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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.

In 1935 a fledging government agency embarked on a project to photograph Americans hit hardest by the Great Depression. Of the roughly one thousand Farm Security Administration photographs taken in Arkansas, approximately two hundred have been selected for inclusion in this volume.

There have been many books written about Johnny Cash, but The Man in Song is the first to examine Cash's incredible life through the lens of the songs he wrote and recorded. Music journalist and historian John Alexander has drawn on decades of studying Cash's music and life, to tell a life story through songs familiar and obscure.

Winner of the 2017 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Rizkallah's the magic my body becomes is an exciting new book from an exciting young poet, a love letter to a people as well as a fist in the air.

With characters as vibrant and evocative as their setting, Mourner's Bench is the story of a young girl coming to terms with religion, racism, and feminism while also navigating the terrain of early adolescence and trying to settle into her place in her family and community.

Winner of the 2010 Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize, Sin includes the entirety of FarrokhzadAEs last book, numerous selections from her fourth and most enduring book, Reborn , and selections from her earlier work, and creates a collection that is true to the meaning, the intention, and the music of the original poems.

Features poems about the world of a closeted young man and his surreal garden.

A leader of the Women's Emergency Committee to Open our Schools recounts the Little Rock integration crisis and Gov. Orval Fabus's closing of the local schools.

This powerful collection of fifteen memoirs by and about one of the greatest poets of our time weaves an unforgettable drama of friendship, grace, and courage, through long years of heartbreak and hunger.

I Do Wish this Cruel War Was Over collects diaries, letters, and memoirs excerpted from their original publication in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly to offer a first-hand, ground-level view of the war's horrors, its mundane hardships, its pitched battles and languid stretches, even its moments of frivolity. Readers will find varying degrees of commitment and different motivations among soldiers on both sides, along with the perspective of civilians. In many cases, these documents address aspects of the war that would become objects of scholarly and popular fascination only years after their initial appearance: the guerrilla conflict that became the "real war" west of the Mississippi; the "hard war" waged against civilians long before William Tecumseh Sherman set foot in Georgia; the work of women in maintaining households in the absence of men; and the complexities of emancipation, which saw African Americans winning freedom and sometimes losing it all over again. Altogether, these first-person accounts provide an immediacy and a visceral understanding of what it meant to survive the Civil War in Arkansas.

In 1980, photographer Geoff Winningham and architect Cyrus Sutherland traveled extensively throughout Arkansas to locate and photograph examples of southern American vernacular architecture. They were working on a commission from the First Federal Savings and Loan of Arkansas, and after a year they had finished their project. But, with their interest piqued and enjoying their collaboration, they continued on with the project in hopes of amassing a collection of photographs of vernacular architecture from every region of the state. For two more years, Sutherland continued helping Winningham find every possible "dogtrot house, wood frame church, octagonal barn, and one-of-a-kind hog house" in the state. By 1983 Winningham had photographed over three thousand structures, and the architect and photographer put the collection aside and moved on to other projects. Three decades later, after Sutherland had died, Winningham reopened his archive of Arkansas photographs, found his interest rekindled, and decided to return to the sites of the structures he had photographed. Most of the buildings, he discovered, had disappeared due to fires, storms, or neglect. But while Winningham was unable to find many of the structures he had photographed, what he did find were local people who remembered them. The stories of these local people join the original photographs in Of the Soil in a remarkable fusion that shows us much about the culture of the American South.

Offers a meditation on the profession of nude modeling. Combining personal perspective, historical anecdote, and prose, this title reveals that both the appeal of posing nude for artists and the appeal of drawing the naked figure lie in our deeply human responses to beauty, sex, love, and death.

Reveals the complex and varied experiences of Arab American life. This work includes stories that reveal the initial adjustments of immigrants, the challenges of forming relationships, the political nuances of being Arab American, the vision directed towards homeland, and the search for balance and identity.

Provides the first investigation into the lynching and expulsion of African Americans in the Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kimberly Harper shows how an established tradition of extralegal violence and the rapid political, economic, and social change of the New South era combined to create an environment that resulted in interracial violence.

Collects poetry, fiction, essays, and selections from two blogs from thirty-three men and women poets, fiction writers, journalists, filmmakers and video artists, photographers, community leaders and organisers, and diplomats. Some are veteran writers, such as Tamim Ansary and Donia Gobar, but others are novices and still learning how to craft their own story, their unique Afghan American voice.

An anthology that showcases American poems claiming identities from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

A collection which includes some of Collins' most anthologized poems, including ""Introduction to Poetry,"" ""Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House,"" and ""Advice to Writers"".

"The man revealed in these pages seems to embody so much of what Americans claim to admire - self-reliance, honesty, humor, modesty, intelligence - the stuff of heroes." - The New York Times Book Review

The Titan II ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) program was developed by the United States military to bolster the size, strength, and speed of the nation's strategic weapons arsenal in the 1950s and 1960s. Each missile carried a single warheadthe largest in U.S. inventoryused liquid fuel propellants, and was stored and launched from hardened underground silos. The missiles were deployed at basing facilities in Arkansas, Arizona, and Kansas and remained in active service for over twenty years. Since military deactivation in the early 1980s, the Titan II has served as a reliable satellite launch vehicle. This is the richly detailed story of the Titan II missile and the men and women who developed and operated the system. David K. Stumpf uses a wide range of sources, drawing upon interviews with and memoirs by engineers and airmen as well as recently declassified government documents and other public materials. Over 170 drawings and photographs, most of which have never been published, enhance the narrative. The three major accidents of the program are described in detail for the first time using authoritative sources. Titan II will be welcomed by librarians for its prodigious reference detail, by technology history professionals and laymen, and by the many civilian and Air Force personnel who were involved in the programa deterrent weapons system that proved to be successful in defending America from nuclear attack."

Since his earliest days in the White House, Jimmy Carter has demonstrated an untiring passion for pursuing peace in the Middle East. In this new edition with an updated afterword and chronology, President Carter demystifies the history of the political expectations of each nation in the Middle East, the reasons for their different goals, and the nature of their prime concerns.

A textbook for middle-level and/or junior-high-school Arkansas history classes. It incorporates research done after consultations with middle-level and junior-high teachers from across the state. It includes two ""special features"": one on the Central High School crisis of 1957 and another on the William J Clinton Presidential Library.

Set in an Iraqi village during the Iran-Iraq war, Scattered Crumbs critiques a totalitarian dictatorship through the stories of an impoverished peasant family. Scattered Crumbs was first published in Arabic in Cairo in 2000. This translation captures the subtle sarcasm of the original text and its elliptical rhythms.

Reading Hunting Arkansas is like walking alongside acclaimed Arkansas outdoorsman and writer Keith Sutton as he searches for the elusive woodcock in bottomland timber near the L'Anguille River, stalks deer across farmland, or treks through woodlands hunting black bears. Sutton weaves hunting know-how with personal stories and histories of various regions to produce this book telling you when, where, why and how to hunt in the Natural State.

Captures a remarkable year in boxing - 2008. This work exposes the inner workings of HBO sports, goes behind the scenes at boxing's biggest fights, revisits historical figures like John L Sullivan, and offers revealing portraits of Don King, Oscar De La Hoya, Manny Pacquiao, Ricky Hatton and Bernard Hopkins.

From twenty books of verse published between 1940 and 1993, John Ciardi gives us poems of love written with care and honest discernment and poems that tellingly render the ritual dance of human life and mortality.