Bill Bowen’s memoir deals with many of the most important events and years in Arkansas history in the twentieth century. Bowen was born and raised in Altheimer, in the Arkansas Delta, a section of the
Karim (English and comparative literature, San Jose State U.), whose father is Iranian, presents an anthology of writing by women of the Iranian diaspora that compiles about 100 selections of poetry,
She grew up in Hot Springs, Arkansas, prominent in the constellation of myth-ridden, segregated and sweaty towns that bedecked the South of the 1930s and 1940s. She and her father shared a fascination
Beginning in 1808, US law forbid the importation of foreign slaves. Obadele-Starks (history, Texas A&M U.-College Station and Qatar) documents the lively trade that developed to smuggle Africans i
Over the years, Thomas Hauser has earned recognition as one of the most respected boxing writers in America and the definitive chronicler of the contemporary boxing scene. The Greatest Sport of All is
This is a history of white/black race relations in Arkansas from the time it became a territory to the present era. He documents more than a century of brutal racial oppression that has only been miti
Mainfort (archaeology, Arkansas Archeological Survey, and anthropology, U. of Arkansas) recounts the life and work of Samuel C. Dellinger (1892-1973), who fought to retain about 8,000 prehistoric arti
Elites have shaped southern life and communities, argues the distinguished historian Willard Gatewood. These essays—written by Gatewood’s colleagues and former students in his honor—explore the influe
The writings of William Gilmore Simms (18061870) provide a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all of its regional diversity. Simms’s account of the region is more comp
With America on the brink of the largest number of older adults and persons with disabilities in the country's history, the deceleration in housing production during the first decade of the twenty-fi
Since 9/11 there has been a cultural and political blossoming among those of the Afghan diaspora, especially in the United States, revealing a vibrant, active, and intellectual Afghan American communi
Covering a period of 60 years, this book presents 100-plus b&w photographs taken by African American photographer Grice. The photographs document segregated life in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Preceding
The product of fifteen years of work by top herpetologists, this book is a comprehensive examination of the amphibians and reptiles of Arkansas, featuring over 136 species and subspecies. With over fi
When Arkansas seceded from the Union in 1861, it was a thriving state. But the Civil War and Reconstruction left it reeling, impoverished, and so deeply divided that it never regained the level of pr
It's one thing to understand that over twenty-thousand Confederate and Union soldiers died at the Battle of Murfreesboro. It's quite another to study an ambrotype portrait of twenty-year-old private
This substantial anthology charts the development of this influential journal decade by decade, making clear that although it has close ties to a particular region, it has consistently maintained a n
The term Jim Crow” has had multiple meanings and a dark and complex past. It was first used in the early nineteenth century. After the Civil War it referred to the legal, customary, and often extraleg
