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The Woods Colt: A Novel of the Ozarks Hills by Thames Williamson is now available. Edited by Phillip Douglas Howerton, The Woods Colt is part of the Chronicles of the Ozarks Series from the University of Arkansas Press, a reprint series that will make available some...
Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins by Brooks Blevins, is now available. “This book is more than just a remarkable collection of Ozark arcana (although it is that). Its good writing, wry humor, and deep, sympathetic understanding should appeal to...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that Carry the Rock: Race, Football, and the Soul of an American City by Jay Jennings, is now available. In 2007, as the fiftieth anniversary of the fight to integrate Little Rock Central High School approached,...
Stateswomen: A Centennial History of Arkansas Women Legislators, 1922-2022 by Lindsley Armstrong Smith and Stephen A. Smith is now available. Celebrating the centenary of women legislators’ membership in the Arkansas General Assembly, Stateswomen shines a light on the...
Brandon T. Jett has interviewed Guy Lancaster on the New Books Network podcast. Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals, or a demonstration of white supremacy against an entire...
“‘Bless your hearts, here I am again! Bad pennies will bob up, you know,’ Ozarks entertainer and folklorist May Kennedy McCord once joked. McCord has largely faded from public memory, but as historian Brooks Blevins acknowledges, ‘back in the hills and hollers in the...
Historian John Kirk appeared on the podcast "Getting Schooled with Abby Hornacek" to discuss the desegregation of Little Rock's Central High School. John A. Kirk is the George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock...
May Kennedy McCord is one the Ozarks most infamous personalities. Her writings and philosophies graced newspapers and radio programs from the early 1930s to the 1960s. Kristene Sutliff and Patti McCord have recently published a new book, “Queen of the Hillbillies”...
American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching by Guy Lancaster, has been reviewed in Arkansas Review by Brent M. S. Campney. “In his recent American Atrocity, [Lancaster] links the history of anti-Black mob violence in Arkansas to an analysis of theoretical...
Colin Woodward has interviewed John Kirk on his podcast American Rambler. John Kirk is English, but he has lived in Arkansas for more than ten years. Raised in the Manchester area, his fascination with the US began as a graduate student, where he studied the civil...
