A scholarly narrative of The University of Alabama at Birmingham from its nascent beginnings through the mid 1990s.

Tennant S. McWilliams is Professor of History and Dean of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at UAB, a native Alabamian, and author of The New South Faces the World: Foreign Affairs and the Southern Sense of Self, 1877? and Hannis Taylor: The New Southerner as American.