In December 2008, my family traveled from Orlando to Dallas on a two-day holiday road trip to visit our Texas relatives. Circumstances necessitated that we stop at a Louisiana Waffle House, a stone’s throw from the east–west Interstate 12, for some predawn grub. Amid the familiar sounds of spitting grease and innocuous jukebox tunes, we enjoyed orders of eggs, waffles, and coffee, gearing up for the long drive ahead. Like a scene from Bad Santa—hilarious yet unsettling—a slumped-over businessman bolted awake in a nearby restaurant booth, shouting “Check!” When a counterworker yelled “You alre ..read more

This week marks University Press Week, an annual celebration sponsored by the Association of University Presses. Next UP is this year’s theme. Organizers chose it to reflect the “constant spirit of learning, adaptation, and evolution” embodied by university presses. Today UAP joins the festivities with a post for the Next UP Blog Tour. For what’s #NextUP in publishing, let’s take a look at UAP’s internship program. The press has long welcomed as interns undergraduate and graduate students from our host institution, the University of Alabama. These students came to the press at the recommendat ..read more

For National Women’s History Month, University of Alabama Press presents these titles centering the lives and perspectives of women at 40% off through the end of March. Browse these histories, memoirs, and biographies by and about women—female service members commemorating the Great War, groundbreaking civil-rights lawyer and federal judge Constance Baker Motley, young witnesses to the 1965 struggle in Selma, and more. Use code NWHM22 at checkout when you order through our website and get 40% off. Constance Baker Motley: One Woman’s Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law by Gary ..read more

In honor of Black History Month, University of Alabama Press presents these essential titles depicting aspects of the Black experience at 40% off through the end of February. Use code BHM22 at checkout when you order through our website. The Architectural Legacy of Wallace A. Rayfield: Pioneer Black Architect of Birmingham, Alabama by Allen R. Durough In the early 1990s, while cleaning out the barn on his property in Bessemer, Alabama, Allen Durough discovered the remnants of the lifework of African American architect Wallace A. Rayfield, including several hundred of Rayfield’s drawings, flo ..read more

Have you finished your gift shopping yet? Even if you have, we’ve got some suggestions for the people in your life. An extra book can’t hurt. Get 40% off these titles (and any other title on our website) with code HOLIDAY21 at checkout. For the nature lover Exploring Wild Alabama: A Guide to the State’s Publicly Accessible Natural Areas by Kenneth M. Wills and L. J. Davenport Intrepid explorers Kenneth M. Wills and L. J. Davenport divide Alabama into eleven geographic regions that feature state parks and preserves, national monuments and forests, wildlife management areas, Nature Conservancy ..read more

This week UAP is celebrating University Press Week and the 2020 theme #RaiseUP. And today, we are using our turn on the blog to spotlight scientific voices amplified by the University of Alabama Press. Subjects such as environmental studies and technology have been a proud part of our editorial program for many years. But today we are concentrating on our NEXUS series – a relatively new book series focused on new histories of science, technology, the environment, history, and agriculture and the intersection of those topics. NEXUS is devoted to the publication of high-quality scholarship in t ..read more

In December 2008, my family traveled from Orlando to Dallas on a two-day holiday road trip to visit our Texas relatives. Circumstances necessitated that we stop at a Louisiana Waffle House, a stone’s throw from the east–west Interstate 12, for some predawn grub. Amid the familiar sounds of spitting grease and innocuous jukebox tunes, we enjoyed orders of eggs, waffles, and coffee, gearing up for the long drive ahead. Like a scene from Bad Santa—hilarious yet unsettling—a slumped-over businessman bolted awake in a nearby restaurant booth, shouting “Check!” When a counterworker yelled “You alre ..read more

For National Women’s History Month, University of Alabama Press presents these titles centering the lives and perspectives of women at 40% off through the end of March. Browse these histories, memoirs, and biographies by and about women—female service members commemorating the Great War, groundbreaking civil-rights lawyer and federal judge Constance Baker Motley, young witnesses to the 1965 struggle in Selma, and more. Use code NWHM22 at checkout when you order through our website and get 40% off. Constance Baker Motley: One Woman’s Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law by Gary ..read more

In honor of Black History Month, University of Alabama Press presents these essential titles depicting aspects of the Black experience at 40% off through the end of February. Use code BHM22 at checkout when you order through our website. The Architectural Legacy of Wallace A. Rayfield: Pioneer Black Architect of Birmingham, Alabama by Allen R. Durough In the early 1990s, while cleaning out the barn on his property in Bessemer, Alabama, Allen Durough discovered the remnants of the lifework of African American architect Wallace A. Rayfield, including several hundred of Rayfield’s drawings, flo ..read more

Have you finished your gift shopping yet? Even if you have, we’ve got some suggestions for the people in your life. An extra book can’t hurt. Get 40% off these titles (and any other title on our website) with code HOLIDAY21 at checkout. For the nature lover Exploring Wild Alabama: A Guide to the State’s Publicly Accessible Natural Areas by Kenneth M. Wills and L. J. Davenport Intrepid explorers Kenneth M. Wills and L. J. Davenport divide Alabama into eleven geographic regions that feature state parks and preserves, national monuments and forests, wildlife management areas, Nature Conservancy ..read more