Bøger udgivet af Butler Centre for Arkansas Studies

For decades, Rex Nelson has been traveling Arkansas. Throughout his career as a sportswriter, political writer, senior staff member in the governor's office, and presidential appointee Nelson has written millions of words about Arkansas and its people. In this collection of columns, he brings to life the personalities, communities, festivals, and tourist attractions that make Arkansas unique.

Collects the proceedings of the final seminar sponsored by the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission, which sought to define the lasting impact that the US's deadliest conflict had on the state by bringing together some of the state's leading historians.

The one hundred Arkansas women profiled in this volume have glittered in the national spotlight. They have blazed trails in athletics, civil rights, literature, politics, science, show business, and the arts. They have been outlaws and outcasts. Some were born in poverty, while others came from unimaginable wealth.

An autobiographical account of a student athlete who is hardened by a tough coach in a soon-to-be famous high-school setting.

A story of hardscrabble beginnings, working longer and harder than the youth might be able to imagine, and plain dealing from cotton fields to board rooms.

Clay County, Arkansas, was a flatland at the outset of the twentieth century. Into this primitive society came Paul Pfeiffer who bought large tracts of land, set up tenant farmers, and reigned for nearly 50 years as a beneficent landlord. This book records the gratitude of families who remember with appreciation loans made to acquire equipment.

Offers a history of the Arkansas State Police. This book shows how the saga of Arkansas' police has reflected the state's growth, development of crime-solving methods, and innovation in technologies used by troopers to bring criminals to justice. It focuses on the men and women who have served and the changing needs of a growing state.

Written by the author whose career of public service is unparalleled in Arkansas history: he has been elected state representative, congressman, governor, and, alongside Dale Bumpers, US senator (1979-1997).

Returning from a vacation trip to Mexico, Little Rock attorney Roger Glasgow were stopped at the border crossing. What followed was a long nightmare of political intrigue and subterfuge. Down and Dirty Down South is Glasgow's story of how he attempted to clear his name and also track down the people who had set him up for charges of smuggling illegal drugs into the United States.

On April 2, 1917, the United States officially entered a war that had been raging for nearly three years in Europe. More than 70,000 Arkansans served as soldiers during the war. World War I connected Arkansas to the world in ways that changed the state and its people forever, as shown in the essays collected here.

The 3rd Arkansas was one of the most distinguished and well-respected Confederate regiments of the Civil War. As part of Gen. John Bell Hood's Texas Brigade, they found themselves in some of the fiercest fighting in the war in places such as the famous "sunken road" at Antietam and the Battle of Gettysburg. They'll Do to Tie To! was originally published in 1959.

Using archival primary material such as photographs, yearbooks, artwork, and first-person written accounts, A Captive Audience offers an inside look at the experiences of young people at the Rohwer and Jerome Relocation Centers in Arkansas during the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

While little has been written about the USS Arkansas, this battleship carried the state's name through two world wars, a Mexican invasion, and into the atomic age. Highlighting the narrative with previously unpublished photos, the authors tell the fascinating story of the ship and its men by referencing handwritten journals penciled in the midst of service and combat.

A testament to the valor and determination of a common soldier On September 17, 1861, twenty-two-year-old Jacob Haas enlisted in the Sheboygan Tigers, a company of German immigrants that became Company A of the Ninth Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. Over the next three years, Haas and his comrades marched thousands of miles and saw service in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and the Indian Territory, including pitched battles at Newtonia, Missouri, and Jenkins Ferry, Arkansas. Haas describes the war from the perspective of a private soldier and an immigrant as he marches through scorching summers and brutally cold winters to fight in some of the most savage combat in the west. His diary shows us an extraordinary story of the valor and determination of a volunteer soldier. Though his health was ruined by war, Haas voiced no regrets for the price he paid to fight for his adopted country."

This is the story of how Bill Clinton's lifelong friends - the Arkansas Travelers - helped the governor of a small state become president of the United States. This engaging and amusing story tells how the Travelers personalised politics and made a difference in Bill Clinton's election and also went to work for Hillary Clinton in her 2008 bid for president.

