Arkansas in Modern America since 1930, second edition, by Ben Johnson III, has been reviewed in the winter 2020 issue of the Arkansas Historical...
Arkansas and the Region
Condray Chosen as 2021 Worthen Literary Prize Recipient
The Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) has announced the 2021 recipient of the Worthen Literary Prize. Kathleen Condray was chosen for her book,...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Queen of the Hillbillies: The Writings of May Kennedy McCord
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Queen of the Hillbillies: The Writings of May Kennedy McCord,...
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...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Jerome and Rohwer
The University of Arkansas is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Jerome and Rohwer: Memories of Japanese American Internment in...
Arkansas Historical Association Conference – Book Sale!
The Arkansas Historical Association's annual conference is this week. In celebration, the University of Arkansas Press is offering 40% off past...
Arkansas Travelers Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History
Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804–1834 by Andrew J. Milson was reviewed in the May 2021 issue of The Journal of...
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...
Kathleen Condray on KUAF’s Ozarks at Large
Kathleen Condray, author of Das Arkansas Echo: A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South spoke with Kyle Kellams on KUAF's...
Virtual Event! Kathleen Condray at Fayetteville Public Library
In the late nineteenth century, a thriving immigrant population supported three German-language weekly newspapers in Arkansas. Most traces of those...
Now Available! The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas
“Ken Barnes has skillfully produced a work that is accessible to a general audience and one that offers new insights for historians. An undeniable...
Author Talk: Elizabeth Findley Shores
The University of Arkansas Libraries and University of Arkansas Press presented a discussion on Thursday, March 4, on Zoom featuring author...
Author Elizabeth Shores to Discuss Shared Secrets
Join the University of Arkansas Libraries and Press for a discussion of author Elizabeth Shores' recent book, Shared Secrets: The Queer World of...
Now Available! Arkansas Made Second Edition
The highly anticipated, two-volume, second edition of Arkansas Made: A Survey of the Decorative, Mechanical, and Fine Arts Produced in Arkansas...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Remote Access
The University of Arkansas Press announces the forthcoming publication of Remote Access: Small Public Libraries in Arkansas by Sabine Schmidt and...
Now Available: Ozark Country by Otto Ernest Rayburn
Published just days before America’s entry into World War II, Ozark Country is Otto Ernest Rayburn’s love letter to his adopted region. One of...
Fugitivism Wins 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
Fugitivism: Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820–1860 by S. Charles Bolton has won the 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize. Like...
Bullets and Fire reviewed in the Journal of American History
“Guy Lancaster has assembled in ten concise essays a sweeping examination of lynching in Arkansas from slavery to 1950. In doing so Bullets and Fire...
Cover Reveal: Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps
Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps encourages a new consideration of Arkansas rural history by foregrounding Black women’s astute navigation of...
Now Available! Das Arkansas Echo by Kathleen Condray
The University of Arkansas Press has published Das Arkansas Echo: A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South, a study of the...