Announcing the forthcoming publication of Minuteman
The University of Arkansas Press announces the forthcoming publication of Minuteman: A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare, by David K. Stumpf. The book is a detailed history of the minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile...
NOW AVAILABLE! A Family Practice: The Russell Doctors and the Evolving Business of Medicine, 1799–1989
"In the early days of the republic," Bill J. Gurley writes in the foreword to A Family Practice, "health care was certainly not viewed as a right but rather as a service—a much-needed service that not all could access easily. Physicians and their services were often a...
The Taste of Art reviewed in Food and Foodways
Dr. Natalie Jovanovski has reviewed The Taste of Art: Cooking, Food, and Counterculture in Contemporary Practices, edited by Silvia Bottinelli and Margherita D’ayala Valva, in the January 2020 issue of the journal Food and Foodways. Food and Foodways is an...
Zaina Alsous named winner of the 2020 Norma Farber Award
Zaina Alsous has won the 2020 Norma Farber Award for her collection A Theory of Birds. The Norma Farber Book Award honors a first book of original poetry written by a living author and is given by the Poetry Society of America. The Judge was Matthew Shenoda. "In Zaina...
The Elaine Massacre of 1919: Resources
The first edition of Grif Stockley’s Blood in Their Eyes, published in 2001, brought renewed attention to the Elaine Massacre and sparked valuable new studies on racial violence and exploitation in Arkansas and beyond. With contributions from fellow historians Brian...
