University Of Arkansas Press imprint: 127 books

by Daisy Bates, Eleanor Roosevelt, Clayborne Carson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007

At an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990’s Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her "the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time." Her classic account of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, couldn't be found on most bookstore shelves...

Bullets and Fire

Lynching and Authority in Arkansas, 1840-1950

by Guy Lancaster
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017

Bullets and Fire is the first collection on lynching in Arkansas, exploring all corners of the state from the time of slavery up to the mid-twentieth century and covering stories of the perpetrators, victims, and those who fought against vigilante violence. Among the topics discussed are the...

Distinguishing the Righteous from the Roguish

The Arkansas Supreme Court, 1836–1874

by J.W. Looney
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

During the period from 1836 to 1874, the legal system in the new state of Arkansas developed amid huge social change. While the legislature could, and did, determine what issues were considered of importance to the populace, the Arkansas Supreme Court determined the efficacy of legislation in cases...

Colonial Arkansas, 1686-1804

A Social and Cultural History

by Morris S. Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1993

Before Arkansas was acquired by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, it was claimed first by France, then later by Spain. Both of these cultures profoundly influenced the development of the region and its inhabitants, as evidenced in the many cultural artifacts that constitute...

John McDonnell

The Most Successful Coach in NCAA History

by Andrew Maloney, John McDonnell
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

When John McDonnell began his coaching career at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville--choosing it over Norman, Oklahoma, because Fayetteville reminded him of his native Ireland--he could hardly have imagined that he would become the most successful coach in the history of American collegiate...

Dardanelle and the Bottoms

Environment, Agriculture, and Economy in an Arkansas River Community, 1819-1970

by Mildred D. Gleason
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

Between 1819 and 1970, the town of Dardanelle, Arkansas, located on the south side of the Arkansas River in Yell County, Arkansas, experienced sustained prosperity and growth made possible by the nearby farming community known as the Dardanelle Bottoms. A reciprocal relationship between the...

I Do Wish This Cruel War Was Over

First Person Accounts of Civil War Arkansas from the Arkansas Historical Quarterly

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014

I Do Wish this Cruel War Was Over collects diaries, letters, and memoirs excerpted from their original publication in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly to offer a first-hand, ground-level view of the war’s horrors, its mundane hardships, its pitched battles and languid stretches, even its moments of...

The Un-Natural State

Arkansas and the Queer South

by Brock Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010

The Un-Natural State is a one-of-a-kind study of gay and lesbian life in Arkansas in the twentieth century, a deft weaving together of Arkansas history, dozens of oral histories, and Brock Thompson's own story. Thompson analyzes the meaning of rural drag shows, including a compelling description of...
by John J. Watkins, Richard J. Peltz-Steele, Robert Steinbuch
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017

Since its first edition in 1988, The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act has become the standard reference for the bench, the bar, and journalists for guidance in interpreting and applying the state’s open-government law. This sixth edition, published fifty years after the passage of the Act in...

The Rumble of a Distant Drum

The Quapaws and Old World Newcomers, 1673–1804

by Morris Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007

Winner of the 2001 Booker Worthen Literary Prize Winner of the 2002 S. G. Ragsdale Award for Arkansas History The Rumble of a Distant Drum opens in 1673 when Marquette and Jolliet sailed down the Mississippi River and found the Quapaw living in the area where the Arkansas River flowed into...

Fiat Flux

The Writings of Wilson R. Bachelor, Nineteenth-Century Country Doctor and Philosopher

by Jonathan Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

Wilson R. Bachelor was a Tennessee native who moved with his family to Franklin County, Arkansas, in 1870. A country doctor and natural philosopher, Bachelor was impelled to chronicle his life from 1870 to 1902, documenting the family's move to Arkansas, their settling a farm in Franklin County, and...

Arkansas Godfather

The Story of Owney Madden and How He Hijacked Middle America

by Graham Nown
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

Owney Madden lived a seemingly quiet life for decades in the resort town of Hot Springs, Arkansas, while he was actually helping some of America’s most notorious gangsters rule a vast criminal empire. In 1987, Graham Now first told Madden’s story in his book The English Godfather, in which he...

The Public's Health

A Narrative History Of Health And Disease In Arkansas

by Sam Taggert
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014

Smallpox, malaria, tuberculosis, cholera, and yellow fever were ever-present dangers in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Arkansas. The Public’s Health is a narrative history of the health and disease of the people of Arkansas, what they faced, and how they dealt with it.

The Arkansas Delta

Land of Paradox

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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1996

This collection of essays represents a large-scale attempt to characterize the long-neglected Arkansas Delta. The historical, social, economic, geographic, and cultural issues the authors address make it abundantly clear that the Delta—long thought to be a land of relative stasis—is actually changing...
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