Arkansas History - (Bibliographies of the States of the United States) by Tom W Dillard & Michael B Dougan & Timothy Nutt (Hardcover)

About the Book

Arkansas has frequently been omitted from surveys of the South and from national history. One reason has been the limited archival resources; another, the absence of a university press. Recently, however, archives have proliferated, and a solid mass of scholarship has come from the University of Arkansas Press and the Arkansas Historical Society. This bibliography shows that there is no shortage of research materials on Arkansas. The only full bibliography on Arkansas, it provides an essential guide for historians and librarians wishing to bring Arkansas into the mainstream of America history.

The volume provides a guide to the growing literature on Arkansas rich prehistory and to the pre-American colonial period, which lasted some 250 years. Two chapters focus on the statehood period. The volume then includes a series of topical chapters covering such subjects as minorities, business and economics, education, social history, and cultural and intellectual areas. There are also separate chapters on local and county history, general histories, archives and museums, and historic sites. The volume opens with a short chronology and provides subject and author indexes.

Book Synopsis

Arkansas has frequently been omitted from surveys of the South and from national history. One reason has been the limited archival resources; another, the absence of a university press. Recently, however, archives have proliferated, and a solid mass of scholarship has come from the University of Arkansas Press and the Arkansas Historical Society. This bibliography shows that there is no shortage of research materials on Arkansas. The only full bibliography on Arkansas, it provides an essential guide for historians and librarians wishing to bring Arkansas into the mainstream of America history.

The volume provides a guide to the growing literature on Arkansas rich prehistory and to the pre-American colonial period, which lasted some 250 years. Two chapters focus on the statehood period. The volume then includes a series of topical chapters covering such subjects as minorities, business and economics, education, social history, and cultural and intellectual areas. There are also separate chapters on local and county history, general histories, archives and museums, and historic sites. The volume opens with a short chronology and provides subject and author indexes.

Review Quotes

?Comprehansive, well-aranged, and enlightening, this compliation will help to alleviate the problem of Arkansas' relative neglect in historical accounts. It is first-class work that should be in all major research libraries and in all school and public libraries in the South and in the states surrounding the "the Bear State"?-ARBA

"Comprehansive, well-aranged, and enlightening, this compliation will help to alleviate the problem of Arkansas' relative neglect in historical accounts. It is first-class work that should be in all major research libraries and in all school and public libraries in the South and in the states surrounding the "the Bear State""-ARBA

About the Author

MICHAEL B. DOUGAN is Professor of History at Arkansas State University. He is the author of several articles and books on Arkansas history, including George Berry Washington: Black Plantation Owner (1981) and By the Cypress Swamp: The Arkansas Stories of Octave Thanet (1980).

TOM W. DILLARD is Director of Archives at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of several articles and Researching Arkansas History: A Beginner's Guide (1979).

TIMOTHY G. NUTT is Arkansiana librarian and cataloger with the Central Arkansas Library System and the author of articles on Arkansas history.