Cherokee identity as revealed in fishing methods and materials.

Video and computer games in their cultural contexts

The authoritative compendium of facts, statistics, photographs, and analysis that defines baseball in its formative first decades

Emerging from a School of American Research, this work reviews the general status of archaeological knowledge in 9 key regions of the Southwest to examine broader questions of cultural development, which affected the Southwest as a whole, and to consider an overall conceptual model of the prehistoric Southwest after the advent of sedentism.

The eight case studies in this book -- each a synthesis of available knowledge about the origins of agriculture in a specific region of the globe -- enable scholars in diverse disciplines to examine humanity's transition to agricultural societies.

Elizabeth Tyler Coleman was a great-granddaughter of President John Tyler and a graduate of the University of Alabama and of Swarthmore College. She was the first female faculty member in the English Department at the University of Alabama, where she taught from 1927 to 1962.

Nine essays that attempt to answer some of the questions that continually surface when Oglethorpe's name is mentioned.

Hymns and hymnbooks as American historical and cultural icons.

The basic account of the evolution of public works policy in the early years of the Depression. Listed as a "TVA Cultural Resource" by the TVA itself in their official bibliography of TVA history.

Born into landed Prussian nobility, Werner H. Von Rosenstiel lived the largely predictable life of his class until two great changes intersected to forever alter his worldview:  he attended college in Ohio for a year, and the Nazis came to power in Germany.  Von Rosenstiel was drafted into the Wehrmacht, the German army, and had finished his legal education when tthe rising tide of Nazi madness and his affection for an American girl in Cincinnati brought him to resolve to leave Gernmany and return to the United States.

A critical reassessment of the life’s work of a major American poet.

Hydroplane is a story collection filled with the urgency of erotic obsession. Its breathless voices, palpable in their desire, are propelled by monomania, rushing from one preoccupation into another: a garage, a painting class, a basketball game, boys. Their words take on kinetic force, an almost headlong momentum, as though, while reading, one were picking up speed, veering out of control. The past returns. Rumination are continuous. A stranger at a bus stop is indistinguishable from the narrator's deceased grandfather; party guests turn ghoulish, festivities merge with nightmares.

A study of realism and folk literature and of the sources and techniques of story-telling

With a wonderful ear for dialogue and in flowing narrative style, Karni Perez weaves together oral histories collected from early hatchery owners, catfish farmers, processors, and researchers to recount the important contributions made by Alabamians to the channel catfish industry.

An annotated selection of unpublished letters by Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister.

Democracy and America's War on Terror brings the rhetorical dimension of democracy to bear on American culture in the divisive age of terrorism.

It will be of interest to public policymakers and informed general readers as well as students and scholars in the fields of rhetoric, political theory/philosophy, democratic theory, U.S. foreign relations/policy, war and peace studies, terrorism, and cultural studies.

A standard course book for students of linguistics.

To Command the Sky is a scholarly record of the fight for domination of the skies over western Europe during World War II.

Laurent Joubert was an important figure in the medical world of the French Renaissance. Born in 1529, he became a doctor at age 29 and shortly thereafter was appointed personal physician to Catherine de Medici and later became physician to three French monarchs.

Cradle of Freedom puts a human face on the story of the black American struggle for equality in Alabama during the 1960s.

The irrepressible impulse to picture ourselves, and how, through this picturing, we continually re-create what it means to be human

Winner of the Alabama Historical Association’s James F. Sulzby Award for the best book on Alabama history

The fascinating story of The Moon is Down's publishing history, how it was received by audiences around the world, and its effect in the war against Fascism.

Social history of the native peoples of the American South, bridging prehistory and history

"U.S. historians can read this book with considerable profit for the details it offers; general readers can enjoy it as a straightforward and informative biography."
—Choice

Showcases brilliant and experimental work in African American poetry.