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 University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins by Brooks Blevins. As entertaining as it is enlightening, Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins is the rare book...
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...
John Kirk, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History, examines the first 44 years of Winthrop Rockefeller's life in his new book Winthrop Rockefeller: from New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912-1956. Rockefeller served...
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...
“Vividly written, Milson’s entertaining book will be a welcome read to anyone interested not only in Arkansas but also in the social, economic, and environmental history of the early nineteenth- century South.”—Mikko Saikku, Journal of American History, June 2021 In...
Queen of the Hillbillies: Writings of May Kennedy McCord, edited by Patti McCord and Kristene Sutliff is now available! May Kennedy McCord, lovingly nicknamed “First Lady of the Ozarks” and “Queen of the Hillbillies,” spent half a century sharing the history, songs,...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Stateswomen: A Centennial History of Arkansas Women Legislators, 1922–2022 by Lindsley Armstrong Smith and Stephen A. Smith. Celebrating the centenary of women legislators’...
Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912–1956, by John A. Kirk, is now available. Why did Winthrop Rockefeller, scion of one of the most powerful families in American history, leave New York for an Arkansas mountaintop in the 1950s? In this richly...
On this episode of Arts and Letters, historical geographer Andrew J. Milson about the Arkansas Traveler, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, who meticulously detailed his 1818-1819 journey along the rugged terrain of the Arkansas and Missouri border. In Arkansas Travelers,...
