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 Ku Klux Klan established a significant foothold in Arkansas in the 1920s, boasting more than 150 state chapters and tens of thousands of members at its zenith. Propelled by the prominence of state leaders such as Grand Dragon James Comer and head of Women of the...
“Louie may have told you of his Grand Scheme for licking the jinx that hovers over me. As a result, I’m now writing a ‘deliberately unambitious divertissement,’ a thriller. The critics won’t know what to make of it. Neither will I, for that matter.”—Donald Harington,...
They Sought a Land, originally published in 1997 and now available in paperback, is the study of the rise and decline of a group of pioneers from the Carolinas who came to the Arkansas River Valley in the mid nineteenth century. Pisgah, as their settlement came to be...
The University of Arkansas Press is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914—1965, by Cherisse Jones-Branch. The book is the first major study to consider...
Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger (forthcoming from the University of Arkansas Press, February 2021), is the story of British expatriate Charles Joseph Finger (1867–1941). For nearly a century, he was best known as an award-winning...
Yesterday Today: Life in the Ozarks, Catherine S. Barker’s 1941 book drawing on her encounters and experiences as a federal social worker in the backwoods of the Ozarks in the 1930s, has been reviewed in the Missouri Historical Review. “Unlike Vance Randolph and other...
William Lindsey, coauthor with William L. Russell and Mary L. Ryan of A Family Practice: The Russell Doctors and the Evolving Business of Medicine, 1799–1989 will present a lecture on Monday, July 20, 2020 as part of the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas's "Monday...
Vance Randolph and Otto Ernest Rayburn in Rayburn's Book Store, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, 1948. (University of Arkansas Libraries Special Collections)The University of Arkansas Press announces the forthcoming publication of Ozark Country, by Otto Ernest Rayburn,...
312 pages, HardcoverMuch has been written about the historical desegregation of Little Rock Central High School by nine African American students in 1957. History has been silent, however, about the students who desegregated Little Rock’s five public junior high...
The University of Arkansas Press is happy to introduce the cover design for Double Toil and Trouble: A New Novel and Short Stories by Donald Harington, edited by Brian Walter. Liz Lester, press production manager, was in charge of creative direction, including...
