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.
Looking for Lost Lore
Studies in Folklore, Ethnology, and Iconography
- Copyright year: 2008
In the Path of the Storms
Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama Coast
- Copyright year: 2008
Battle
The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat
- Copyright year: 2008
Archaeology and Geoinformatics
Case Studies from the Caribbean
Provides tremendous insight and an excellent grasp of the special geoinformatics needs of Caribbean researchers
- Copyright year: 2008
Full Fathom Five
A Daughter's Search
- Copyright year: 2008
It's a New Day
Race and Gender in the Modern Charismatic Movement
- Copyright year: 2008
America's Battalion
Marines in the First Gulf War
- Copyright year: 2008
Unfurl Those Colors!
McClellan, Sumner, and the Second Army Corps in the Antietam Campaign
- Copyright year: 2008
Crossing the Borders
New Methods and Techniques in the Study of Archaeological Materials from the Caribbean
- Copyright year: 2008
Yucatan in an Era of Globalization
- Copyright year: 2008
To the Boathouse
A Memoir
To the Boathouse is the memoir of a southern girl and her maturing sense of self as she grows to become one of the most prolific and accomplished writers and critics of our day. Mary Ann Caws recounts the tangled relationships of her family, and her own ties to her sister, parents, and the grandmother—a painter—who served as her role model for a life of passionate engagement.
- Copyright year: 2008
Creating Community
Life and Learning at Alabama State University
Creating Community explores how faculty members at Alabama State University, a historically black university in Montgomery, have been inspired by the legacy of African American culture and the civil rights movement and how they seek to interpret and extend that legacy through teaching, scholarship, and service.
- Copyright year: 2008
The Archaeology of Everyday Life at Early Moundville
Jubal Early's Raid on Washington
- Copyright year: 2008
The Trouble with Being Born
A Novel
A fierce portrait of memory, family, and regret
- Copyright year: 2008
Standing Before the Shouting Mob
Lenoir Chambers and Virginia's Massive Resistance to Public School Integration
- Copyright year: 2007
My Amputations
- Copyright year: 1986
Looking South
The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975
- Copyright year: 2007
Kissssss
A Miscellany
This collection—derived from many impulses but unified through one distinctive sensibility—contains passionate subversive acts of language, oblique takes on American life, outbursts of comic genius, long meditations on the cruelty of contemporary customs, and funny, disturbing glimpses of daily life.
- Copyright year: 2007
Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia
The Nature of an Ancient Maya City
Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize
Ancient Maya Traders of Ambergris Caye
Focuses on the maritime trade network sites on Ambergris Caye, Belize, where excavations have revealed remnants of very small villages, or camps, along the Caribbean coastline
- Copyright year: 2007
SunWatch
Fort Ancient Development in the Mississippian World
Focuses on the development of village social structure within a broad geographic and temporal framework, recognizing border areas as particularly dynamic contexts of social change
Framing Public Memory
A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memories
- Copyright year: 2007
Stand Up for Alabama
Governor George Wallace
Whereas other studies have focused on George Wallace’s career as a national figure, Stand Up for Alabama provides a detailed, comprehensive, and analytical study of Wallace’s political life that emphasizes his activities and their impact within the state of Alabama. Jeff Frederick examines the development of policy during the Wallace administrations and documents relationships with his constituents in ways that go beyond racial politics. He also analyzes the connections between Wallace’s career and Alabamians’ understanding of their history, sense of morality, and class system.
- Copyright year: 2007
The Archaeology of Town Creek
The World in Which We Occur
John Dewey, Pragmatist Ecology, and American Ecological Writing in the Twentieth Century
- Copyright year: 2007
Architectural Variability in the Southeast
- Copyright year: 2007
It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature
A Novella and Stories
This work by Diane Williams delves into the strange relationships of men and women. From marital betrayal to spousal abuse and unrelenting desire, Williams illuminates the lives of her characters in prose as sparse and stark as it is beautiful.
- Copyright year: 2007
The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration
The Mississippian Emergence
- Copyright year: 2007
Nightmare on Iwo Jima
A Marine in Combat
On February 19, 1945, the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions stormed ashore from a naval support force. Among them was green young lieutenant Pat Caruso who became de facto company commander when the five officers ranking him were killed or wounded.
- Copyright year: 2007
Alone in Mexico
The Astonishing Travels of Karl Heller, 1845–1848
- Copyright year: 2007
Man Food
Recipes from the Iron Trade
- Copyright year: 2007
Mark Twain in the Margins
The Quarry Farm Marginalia and a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Fulton's examination of Twain's marginalia demonstrates that the "unlettered" Twain approached the writing of his novels with careful research and calculated design.
- Copyright year: 2007
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 15
Theatre and Moral Order
- Copyright year: 2007
The Prettier Doll
Rhetoric, Discourse, and Ordinary Democracy
Essays in the The Prettier Doll focus on the same local controversy: in 2001,a third-grade girl in Colorado submitted an experiment to the school science fair. She asked 30 adults and 30 fifth-graders which of two Barbie dolls was prettier.
- Copyright year: 2007
Eagle Days
A Marine Legal/Infantry Officer in Vietnam
Eagle Days provides aunique view of the War in Vietnam.
- Copyright year: 2007
A World in Flames
A Concise Military History of World War II
- Copyright year: 2008
Steinbeck and the Environment
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Exciting new essays provide an important model for ecological criticism and an enriched appreciation of the Steinbeck canon.
- Copyright year: 2007
Powerful Days
Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
Iconic photographs of climactic moments in the Civil Rights Movements from famed photographer Charles Moore
- Copyright year: 1991
The Confederate Negro
Virginia's Craftsmen and Military Laborers, 1861-1865
A superb work in the social history of American industry
- Copyright year: 2007
The Modernist Nation
Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century American Literature
- Copyright year: 2007
Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
Chronology, Content, Contest
A timely, comprehensive reevaluation of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex.
- Copyright year: 2007
Travel On Southern Antebellum Railroads, 1828–1860
- Copyright year: 2007
Circular Villages of the Monongahela Tradition
- Copyright year: 2007
Uplifting the People
Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama
- Copyright year: 2007
New Lights in the Valley
The Emergence of UAB
A scholarly narrative of The University of Alabama at Birmingham from its nascent beginnings through the mid 1990s.
- Copyright year: 2007