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Hidden in Plain Sight Reviewed in CAA Reviews
Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture by Rachel Stephens has been reviewed in CAA Reviews. “Hidden in Plain...
Mob Rule in the Ozarks Now Available!
Mob Rule in the Ozarks: The Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Strike, 1921-1923 by Kenneth Barnes is now available. On January 15, 1923, a crowd...
John Kirk wins the 2024 Booker Worthen Literary Prize for Winthrop Rockefeller
Central Arkansas Library System's Butler Center for Arkansas Studies will award the Booker Worthen Literary Prize to John Kirk for Winthrop...
John Davis at the Fayetteville Public Library
John C. Davis, the author of From Blue to Red: The Rise of the GOP in Arkansas will give a book talk at the Fayetteville Public Library on...
Winthrop Rockefeller wins the J.G. Ragsdale Book Award
Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912–1956 by John Kirk, has won the 2024 J. G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Railroad War in the Ozarks
View from Rotary Hall of the mob at the intersection of Rush and Vine streets. The U.S. Government Building is to the left across Rush Avenue from...
John Davis in the Jonesboro Sun: How Arkansas Went From Blue to Red
Steve Brawner talked with John C. Davis, author of the forthcoming book From Blue to Red: The Rise of the GOP in Arkansas for the Jonesboro Sun. How...
Rachel Stephens Wins the 2023 SECAC Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture by Rachel Stephens...
Rachel Stephens on Ozarks at Large
Daniel Caruth interviewed Rachel Stephens, author of Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture, on a recent episode...
American Atrocity Reviewed in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly
Colin Woodward has reviewed American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching in the latest issue of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly....
Jerome and Rohwer Reviewed in the Journal of Southern History
S. Charles Bolton has reviewed Jerome and Rohwer: Memories of Japanese American Internment in World War II Arkansas in the Journal of Southern...
Meet The Author: Dr. John Kirk at the North Little Rock Public Library
Why did Winthrop Rockefeller, scion of one of the most powerful families in American history, leave New York for an Arkansas mountaintop in the...
Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture is Now Available
Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture by Rachel Stephens, is now available! In the decades leading up to the...
Lynching and Leisure Reviewed in the Journal of Southern History
Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas by Terry Anne Scott has been reviewed by Simon Balto in The Journal of...
Winthrop Rockefeller by John Kirk Reviewed in the Journal of Southern History
Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912–1956 by John A. Kirk has been reviewed in the April 2023 issue of the Journal of Southern...
Now available in paperback! Jerome and Rohwer: Memories of Japanese American Internment in World War II Arkansas
Jerome and Rohwer: Memories of Japanese American Internment in World War II Arkansas, edited by Walter M. Imahara and David E. Meltzer is now...
Lynching and Leisure Reviewed in Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas by Terry Anne Scott has been reviewed in the Southwestern Historical...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Native Foods by Michael D. Wise
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler...
Matthew E. Stanley Reviews American Atrocity in The Journal of Southern History
Guy Lancaster's American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching has been reviewed in The Journal of Southern History. “Combining history,...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American...