Books for the natural reader. From fascinating tales of history’s most famous Arkansans to comprehensive studies of the state’s most incredible wildlife, the University of Arkansas Press is our region’s most important publisher and a local source for readers of all backgrounds who seek a deeper understanding of the world around them. In the last four decades we’ve amassed a diverse list of titles for everyone, from generalists to specialists, that help comprise the intellectual and cultural foundations of Arkansas and its environs. Here, readers find offerings that include scholarly monographs, pictorial histories, edited collections, travel and nature guides, and literary anthologies that celebrate and investigate the best of the region.
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The David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences launches the 2022-23 season of Pryor Center Presents at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 14, with a discussion by Dale Carpenter and Robert Cochran of their...
Sarah Neidhardt grew up in the woods. When she was an infant, her parents left behind comfortable, urbane lives to take part in the back-to-the-land movement. They moved their young family to an isolated piece of land deep in the Arkansas Ozarks where they built a...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming reissue of Jay Jennings's celebrated Carry the Rock: Race, Football, and the Soul of an American City. In 2007, as the fiftieth anniversary of the fight to integrate Little Rock Central High...
Although more than one hundred novels set in the Ozarks were published before it, Thames Ross Williamson’s 1933 novel The Woods Colt was the first to achieve notable success both popularly and critically. Written entirely in regional dialect, The Woods Colt is the...
Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912–1956 by John Kirk, is now available in paperback. “John A. Kirk’s incisive new biography," writes historian Ben Johnson, III, "overturns the familiar view of Winthrop Rockefeller as an outsider who decamped...
Country Boy: The Roots of Johnny Cash by Colin Woodward is now available. Because Johnny Cash cut his classic singles at Sun Records in Memphis and reigned for years as country royalty from his Nashville-area mansion, people tend to associate the Man in Black with...
VIOLET HILL, ARK. - Aside from a store, a school and a historical marker a few miles from town, there’s little to see around Violet Hill, Ark., a place where purple flowers come forth each year to keep the town honest. But despite its not-always-great-for-growing...
Barclay Key has reviewed Kenneth Barnes's The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas: How Protestant White Nationalism Came to Rule a State in the April issue of the Journal of Southern History. Barnes’s findings generally affirm Nancy K. MacLean’s pivotal study, Behind the...
Mary Zaborskis has reviewed Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger by Elizabeth Findley Shores in the May 2022 issue of the Journal of Southern History. Elizabeth Findley Shores’s recent publication conveys 1925 Newbery Medalist Charles...
Reporting for Arkansas: The Documentary Films of Jack Hill by Dale Carpenter and Robert Cochran is now available! Jack Hill was a pioneering Arkansas documentary filmmaker dedicated to sharing his state’s history with a wider public. Following a decade as an...
