University of Alabama Press

Expand your library and support a great cause!

Join LCWA for our upcoming Book Sale! Browse a fantastic selection of books donated by the University of Alabama Press.

Date: Saturday, August 22
Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Location: Ernest & Hadley Booksellers’ Courtyard
Suggested Donation: $10 per book

Every contribution helps support adult and family literacy programs in our community. Mark your calendars, stop by, and pick up your next great read!

🎉 🥳 Congratulations to UAP author Joyce Cauthen, recipient of the 2026 Wayne and Sally Greenhaw Service to the Humanities Award. This honor recognizes individuals who have made substantive contributions to the work of the Alabama Humanities Alliance specifically and to the public humanities generally in Alabama. Cauthen served as founding director of the Alabama Folklife Association and is a renowned expert on folk music traditions in Alabama.

Get Cauthen’s new book, The Ballad of Fiddling Tom Freeman, today! 📖 🔗 https://go.ua.edu/4voulKP

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📜🚢 Did you know? On August 5, 1864, Rear Admiral David G. Farragut led Union troops in a naval and land engagement against a Confederate fleet commanded by Admiral Franklin Buchanan. The engagement centered on three forts in Mobile Bay: Fort Morgan, Fort Gaines, and Fort Powell.

Learn more about the Battle of Mobile Bay in Lincoln’s Trident: The West Gulf Blockading Squadron During the Civil War by Robert M. Browning Jr. 📖 🔗 https://go.ua.edu/3ScYVJg

Dr. Kate Maddalena and Dr. Jeremy Tirrell join the 10-Minute Tech Comm podcast to discuss how the gothic helps explain our strange rhetoric around nutrition. Listen to the full interview: 🎙️🔗 https://go.ua.edu/4yVeR3p

Get Disgustatory! today: 📚🔗 https://go.ua.edu/4bURJIl

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Happy Paperback Book Day! 📚 In our latest blog post, discover how paperbacks changed the world of reading and explore some of our recent titles now available in this affordable, travel-friendly format. 🔗 Read the blog: https://go.ua.edu/45wzKo4

Celebrating Paperback Book Day - University of Alabama Press Paperback books have transformed the way people discover, collect, and enjoy literature for nearly a century. Celebrated each year on July 30, Paperback

🍽️🧪 In an age of wellness influencers, miracle supplements, and biohacking trends, Disgustatory! A Gothic Rhetoric of Consumption uncovers the darker forces shaping our obsession with health and bodily optimization. Jeremy Tirrell and Kate Maddalena reveal how fear, fascination, and the fantasy of bodily control animate our health choice. Get the book! 📚 🔗 https://go.ua.edu/4bURJIl

Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, a moment that forever shaped American history. Read our latest blog for an excerpt from Richard T. Green’s Alexander Hamilton’s Public Administration and discover the principles, passions, and political struggles that defined Hamilton long before his famous final encounter. Read the blog! 🔗 https://go.ua.edu/4gx3gAR

Get the book: 📖🔗 https://go.ua.edu/4vSDNXl

⚓📚🌊 Before the US Navy, there were colonial fleets, yet their story has largely gone untold. In a new note, Director JD Wilson highlights how the book The First Fleets reshapes our understanding of early American naval power and the people who sustained it. ⚓📚🌊

🔗 Read the blog: https://go.ua.edu/4f9gQJx

📖🔗 Get The First Fleets: https://go.ua.edu/4eQTgjB

In honor of America’s 250th Anniversary, we are celebrating with a special, limited-time sale! From July 1 through July 5 at 11:59 PM, enjoy 50% off all books on our website. Whether you’re exploring history, literature, art, or regional culture, now is the perfect time to expand your collection.

To save, visit our website, browse our full catalog, and enter promo code AM250 at checkout to receive 50% off your order, just don’t forget to click the “apply code” button. 👉 Don’t wait, this sale ends July 5 at 11:59 PM! Shop now! 🛍🔗 www.uapress.ua.edu

🎙️ Tune in tomorrow to Alabama Public Radio! University of Alabama Press author Watt Key joins APR Notebook on Alabama Public Radio Wednesday, July 1 at 8:30 AM (CT) to talk books, storytelling, and more.

📻 Listen live on 91.3 FM or stream at apr.org
🔊 Catch it online here: https://go.ua.edu/4waOLay
📚 Learn more about Watt Key and his books: https://go.ua.edu/3QOUaow

Don’t miss this great conversation with one of our celebrated authors!

Alabama Novelist Watt Key on how writing runs in his family America is just a few days away from the Fourth of July and the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. That day may involve fireworks, a backyard cookout, and possibly a rendition or two of the Star Spangled Banner. Our national anthem hits home with my guest on the nat...