The former president and architect of the Camp David Accords elucidates the historical and political background of Middle East enmities and presents an analysis of the structure of tensions and confli
A century ago Hot Springs, Arkansas, was a world-renowned resort city. Today, the town remains the most unique city in Arkansas but with much of its Victorian-to-1950s views nearly unrecognizable. Hot
J. William Fulbright (1905–1995), a Rhodes scholar and lawyer, began his long career in public service when he was elected to serve Arkansas’s Third District in Congress in 1942. He quickl
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. W
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
For the first time, the work of Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad is being brought to English-speaking readers through the perspective of a translator who is a poet in her own right, fluent in both Persi
Regional in the best sense, Baker's poems capture the universal human commerce of love and conflict enduring under the water towers and behind the storefronts of America's heartland. Working in syllab
In 1988 the University of Arkansas Press published Billy Collins’s The Apple That Astonished Paris, his first real book of poems,” as he describes it in a new, delightful preface written expressly for