Since 1964, Just Communities of Arkansas (or JCA, formerly the National Conference of Christians and Jews/National Conference for Community and Justice) has given the National Humanitarian Award to publically recognize civic leaders who have worked to build communities and advance opportunity for the common good. In 1987, JCA was granted the opportunity to also present the Father Joseph H. Biltz Award to outstanding community servants. In total, 130 individuals have been recognized with one of these awards. Collected here are their stories, which are heart warming, funny, and--most of all--inspiring.

Profiles twenty-one famous and fascinating people from Arkansas, including musicians, athletes, business leaders, and public servants. Among others, readers will learn about a famous surgeon who was a pioneer in kidney transplantation, a woman who kept a hospital open during the Depression, and a teacher who wrote a famous song to match a history lesson.

A man squanders his family fortune until he is penniless, loses every time he runs for public office, and yet is so admired by the people of Arkansas that the General Assembly names a county in his honor. A renowned writer makes her home in the basement of a museum until she is sued by some of the most prominent women of the state regarding the use of the rooms upstairs. A brilliant inventor who nearly built the first airplane is also vilified for his eccentricity and possible madness. Author Steven Teske rummages through Arkansas s colorful past to find--and "unvarnish"--some of the state s most controversial and fascinating figures. The nine people featured in this collection are not the most celebrated products of Arkansas. More than half of them were not even born in Arkansas, although all of them lived in Arkansas and contributed to its history and culture. But each of them has achieved a certain stature in local folklore, if not in the story of the state as a whole."

The St Louis Cardinals were contenders in 1957 and '59, two of Hal Smith's best years as a Major League player. Smith, out of tiny Barling, Arkansas, had risen in the Minor Leagues, and played in Mexico, Cuba, and the Asian circuit. This title shows the parallels between baseball's maturation in the 1950s and those of American society at the time.

Presents a feast of memories for alumni of Little Rock's Catholic High School - and parochial educators everywhere. This book offers a tribute to the man who, though departed, still epitomizes the spirit of the place, the man whose name is given to the school's street, Father George Tribou.

The Black River flows from Missouri into Arkansas east of Branson and west of the Bootheel. It meanders where the foothills of the Ozarks begin to rise out of the Mississippi plain. The area was sparsely populated when E. R. Coleman was a young man. Like the population they served, businesses were modest, mostly small, and scattered. Arkansas was still the Bear State; slogans boasting that it was--or predicting that it would become--the "Land of Opportunity" were yet to be conceived. Coleman's early years were shaped by the Great Depression, by a family ethic that dictated working as long as there was sunlight in the day, and by a region bordered on the west by Oklahoma's Dust Bowl and on the east by the mighty--sometimes vengeful--Mississippi River. Told in his own words, this is a genuine American Horatio Alger story of hardscrabble beginnings, working longer and harder than today's youth might be able to imagine, and plain dealing from cotton fields to board rooms.

An anthology of essays that describes Arkansas' pivotal role in America's first truly foreign war. It examines the role of the citizen-soldier, the impact of war preparations upon the citizenry, movement of troops and yet-to-be organized volunteers, and the war's effect on Americans' perception of their nation.

This book goes beyond traditional atlases by using colourful graphics, fun facts, and up-to-date statistics to explain, describe, and illuminate the state of Arkansas.

For almost two hundred years, Arkansans have been part of America's struggle to maintain democracy and keep the peace at home and around the globe. This work shows how war has affected those at home as well as those who served as soldiers.

An anthology of essays that describes Arkansas' pivotal role in America's first truly foreign war. It examines the role of the citizen-soldier, the impact of war preparations upon the citizenry, movement of troops and yet-to-be organized volunteers, and the war's effect on Americans' perception of their nation.

Owney Madden lived a seemingly quiet life for decades in the resort town of Hot Springs, Arkansas, while he was actually helping some of America's most notorious gangsters rule a vast criminal empire. In 1987, Graham Nown first told Madden's story in his book "The English Godfather," in which he traced Madden's boyhood in England, his immigration to New York City, and his rise to mob boss. Nown also uncovered a love story involving Madden and the daughter of the Hot Springs postmaster. Before his arrival in Hot Springs, Madden was one of the most powerful gangsters in New York City and former owner of the famous Cotton Club in Harlem. The story of his life shows us a world where people can break the law without ever getting caught, and where criminality is so entwined in government and society that one might wonder what is legality and what isn't.