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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Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks: The Life and Times of Lucile Morris Upton by Susan Croce Kelly is now available! Lucile Morris Upton landed her first newspaper job out West in the early 1920s, then returned home to spend half a century reporting on the Ozarks world she...
Brooks Blevins, author of the new essay collection Up South in the Ozarks. Part historical and part journalistic, Blevins’s essays combine the scholarly sensibilities of a respected historian with the insights of someone raised in rural hill country. His stories of...
Greta Cross has written about Queen of the Hillbillies: Writings of May Kennedy McCord in the Springfield News-Leader. “McCord’s late grandmother was May Kennedy McCord, popularly referred to as the ‘Queen of the Hillbillies’ or ‘First Lady of the Ozarks’ by those who...
The University of Arkansas Press is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of Águila: The Vision, Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Two-Spirit Shaman in the Ozark Mountains by María Cristina Moroles and Lauri Umansky. In Águila: The Vision, Life, Death, and Rebirth...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of From Blue to Red: The Rise of the GOP in Arkansas by John C. Davis. On the morning of Election Day 2010, Democrats occupied three of the four Arkansas seats in the US House of...
Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912–1956 by John A. Kirk has been reviewed in the April 2023 issue of the Journal of Southern History. “John A. Kirk’s detailed biography of Winthrop Rockefeller, the fifth child and fourth son of John D....
Jerome and Rohwer: Memories of Japanese American Internment in World War II Arkansas, edited by Walter M. Imahara and David E. Meltzer is now available in paperback! Not long after the attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the United States into World War II, the federal...
Sarah Neidhardt, author of Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods will give a reading and book signing at Pearl's Books in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Sunday, May 28 at 4:30. Sarah Neidhardt was an infant when her parents joined the growing back-to-the-land...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804–1834 by Andrew J. Milson is now available in paperback. In Arkansas Travelers, historical geographer Andrew J. Milson takes readers on an...
“Brooks Blevins—the dean of Ozark studies—and the University of Arkansas Press have offered another generous helping of regional fare with their Chronicles of the Ozarks series. But Queen of the Hillbillies: Writings of May Kennedy McCord, edited by Patti McCord and...
