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 highly anticipated, two-volume, second edition of Arkansas Made: A Survey of the Decorative, Mechanical, and Fine Arts Produced in Arkansas through 1950 is now available. Arkansas Made is the culmination of Historic Arkansas Museum’s exhaustive investigations into...
The University of Arkansas Press announces the forthcoming publication of Remote Access: Small Public Libraries in Arkansas by Sabine Schmidt and Don House. With their cameras and notebooks in hand, photographers Sabine Schmidt and Don House embarked on an ambitious...
Published just days before America’s entry into World War II, Ozark Country is Otto Ernest Rayburn’s love letter to his adopted region. One of several chronicles of the Ozarks that garnered national attention during the Depression and war years, when many Americans...
Fugitivism: Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820–1860 by S. Charles Bolton has won the 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize. Like enslaved people all over the South, those in the Lower Mississippi Valley left home at night for clandestine parties or...
“Guy Lancaster has assembled in ten concise essays a sweeping examination of lynching in Arkansas from slavery to 1950. In doing so Bullets and Fire makes a major contribution to our understanding of the connection between repressive violence and the erection and...
Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps encourages a new consideration of Arkansas rural history by foregrounding Black women’s astute navigation of racial and gender politics as a means to uplift African Americans, develop opportunities for social mobility in...
The University of Arkansas Press has published Das Arkansas Echo: A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South, a study of the topics covered by the Das Arkansas Echo, a German-language weekly newspaper serving Arkansas’s German immigrant community in...
On the cover: Photocopy of photograph (original negative owned by Missouri Historical Society) Dr. Charles Swap, Photographer ca. 1906 EXTERIOR - Watts Log Cabin, Grandad Spring, Gravois Mills, Morgan County, MO (Library of Congress). Published just days before...
Kyle Kellams has interviewed Mark Christ on KUAF's Ozarks at Large about The War at Home: Perspectives on the Arkansas Experience during World War I, and the striking resemblances between Arkansas in 2020 and Arkansas in 1919. Listen: A Century Apart, Arkansas in 2020...
Fayetteville Public Library will host UA Press Author Spotlight, a virtual meeting featuring Brian K. Mitchell and Guy Lancaster discussing Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Massacre of 1919, on Wednesday, September 30 at 6pm. The first edition of Grif Stockley’s Blood...
