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 in 1920s Arkansas: How Protestant White Nationalism Came to Rule a State by Kenneth C. Barnes has been reviewed by Thomas R. Pegram in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. “On the surface, the spectacular rise of the Arkansas Klan may appear to have...
Country Boy: The Roots of Johnny Cash by Colin Woodward has won the J. G. Ragsale Book Award, given annually by the Arkansas Historical Association for best book-length historical study (nonfiction) of any aspect of Arkansas history. The award is given in honor of J....
OzarksWatch Magazine has reviewed Queen of the Hillbillies: Writings of May Kennedy McCord, edited by Patti McCord and Kristene Sutliff. “Ultimately, this book is a great addition to anyone’s library—you don’t have to be an academic to enjoy McCord’s pearls of wisdom,...
Daily Yonder, a digital magazine that provides news, commentary, and analysis about and for rural America, has published an interview with Dr. Yulonda Eadie Sano and Dr. Cherisse Jones-Branch about Rural Black Studies, their new series with the University of Arkansas...
Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods by Sarah Neidhardt is now available. Sarah Neidhardt was an infant when her parents joined the growing back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s. Uprooting their young family to move from Colorado Springs to an isolated...
Guy Lancaster's American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching has been reviewed in The Journal of Southern History. “Combining history, sociology, philosophy, and cognitive science, Guy Lancaster’s concise and thought-provoking American Atrocity: The Types of...
The writer John Mort has reviewed The Woods Colt on his blog, Down Along the Piney. “As for the stereotypical characters, they rang true to me, much truer than the Arcadian hillfolk in The Shepherd of the Hills. The characters talk funny and make a lot of moonshine,...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks: The Life and Times of Lucile Morris Upton by Susan Croce Kelly. Lucile Morris Upton landed her first newspaper job out West in the early 1920s, then...
(LITTLE ROCK) – The Old State House Museum is hosting a new exhibit 'Forty Years in the Woods,' showcasing the botanical illustrations of artist and naturalist Kent Bonar. Admission to the exhibit is free. A reception will be held on Saturday, Jan. 28, from 1 to 3...
Susan Croce Kelly has reviewed Ozark Country by Otto Ernest Rayburn for OzarksWatch Magazine. Ozark Country is part of the Chronicles of the Ozarks Series, edited by Brooks Blevins. "Even more than eighty years since its publication, Ozark County is an engaging read....
