University Of Arkansas Press imprint: 127 books
The Long Shadow of Little Rock
A Memoir
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...