THREE ways to buy our publications!
- Review and print this online form (2-3 pages) and mail with a check, or money order to buy books from us directly! Via this preferred method, 100% of proceeds are available to support Birmingham’s Historical Society. PLEASE NOTE NEW MAILING ADDRESS: P.O. Box 321474, Birmingham, AL 35232
- Buy locally through a brick & mortar location, The Shoppe, 3815 Clairmont Avenue, Birmingham, AL 205.224.4450
- OR click the link below to buy books from Birmingham Historical Society’s Shop on Amazon. Thanks!
Please click the titles below for additional information about each publication
2020. The Birmingham District: An Industrial History and Guide (reprint of 1981 edition)
2020. Altamont: A Portion of Red Mountain and Its Park
2019. Pretty Posies, Powerful Healing: An Herbal Primer
2018. Warren H. Manning’s City Plan for Birmingham, reprint of 1919 plan
2019. Shades Creek: Flowing Through Time
2016. Birmingham, 1915, reprint
2016. For Science and Humanity: Building Southern Research
2015. Bob Moody’s Birmingham: A City in Watercolor
2014. Mountain Brook-A Historic American Landscape
2012. The Jemison Magazine: Birmingham and Mountain Brook, 1926-1930, reprint of the magazines
2011. The Jemison Magazine and The Selling of Birmingham, 1910-1914, reprint of the magazines
2010. Digging Out of the Great Depression: Federal Programs At Work In and About the Birmingham Area
2009. Mountain Brook Village: Then & Now
2008. D.O. Whilldin: Alabama Architect
2007. Hand Down Unharmed: Olmsted Files on Birmingham Parks: 1910-1925
2006. The Olmsted Vision: Parks for Birmingham
2005. A Park System for Birmingham, Olmsted Brothers, 1925, Reprint.
2004. Art of the New South: Women Artists of Birmingham, 1890-1950
2003. A Guide to Architectural Styles Featuring Birmingham Homes
2001. Aspiration: Birmingham’s Historic Houses of Worship
2001. A Pizella Affair: Portraits of the Comer Family
1999. Walking Tours of Birmingham Churches Conducted from 1990-1999
1999. Vive Vulcan! Activities for Schools
1998. In Celebration of the Restoration of Alabama Power Company’s 1925 Tower
1998. Low Virtues: The Value of Human Scale Architecture to Birmingham Urbanism
1997. Birmingham Bound-An Atlas of the South’s Premier Industrial Region
1996. Birmingham View: Through the Years in Photographs
1995. Birmingham’s Vulcan, reprint 1938 booklet
1995. Vulcan & His Times-A Tell all about Birmingham’s Most Famous Landmark
1994. The Birmingham Industrial Heritage District Map
1992. True Tales of Birmingham
1991. Mountain Brook Estates, reprint of a 1926 publication
1991. Judge Clarence Allgood: His Brother’s Keeper
1990. Cinderella Stories, Transformations of Historic Birmingham Buildings
1989. Designs on Birmingham: A Landscape History of a Southern City and its Suburbs
1989. Buildings Against Cities: The Struggle to Make Places
1986. Image of the City, by Grady Clay
1988. House Detective: A Guide to Researching Birmingham Buildings
1984. Old Birmingham-New Architecture: Student Projects for a Historic Downtown Context
1985. Go To Town, Birmingham: A Public Forum on a Vital City Center
1983. Five Points Heritage Hike and Patch
1982. Town Within A City: The Five Points South Neighborhood, 1880-1930
1981. The Birmingham District: An Industrial History and Guide
1980. Birmingham Heritage Hike Guide and Patch
1978. The Ghost in the Sloss Furnaces
1978. Downtown Birmingham: Architectural and Historical Walking Tour Guide
1977-1987. The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, 14 issues
Digging Out of the Great Depression: Federal Programs at Work In and Around Birmingham
The Birmingham Historical Society captures in a new book and exhibit seldom-seen murals that tell the story of an era, the history of our region, and the mood of a nation in hardship.
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