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.
Museum of the Weird
A stunning collection of stories that reveal wondrous play and surreal humor
- Copyright year: 2010
The Crimson Tide
The Official Illustrated History of Alabama Football, National Championship Edition
The book to settle all bets! A lively illustrated history of the University of Alabama football teams that have dominated college football and ranked consistently among the best in the nation and now with 13 national championships to its credit. This updated National Championship Edition contains two new chapters to cover the dark days at the beginning of the 21st century and the dawn of the Nick Saban era.
- Copyright year: 2010
Creekside
An Archaeological Novel
Creekside takes two partially interwoven story lines and linkes artifact and place, ancestors and descendants, the present and the past, and inspires the reader to explore the personal connections between them all in fresh and vital ways.
- Copyright year: 2010
Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity
The National Pastime and American Identity During the War on Terror
An investigation into the culture and mythology of baseball, a study of its limits and failures, and an invitation to remake the game in a more democratic way
- Copyright year: 2010
Recollections of War Times
By An Old Veteran while under Stonewall Jackson and Lieutenant General James Longstreet
Recollections of War Times is a dramatically improved edition of William A. “Gus” McClendon’s memoir of his service in the 15th Alabama Infantry.
- Copyright year: 2010
Nature Journal
An innovative presentation of the best columns and photographs derived from Davenport’s popular column of the same title in Alabama Heritage magazine. Readers of the magazine have come to relish his artful and often witty descriptions of common species encountered in the Alabama outdoors. The book is designed to be much more than a mere collection of entertaining essays; it is also an educational tool—a means of instructing and encouraging readers in the art of keeping a nature journal for themselves.
- Copyright year: 2010
Speak Truth to Power
The Story of Charles Patrick, a Civil Rights Pioneer
Speak Truth to Power tells the story of Charles Patrick’s quest for justice in segregated Alabama on the eve of the Civil Rights movement and represents a telling instance of the growing determination of African Americans to be treated fairly, part of the broadening and deepening stream of resolve that led to the widespread activism of the Civil Rights movement.
- Copyright year: 2010
Places of Public Memory
The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials
- Copyright year: 2010
Scientific Characters
Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research
- Copyright year: 2010
Taming Alabama
Lawyers and Reformers, 1804-1929
Taming Alabama focuses on persons and groups who sought to bring about reforms in the political, legal, and social worlds of Alabama.
- Copyright year: 2010