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With their cameras and notebooks in hand, photographers Sabine Schmidt and Don House embarked on an ambitious project to document the libraries committed to serving Arkansas's smallest communities. Remote Access is the culmination of this fascinating three-year effort.

Makes the Truman Scholarship application process transparent to applicants and their advisors. These essays teach readers how to gain the most from the application process, how to connect past involvement and successes to future academic and career goals, how to approach interviews, and how to embrace the opportunity if selected for an award.

The catalogue of an exhibition co-organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, and Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. The exhibition and this associated catalogue invite visitors to discover the sea as an expansive way to reflect on American culture and environment.

Madeleine Wattenberg's debut collection alternates between epistolary poems to the mythical figure Io and lyrical interrogations of science, myth, and the historical record. Wattenberg casts Io - the priestess of Hera who was turned into a heifer - as a woman struggling to navigate the terrain between choice and coercion.

Haunted as much by place and people, landscapes and distant figures, as by the possibilities of image-making itself, Eternal Sentences is a song for the hidden depots of rural America.

Traces the explosion of white nationalism in Arkansas in the 1920s and its impact on the state's development. In documenting this history, Kenneth Barnes shows how the Klan's early success still casts a long shadow on the state to this day.

Offers a detailed history of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile program, which has served as a powerful component of US nuclear strategies for over half a century. David Stumpf examines technological breakthroughs, and places the Minuteman program in context with world events.

Craft is a diverse, democratic art form practiced by Americans of every gender, age, ethnicity, and class. Crafting America traces this expansive range of skilled making in a variety of forms, from ceramics and wood to performance costume and community-based practice.

"...celebrates the body - its rise and fall, ebb and flow, in a carnival of parties-restlessly, shamelessly, searching for a way out. Even as Abughattas claims that 'I can't believe sometimes I have a body', her poems teem with an awareness of the body's unavoidable centrality in our lives" - from the Preface

Decades of meticulous research have resulted in this exciting two-volume set portraying the work of a multitude of artisan cabinetmakers, silversmiths, potters, fine artists, quilters, and more working in communities all over Arkansas.

More than a retelling of the origin story of a democracy born from an intimate connection with the land, this book wagers that socially responsible agrarian mythmaking should be a vital part of a food ethic of resistance if we are to rectify the destructive tendencies in our contemporary food system.

Decades of meticulous research have resulted in this exciting two-volume set portraying the work of a multitude of artisan cabinetmakers, silversmiths, potters, fine artists, quilters, and more working in communities all over Arkansas.

In the same way that the speaker in these poems often seems itinerant, lacking a place or person to call home, the poems themselves have their own roaming quality. The reader is moved somewhere unexpected, the poems seem to shapeshift or suddenly beckon from somewhere else, or they may zoom into focus.

A sweeping saga of four generations of doctors, Russell men seeking innovative ways to sustain themselves as medical practitioners in the American South from the early nineteenth to the latter half of the twentieth century. The thread that binds the stories in this saga is one of blood, of medical vocations passed from fathers to sons and nephews.

This collection, emerging from recent seminars at the Old State House Museum, brings together some of the state's leading historians to explore the perspectives of Arkansans during World War I. Collectively, these essays provide a thoughtful look into the many ways the Great War affected and continues to affect Arkansas.

Brings together in one volume some of the best available scholarly research on a wide range of issues of interest to students of Arkansas politics and government. The twenty-one chapters are arranged in three sections covering both historical and contemporary issues.

The poems in A Theory of Birds draw on inherited memory, historical record, critical theory, alternative geographies, and sharp observation. In them, birds-particularly extinct species-become metaphor for the violences perpetrated on othered bodies under the colonial gaze.

An reference for anyone interested in the state's fish population - from professional ichthyologists, fisheries biologists, and managers of aquatic resources, to amateur naturalists and anglers - this new edition provides updated taxonomic keys as well as detailed descriptions, photographs, and drawings to aid identification of 241 fish species.

Counterculture flourished across the US in the 1960s and 1970s. Off the beaten path in the Arkansas Ozarks a faction of back to the landers were quietly creating their own counterculture haven. Jared Phillips collects oral histories and delves into archival resources to provide a fresh scholarly discussion of this group.

Drawing on the spirit of New York City in decades past, A Short History of Monsters presents the sins and obsessions of a poet nimble in beat and slam traditions. In his first full-length collection, Jose Padua wrestles with an American dream interrupted by failure, excess, and other nightmares.

Offers a succinct one-volume history of Arkansas from the prehistory period to the near-present. Featuring four historians who have published extensively on a range of topics, the volume introduces readers to the major issues that have confronted the state and traces the evolution of those issues across time.

Traces the history of the coffee bean, beginning with its cultivation and brewing as a private pleasure in the highlands of Ethiopia and Yemen before its emergence as a common comfort.

Once considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way for American children to pass the after-school hours. With family skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area as its focus, Moving Boarders explores this switch in stance.

John Marin was a major figure among the cutting-edge circle of American modernist artists who showed his work in Alfred Stieglitz's New York galleries from 1909 until 1950. A collection of the artist's work at the Arkansas Arts Center forms the basis of this first book of essays and images to concentrate on Marin's drawings in the context of his life, his watercolours, and his etchings.

Art for a New Understanding, an exhibition from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, seeks to reposition the narrative of American art since 1950 by charting a history of the development of contemporary Indigenous art. This accompanying book documents and expands on the histories and themes of the exhibition.

J. William Fulbright (1905-1995) was a prominent member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where he called for participation in an organisation that became the UN. Fulbright drew on his extensive experience in international relations to write The Arrogance of Power, a sweeping critique of American foreign policy.

Through dozens of in-depth interviews representing all sections of the state, farm families recall their best times, their worst times, and day-to-day experiences. Their stories reveal how ordinary men and women, frequently living in abject poverty, endured cataclysmic natural disasters and economic collapse with extraordinary courage, faith, resourcefulness, and a sense of humour.