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Legacies & Lunch is a free monthly program of Central Arkansas Library System's Butler Center for Arkansas Studies about Arkansas-related topics. On January 15, 1923, a crowd of more than a thousand angry men assembled in Harrison, Arkansas, near the...
Steve Yates has reviewed Men of No Reputation: Robert Boatright, the Buckfoot Gang, and the Fleecing of Middle America by Kimberly Harper in the December issue of OzarksWatch Magazine. “Only a historian and writer of Harper’s caliber," writes Yates, "could cope with...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that Straw in the Sun: A Memoir by Charlie May Simon, edited by Aleshia O’Neal is now available. “Last spring I went to Rocky Crossing again. New green grass was sprouting on the high ridge of the road that led...
Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods by Sarah Neidhardt has been reviewed in the October 2024 issue of the Missouri Historical Review. “By not glorifying the BTTL (back to the land) movement, Twenty Acres will help scholars consider harder questions about...
Men of No Reputation: Robert Boatright, the Buckfoot Gang, and the Fleecing of Middle America by Kimberly Harper has been reviewed in the October 2024 issue of the Missouri Historical Review. “Harper’s dogged research in archives, court records, and newspapers across...
Remote Access: Small Public Libraries in Arkansas by Sabine Schmidt and Don House has won the 2024 Arkansiana Book Award given by the Arkansas Library Association to the author(s) of a book orother work which represents a significant contribution to Arkansas heritage...
Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks: The Life and Times of Lucile Morris Upton by Susan Croce Kelly has won the 2024 Missouri Literary Award, given by the Missouri Library Association. Lucile Morris Upton landed her first newspaper job out West in the early 1920s, then...
Mob Rule in the Ozarks: The Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Strike, 1921-1923 by Kenneth Barnes is now available. On January 15, 1923, a crowd of more than a thousand angry men assembled in Harrison, Arkansas, near the headquarters of the M&NA Railroad, which...
From Blue to Red: The Rise of the GOP in Arkansas, is now available in paper. On the morning of Election Day 2010, Democrats occupied three of the four Arkansas seats in the US House of Representatives, both US Senate seats, all state constitutional offices, and...
“Last spring I went to Rocky Crossing again. New green grass was sprouting on the high ridge of the road that led there, and now and then there grew a persimmon shoot, or a small hickory, where a nut had fallen and opened deep in the untrampled earth. But the ruts...
