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
2022. Birmingham’s Dynamite Hill (to be released mid-November, 2022)
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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