Butler Center For Arkansas Studies imprint: 4 books

Arkansas Women and the Right to Vote

The Little Rock Campaigns: 1868-1920

by Bernadette Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

Women from all over Arkansas—left out of the civil rights granted by the post–Civil War Reconstruction Amendments—took part in a long struggle to gain the primary civil right of American citizens: voting. The state’s capital city of Little Rock served as the focal point not only for suffrage...

From Azaleas to Zydeco

My 4,600-Mile Journey through the South

by Mark W. Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014

Inspired by a 1937 map and travelogue of a newspaperman’s tour, author Mark W. Nichols embarked on his own long journey into the unique cities of the South. En route he met beekeepers, cheese makers, crawfish “bawlers,” duck callers, and a licensed alligator hunter, as well as entrepreneurs...
by Marvin Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

Rock and roll pioneer and Newport native Sonny Burgess is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. In this book full of personal interviews and remembrances, Burgess and his band tell of their original recordings for Sun Records in the 1950s; their shows with greats such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash,...

Escape Velocity

A Charles Portis Miscellany

by Charles Portis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

For those who care about literature or simply love a good laugh (or both), Charles Portis has long been one of America’s most admired novelists. His 1968 novel True Grit is fixed in the contemporary canon, and four more have been hailed as comic masterpieces. Now, for the first time, his other writings—journalism,...
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