Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas by Terry Anne Scott, has sold out in hardcover and is now available in...
African American Studies
Man on a Mission: James Meredith and the Battle of Ole Miss is Now Available
Man on a Mission: James Meredith and the Battle of Ole Miss is now available. In 1962, James Meredith famously desegregated the University of...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Race and Repast
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Race and Repast: Foodscapes in Twentieth-Century Southern...
Now Available! Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta
Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre, edited by Michael Pierce and Calvin White is now...
Guy Lancaster on the American Rambler Podcast
Guy Lancaster is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture in Little Rock. He is also one of the foremost historians of...
Now Available! Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas
Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas by Terry Anne Scott is now available. In Lynching and Leisure, Terry Anne...
Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps Reviewed in H-Net
Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965 by Cherisse Jones-Branch has been reviewed in H-Net...
Kenneth Barnes wins the J.G. Ragsdale Book Award
Kenneth Barnes has won the 2022 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award, given each year by the Arkansas Historical Association to the best book published on...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Man on a Mission
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Man on a Mission: James Meredith and the Battle of Ole Miss....
Blood in Their Eyes Reviewed in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly
Matthew Hild has reviewed Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Massacre of 1919, Revised Edition in the Spring 2021 issue of the Arkansas Historical...
2021 “Arkansas Gems” from the Arkansas Center for the Book
Arkansas Gems is an annual publication of the Arkansas Center for the Book. Posters and bookmarks are published to highlights new works about...
The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas reviewed in the Missouri Historical Review
Sean Rost has reviewed The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas: How Protestant White Nationalism Came to Rule a State by Kenneth C. Barnes in the current...
Old Main Exhibit Explores ‘Time and Empathy’ in Geleve Grice’s Photography
Situated in the heart of the University of Arkansas' Fayetteville campus, Old Main has long been home to numerous and varied departments, programs...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the...
Guy Lancaster on Ozarks at Large
Jacqueline Froelich interviews Guy Lancaster on Ozarks at Large about lynching, justice, and Lancaster's new book American Atrocity: The Types of...
Now Available: American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching by Guy Lancaster
Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals, or a demonstration of...
Now Available! George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908
George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908 by Jason Winders is now available, and 25% off when you order at...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob...
The Elaine massacre of 1919 in the New York Times
Mike Ives has written an examination of the teaching of race massacres in Arkansas and other states. Brian Mitchell, coauthor of Blood in Their...
Fugitivism Reviewed in the Journal of American History
The Journal of American History reviewed S. Charles Bolton's Fugitivism: Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820–1860 in their March...
Now Available! Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps
Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965 by Cherisse Jones-Branch is now available! The first...