Modern scholars interpreting the state’s past.
Modern scholars interpreting the state’s past.
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Author of editor of over a dozen university press books, Jeannie Whayne was the coeditor with Willard B. Gatewood Jr. of the first title published by the University of Arkansas Press: The Governors of Arkansas. Whayne has been professor of history in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas since 1990, where she has served as chair of the department and editor of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly.
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Kelly Houston Jones, an Associate Professor of History (Arkansas Tech University), specializes in American slavery, usually focusing her research efforts on the trans-Mississippi South, especially Arkansas. She is the author of A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas (University of Georgia Press).
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...
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...
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...
Erik Wright has reviewed Men of No Reputation: Robert Boatright, the Buckfoot Gang, and the Fleecing of Middle America in the Tombstone Epitaph. “Historian Kimberly Harper, a noted voice on Southern violence and post-Reconstruction issues, brings (back) to life one of...
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...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that Broadcasting the Ozarks: Si Siman and Country Music at the Crossroads by Kitty Ledbetter and Scott Foster Siman is now available! Broadcasting the Ozarks explores the vibrant country music scene that emerged...
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....
Men of No Reputation: Robert Boatright, the Buckfoot Gang, and the Fleecing of Middle America by Kimberly Harper is now available! Men of No Reputation is the first account to explore the life of Robert Boatright, one of Middle America’s most gifted, but forgotten,...
Colin Woodward has reviewed American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching in the latest issue of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. “Lancaster’s book … is a timely and important work. [It] reveals a mastery of the source material, expertly blending primary and...
Jared Phillips has reviewed Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins by Brooks Blevins, in the most recent issue of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. “This question of the South, and the Ozarks’ place within it, is just beneath the surface of every essay....
