Brandon T. Jett has interviewed Guy Lancaster on the New Books Network podcast. Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the...
Arkansas and the Region
Queen of the Hillbillies Reviewed in the Missouri Historical Review
“‘Bless your hearts, here I am again! Bad pennies will bob up, you know,’ Ozarks entertainer and folklorist May Kennedy McCord once joked. McCord...
John Kirk talks Little Rock Desegregation on “Getting Schooled”
Historian John Kirk appeared on the podcast "Getting Schooled with Abby Hornacek" to discuss the desegregation of Little Rock's Central High School....
OzarksWatch Video Magazine: May Kennedy McCord-Queen of the Ozarks
May Kennedy McCord is one the Ozarks most infamous personalities. Her writings and philosophies graced newspapers and radio programs from the early...
American Atrocity Reviewed in Arkansas Review
American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching by Guy Lancaster, has been reviewed in Arkansas Review by Brent M. S. Campney. “In his recent...
John Kirk talks Winthrop Rockefeller on Colin Woodward’s American Rambler Podcast
Colin Woodward has interviewed John Kirk on his podcast American Rambler. John Kirk is English, but he has lived in Arkansas for more than ten...
Pryor Center Presents Reporting for Arkansas: The Documentary Films of Jack Hill
The David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences launches the 2022-23 season of...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Twenty Acres by Sarah Neidhardt
Sarah Neidhardt grew up in the woods. When she was an infant, her parents left behind comfortable, urbane lives to take part in the back-to-the-land...
Announcing the Forthcoming Reissue of Carry the Rock by Jay Jennings
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming reissue of Jay Jennings's celebrated Carry the Rock: Race, Football, and the...
Announcing the Forthcoming Reissue of The Woods Colt
Although more than one hundred novels set in the Ozarks were published before it, Thames Ross Williamson’s 1933 novel The Woods Colt was the first...
New Biography of Winthrop Rockefeller Now Available in Paperback!
Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912–1956 by John Kirk, is now available in paperback. “John A. Kirk’s incisive new...
Now Available: Country Boy: The Roots of Johnny Cash
Country Boy: The Roots of Johnny Cash by Colin Woodward is now available. Because Johnny Cash cut his classic singles at Sun Records in Memphis and...
“Ozarks Preserving Ozarks” – A Brooks Blevins Profile
VIOLET HILL, ARK. - Aside from a store, a school and a historical marker a few miles from town, there’s little to see around Violet Hill, Ark., a...
The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas Reviewed in the Journal of Southern History
Barclay Key has reviewed Kenneth Barnes's The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas: How Protestant White Nationalism Came to Rule a State in the April...
Shared Secrets Reviewed by the Journal of Southern History
Mary Zaborskis has reviewed Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger by Elizabeth Findley Shores in the May 2022 issue...
Now Available: Reporting for Arkansas: The Documentary Films of Jack Hill
Reporting for Arkansas: The Documentary Films of Jack Hill by Dale Carpenter and Robert Cochran is now available! Jack Hill was a pioneering...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Up South in the Ozarks
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins by Brooks...
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...
Interviews with John Kirk, author of new Winthrop Rockefeller Biography
John Kirk, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History, examines the first 44 years of...
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...