Titles

About the Series

A central focus on a single state, combined with openness to the widest imaginable range of topics—these are hallmarks of The Arkansas Character series from the University of Arkansas Press, jointly sponsored by the CENTER FOR ARKANSAS AND REGIONAL STUDIES and the DAVID AND BARBARA PRYOR CENTER FOR ARKANSAS ORAL AND VISUAL HISTORY in the University of Arkansas’s Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.  We seek in-depth portrayals of insufficiently celebrated accomplishment (and insufficiently rebuked foul behavior) in all arenas of human endeavor.  Equally welcome are accounts of big-screen events and famous players (office holders, rock stars, movers and shakers) and adventures of local legends, unheralded artisans, stars of unlit stages.  “The classic is the local fully realized,” wrote William Carlos Williams, “words marked by a place.”  But not only words.  Every form of excellence (and outrageousness) rooted in this place.