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.
In the Trenches with Jesus and Marx
Harry F. Ward and the Struggle for Social Justice
This absorbing and insightful biography illuminates the life of the controversial champion of the Social Gospel in early-20th-century America.
Militant Zionism in America
The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926-1948
This in-depth look at a controversial faction of American Zionism fills a void in the story of American Zionism--and in the story of American Judaism. Based on years of archival research and interviews and written in a compelling style, Militant Zionism in America documents events that reshaped the American Jewish community, influenced American foreign policy, and contributed to one of the most extraordinary events of modern history: the creation of the State of Israel.
Henry William Ravenel, 1814-1887
South Carolina Scientist in the Civil War Era
"A thoroughly enjoyable biography of one of the important American naturalists, botanists, and mycologists of the 1800s. . . . Truly an outstanding contribution to the history of American science."
—Brittonia
- Copyright year: 1987
A Place of Our Own
The Rise of Reform Jewish Camping
The history of educational summer camps in American Reform Judaism
The Pen Makes a Good Sword
John Forsyth of the Mobile Register
- Copyright year: 2006
Outpost Kelly
A Tanker's Story
War at its most personal and lethal during the last four days of July 1952
- Copyright year: 2006
Where the Wild Animals Is Plentiful
Diary of an Alabama Fur Trader's Daughter, 1912-1914
This rare find--a journal of a young backwoods woman--provides a unique picture of rural life in southwestern Alabama early in the 20th century.
- Copyright year: 2006
When This Evil War is Over
The Correspondence of the Francis Family
- Copyright year: 2006
Hannis Taylor
The New Southerner as an American
This War So Horrible
The Civil War Diary of Hiram Smith Williams, 40th Alabama Confederate Pioneer
- Copyright year: 1993
The Complete Tales of Merry Gold
A sequel to The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold, the novel follows Merry from her suburban childhood through design school and a whirlwind of lovers, and into a desolate adulthood. Beginning with a toy seal and ending with mushrooms, this fairy tale set in modern times creeps through cruelty and violence to its inevitable end.
- Copyright year: 2006
Blue Studios
Poetry and Its Cultural Work
- Copyright year: 2006
Reagan and Public Discourse in America
Osceola's Legacy
"Through the newly discovered diary of the surgeon who attended Osceola on his death bed and the innovative use of cultural artifacts and graphic images, this investigation explodes the myth of Osceola and introduces the man in both a historical and an anthropological context."--Book Alert
- Copyright year: 2006
Black Soldiers of the Queen
The Natal Native Contingent in the Anglo-Zulu War
- Copyright year: 2006
Alabama Folk Pottery
- Copyright year: 2006
The Deadly Politics of Giving
Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown
With a focus on indigenous cultural systems and agency theory, this volume analyzes Contact Period relations between North American Middle Atlantic Algonquian Indians and the Spanish Jesuits at Ajacan (1570–72) and English settlers at Roanoke Island (1584–90) and Jamestown Island (1607–12).
- Copyright year: 2006
The Commerce of Louisiana During the French Regime, 1699-1763
- Copyright year: 2006
History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie
Scholarship, Activism, and Wayne Flynt in the Modern South
- Copyright year: 2006
Bones of the Maya
Studies of Ancient Skeletons
- Copyright year: 2006
A Right to Read
Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama's Public Libraries, 1900–1965
- Copyright year: 2006
The Bitter Half
- Copyright year: 2006
Writing from the Edge of the World
The Memoirs of Darien, 1514-1527
- Copyright year: 2006
Dixie Diaspora
An Anthology of Southern Jewish History
Regional Jewish history at its best. This book is an anthology of essays designed to introduce readers to key issues in this growing field of scholarship and to encourage further study.
- Copyright year: 2006
Alabama in the Twentieth Century
- Copyright year: 2006
Missionaries of the State
The Summer Institute of Linguistics, State Formation, and Indigenous Mexico, 1935-1985
- Copyright year: 2006
Eastern Cherokee Fishing
Cherokee identity as revealed in fishing methods and materials.
Ashbery's Forms of Attention
- Copyright year: 2006
Game Work
Language, Power, and Computer Game Culture
Video and computer games in their cultural contexts
- Copyright year: 2006