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.
Second Front Now--1943
An Opportunity Delayed
- Copyright year: 2009
Christian Reconstruction
The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890
Christian Reconstruction traces the history of the American Missionary Association, the most ambitious and successful of the many benevolent societies that worked with the former slaves during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
- Copyright year: 2008
The Great War in the Air
Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921
"A comprehensive study of the totality of the air war in its military, political, industrial, and cultural aspects distinguish this book from other treatments of military aviation during this period. . . . Morrow's efforts have yielded new insights into the evolution of military aviation and corrected previous oversights. The author's attention to developments in production and logistics, as well as events at the front, provide the most complete understanding of the development of air power and its role in the Great War."--American Historical Review
- Copyright year: 2009
Public Indians, Private Cherokees
Tourism and Tradition on Tribal Ground
Explores the major economic industry among American Indian tribes—public promotion and display of aspects of their cultural heritage in a wide range of tourist venues
Heritage or Heresy
Archaeology and Culture on the Maya Riviera
Through analysis of seven archaeological sites on the Yucatan peninsula that are open to heritage touring, Walker reveals the planned growth of the Maya Riviera since the early 1970s and examines the impact of international tourism on both ancient structures and the contemporary Maya people and culture.
- Copyright year: 2008
Speaking with the Ancestors
Mississippian Stone Statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland Region
During the last twenty years the authors have researched over 88 possible examples of southeastern Mississippian stone statuary, dating as far back as 1,000 years ago, and discovered along the river valleys of the interior Southeast. Independently and in conjunction, they have measured, analyzed, photographed, and traced the known history of the 42 that appear in this volume.
- Copyright year: 2008
Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age
- Copyright year: 2007
Digital Poetics
Hypertext, Visual-Kinetic Text and Writing in Programmable Media
- Copyright year: 2001
Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land
Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism
- Copyright year: 2008
Making Pictures in Stone
American Indian Rock Art of the Northeast
A full range of rock art appearances, including dendroglyphs, pictographs, and a selection of portable rock objects
- Copyright year: 2008
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