While school desegregation was resisted throughout the South, the city of Fayetteville, Arkansas confronted the issue and resolved it with relative dignity, becoming the first southern city to accommodate the Brown decision. Through this collection of interviews with those who were involved in the desegregation process, we learn of citizens' determ

Historians from the southern US analyze broad political, economic, cultural, intellectual, and social themes as they have impacted the region since colonial times. They diverge from the recent emphasis on the perspective of the masses to declare that, for better or worse, there has always been an elite there that has altered the society everybody l

When Arkansas seceded from the Union in 1861, it was a thriving state. But the Civil War and Reconstruction left it reeling, impoverished, and so deeply divided that it never regained the level of prosperity it had previously enjoyed. Although most of the major battles of the war occurred elsewhere, Arkansas was critical to the Confederate war effort in the vast Trans-Mississippi region, and Arkansas soldiers served--some for the Union and more for the Confederacy--in every major theater of the war. And the war within the state was devastating. Union troops occupied various areas, citizens...

"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...