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.
Poetics & Polemics
1980-2005
Poetics & Polemics, 1980-2005 brings together in one volume a wide-ranging selection of essays and commentaries by one of the most significant poets, critics, and translators working with American and international poetry today.
- Copyright year: 2008
Inconstant Companions
Archaeology and North American Indian Oral Traditions
One of the most significant theoretical issues in contemporary American archaeology—the role of oral tradition in scientific research.
- Copyright year: 2008
The Assault on Progress
Technology and Time in American Literature
- Copyright year: 2008
King Cotton Diplomacy
Foreign Relations of the Confederate States of America
- Copyright year: 2008
First Freedom
The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction
Classic study of the history of post-slave societies
- Copyright year: 2008
Talking Taino
Caribbean Natural History from a Native Perspective
Keegan and Carlson, combined, have spent over 45 years conducting archaeological research in the Caribbean, directing projects in Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, the Turks & Caicos Islands, and throughout the Bahamas.
- Copyright year: 2008
The Transformation of the Christian Right in the 1980s
- Copyright year: 2008
There's Hope for the World
The Memoir of Birmingham, Alabama's First African American Mayor
- Copyright year: 2008
The Great War in the Heart of Dixie
Alabama During World War I
There has been much scholarship on how the U.S. as a nation reacted to World War I, but few have explored how Alabama responded. Did the state follow the federal government’s lead in organizing its resources or did Alabamians devise their own solutions to unique problems they faced?
- Copyright year: 2008