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Winthrop Rockefeller was a member of one of the most famous American families when he moved to Arkansas. In 1966 he became the first elected Republican governor in Arkansas in nearly a century. The new book Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912-1956 from John Kirk examines the first two-thirds of his life.
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A new book authored by noted Arkansas historian Guy Lancaster titled American Atrocity tears down the historic scaffolding upholding the historic…
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Maya Salameh is this year's winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, awarded by the University of Arkansas. Maya, a student at Stanford, talked with us…
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A new book, Das Echo: A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South, uses preserved German-language newspapers from the 1800s to detail…
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A new book, Trees, Shrubs and Woody Vines of Arkansas, has everything you need to know about the of hundreds of plants found in the Natural State. We…
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A recently published book, The War at Home: Perspectives on the Arkansas Experience during World War I, explores how some conditions from a century ago,…
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The new book The Literature of the Ozarks, published by the University of Arkansas Press, collects two centuries of writings from the Ozarks. We speak…
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Poet Peter Twal's debut collection, Our Earliest Tattoos, tackles memory and contemporary life with wit, humor and sentimental flair. The poems draw…
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During an eight-year period, photgraphers from the Farm Security Administration took thousands of pictures of Arkansans affected by the Great Depression.…
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The novel Mourner's Bench, the first from Sanderia Faye, has been nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. This spring the author of the book,…