Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of The Provisions of War
The Provisions of War: Expanding the Boundaries of Food and Conflict will be published in November.
Author Talk: Elizabeth Findley Shores
View a recording of the discussion of Findley’s new book, Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger.
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of George Dixon
George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908 will be published in September.
Now Available: Ozark Country by Otto Ernest Rayburn
Published just days before America’s entry into World War II, Ozark Country is Otto Ernest Rayburn’s love letter to his adopted region.
Fugitivism Wins 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
Fugitivism: Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820–1860 by S. Charles Bolton has won the 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize. Like enslaved people all over the South, those in the Lower Mississippi Valley left home at night for clandestine parties or...
Bullets and Fire reviewed in the Journal of American History
Bullets and Fire is the first collection on lynching in Arkansas, exploring all corners of the state from the time of slavery up to the mid-twentieth century.