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 is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Jerome and Rohwer: Memories of Japanese American Internment in World War II Arkansas, edited by Walter M. Imahara and David E. Meltzer. Not long after the attack on Pearl Harbor that drew...
The Arkansas Historical Association's annual conference is this week. In celebration, the University of Arkansas Press is offering 40% off past winners of the AHA's J. G. Ragsdale Book Award and John William Graves Book Award. Since 2002, the Arkansas Historical...
Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804–1834 by Andrew J. Milson was reviewed in the May 2021 issue of The Journal of Southern history by Joseph Key. “Andrew J. Milson reconceptualizes the Mississippi River Valley and the American South of...
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...
Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965 by Cherisse Jones-Branch is now available! The first major study to consider Black women’s activism in rural Arkansas, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps foregrounds...
Kathleen Condray, author of Das Arkansas Echo: A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South spoke with Kyle Kellams on KUAF's Ozarks at Large this week. To listen to the interview, click here. In the late nineteenth century, a thriving immigrant...
In the late nineteenth century, a thriving immigrant population supported three German-language weekly newspapers in Arkansas. Most traces of those newspapers have disappeared—but luckily, the complete run of one of the weeklies, Das Arkansas Echo, still exists,...
“Ken Barnes has skillfully produced a work that is accessible to a general audience and one that offers new insights for historians. An undeniable contribution to Arkansas and American history.”—Ben F. Johnson III The Ku Klux Klan established a significant foothold in...
The University of Arkansas Libraries and University of Arkansas Press presented a discussion on Thursday, March 4, on Zoom featuring author Elizabeth Findley Shores' about her recent book, Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger. It was...
Join the University of Arkansas Libraries and Press for a discussion of author Elizabeth Shores' recent book, Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger, and a virtual tour of related Special Collections holdings from 4-5 p.m. Thursday,...
