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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...
Marian Elizabeth Strobel has reviewed The War at Home: Perspectives on the Arkansas Experience during World War I, edited by Mark Christ, in the Journal of Southern History. “While many retrospectives highlight the diplomatic and military aspects of the ‘War to End...
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...
Jerome and Rohwer: Memories of Japanese American Internment in World War II Arkansas, is now available. “This volume presents an intimate view of Japanese American incarceration in the South," writes Kimberly Guise, senior curator and director for curatorial affairs,...
The War at Home: Perspectives on the Arkansas Experience during World War I, Edited by Mark K. Christ has been reviewed in the Spring 2021 issue of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. “Christ explains that the contributors wish to ‘encourage new research into the...
The University of Arkansas Press is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of Country Boy: The Roots of Johnny Cash, by Colin Woodward. Because Johnny Cash cut his classic singles at Sun Records in Memphis and reigned for years as country royalty from his...
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)...
Das Arkansas Echo: A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South by Kathleen Condray has been reviewed by Chris Stohs in the Friends of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies Newsletter. "Kathleen Condray’s Das Arkansas Echo: A Year in the...
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...
