University of Arkansas Press

In ?guila: The Vision, Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Two-Spirit Shaman in the Ozark Mountains, Mar?a Cristina Moroles traces the path of her extraordinary life from the streets of Dallas to the...

The history of coffee is much more than the tale of one luxury good--it is a lens through which to consider various strands of world history, from food and foodways to religion and economics and...

Winner of the 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize Inside the dodo bird is a forest, Inside the forest a peach analog, Inside the peach analog a woman, Inside the woman a lake of funerals This layering of...

An Outdoor Journal, first published in 1988, is President Carter's memoir of hunting and fishing and the meaning of nature, revealing much about a man who embodies "so much of what Americans claim to...

Anna Akhmatova and Her CircleAuthor: Konstantin PolivanovPublisher: University of Arkansas PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 1994Number of Pages: 336 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

When he died, my brother became the architect of the rest of my life, writes Alison Thumel in Architect, which interweaves poems, lyric essays, and visual art to great emotional effect. In this debut...

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...

Barley Child, Greg Rappleye's fifth collection, draws from family legends, whispered stories, and sworn denials across four generations of Irish American lives--recalled, imagined, and reconstructed...

Berlin Sports: Spectacle, Recreation, and Media in Germany's Metropolis presents a series of case studies that explore the history of sports in Berlin from the late nineteenth- to the early...

Black Physicians in the Jim Crow SouthAuthor: Thomas J. WardPublisher: University of Arkansas PressPublication Date: Feb 12, 2010Number of Pages: 385 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The Little Rock Central High School integration crisis did not end in1957 when President Eisenhower sent a portion of the first Airborne Division to protect nine black students. The turmoil was...

Broadcasting the Ozarks explores the vibrant music scene in Springfield, Missouri, that reached its apex during the 1950s and '60s. Central to this history is the Ozark Jubilee (1955-61), the first...

The centrality of food to the human experience always places it at the crux of global crises, whether catastrophic climate change, the collapse of biodiversity in our shared ecosystem, the threat of...

Inspired by the Arkansas Review's "What Is the Delta?" series of articles, Defining the Delta collects fifteen essays from scholars in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities to describe and...

The first edition of Dinarzad's Children was a groundbreaking and popular anthology that brought to light the growing body of short fiction being written by Arab Americans. This expanded edition...

First Lady from Plains, first published in 1984, is Rosalynn's Carter's autobiography, covering her life from her childhood in Plains, Georgia, through her time as First Lady. It is "a readable,...

Once one of the most Democratic states, Arkansas became ardently Republican in just a few years. While the dramatic shift in the partisan makeup of Arkansas officeholders may appear to have happened...

On the morning of Election Day 2010, Democrats occupied three of the four Arkansas seats in the US House of Representatives, both US Senate seats, all state constitutional offices, and decisive...

Robert Cochran's Haunted Man's Report is a pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis (1933-2020), best known for the novel True Grit and its film adaptations...

Hunting Arkansas: The Sportsman's Guide to Natural State GameAuthor: Keith B. SuttonPublisher: University of Arkansas PressPublication Date: Feb 01, 2002Number of Pages: 290 pagesBinding: Paperback...

Finalist, 2020 Miller Williams Poetry PrizeLike nesting dolls, the poems in I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First contain scenes within scenes, inviting the reader over and over again to...

In 1935 a fledging government agency embarked on a project to photograph Americans hit hardest by the Great Depression. Over the next eight years, the photographers of the Farm Security...

Life in the Leatherwoods is one of the country's most delightful childhood memoirs, penned by an Ozark native with a keen, observant eye and a gift for narrative. John Quincy Wolf's relaxed style and...

Medgar Evers: Mississippi MartyrAuthor: Michael Vinson WilliamsPublisher: University of Arkansas PressPublication Date: Aug 01, 2013Number of Pages: 446 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Swindler. Murderer. Scoundrel. Robert Boatright was one of Middle America?s greatest confidence men. Although little remembered today, his story provides a rare glimpse into America?s criminal past...

Meter in English: A Critical EngagementAuthor: David BakerPublisher: University of Arkansas PressPublication Date: Jul 01, 1997Number of Pages: 396 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

On January 15, 1923, a crowd of more than a thousand angry men assembled in Harrison, Arkansas, near the headquarters of the M&NA Railroad, which ran through the heart of the Ozark Mountains. The mob...

Vegans and cyclists are often outsiders, negotiating food systems and built environments that tend to prioritize omnivores and motor vehicles by default. Pedaling Resistance: Sympathy, Subversion,...

Pres: The Story of Lester YoungAuthor: Luc DelannoyPublisher: University of Arkansas PressPublication Date: Jul 01, 1993Number of Pages: 284 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

In the winter of 1818, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft set out from Potosi, Missouri, to document lead mines in the interior of the Ozarks. Intending only to make his fortune by publishing an account of the...