On the cover: Photocopy of photograph (original negative owned by Missouri Historical Society) Dr. Charles Swap, Photographer ca. 1906 EXTERIOR -...
Arkansas and the Region
Mark Christ interviewed on KUAF about The War at Home
Kyle Kellams has interviewed Mark Christ on KUAF's Ozarks at Large about The War at Home: Perspectives on the Arkansas Experience during World War...
Virtual Event: Guy Lancaster and Brian K. Mitchell at Fayetteville Public Library
Fayetteville Public Library will host UA Press Author Spotlight, a virtual meeting featuring Brian K. Mitchell and Guy Lancaster discussing Blood in...
Cover Reveal: The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas
The Ku Klux Klan established a significant foothold in Arkansas in the 1920s, boasting more than 150 state chapters and tens of thousands of members...
Now Available! Donald Harington’s Double Toil and Trouble
“Louie may have told you of his Grand Scheme for licking the jinx that hovers over me. As a result, I’m now writing a ‘deliberately unambitious...
New in Paper! They Sought a Land: A Settlement in the Arkansas River Valley, 1840–1870
They Sought a Land, originally published in 1997 and now available in paperback, is the study of the rise and decline of a group of pioneers from...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps
The University of Arkansas Press is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black...
Cover Reveal! Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger
Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger (forthcoming from the University of Arkansas Press, February 2021), is the...
Yesterday Today Reviewed in Missouri Historical Review
Yesterday Today: Life in the Ozarks, Catherine S. Barker’s 1941 book drawing on her encounters and experiences as a federal social worker in the...
Virtual Event: William Lindsey and the Hazards of U.S. Medical Practice in the Past
William Lindsey, coauthor with William L. Russell and Mary L. Ryan of A Family Practice: The Russell Doctors and the Evolving Business of Medicine,...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Ozark Country
Vance Randolph and Otto Ernest Rayburn in Rayburn's Book Store, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, 1948. (University of Arkansas Libraries Special...
New Lower Price on The First Twenty-Five
312 pages, HardcoverMuch has been written about the historical desegregation of Little Rock Central High School by nine African American students in...
Cover Revealed for Double Toil and Trouble
The University of Arkansas Press is happy to introduce the cover design for Double Toil and Trouble: A New Novel and Short Stories by Donald...
Sanderia Faye in the Dallas Morning News
Amistad Press launched the movement and hashtags #BlackPublishingPower and #BlackOutBestSellerList to support black authors and get their names on...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Shared Secrets
Portrait of Charles J. Finger by Robert Hobart Davis, c. 1922 (Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library).The University of...
The Man in Song Named One of the Best Country Music Books of All Time by Book Authority
Book Authority has ranked The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash by John M. Alexander as number seven on its list of the "82 Best...
Announcing the forthcoming publication of The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas
The University of Arkansas Press announces the forthcoming publication of The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas: How White Nationalism Came to Rule a...
Fugitivism Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History
"Fugitivism," Shaun Wallace writes in the May 2020 issue of The Journal of Southern History, "enriches scholarly knowledge and understanding of...
NOW AVAILABLE! A Family Practice: The Russell Doctors and the Evolving Business of Medicine, 1799–1989
"In the early days of the republic," Bill J. Gurley writes in the foreword to A Family Practice, "health care was certainly not viewed as a right...
The Elaine Massacre of 1919: Resources
The first edition of Grif Stockley’s Blood in Their Eyes, published in 2001, brought renewed attention to the Elaine Massacre and sparked valuable...
The Best of the University Presses: 100 Books to Escape the News (LitHub)
The University Press community has compiled a list of books to help readers escape the news, and the titles have been collected at LitHub, which...