In this book, the author traces the emergence of a transformed southern plantation system in the Arkansas delta decades after the end of the Civil War.

Updated to include the three latest governors, one of whom is current US president William Clinton, the new edition (first, 1981) profiles the state's 43 leaders since 1836. The biographical sketches include personal and political data detailing each governor's background, occupation, accomplishments, and failures while in and out of office. Annota

Using historical, anthropological, and archaeological approaches, these essays collectively cover the European-Indian experience in the region from first contact in 1541 through the Louisiana purchase of 1803.

The heart of the book is an examination of a "great experiment" to import Italian laborers to Sunnyside Plantation. From the crucible of tensions that this experiment produced, the reader obtains a concrete understanding of the implications of U.S. immigration policy, of changing labor relations following Reconstruction, and of a minority culture's introduction into the Delta.

This collection of essays represents a large-scale attempt to characterize the long-neglected Arkansas Delta. The historical, social, economic, geographic, and cultural issues the authors address make it abundantly clear that the Delta long thought to be a land of relative stasis is actually changing quite rapidly. It is clear, too, that this strange land is filled with haunting contradictions.
Winner of the 1994 Virginia C. Ledbetter Prize"

Eight years in the making, Arkansas Biography brings to light the lives of those who have helped shape Arkansas history for over four hundred years. Featured are not only the trailblazers, such as steamboat captain Henry Shreve, Olympic gold medalist Bill Carr, and aviator Louise Thaden, but also those whose lives reflect their culture and times -- musicians, scientists, teachers, preachers, and journalists. One hundred and eighty contributors -- professional and avocational historians -- offer clear vignettes of nearly three hundred individuals, beginning with Hernando de Soto, who crossed...

Eight years in the making, Arkansas Biography brings to light the lives of those who have helped shape Arkansas history for over four hundred years. Featured are not only the trailblazers, such as steamboat captain Henry Shreve, Olympic gold medalist Bill Carr, and aviator Louise Thaden, but also those whose lives reflect their culture and times -- musicians, scientists, teachers, preachers, and journalists. One hundred and eighty contributors -- professional and avocational historians -- offer clear vignettes of nearly three hundred individuals, beginning with Hernando de Soto, who crossed...

First in-depth, groundbreaking assessment of the Clinton presidency.

This volume is a collection of essays originally presented at the Louisiana Purchase Conference, which marked the purchase's bicentinnial. The authors, experts in their fields, offer a revisionist take on many historically underrepresented aspects of the purchase.

"Arkansas: A Narrative History" is a comprehensive history of the state that has been invaluable to students and the general public since its original publication. Four distinguished scholars cover prehistoric Arkansas, the colonial period, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and incorporate the newest historiography to bring the book up to date for 2012.

A new chapter on Arkansas geography, new material on the civil rights movement and the struggle over integration, and an examination of the state's transition from a colonial economic model to participation in the global...