Mob Rule in the Ozarks Wins 2025 Ragsdale Award
Presented for the best book-length historical study (nonfiction) of any aspect of Arkansas history.
Men of No Reputation Wins 2025 Missouri Conference on History Book Award
Given to the best volume on any historical topic written by a Missouri resident and published within the preceding year.
Mob Rule in the Ozarks Reviewed in the Fort Smith Historical Society Journal
“This well written and meticulously researched volume by Kenneth Barnes is … a significant addition to historical scholarship of the nation”
Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks Reviewed in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly
“The crucial work of Lucile Morris Upton and her successors is needed now more than ever if future generations are to better understand our present.”
Saba Keramati wins 2025 Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize
For her collection Self-Mythology.