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John C. Davis, the author of From Blue to Red: The Rise of the GOP in Arkansas will give a book talk at the Fayetteville Public Library on Wednesday, May 15 at 6pm. The event is part of the library’s UA Press Author Spotlight Series. From Blue to Red offers a...
Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912–1956 by John Kirk, has won the 2024 J. G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association. Why did Winthrop Rockefeller, scion of one of the most powerful families in American history, leave New...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that Haunted Man’s Report: Reading Charles Portis by Robert Cochran is now available! Robert Cochran’s Haunted Man’s Report is a pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis...
View from Rotary Hall of the mob at the intersection of Rush and Vine streets. The U.S. Government Building is to the left across Rush Avenue from the M&NA headquarters. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 23, 1923.The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to...
Kimberly Harper, author of Men of No Reputation: Robert Boatright, the Buckfoot Gang, and the Fleecing of Middle America, talked with Kate Carpenter on the Drafting the Past podcast about "how some key mentors helped her find her way as a historian and writer, how she...
Susan Kelly, the author of Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks: The Life and Times of Lucile Morris Upton will give a book talk at the Fayetteville Public Library on Wednesday, March 27 at 6pm. The event is part of the library’s UA Press Author Spotlight Series....
Students, staff, faculty, and members of the Northwest Arkansas community at large are warmly invited to a reading and Q&A with María Cristina Moroles, the author of the recently published memoir, Águila: The Vision, Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Two-Spirit Shaman...
John Davis will present “From Blue to Red: The Rise of the GOP in Arkansas" at the Clinton Presidential Center at Noon on Monday, March 4. “From Blue to Red: The Rise of the GOP in Arkansas is the definitive book on the modern history of the Arkansas GOP. By...
Reporting for Arkansas: The Documentary Films of Jack Hill has been reviewed in the Journal of Southern History. Dale Carpenter and Robert Cochran’s Reporting for Arkansas: The Documentary Films of Jack Hill is a highly readable, highly usable volume, both a biography...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the From Blue to Red: The Rise of the GOP in Arkansas by John C. Davis, is now available. On the morning of Election Day 2010, Democrats occupied three of the four Arkansas seats in the US House of...
