University Of Arkansas Press: 128 books
Stories of Survival
Arkansas Farmers during the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Through dozens of in-depth interviews representing all sections of the state, farm families recall their best times, their worst times, and day-to-day experiences such as chores, washing, bathing, clothes making, medical care, home remedies, spiritual life, courtship and marriage, and school experiences....
Defining the Delta
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Lower Mississippi River Delta
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Inspired by the Arkansas Review’s “What Is the Delta?” series of articles, Defining the Delta collects fifteen essays from scholars in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities to describe and define this important region.
Here are essays examining the Delta’s physical properties,...
Blood in Their Eyes
The Elaine Race Massacres of 1919
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Winner of the 2002 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
American Association of State and Local History Award 2003
In late September 1919, black sharecroppers met to protest unfair settlements for their cotton crops from white plantation owners. Local law enforcement broke up the union's meeting,...
Hoop Crazy
The Lives of Clair Bee and Chip Hilton
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Clair Bee (1896–1983) was a hugely successful basketball coach at Rider College and Long Island University with a 412 and 87 record before his career was derailed in 1951 by a point-shaving scandal. In the trial that sent his star player, Sherman White, to prison, the judge excoriated Bee for creating...
Passing the Torch
Planning for the Next Generation of Leaders in Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Public-service executives, both elected and appointed within the public and nonprofit sectors, are retiring at record levels, and the number of Americans reaching age sixty-five annually will continue to rise over the next decade and is expected to surpass four million in 2020. Finding qualified,...
Beyond C. L. R. James
Shifting Boundaries of Race and Ethnicity in Sports
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Beyond C. L. R. James brings together essays analyzing the intercon¬nections among race, ethnicity, and sport. Published in memory of C. L. R. James, the revolutionary sociologist and writer from Trinidad who penned the famous autobiographical account of cricket titled Beyond a Boundary, this collection...
Democratic Sports
Men's and Women's College Athletics during the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
American public universities suffered tremendous funding cuts during the 1930s, yet they were also responsible for educating increasing numbers of students. The mounting financial troubles, coupled with a perceived increase in the number of “radical” student activists, contributed to a general...
Keeping Faith
Memoirs of a President
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Available for the first time in paperback, Keeping Faith is Jimmy Carter's account of the satisfaction, frustration, and solitude that attend the man in the Oval Office.
Words Unbound
Teaching Dante's Inferno in the High School Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Words Unbound draws on Milton Burke’s thirty years of teaching experience to help educators bring Inferno alive for today’s young reader. In a conversational, “colleague-to-colleague” style, Burke shares the interpretations, questions, and exercises he found effective in his high-school classroom,...
Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood
The Progressive Era Creation of the Schoolboy Sports Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Gilbert Patten, writing as Burt L. Standish, made a career of generating serialized twenty-thousand-word stories featuring his fictional creation Frank Merriwell, a student athlete at Yale University who inspired others to emulate his example of manly boyhood. Patten and his publisher, Street and...
San Francisco Bay Area Sports
Golden Gate Athletics, Recreation, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
San Francisco Bay Area Sports brings together fifteen essays covering the issues, controversies, and personalities that have emerged as northern Californians recreated and competed over the last 150 years. The area’s diversity, anti-establishment leanings, and unique and beautiful natural surroundings...
The Scars of Project 459
The Environmental Story of the Lake of the Ozarks
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The Scars of Project 459 tells the environmental story of the Lake of the Ozarks, built by the Union Electric Company in 1931. At 55,000 acres, the lake was the biggest manmade lake in the United States at the time of its completion, and it remains the biggest in the Midwest, with 1,100 miles of shoreline...
The Future Ain't What It Used to Be
The 2016 Presidential Election in the South
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be details how the 2016 presidential election developed in the eleven states that make up the South. Preeminent scholars of Southern politics analyze this momentous election, including the issues that drove southern voters, the nomination process in early 2016, and...
by Rosalynn Carter
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1994
"What makes Rosalynn Carter so interesting and her memoir so compelling is her awareness that she is part of a long and distinguished historical tradition: the southern lady in politics . . . What ought to be a continuing legacy is Rosalynn's success in breaking new ground as a First Lady, without uprooting the traditions of the past." --Minneapolis Tribune