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Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas by Terry Anne Scott, has sold out in hardcover and is now available in paperback. In Lynching and Leisure, Terry Anne Scott examines how white Texans transformed lynching from a largely...
Man on a Mission: James Meredith and the Battle of Ole Miss is now available. In 1962, James Meredith famously desegregated the University of Mississippi (a.k.a. Ole Miss). As the first Black American admitted to the school, he demonstrated great courage amidst the...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Race and Repast: Foodscapes in Twentieth-Century Southern Literature by Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis. More than a means to physical sustenance, food is culture, and studying food is a...
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 available! Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta examines the history of labor relations and racial conflict in the...
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 lynching in America. American Atrocity is his most recent book. American Atrocity focuses on Arkansas, but it tells a...
Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas by Terry Anne Scott is now available. In Lynching and Leisure, Terry Anne Scott examines how white Texans transformed lynching from a largely clandestine strategy of extralegal punishment into...
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 Reviews. “In Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965, Cherisse...
Kenneth Barnes has won the 2022 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award, given each year by the Arkansas Historical Association to the best book published on Arkansas history, for The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas: How Protestant White Nationalism Came to Rule a State. Barnes also...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Man on a Mission: James Meredith and the Battle of Ole Miss. Written by Aram Goudsouzian, illustrated by Bill Murray, and edited by Vijay Shah, Man on a Mission is a graphic history...
Matthew Hild has reviewed Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Massacre of 1919, Revised Edition in the Spring 2021 issue of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. “The original edition of Blood in Their Eyes, published in 2001, has been the definitive study of the Elaine...
