Jul 15, 2015 | News, Review
Morrison presents a comprehensive biography of Aaron Henry (1922–97), a civil rights activist, organizer, and elected representative from Dublin, MS, who began agitating for change after his military service in World War II. What sets Henry’s life apart from the...
Jul 1, 2015 | News, Review
In her debut novel, Faye sensitively explores the turbulence of the civil rights movement in small-town Arkansas through the eyes of a young African-American girl grappling with her religious beliefs. Sarah Jones is just 8 years old in the summer of 1964, but...
Jun 23, 2015 | News, Uncategorized
Wilma Rudolph was born on this day (June 23) in 1940. Born and raised just about forty miles east of Nashville, Tennessee, in the small town of Clarksville, Rudolph was the twentieth of twenty-two children born to Blanche and Ed Rudolph. Her father worked as a...
May 20, 2015 | News, Review
The Journal of Southern History has published a wonderful review of Of the Soil: Photographs of Vernacular Architecture and Stories of Changing Times in Arkansas by Geoff Winningham. Of the Soil: Photographs of Vernacular Architecture and Stories of Changing...
Apr 24, 2015 | News, Uncategorized
REMEMBERING MILLER Although I’d stumbled along as a poet for almost twenty years by the time I attended a 1979 writers conference in Little Rock, my real career in poetry began that summer day on a bumpy station-wagon ride with Miller Williams and Jim...
Apr 14, 2015 | News, Review
The Rise to Respectability has already gotten excellent reviews from Arkansas Historical Quarterly, the Journal of Southern History, the Journal of American History, and Choice, which named it a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Now it has been reviewed in the...
