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Based on archival work, private paper collections, and oral history, this book includes eight of John Kirk's essays. Together, these essays locate the dramatic events of the crisis within the larger story of the African American struggle for freedom and equality in Arkansas, in the South, and in the nation.

Contains twelve essays that examine how white liberal southern politicians who came to prominence in the New Deal and World War II handled the race issue when it became central to politics in the 1950s and 1960s. This book states that it was the southern business leaders and New South politicians who mediated the transition to desegregation.

The extraordinary story of a pioneering African-American community leader is now told. After serving in the War of 1812, Peter Caulder, a free African-American settler in the Arkansas territory, has his life turned upside down on the eve of the Civil War.

A textbook for middle-level and/or junior-high-school Arkansas history classes. It incorporates research done after consultations with middle-level and junior-high teachers from across the state. It includes two ""special features"": one on the Central High School crisis of 1957 and another on the William J Clinton Presidential Library.

In Champion Trees of Arkansas, Linda Williams Palmer explores the state's largest trees of their species, registered with the Arkansas Forestry Commission as "e;champions."e; Through her beautiful colored-pencil drawings, each magnificent tree is interpreted through the lens of season, location, history, and human connection.Readers will get to know the cherrybark oak, rendered in fall colors, an avatar for the passing of seasons. The sugar maple, with its bare limbs and weather-beaten trunk, stands sentry over the headstones in a confederate cemetery. The 350-year-old white oak was once dubbed the Council Oak by Native Americans, and the post oak, cared for by generations of the same family, has its own story to tell.Palmer travelled from Delta swamps to Ozark and Ouachita mountain ridges over a seven-year period to see and document the champions and to talk with property owners and others willing to share the stories of how these trees are beloved and protected by the community, and often entwined with its history. Champion Trees of Arkansas is sure to inspire art and nature lovers everywhere.

In the same way that the speaker in these poems often seems itinerant, lacking a place or person to call home, the poems themselves have their own roaming quality. The reader is moved somewhere unexpected, the poems seem to shapeshift or suddenly beckon from somewhere else, or they may zoom into focus.

Inspired by Matsuo Basho's writings and teachings on poetics and haiku, the interrelated lyric poems in Sky of Wu investigate work and marriage, becoming a parent while watching a parent age into dementia, and the realities of wrestling with inequality, pollution, and habitat loss while navigating everyday life in Oakland, California.

A sweeping saga of four generations of doctors, Russell men seeking innovative ways to sustain themselves as medical practitioners in the American South from the early nineteenth to the latter half of the twentieth century. The thread that binds the stories in this saga is one of blood, of medical vocations passed from fathers to sons and nephews.

This collection, emerging from recent seminars at the Old State House Museum, brings together some of the state's leading historians to explore the perspectives of Arkansans during World War I. Collectively, these essays provide a thoughtful look into the many ways the Great War affected and continues to affect Arkansas.

In a series of persona poems, Jayson Iwen examines the intimate thoughts and feelings of Americans whose lives have been predominantly ignored by contemporary mainstream culture, revealing the everyday heartbreak and beauty experienced by people living at the periphery of the nation's consciousness.

Drawing on her encounters and experiences as a federal social worker in the backwoods of the Ozarks in the 1930s, Catherine Barker described the Ozark mountaineers as ""lovable and pathetic and needy and self-satisfied and valiant"", declaring that the virtuous and independent people of the hills deserved a better way and a more abundant life.

Brings together in one volume some of the best available scholarly research on a wide range of issues of interest to students of Arkansas politics and government. The twenty-one chapters are arranged in three sections covering both historical and contemporary issues.

The Olympic Games are a phenomenon of unparalleled global proportions. This book examines the rich and complex involvement of Latin America and the Caribbean peoples with the Olympic Movement, serving as an effective medium to explore the making of this region.

The histories in this title are rooted in the class, ethnic, and regional identity of this unique upper midwestern metropolitan area. The compilation includes a wide range of important studies on the the success of Gopher football in the Jim Crow era, the integration of municipal golf courses, the Minneapolis Lakers' basketball dynasty, and more.

The poems in A Theory of Birds draw on inherited memory, historical record, critical theory, alternative geographies, and sharp observation. In them, birds-particularly extinct species-become metaphor for the violences perpetrated on othered bodies under the colonial gaze.

Provides a new and personal reading of the architecture, teachings, and legacy of Louis I. Kahn from Per Olaf Fjeld's perspective as a former student. The book explores Kahn's life and work, offering a unique take on one of the twentieth century's most important architects.

Based on an exhibition organized by Joachim Pissarro and curator of contemporary art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Lauren Haynes, Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today explores the complex and varied connections between crystal and art throughout the world.

Provides key information from scholarship foundations and seasoned advice from campus advisors critically important for the faculty and staff who support students applying for these awards. This book will be a great resource for anyone advising students.

Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser's newest collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene. Reviewing his 2018 collection, Booklist proclaimed, ""This is Hauser in a nutshell: compassion, character, and context. As always, an annual delight.

Uses statistical and narrative analysis to demonstrate that farm mechanization occurred in the Delta region of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi after farm labourers moved away for new opportunities. Rather than pushing labour off the land, Holley argues, the mechanical cotton picker enabled the continuation of cotton cultivation.

An reference for anyone interested in the state's fish population - from professional ichthyologists, fisheries biologists, and managers of aquatic resources, to amateur naturalists and anglers - this new edition provides updated taxonomic keys as well as detailed descriptions, photographs, and drawings to aid identification of 241 fish species.

This second edition of Arkansas in Modern America since 1930 represents a significant rewriting of and elaboration on the first edition. Ben Johnson fills in gaps, reconsiders his original conclusions, and reflects on new developments, extending the book's analysis of the political, economic, social, and cultural positions into 2018.

Examines tailgating as shown in television, film, advertising, and cookbooks, and takes a close look at the experiences of those tailgaters who are as serious about their brisket as they are about cheering on their favourite team.

Tracing New Orleans sports history from the early nineteenth century to the present, while also surveying the state of the city's sports historiography, New Orleans Sports places sport in the context of race relations, politics, and civic and business development to expand that historiography into the twentieth century.

Explains how escapees from slavery made use of steamboat transportation, how urban runaways differed from their rural counterparts, how enslaved people were victimized by slave stealers, and how runaway slaves from the Lower Mississippi Valley influenced the abolitionist movement in the North.

Featuring more than seventy artworks that range from loving endorsements to brutal critiques of American culture, this exhibition catalog reveals the enduring presence of Superman and Wonder Woman and the diverse ways artists employ them.

Celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award-winner Terrance Hayes. An array of writers - including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize, and the National Book Award - have written poems for this exciting new anthology.

Drawing on the spirit of New York City in decades past, A Short History of Monsters presents the sins and obsessions of a poet nimble in beat and slam traditions. In his first full-length collection, Jose Padua wrestles with an American dream interrupted by failure, excess, and other nightmares.

The men who recur as characters throughout Jess Williard's Unmanly Grief perform their masculinity in a variety of ways: boxing, theatre, brotherhood, labour, and familial and romantic love. Marked by a sharp nostalgia, Williard's poems move from Wisconsin to New York and back, tracing the geographic movement of the speaker and his family.

Offers a succinct one-volume history of Arkansas from the prehistory period to the near-present. Featuring four historians who have published extensively on a range of topics, the volume introduces readers to the major issues that have confronted the state and traces the evolution of those issues across time.