Kirkus Reviews has named The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford, by James McWilliams, one of the best nonfiction books of 2025. In a starred review,...
Arkansas and the Region
Benjamin R. Cohen Reviews The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford at Public Books
"I knew nearly nothing about the life of Frank Stanford before this new, barnstorming, capacious biography. I knew only the smallest amount about...
Eat Like the Hogs is Now Available!
Eat Like the Hogs: A Collection of Favorite Recipes from Razorback Greats, edited by Karen Van Horn and Becky Bull is now available! The book...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of The Metal of a Thousand Uses: Mercury Mining in Arkansas, 1930–1946
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of The Metal of a Thousand Uses: Mercury Mining in Arkansas,...
Eat Like the Hogs Available for Pre-Order
Eat Like the Hogs: A Collection of Favorite Recipes from Razorback Greats is available for pre-order. “Eat Like the Hogs," writes Food Network host...
Mob Rule in the Ozarks Wins 2025 Ragsdale Award
Mob Rule in the Ozarks: The Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Strike, 1921-1923 by Kenneth Barnes has won the 2025 J. G. Ragsdale Book Award from...
Mob Rule in the Ozarks Reviewed in the Fort Smith Historical Society Journal
Mob Rule in the Ozarks: The Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Strike, 1921-1923 by Kenneth Barnes, has been reviewed by Maylon Rice in the Fort...
Broadcasting the Ozarks Reviewed at Bluegrass Unlimited
Dan Miller has reviewed Broadcasting the Ozarks: Si Siman and Country Music at the Crossroads by Kitty Ledbetter and Scott Foster Siman at Bluegrass...
Sarah Neidhardt talks about her memoir Twenty Acres on KBOO FM
Sarah Neidhardt and her mother Wendy McPhee joined Ken Jones at KBOO in Portland to talk about Sarah's memoir Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in...
Broadcasting the Ozarks Reviewed in the Missouri Historical Review
Broadcasting the Ozarks: Si Siman and Country Music at the Crossroads has been reviewed in the Missouri Historical Review. “Like most creative...
Ken Barnes Talks Mob Rule in the Ozarks at Legacies and Lunch
Legacies & Lunch is a free monthly program of Central Arkansas Library System's Butler Center for Arkansas Studies about Arkansas-related...
Men of No Reputation Reviewed in OzarksWatch
Steve Yates has reviewed Men of No Reputation: Robert Boatright, the Buckfoot Gang, and the Fleecing of Middle America by Kimberly Harper in the...
Now Available: Straw in the Sun by Charlie May Simon
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that Straw in the Sun: A Memoir by Charlie May Simon, edited by Aleshia O’Neal is now...
Twenty Acres Reviewed in the Missouri Historical Review
Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods by Sarah Neidhardt has been reviewed in the October 2024 issue of the Missouri Historical Review....
Men of No Reputation Reviewed in the Missouri Historical Review
Men of No Reputation: Robert Boatright, the Buckfoot Gang, and the Fleecing of Middle America by Kimberly Harper has been reviewed in the October...
Remote Access Wins 2024 Arkansiana Book Award
Remote Access: Small Public Libraries in Arkansas by Sabine Schmidt and Don House has won the 2024 Arkansiana Book Award given by the Arkansas...
Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks Wins 2024 Missouri Literary Award
Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks: The Life and Times of Lucile Morris Upton by Susan Croce Kelly has won the 2024 Missouri Literary Award, given by the...
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...
From Blue to Red: The Rise of the GOP in Arkansas Now in Paper
From Blue to Red: The Rise of the GOP in Arkansas, is now available in paper. On the morning of Election Day 2010, Democrats occupied three of the...
Available for Pre-Order: Straw in the Sun by Charlie May Simon
“Last spring I went to Rocky Crossing again. New green grass was sprouting on the high ridge of the road that led there, and now and then there grew...
Twenty Acres Reviewed in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly
Sarah Neidhardt's memoir Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods has been reviewed by Thomas M. Kersen in the most recent issue of the...