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A Fire You Can't Put Out
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 29.95This first biography of Fred Shuttlesworth-winner of both the 2000 Lillian Smith Award and the 2001 James F. Sulzby Jr. Award-details the fascinating life of the controversial preacher who led integration efforts in Birmingham with the courage and fervor of a religious crusader. When Fred Shuttlesworth suffered only a bump on the head in... more...
Speak Truth to Power
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 16.00On December 11, 1954, Charles Patrick drove to downtown Birmingham to buy a Boy Scout uniform for his son. Christmas traffic around the downtown department stores was heavy, and Patrick circled unsuccessfully until at last a streetside spot opened up and he began to pull in. As he did so, he was cut off by a woman who ordered him out of the way,... more...
Power and Violence in the Colonial City
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 35.00This book examines the characteristics of political power in the cities of the colonial Spanish Empire between the 1740s and 1780s. more...
Daybreak of Freedom
The University of North Carolina Press 1997; US$ 33.95The Montgomery bus boycott was a formative moment in twentieth-century history: a harbinger of the African American freedom movement, a springboard for the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr., and a crucial step in the struggle to realize the American dream of liberty and equality for all. In Daybreak of Freedom , Stewart Burns presents a groundbreaking... more...
Reborn in America
University of Alabama Press 2011; US$ 30.00The history of the Vine and Olive Colony in Demopolis, Alabama, has long been clouded by romantic myths. The notion that it was a doomed attempt by Napoleonic exiles in America to plant a wine- and olive-growing community in Alabama based on the ideals of the French Revolution, has long been bolstered by the images that have been proliferated in the... more...
The House by the Side of the Road
University of Alabama Press 2011; US$ 24.95During the 1965 Selma voting rights campaign, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. set up informal headquarters at the home of Dr. Sullivan Jackson; his wife, Richie Jean; and their young daughter, Jawana. Dr. Jackson was an African American dentist in Selma, whose profession gave him some protection from economic reprisals, and he was one of the movement’s... more...
Reflections of the 1965 Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
The Edwin Mellen Press 2012; US$ 169.95Dr. Jans-Thomas revisits an important location in the Civil Rights movement and walks through various places along the march from Selma to Birmingham, Alabama. Her stories are largely anecdotal, but the overall portrait she paints of the towns are vivid because she outlines how the culture has changed since the 1950s and 60s. The portrayal... more...
Grass Widow
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 12.95An engaging account of one woman’s overcoming the Depression and small town mores. Viola Goode Liddell’s short memoir tells the story of her return to Alabama in search of a husband and a new life. Thirty years old and recently divorced, Liddell comes back to her home state—with her young son—determined to survive, during... more...
The South's Tolerable Alien
LSU Press 2007; US$ 24.95In The South's Tolerable Alien, Andrew S. Moore probes the role of Catholics in the post?World War II South and argues persuasively that, until the 1960s, religion rivaled race as a boundary separating residents of the Bible Belt. Delving deep into underutilized diocesan archives, he explores the ways in which southern Catholics worked to be both good... more...








