Recently added articles from Arkansas Historical Quarterly:
Arkansas Atlantis: The Lost Town of Napoleon
Oct 01, 2006; Hammond, Michael D ... MARK TWAIN'S SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CHARACTER in Life on the Mississippi had heard a tale of murder, revenge, and buried treasure. A dying man told him of an unscrupulous Union soldier who had stowed ten thousand dollars in gold in Napoleon, Arkansas, during the closing days of the war. Twain ...
The Farmers' Schools of 1909: The Origins of Arkansas's Four Regional Universities
Oct 01, 2006; Willis, James F ... ARKANSAS'S UNIVERSITIES at Jonesboro, Magnolia, Monticello, and Russellville owe their existence to the Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Union. It struggled a century ago to have the legislature establish four agricultural schools in the state. These schools took many decades to flower into ...
Simon T. Sanders and the Meredith Clan: The Case for Kinship Studies
Oct 01, 2006; Kwas, Mary L ... RECENT STUDIES OF KINSHIP have demonstrated that understanding family connections can broaden insights into migratory patterns, political and economic opportunities, and class standing in southern society. Carolyn Earle Billingsley, in Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the ...
A Taste of Sowbelly and Saleratus Biscuit: Gifford Pinchot's Arkansas Adventure
Oct 01, 2006; Bragg, Don C ... GIFFORD PINCHOT HAS LONG BEEN CONSIDERED the "father" of American forestry. In 1898, Pinchot became chief of the Division of Forestry (a predecessor to the modern-day Forest Service) and helped build the fledgling agency into the leading federal mechanism for forest conservation. In one capacity ...
The Mountain View Conference of the Arkansas Historical Association, 2006
Oct 01, 2006; Blevins, Brooks ... THE ARKANSAS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION held its sixty-fifth annual conference at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, April 6-8, 2006. Despite the earlier-than-usual meeting, the many AHA members who made the curvy but pleasant drive to Stone County found the weather delightful and ...
From the Archives
Oct 01, 2006; Simpson, Ethel C ... The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection at Lyon College OZARK. MUSIC AND FOLKLORE have been collected for preservation and study for more than sixty years. The University of Arkansas folklore collection was described in "From the Archives" in the Spring 2006 number of the Quarterly. The ...
Arkansas Listings in the National Register of Historic Places
Oct 01, 2006; James, Elizabeth ... Coin Harvey's Monte Ne THE 1932 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ended in a landslide victory for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who gathered 57 percent of the nation's popular vote by promising "a new deal for the American people." While Roosevelt's victory marked an important new beginning for the ...
Our Own Sweet Sounds: A Celebration of Popular Music in Arkansas, 2nd edition
Oct 01, 2006; Porterfield, Nolan ... Our Own Sweet Sounds: A Celebration of Popular Music in Arkansas, 2nd edition. By Robert Cochran. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 149. Acknowledgments, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $16.95, paper.) The first edition of Our Own Sweet Sounds appeared ...
The Life and Times of W. H. Arnold of Arkansas: Reconstructing the Southern Ideal
Oct 01, 2006; Foster, Lynn ... The Life and Times of W. H. Arnold of Arkansas: Reconstructing the Southern Ideal. By Mari Serebrov. (West Conshocken, PA: InfinityPublishing.com, 2005. Pp. xxx, 433. Preface, note about sources, foreword, illustrations, appendices, notes, index of place names, index of people, general index ....
The Afterlife of Leslie Stringfellow: A Nineteenth-Century Southern Family's Experiences with Spiritualism
Oct 01, 2006; Nutt, Timothy G ... The Afterlife of Leslie Stringfellow: A Nineteenth-Century Southern Family's Experiences with Spiritualism. By Stephen Chism. (Fayetteville: Fullcourte Press, 2005. Pp. 140. Acknowledgments, illustrations, appendices, bibliography. $14.95, paper.) Grieving parents sit in a darkened room, ...
To Intermix with Our White Brothers: Indian Mixed Bloods in the United States from Earliest Times to the Indian Removals
Oct 01, 2006; Parins, James W ... To Intermix with Our White Brothers: Indian Mixed Bloods in the United States from Earliest Times to the Indian Removals. By Thomas N. Ingersoll. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. Pp. xxi, 450. Acknowledgments, note on terminology, illustrations, table, notes, bibliography, ...
A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868
Oct 01, 2006; Schantz, Mark S ... A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868. By Anne Sarah Rubin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2005. Pp. x, 319. Acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, conclusion, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.) Anne Sarah Rubin's book investigates the ...
A Crisis in Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor, and the Army of the Trans-Mississippi
Oct 01, 2006; Rafuse, Ethan S ... A Crisis in Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor, and the Army of the Trans-Mississippi. By Jeffery S. Prushankin. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xx, 308. Acknowledgments, maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.) Although ...
Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand: The Renowned Missouri Bushwhacker
Oct 01, 2006; Price, Michael L ... Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand: The Renowned Missouri Bushwhacker. Edited by Kirby Ross. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 276. Series editor's preface by Daniel Sutherland, acknowledgments, introduction, editor's preface [1870], map, illustrations, notes, ...
The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America
Oct 01, 2006; Blevins, Brooks ... The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America. By James N. Gregory. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 446. Preface, illustrations, graphs, maps, tables, appendices, notes, index. $59.95, cloth; $19.95, ...
The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History
Oct 01, 2006; Miller, Laura A ... The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History. By Bobby L. Lovett. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xxv, 483. Dedication, preface, note on terminology, illustrations, chronology, bibliographic essay, selected bibliography, index. $45.00.) In the latter ...
Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism
Oct 01, 2006; Striffler, Steve ... Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism. Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein. (New York: New Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 349. Acknowledgments, preface, illustrations, tables, maps, notes, contributors, index. $21.95, paper.) The well-written, accessible, and highly informative essays ...
Book and Media Notes
Oct 01, 2006; Anonymous ... The Arkansas Genealogical Society has announced the publication of a new volume, a CD compilation, and a revised edition of one of its standards. Arkansas Prior Birth Index, Volume 4 is the latest installment in a project to index all of the births in Arkansas before February 1, 1914. It sells ...
News and Notices
Oct 01, 2006; Anonymous ... The Arkansas Historical Association invites presentation proposals for its sixty-sixth annual conference in Little Rock, April 26-28, 2007. In recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the Little Rock integration crisis, the conference theme will be "Not Just Black and White: The Fight for ...