Brooks Blevins: 7 books
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...
Hill Folks
A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
The Ozark region, located in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, has long been the domain of the folklorist and the travel writer--a circumstance that has helped shroud its history in stereotype and misunderstanding. With Hill Folks, Brooks Blevins offers the first in-depth historical treatment...
A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1
The Old Ozarks
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Geologic forces raised the Ozarks. Myth enshrouds these hills. Human beings shaped them and were shaped by them. The Ozarks reflect the epic tableau of the American people—the native Osage and would-be colonial conquerors, the determined settlers and on-the-make speculators, the endless labors of...
Cattle in the Cotton Fields
A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Cattle raising today is the most widely practiced form of agriculture in Alabama and ranks second only to the poultry industry in terms of revenue. Brooks Blevins not only relates the development and importance of the industry to agricultural practices but also presents it as an integral component...
Southern Journeys
Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
The first collection of its kind to examine tourism as a complicated and vital force in southern history, culture, and economics.
Anyone who has seen Rock City, wandered the grounds of Graceland, hiked in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, or watched the mermaids swim at Weeki Wachee knows...
History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie
Scholarship, Activism, and Wayne Flynt in the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Social and political history of the modern South.
This collection of essays on the social and political history of the modern South consider the region’s poor, racial mores and race relations, economic opportunity, Protestant activism, political coalitions and interest groups, social...
The Country Store: In Search of Mercantiles and Memories in the Ozarks
An article from Southern Cultures 18:4, Winter 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
The country store survives. The survivors—and there are more of them than you might imagine—are models of adaptation."
This article appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.
Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring,...