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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Amistad Press launched the movement and hashtags #BlackPublishingPower and #BlackOutBestSellerList to support black authors and get their names on bestseller lists throughout the country. Tracy Sherrod, editorial director of Amistad, brought this idea to life. She...
Portrait of Charles J. Finger by Robert Hobart Davis, c. 1922 (Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library).The University of Arkansas Press announces the forthcoming publication of Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger,...
Book Authority has ranked The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash by John M. Alexander as number seven on its list of the "82 Best Country Music Books of All Time." "In discovering why Cash wrote a given song or chose to record it, Alexander...
The University of Arkansas Press announces the forthcoming publication of The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas: How White Nationalism Came to Rule a State, by Kenneth C. Barnes. The 1920s saw an explosion in the Klan’s power across the state, with at least 150 Arkansas...
"Fugitivism," Shaun Wallace writes in the May 2020 issue of The Journal of Southern History, "enriches scholarly knowledge and understanding of enslaved fugitives and fugitivity in the antebellum South, introducing individual stories of fugitivity from the lower...
"In the early days of the republic," Bill J. Gurley writes in the foreword to A Family Practice, "health care was certainly not viewed as a right but rather as a service—a much-needed service that not all could access easily. Physicians and their services were often a...
The first edition of Grif Stockley’s Blood in Their Eyes, published in 2001, brought renewed attention to the Elaine Massacre and sparked valuable new studies on racial violence and exploitation in Arkansas and beyond. With contributions from fellow historians Brian...
The University Press community has compiled a list of books to help readers escape the news, and the titles have been collected at LitHub, which writes "the goal for the list is to offer readers a way to entertain and inform in a time when reading allows us a portal...
Kathryn Olivarius, of Stanford University, has reviewed S. Charles Bolton's Fugitivism: Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820–1860 in the April 2020 issue of Environmental History. Environmental History is an interdisciplinary journal that addresses...
In the glittering intellectual world of 1920s Paris expatriates, Pauline Pfeiffer, a writer for Vogue, met Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley in a circle of friends that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Dorothy Parker. Pauline...
