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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Remote Access: Small Public Libraries in Arkansas by Sabine Schmidt and Don House is now available! “What a wonderful, lovely book this is: a much-needed celebration of rural libraries, librarians, and readers.”—Keith Carter, author of From Uncertain to Blue With...
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...
Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804–1834 by Andrew J. Milson has been reviewed by Steven L. Driever in Historical Geography. Milson examines the travel narratives of four Arkansas travelers—William Dunbar, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft ,...
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...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Reporting for Arkansas: The Documentary Films of Jack Hill, by Dale Carpenter and Robert Cochran. Jack Hill was a pioneer Arkansas documentary filmmaker who between 1990 and his...
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...
Arkansas in Modern America since 1930, second edition, by Ben Johnson III, has been reviewed in the winter 2020 issue of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. Janine Parry writes: “It will surprise no one that the second edition of Ben Johnson’s Arkansas in Modern...
The Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) has announced the 2021 recipient of the Worthen Literary Prize. Kathleen Condray was chosen for her book, Das Arkansas Echo: A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South, which offers a fresh perspective on...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Queen of the Hillbillies: The Writings of May Kennedy McCord, edited by Patti McCord and Kristene Sutliff. May Kennedy McCord, lovingly called “First Lady of the Ozarks” and “Queen...
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...
