Mar 10, 2017 | Award, News
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas: How Politicians, the Press, the Klan, and Religious Leaders Imagined an Enemy, 1910–1960, by Kenneth Barnes, received the 2017 J.G. Ragsdale Award in Arkansas History. The book was published in November 2016 by the...
Jan 12, 2017 | Award, News
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Two books recently published by the University of Arkansas Press were chosen as among the “Outstanding Academic Titles” for 2016. The books are: Slavery and Secession in Arkansas: A Documentary History, by University of Arkansas associate...
Oct 25, 2016 | Award, News
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation announced the winners and finalists of the 2016 Legacy Awards and paid tribute to celebrated authors Ernest J. Gaines and Junot Díaz on Friday, October 21st in Washington, D.C. More than...
Sep 9, 2016 | Award, News
ATHENS, Ga — A look at segregated public libraries in the Jim Crow South and a biography of a civil rights activist turned elected official are the winners of the 2016 Lillian Smith Books Awards. Cheryl Knott, a professor in the School of Information, University...
Jan 11, 2016 | Award, News
Of the Soil: Photographs of Vernacular Architecture and Stories of Changing Times in Arkansas by Geoff Winningham has been named the winner of the 2015 Ned Shank Award for Outstanding Preservation Publication. The Award is given by Preserve Arkansas....
Jan 13, 2015 | Award, News
The Fort Worth Civil War Round Table is pleased to announce that Mary Jane Warde is the winner of the 2014 A. M. Pate, Jr. Award in Civil War History for her book When the Wolf Came: The Civil War in the Indian Territory. The Pate Award is given each year to the book...
