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Arkansas Gems is an annual publication of the Arkansas Center for the Book. Posters and bookmarks are published to highlights new works about Arkansas or by authors from the Natural State. These are introduced each year at the National Book Festival in Washington,...
Sean Rost has reviewed The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas: How Protestant White Nationalism Came to Rule a State by Kenneth C. Barnes in the current issue of Missouri Historical Review. "Recent scholarship," Rost writes, "on the Second Ku Klux Klan (1915–1940)...
Situated in the heart of the University of Arkansas' Fayetteville campus, Old Main has long been home to numerous and varied departments, programs and classes throughout the university's 150-plus year history. And now, the next chapter of that history includes a new...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre, edited by Michael Pierce and Calvin White. Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta...
Jacqueline Froelich interviews Guy Lancaster on Ozarks at Large about lynching, justice, and Lancaster's new book American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching. A new book authored by noted Arkansas historian Guy Lancaster titled American Atrocity tears down...
Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals, or a demonstration of white supremacy against an entire population considered subhuman. However, in this new treatise, historian Guy...
George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908 by Jason Winders is now available, and 25% off when you order at uapress.com On September 6, 1892, a diminutive Black prizefighter brutally dispatched an overmatched white hope in the New...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas by Terry Anne Scott. Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas examines...
Mike Ives has written an examination of the teaching of race massacres in Arkansas and other states. Brian Mitchell, coauthor of Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Massacre of 1919, is featured in the article. The Elaine massacre of 1919 is believed to be the deadliest...
The Journal of American History reviewed S. Charles Bolton's Fugitivism: Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820–1860 in their March 2021 issue. “S. Charles Bolton’s deeply researched and elegantly written account of runaways in the lower Mississippi...
