Jun 10, 2016 | News, Review
Arkansas farmer Ed Stilley was plowing his fields in 1979 when he was struck down by a heart attack; lying in the dirt, he had a vision that God wanted him to build guitars and give them to children around the country to make music. Once recovered, he began...
May 24, 2016 | News, Review
Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood The Progressive Era Creation of the Schoolboy Sports Story Ryan K. Anderson Anderson (history/American studies, Univ. of North Carolina, Pembroke) presents a biographical treatment of Gilbert Patten (1866–1945),...
Mar 14, 2016 | News, Review
“Long ago, the historiography of the civil rights movement moved beyond the study of some its most iconic leaders, such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks. John Dittmer’s Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (CH, Dec’94,...
Mar 7, 2016 | News, Review
John A. Kirk is currently the foremost authority on the black experience in twentieth century Arkansas. His latest edited anthology is a published collection of essays that were presented at “Race and Ethnicity: New Perspectives on the African American and...
Feb 4, 2016 | News, Review
Historian Gigantino (Univ. of Arkansas) has assembled an array of primary sources relating to the debate surrounding secession in Arkansas, including speeches, private letters, government documents, broadsides, memoirs, and newspaper excerpts. These resources,...
Jan 29, 2016 | News, Review
The strength of this work rests in the fact that it provides more exhaustive information on race and ethnic relations, which moves beyond the standard black-white dichotomy explanations. More important, the readings often take you through some pivotal...
