The University of Alabama Press is a

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founded in 1945 and is the scholarly publishing arm of the

University of Alabama The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, the Capstone, or Bama) is a Public university, public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. Established in 1820 and opened to students in 1831, the University of ...

. An

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composed of representatives from all doctoral degree granting public universities within Alabama oversees the publishing program. Projects are selected that support, extend, and preserve academic research. The Press also publishes books that foster an understanding of the history and culture of this state and region. The Press strives to publish works in a wide variety of formats such as print, electronic, and on-demand technologies to ensure that the works are widely available. The University of Alabama Press publishes in a variety of subject areas, including

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, society, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behav ...

and

archeology Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes. Archaeolo ...

, biography and memoir, the Civil Rights movement, fiction, food and

agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

, gender and sexuality studies, the history of medicine,

Judaism Judaism () is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic, Monotheism, monotheistic, ethnic religion that comprises the collective spiritual, cultural, and legal traditions of the Jews, Jewish people. Religious Jews regard Judaism as their means of o ...

and

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studies, Latin American and Caribbean studies,

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and

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

, law and legal studies,

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, military studies and military history, Native American studies, nature, religion,

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, and sports. As the only academic publisher for the state of Alabama, The University of Alabama Press has in the past undertaken publishing partnerships with such institutions as the

Birmingham Museum of Art The Birmingham Museum of Art is a museum in Birmingham, Alabama. Its collection includes more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing various cultures, including Asian, European, United States, Amer ...

and

Samford University Samford University is a Private university, private Christian university in Homewood, Alabama, United States. It was founded by Baptist Church, Baptists in 1841 as Howard College and located until 1887 in Marion, Alabama. It is governed by an in ...

, and The College of Agriculture, the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill at

Auburn University Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Auburn, Alabama, United States. With more than 26,800 undergraduate students, over 6,100 post-graduate students, and a tota ...

. It serves as the publisher of the

Fiction Collective Two Fiction Collective Two (FC2) is an author-run, not-for-profit publisher of avant-garde, experimental fiction supported in part by the University of Utah, the University of Alabama Press, Central Michigan University, Illinois State University, pri ...

(FC2) imprint for experimental fiction.

History

The University of Alabama Press was founded in the fall of 1945 with James Benjamin McMillan as founding director. The Press's first work was Roscoe C. Martin's ''New Horizons in Public Administration'', which appeared in February 1946. In 1964, the Press joined the organization now known as the

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. In January, 2023, the University of Alabama Press joined the University of Alabama Libraries. It was awarded the General Basil W. Duke Award from the

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for its re-publication of Marcus B. Toney's Civil War memoir, ''The Privations of a Private'', in 2006.

Journals

The University of Alabama Press publishes '' Theatre History Studies'', the journal of the Mid-America Theatre Conference. It also publishes ''Theatre Symposium'', an annual scholarly publication featuring papers presented at the annual two-day conference of the Southeastern Theatre Conference.

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Alabama Alabama ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South, Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gu ...

Publishing companies established in 1945 Alabama literature {{US-publish-company-stub

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