This essay collection grew out of a conference marking the hundredth anniversary of one of the nation's deadliest labor conflicts - the 1919 Elaine Massacre, during which white mobs ruthlessly slaughtered over two hundred African Americans across Phillips County, Arkansas, in response to a meeting of unionized Black sharecroppers. The essays here demonstrate that the brutality that unfolded in Phillips County was characteristic of the culture ...
Casey Thayer's Rational Anthem offers wry tribute to "the greatest country God could craft with the mules he had / on hand." In seeking to tell the story of the ragged world around him, Thayer examines the links among flag-waving populism, religious fervor, and toxic masculinity"--
In Curating the American Past, Pete Daniel reveals how curators collect objects, plan exhibits, and bring alive the country's complex and exciting history. In vivid detail, Daniel recounts the exhilaration of innovative research, the joys of collaboration, and the rewards of mentoring new generations of historians. In a career distinguished by prize-winning publications and pathbreaking exhibitions, Daniel also confronted the challenges of ser...
I am trying to make myself / a thrum of votive light, " Michael Mlekoday writes in All Earthly Bodies. "I am trying to let the planet / rename me." Through a kind of lyric dreamwork, Mlekoday sounds the depths-of ancestry and identity, race and gender, earth and self-to track the unbecoming and re-membering of the body"--
When the 206th Coast Artillery Regiment of the Arkansas National Guard was called into federal service in January of 1941, few of the soldiers saw this action as anything more than a temporary detour in their lives. The war, after all, was in Europe and Asia and did not seem to involve them, many of the men thought they would serve their one-year enlistment and go home. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed all that.The Williwaw War high...
In the fall of 1861, fifty-one-year-old Rev. Francis Springer enlisted in the Union army. The following spring, Springer, a friend and one-time neighbor to Abraham Lincoln, rode away with the 10th Illinois Cavalry. A witness to the Battle of Prairie Grove (December 1862), Springer was later named post chaplain at Fort Smith, where, in additon to preaching and ministering to the troops, he was placed in charge of refugees--widows, orphans, and ...
For nearly two decades, Dairy Hollow House-a country inn and restaurant tucked into the Ozark Mountain resort town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas-offered sparklingly fresh, respectful contemporary interpretations of local traditional cooking infused with seasonal ingredients. Although the famed inn is now closed, you can still enjoy the satisfying and life-affirming dishes by the James Beard Award-winning writer/restaurateur Crescent Dragonwagon ...
The Crown Games offered a rare point of cultural unity amid the wide geography and fierce regional independence of the ancient world. This volume focuses on these festivals in the context of the ancient Greek world-a vast and sprawling territory that stretched from modern Spain to the Black Sea and North Africa"--
The Crown Games offered a rare point of cultural unity amid the wide geography and fierce regional independence of the ancient world. This volume focuses on these festivals in the context of the ancient Greek world-a vast and sprawling territory that stretched from modern Spain to the Black Sea and North Africa"--
Winner of the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, Danielle Badra's Like We Still Speak addresses notions of inheritance, witnessing, and intimacy in a world on fire"--
Drawing from the fields of history, philosophy, cognitive science, sociology, and literary theory, and quoting chilling contemporary accounts, historian Guy Lancaster argues that the act of lynching encompasses five distinct but overlapping types of violence"--
Nikki Haley has been an emerging force in American politics, her star power burnished over a decade that has seen her move from the national spotlight to the global stage. In Rising Star, political scientist Jason A. Kirk analyzes her ascendance in the Republican Party, from her governorship of South Carolina-during which she faced extraordinary challenges in a state reckoning with tragedy, race, and its own history-to her elevated profile as ...
