New Essays from Brooks Blevins Now Available!
Up South in the Ozarks’s “good writing, wry humor, and deep, sympathetic understanding should appeal to anyone interested in the larger South.”
Now Available: Carry the Rock: Race, Football, and the Soul of an American City
“A native son juxtaposes passion for football and the tumultuous history of race relations in Little Rock. The result is a must-read page-turner.”
Stateswomen is Now Available
“Thoroughly researched and purposefully written, Stateswomen adds considerably to our knowledge of the women who have represented their communities in the General Assembly.”
Guy Lancaster talks about American Atrocity on the New Books Network
By interrogating the substance of lynching, American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching shines new light on both past anti-Black violence and the historical underpinnings of our present moment.
Queen of the Hillbillies Reviewed in the Missouri Historical Review
“This overdue appraisal of her life and legacy adroitly welcomes ‘the Queen back to the realm.'”
John Kirk talks Little Rock Desegregation on “Getting Schooled”
Kirk is the editor of Beyond Little Rock and An Epitaph for Little Rock, as well as the recent Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912–1956.