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.
The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama
This book is the principal authority for the general treatment of the history of coal, and of iron and steel, in Alabama.
The Pecan Orchard
Journey of a Sharecropper's Daughter
- Copyright year: 2011
Liberalism and the Culture of Security
The Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric of Reform
Figures of protection and security are everywhere in American public discourse, from the protection of privacy or civil liberties to the protection of marriage or the unborn, and from social security to homeland security. Liberalism and the Culture of Security traces a crucial paradox in historical and contemporary notions of citizenship: in a liberal democratic culture that imagines its citizens as self-reliant, autonomous, and inviolable, the truth is that claims for citizenship—particularly for marginalized groups such as women and slaves—have just as often been made in the name of vulnerability and helplessness.
- Copyright year: 2011
Arthouse
A Novel
- Copyright year: 2011
Father Flashes
- Copyright year: 2011
Southern Exposure
Making the South Safe for Democracy
Using thorough and stark statistics, Kennedy describes a South emerging from World War II, coming to grips with the racism and feudalism that had held it back for generations. He includes an all-out Who’s Who, based on his own undercover investigations, of the "hate-mongers, race-racketeers, and terrorists who swore that apartheid must go on forever." The first paperback edition brings to a new generation of readers Kennedy’s searing profile of Dixie before the civil rights movement.
Remaining Chickasaw in Indian Territory, 1830s-1907
Remaining Chickasaw in Indian Territory, 1830s-1907 deals with the challenges the Chickasaw people had from attacking Texans and Plains Indians, the tribe’s ex-slaves, the influence on the tribe of intermarried white men, and the presence of illegal aliens (U.S. citizens) in their territory. By focusing on the tribal and U.S. government policy conflicts, as well as longstanding attempts of the Chickasaw people to remain culturally unique, St. Jean reveals the successes and failures of the Chickasaw in attaining and maintaining sovereignty as a separate and distinct Chickasaw Nation.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Swift Creek Gift
Vessel Exchange on the Atlantic Coast
Modern Occult Rhetoric
Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century
A broadly interdisciplinary study of the pervasive secrecy in America cultural, political, and religious discourse.
Mississippian Polity and Politics on the Gulf Coastal Plain
A View from the Pearl River, Mississippi
Using research at the Pevey (22Lw510) and Lowe-Steen (22Lw511) mound sites on the Pearl River in Lawrence County, Mississippi, this book explores the social and political mechanisms by which these polities may have interacted with each other and the geographic limit to the effects of inter-polity competition.
- Copyright year: 2011
Anna's Shtetl
A rare view of a childhood in a European ghetto
- Copyright year: 2007
Archaeologists as Activists
Can Archaeologists Change the World?
Examines the various ways in which archaeologists can and do use their research to forge a partnership with the past and guide the ongoing dialogue between the archaeological record and various contemporary stakeholders
- Copyright year: 2011
Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics
Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s
Different as they were as poets, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Robert Frost, and Williams Carlos Williams grappled with the highly charged literary politics of the 1930s in comparable ways. All four poets saw their reputations critically challenged in these years and felt compelled to respond to the new politics, literary and national, in distinct ways, ranging from rejection to involvement. Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics closely examines the dynamics of their responses.
- Copyright year: 2011
Radical Affections
Essays on the Poetics of Outside
A study of six poets central to the New American poetry—Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Robin Blaser, and Susan Howe—with an eye both toward challenging the theoretical lenses through which they have been viewed and to opening up this counter tradition to contemporary practice
An Insight into an Insane Asylum
In 1881, Joseph Camp, an elderly and self-trained Methodist minister from Talladega County, Alabama, was brought by his family to Bryce Hospital, an insane asylum in Tuscaloosa, where he remained for over five months. This book is an account of his stay and provides a rare glimpse of 19th century mental health care from a patient's viewpoint.
- Copyright year: 2011
American Indians and the Market Economy, 1775-1850
- Copyright year: 2011
Beyond the Blockade
New Currents in Cuban Archaeology
Builds on dialogues opened in recent years between Cuban archaeologists, whose work has long been carried out behind closed doors, and their international colleagues
- Copyright year: 2011
Twilight of a Golden Age
Selected Poems of Abraham Ibn Ezra
The House of My Sojourn
Rhetoric, Women, and the Question of Authority
Envisions the relationship between women and rhetoric as a house: a structure erected in ancient Greece by men that, historically, has made room for women but has also denied them the authority and agency to speak from within
- Copyright year: 2010
Once They Had a Country
Two Teenage Refugees in the Second World War
Once They Had a Country conveys well what it was like to establish a new life in a foreign country--over and over again and in constant fear for one's life. The book draws from a remarkable set of primary source materials, including letters, telegrams, and police records to relate the story of two teenage refugees during World War II.
- Copyright year: 2010