The University of Alabama Press
As the scholarly publishing arm of the university, The University of Alabama Press serves as an agent in the advancement of learning and the dissemination of scholarship. The Press applies the highest standards to all phases of publishing including acquisitions, editorial, production, and marketing.

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.
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Enduring Digital Damage

Rhetorical Reckonings for Planetary Survival

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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The American Open Road

Narrative and Popular Imagination

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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The American Open Road

Narrative and Popular Imagination

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Risqué Business

Breastaurants in American Culture

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Pablo Neruda's Ship Figureheads

A Poet-Collectors Muses and Companions

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Pablo Neruda's Ship Figureheads

A Poet-Collector's Muses and Companions

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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The Peace Script

Framing Violence in US Anti-War Dissent

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Six Women Who Shaped What Americans Eat

Food Choice in an Age of Abundance

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Daydreamers

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
  • Copyright year: 2025
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America's National Cemeteries

A Meditation on History, Memory, and Place

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Translating the Ketubah

The Jewish Marriage Contract in America and England

University of Alabama Press

A groundbreaking exploration of the Jewish marriage contract and its evolution in English translation

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Lost Cause and the Great War

Progressive Reform and Patriotism in the American South

University of Alabama Press

How Tennessee reformers reconciled Southern heritage with rising nationalism, weaving the Lost Cause into the fabric of American progress and identity

  • Copyright year: 2025
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The First Fleets

Colonial Navies of the British Atlantic World, 1630–1775

University of Alabama Press

A revealing study on the little-known and misunderstood provincial navies established by North American British colonists

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Playing for Power

Black Resistance in Amateur Basketball and Football in Jim Crow Virginia

University of Alabama Press

Reveals the role of amateur Black football and basketball in Virginia before integration as a form of resistance to white supremacy

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Lost City, Found Pyramid

Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices

University of Alabama Press

Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices explores the phenomenon of pseudoarchaeology in popular culture and the ways that professional archaeologists can respond to sensationalized depictions of archaeology and archaeologists.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Echoes of Exile

A Family’s Odyssey through the Holocaust and Cold War

University of Alabama Press

In “Echoes of Exile,” Daniela Spenser weaves together a history of Europe’s calamitous 20th century conflicts—the Holocaust, Communism, the Cold War—by tracing those events in the lives of her parents and grandparents of Czech, Polish, and German descent. Enhancing and humanizing extensive archival research with interviews and hundreds of personal letters, Echoes of Exile brings complex political history to vivid life in the story of one family's struggle to survive.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Echoes of Exile

A Family's Odyssey through the Holocaust and Cold War

University of Alabama Press

In “Echoes of Exile,” Daniela Spenser weaves together a history of Europe’s calamitous 20th century conflicts—the Holocaust, Communism, the Cold War—by tracing those events in the lives of her parents and grandparents of Czech, Polish, and German descent. Enhancing and humanizing extensive archival research with interviews and hundreds of personal letters, Echoes of Exile brings complex political history to vivid life in the story of one family's struggle to survive.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Tried Men and True, or Union Life in Dixie

University of Alabama Press

Thomas Jefferson Cypert (1827-1918) was a staunch Union man in one of the most Confederate areas of Tennessee, and became Captain of Company A in the 2nd Regiment, Mounted Infantry, U.S. Tennessee Volunteers. After the war, he served at least one term in the Tennessee State Senate. He wrote this manuscript for publication to defend his stance and recount his wartime experiences. It was never published, and has existed in his family in manuscript form until now.

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Theaters of Translation

Cosmopolitan Vernaculars in Shakespeare's England

University of Alabama Press

Explores the profound influence of multilingual dictionaries, dialogues, and grammars on English Renaissance playwrights

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Manifesting Violence

White Terrorism, Digital Culture, and the Rhetoric of Replacement

University of Alabama Press

Manifesting Violence explores the digital world as a fertile location where white supremist groups spread manifestos and screeds about a supposed white genocide. 

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Under the Sun

A Black Journalist's Journey

University of Alabama Press

A determined journalist’s account of rising to Pulitzer Prize-winning height

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Theatre Symposium, Vol. 32

Material Performance and Performing Objects

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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The Battle for the University of Alabama

The Perilous Path of Higher Education in the Reconstruction South

University of Alabama Press

Traces the little-known story of the bitter contest for the fate of the University of Alabama after the Civil War

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Secrets I Won't Take with Me

Home, War, and the Struggle for Peace in Israel

University of Alabama Press

The story of the birth and evolution of modern Israel, especially concerning the struggle for Israeli-Palestinian peace, from the view of a journalist, politician and diplomat  who wrote with his own hands several important chapters in that history.
 

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Public Loves, Private Troubles

Migration, Technology, and Intimacy in Rural Indigenous Guatemala

University of Alabama Press

Examines the role of digital technologies in the lives of Kaqchikel Maya women whose husbands work abroad

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Chemical Lands

Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America's Grasslands since 1945

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2018
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So Great Was the Slaughter

Market Hunters, Sportsmen, and Wildlife Conservation in Arkansas

University of Alabama Press

An account of the rise of sportsmen and conservation groups in Arkansas who made common cause to save the state’s wildlife resources

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Marion Greenwood

Portrait and Self-Portrait—A Biography

University of Alabama Press

This new biography reveals Marion Greenwood's central place in the pantheon of history’s remarkable women artists.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Grayhawk's Native American Folktales

University of Alabama Press

Noted Houma/Choctaw storyteller Grayhawk Perkins shares age-old wisdom in a memorable collection of folktales

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Driving Lessons

A Road Trip through American Travel Literature

University of Alabama Press

Weaves the author's own four-month cross-country sojourn in a VW van with thoughts on travel narratives across the history of American literature

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Conversations with Extinct Animals

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

An experimental narrative by eco-fiction author and poet Patrick Lawler evolves out of the interactions between twenty-four extinct animals and those characters who struggle for significance in the face of their own extinction

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Shock of Colonialism in New England

Fragments from a Frontier

University of Alabama Press

Explores the untold impacts of colonialism in New England through diverse colonist lives, Indigenous encounters, and environmental legacies

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Physicians for the People

Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870–1970

University of Alabama Press

A comprehensive historical account of race and healthcare in the segregated South

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Countermemory

A Rhetoric of Resistance

University of Alabama Press

Investigates the interdisciplinary dimensions of countermemory through a rhetorical lens

  • Copyright year: 2025
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An Apprehension of Splendor

A Biography in Photographs of F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Family

University of Alabama Press

A unique collection of Fitzgerald family photographs, many never before published, hand selected by a curator of the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum

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Algorithmic Worldmaking

The Rhetorical Craft of Networked Order

University of Alabama Press

Illuminates how algorithms, intertwined with human biases, damage political discourse and civic engagement

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Rewriting the Word "God"

In the Arc of Converging Lines between Innovative Theory, Theology, and Poetry

University of Alabama Press

Innovative poetry, philosophy, theology and new sciences converge in the project of rewriting the word “God”

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Theatre History Studies 2024, Vol 43

Edited by Jocelyn L. Buckner; Introduction by Jocelyn L. Buckner
University of Alabama Press

The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre Conference

  • Copyright year: 2025
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The Pillow Museum

Stories

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Radical Advocate

Ida B. Wells and the Road to Race and Gender Justice

University of Alabama Press

Pinpoints the persuasive strategies that typified Wells’s efforts to shape broader cultural conversations concerning the causes of racial, social, and gender inequity

  • Copyright year: 2025
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