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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...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of The Trouble with Light by Jeremy Michael Clark
The University of Arkansas Press is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of The Trouble with Light by Jeremy Michael Clark. In The...
The Daughter of Man Reviewed in the Colorado Review
LJ Sysko's collection The Daughter of Man, a finalist for the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, has been reviewed in the Colorado Review. “The...
Reviews of Twenty Acres by Amy Wang and Louise Halsey
Louise Halsey has reviewed Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods for the Fort Smith Historical Society Journal: “Twenty Acres is a...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Alison Thumel’s Collection Architect
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Architect by Alison Thumel, winner of the 2024 Miller...
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....
Daughter of Man Reviewed at Compulsive Reader
Amy Penne has reviewed L. J. Sysko's collection The Daughter of Man at Compulsive Reader. Sysko’s poetics are enviable. I’m jealous of her seemingly...
Up South in the Ozarks Reviewed in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly
Jared Phillips has reviewed Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins by Brooks Blevins, in the most recent issue of the Arkansas...
Miller Williams Poetry Prize Deadline Extended!
The deadline for the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize has been extended. Manuscripts must now be submitted by October 15, 2023. Every year, the...
The 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Has Been Awarded to Alison Thumel
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Prize has been awarded to Alison Thumel by series...
Country Boy: The Roots of Johnny Cash Reviewed in the Journal of Southern History
Brian Dempsey has reviewed Country Boy: The Roots of Johnny Cash by Colin Woodward in the August 2023 issue of the Journal of Southern History. “In...
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...
Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta Reviewed in the Journal of Southern History
Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre, edited by Michael Pierce and Calvin White, has been...
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...
Four Questions for Pauline Kaldas
Q: What was your inspiration for The Measure of Distance?Pauline: I’ve always wanted to write a novel about the immigration of a family from Egypt...
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...
Arkansas Made Reviewed in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly
Arkansas Made: A Survey of the Decorative, Mechanical, and Fine Arts Produced in Arkansas through 1950, 2nd edition, has been reviewed in the...
Now Available: The Measure of Distance, a novel by Pauline Kaldas
The Measure of Distance: An Immigrant Novel by Pauline Kaldas is now available. This family saga begins when Salim, the eldest of three brothers,...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Broadcasting the Ozarks
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Broadcasting the Ozarks: Si Siman and Country Music at the...
Now Available: Coriolis by A. D. Lauren-Abunassar
The University of Arkansas Press is excited to announce that Coriolis, by A. D. Lauren-Abunassar is now available. The collection is the winner of...