University Of Arkansas Press imprint: 127 books
Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas
How Politicians, the Press, the Klan, and Religious Leaders Imagined an Enemy, 1910–1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Winner, 2017 Ragsdale Award
A timely study that puts current issues—religious intolerance, immigration, the separation of church and state, race relations, and politics—in historical context.
The masthead of the Liberator, an anti-Catholic newspaper published in Magnolia, Arkansas,...
The Improbable Life of the Arkansas Democrat
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
The Improbable Life of the Arkansas Democrat is based on more than one hundred interviews with employees of the Democrat, including editors, reporters, feature writers, cartoonists, circulation managers, business managers, salespeople, typesetters and others, from the 1930s through the early 1990s,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
The essays in United States District Courts and Judges of Arkansas, 1836–1960—one each for a judge and his decisions—come together to form a chronological history of the Arkansas judicial system as it grew from its beginnings in a frontier state to a modern institution.
The book begins...
by Billy Collins
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Bruce Weber in the New York Times called Billy Collins “the most popular poet in America.” He is the author of many books of poetry, including, most recently, The Rain in Portugal: Poems.
In 1988 the University of Arkansas Press published Billy Collins’s The Apple That Astonished Paris,...
Back Yonder
An Ozark Chronicle
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Wayman Hogue’s stories of growing up in the Ozarks, according to a 1932 review in the New York Times, “brilliantly illuminate mountain life to its very heart and in its most profound aspects.” A standout among the Ozarks literature that was popular during the Great Depression, this memoir of...
Slavery and Secession in Arkansas
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The absorbing documents collected in Slavery and Secession in Arkansas trace Arkansas’s tortuous road to secession and war. Drawn from contemporary pamphlets, broadsides, legislative debates, public addresses, newspapers, and private correspondence,...
First Amendment Studies in Arkansas
The Richard S. Arnold Prize Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This collection of fourteen essays written by young communication scholars at the University of Arkansas presents unique insights into how First Amendment issues have played out in the state. Rather than exploring the particular legal issues and the constitutional principles enunciated by the courts,...
Unequal Laws Unto a Savage Race
European Legal Traditions in Arkansas, 1686-1836
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1985
Partly because its colonial settlements were tiny, remote, and inconsequential, the early history of Arkansas has been almost entirely neglected. Even Arkansas Post, the principal eighteenth-century settlement, served mainly as a temporary place of residence for trappers and voyageurs. It was also...
Arkansas Travelers
Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804-1834
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2019
“I reckon stranger you have not been used much to traveling in the woods,” a hunter remarked to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft as he trekked through the Ozark backcountry in late 1818. The ensuing exchange is one of many compelling encounters between Arkansas travelers and settlers depicted in Arkansas...
Lights! Camera! Arkansas!
From Broncho Billy to Billy Bob Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Lights! Camera! Arkansas! traces the roles played by Arkansans in the first century of Hollywood’s film industry, from the first cowboy star, Broncho Billy Anderson, to Mary Steenburgen, Billy Bob Thornton, and many others. The Arkansas landscape also plays a starring role: North Little Rock’s...
Arkansas
A Narrative History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Arkansas: A Narrative History is a comprehensive history of the state that has been invaluable to students and the general public since its original publication. Four distinguished scholars cover prehistoric Arkansas, the colonial period, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and incorporate...
Arkansas/Arkansaw
How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol’ Boys Defined a State
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
What do Scott Joplin, John Grisham, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Maya Angelou, Brooks Robinson, Helen Gurley Brown, Johnny Cash, Alan Ladd, and Sonny Boy Williamson have in common? They’re all Arkansans. What do hillbillies, rednecks, slow trains, bare feet, moonshine, and double-wides have in common? For...
Arkansas
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Distilled from Arkansas: A Narrative History, the definitive work on the subject since its original publication in 2002, Arkansas: A Concise History is a succinct one-volume history of the state from the prehistory period to the present. Featuring four historians, each bringing his or her expertise...
Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas brings together the work of leading experts to cast a powerful light on the rich and diverse history of Arkansas’s racial and ethic relations. The essays span from slavery to the civil rights era and cover a diverse range of topics including the frontier experience...