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An in-depth study of non-elite white families in Alabama—from the state’s creation through the end of the Civil WarThe Failure of Our Fathers: Family, Gender, and Power in …
A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight Marcia Herman’s family moved to Birmingham in …
Recounts the history of the Good Roads Movement that arose in progressive-era Alabama, how it used the power of the state to achieve its objectives of improving market roads for …
Crayfishes are common organisms in many freshwater habitats. They are usually the largest invertebrates and often represent the greatest amount of invertebrate biomass in their …
Reflections on a half century’s worth of interaction with the people, places, wildlife, and folkways of Alabama In 1971 James Seay Brown Jr. moved to Birmingham with his young …
The sweeping story of an ambitious and once-powerful southern family.From Reconstruction through the end of World War II, the Bankheads served as the principal architects of the …
In 1989, Alston Fitts published a brief history of the city of Selma, Alabama, from its founding through the aftermath of the civil rights movement. Selma: A Bicentennial History …
Christopher McIlwain's Civil War Alabama is a landmark book that sheds invigorating new light on the causes, the course, and the outcomes in Alabama of the nation's greatest drama …
A coming-of-age memoir evoking farm, mining, and small-town life in Alabama’s Tuscaloosa County as the world transitions from the Great Depression to World War II In the 1930s, the …
Winner of the Anne B. & James B. McMillan Prize in Southern HistoryExamines the legacies of eight momentous US Supreme Court decisions that have their origins in Alabama legal …