The Arkansas Gazette began with a printing press being floated up the Arkansas River in 1819. Until its demise following a long, bitter, and very public newspaper war in 1991, it was inextricably linked with the state's history, reporting on every major Arkansas event. Looking Back at the Arkansas Gazette, knowledgeably and intimately edited by ......
Originally published in 1924 and long out of print, this book tells the story of the Mosaic Templars of America (MTA), a famous Black fraternal organization that was founded by John E. Bush and Chester W. Keatts (both former slaves) in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the late-nineteenth century. The organization originally provided illness, death, and ......
Winner of the 2006 Booker Worthen Literary Prize and the 2004 Ragsdale Award A dominating spirit of public service animated the life of Sidney Sanders McMath (1912-2003), the thirty-fourth governor of Arkansas. Promises Kept, completed and published when McMath was in his nineties, tells his story in his own words-from the piney hills of South ......
A Study of Rural Homeplaces in the Arkansas Ozarks, 1830-1930
In Ozark Vernacular Houses, historian Jean Sizemore expands the architectural history that links the home with the farmstead, with construction materials and methods, with traditional landscape, and with the way of life that the dwelling shelters. An underlying conviction of Ozark Vernacular Houses is that architecture is but a fragment of the ......
Samuel Piccone's Domestica firmly plants its feet at the fraught intersection of inheritance and the escape from it. Across these interrogative poems, the routines of marriage, parenthood, and faith reside in a place where "every garden is erased / by the thrum of impermanence." If "silence is the earth's way of embracing us / in whatever ......
Finalist, 2026 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Following in the footsteps of poets like Hanif Abdurraqib, John Murillo, and Robert Hayden, Raphael Jenkins's Paper Pistolconsiders tenderness, heteronormativity, male friendship, grief, and the various violences implemented by and against Black men. Channeling a multitude of speakers, this collection ......
At the core of Rogue Astronaut, Mitchell Jacobs's debut poetry collection, is a mystery: Was the poet's father abducted by aliens as a teenager? From this uncanny family lore spins a gravitational field of theory, grief, and imagination, spurring speculations about the extraterrestrial as well as the terrestrial question of familial bonds: What ......
Finalist, 2026 Miller Williams Poetry Prize In The Weather Inside, Stevie Edwards measures the emotional atmosphere of a mind navigating bipolar disorder, complex PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, and alcoholism while forging intimacy and creative resilience in a rapidly declining world. Both as someone who has struggled with mental health ......
The Capital Hotel of Little Rock, Arkansas, is uniquely beautiful, with its cast-iron facade and marble lobby, its high-ceilinged rooms, and its rich history. Since its opening in 1876, it has been the stage for the struggles, schemes, and dreams of generations of politicians, debutantes, businesspeople, and newlyweds. A wide variety of owners and ......
