On June 11, 1846, A. C. Pickett was ready to embark from Mobile, Alabama, with other recruits on the greatest adventure of their young lives. The native Alabamian spent the next twelve months recordin
Each year thousands of students apply for competitive national and international scholarships such as the Rhodes, Marshall, Gates Cambridge, and Fulbright. The competition for these awards is intense,
The writings of William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) 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 com
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) arrived in Arkansas in October 1962 at the request of the Arkansas Council on Human Relations, the state affiliate of the Southern Regional Council
Worthy of the Cause for Which They Fight chronicles the experiences of a well-educated and articulate Confederate officer from Arkansas who witnessed the full evolution of the Civil War in the Trans-M
The Rise to Respectability documents the history of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) and examines its cultural and religious impact on African Americans and on the history of the South. It explores
Over sixty years ago, political scientist V. O. Key Jr. published his seminal work, Southern Politics in State and Nation. Key’s book defined the field of southern politics and remains one of the most
On November 3, 1979, five protest marchers in Greensboro, North Carolina, were shot and killed by the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party. There were no police present, but television crews captu
Catherine Lewis (history, Kennesaw State U.) and J. Richard Lewis, a desegregation consultant, collect primary documents showing how slavery impacted women of all types, including enslaved and free wo
This anthology of poems about Elvis invites readers to experience the connection between the historical and mythical status of The King, on the one hand, and the poetic imagery of him on the other. Al
Dewey's (Vanderbilt U.) study of the modern South and its interaction with the rest of the US is concerned with four major themes: sectional conflict, in Congress, in national elections, in the strugg
A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas tells the extraordinary story of Peter Caulder, a free African American settler in the Arkansas Territory. Aft
The first edition of Bearing Witness brought together for the first time 176 slave narratives from the state of Arkansas. Now, this new edition adds ten previously undiscovered accounts. No one knew t
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