey of Machiavelli, the catastrophes of his times and ours, and his counsel for responding to an era of constant crises
- Copyright year: 2024
The Castle
A Novel
A fictional return to the unsettling world of Franz Kafka’s iconic unfinished novel, The Castle
- Copyright year: 2024
Race and Gender at War
Writing American Military History
Fresh perspectives on the implications of gender and race in US military history from a diverse group of scholars in the field of war and society
- Copyright year: 2024
Mobile and Havana
Sisters across the Gulf
A sumptuously illustrated and vivid account of the deep ties that bridge the histories and cultures of two colorful and storied port cities
- Copyright year: 2024
The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age
- Copyright year: 2022
Opulent Nosh
A Cookbook for Audacious Appetites
Foodie-scholar extraordinaire Ken Albala offers adventurous cooks a treasury of innovative recipes to transform noshing
The De Soto Chronicles Vol 1
The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543
“For those interested in De Soto and his expedition, these volumes are an absolute necessity.” —The Hispanic American Historical Review
- Copyright year: 1993
City of Hope, City of Rage
Miami, 1968–1994
- Copyright year: 2024
The Story Quilts of Yvonne Wells
A comprehensive and richly illustrated survey of one of the most significant and intriguing quilters of the 21st century, featuring 109 color plates of Wells's narrative quilts with intimate commentaries by Wells herself
Southern Footprints
Exploring Gulf Coast Archaeology
A “greatest hits” of archaeological research that has transformed knowledge of human history
- Copyright year: 2024
Double-Check for Sleeping Children
Stories
The winner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, Double-Check for Sleeping Children is the newest work by award-winning writer Kirstin Allio
- Copyright year: 2024
Now Is the Time to Collect
Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum African Expedition of 1896
- Copyright year: 2024
Now Is the Time to Collect
Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum Africa Expedition of 1896
- Copyright year: 2024
A Fortified Sea
The Defense of the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century
- Copyright year: 2024
A Fortified Sea
The Defense of the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century
- Copyright year: 2024
Escaping Hitler
A Jewish Haven in Chile
- Copyright year: 2013
Some Nightmares Are Real
The Haunting Truth Behind Alabama’s Supernatural Tales
Southern writer and folklorist Kelly Kazek’s collection of eerie and enigmatic Alabama ghost stories
- Copyright year: 2024
The Essential Lectures of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1890–1894
The first collection of lectures and sermons that Charlotte Perkins Gilman delivered in the first four years of her career
- Copyright year: 2024
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 31
Theatre and the Popular
A new issue of the longstanding theatre journal, documenting conversations that traverse disciplinary boundaries
- Copyright year: 2024
Fear and the First Amendment
Controversial Cases of the Roberts Court
- Copyright year: 2024
The Archaeology of Arcuate Communities
Spatial Patterning and Settlement in the Eastern Woodlands
- Copyright year: 2024
The Archaeology of Arcuate Communities
Spatial Patterning and Settlement in the Eastern Woodlands
- Copyright year: 2024
Imagining Progress
Science, Faith, and Child Mortality in America
Explores the intellectual history of Americans’ divergent assumptions about God, nature, and science
- Copyright year: 2024
Mosquito Warrior
Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Forgotten Career of General William C. Gorgas
A timely biography of General William C. Gorgas, the US Army doctor whose pioneering fight against infectious disease around the world set the stage for the American Century
- Copyright year: 2024
Threshold
How Smart Homes Change Us Inside and Out
- Copyright year: 2024
Alabama Railroads
The first comprehensive, illustrated history of Alabama's railroad system
Pentecostalism in Urban Oaxaca
Healing Patriarchy, Marriage, and Mexico
- Copyright year: 2024
Apalachicola Valley Archaeology, Volume 2
The Late Woodland Period through Recent History
Synthesizes the archaeology of the Apalachicola–lower Chattahoochee Valley region of northwest Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest Georgia, from 1,300 years ago to recent times
Too Far on a Whim
The Limits of High-Steam Propulsion in the US Navy
Argues that the US Navy’s commitment to high-steam propulsion for its World War II fleet was a tactical, technological, and bureaucratic failure
- Copyright year: 2024
Materializing Colonial Identities in Clay
Colonoware in the African and Indigenous Diasporas of the Southeast
Materializing Colonial Identities in Clay
Colonoware in the African and Indigenous Diasporas of the Southeast
- Copyright year: 2024
Entitled Opinions
Doxa after Digitality
A landmark rhetorical theory of the formation and functioning of opinions in social media contexts
- Copyright year: 2024
Classical Rhetoric and Contemporary Law
A Critical Reader
Unloose My Heart
A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree
- Copyright year: 2023
Disobedient Aesthetics
Surveillance, Bodies, Control
Examines emergent forms of creative civil disobedience that have arisen in response to digital tools of bodily surveillance and control
- Copyright year: 2024
Southern Rivers
Restoring America's Freshwater Biodiversity
Explores the Southeast’s imperiled river systems and solutions for preserving them in the face of habitat loss, climate change, and extinction