Author: W. Scott MorganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Official history of the Farmers' Alliance, an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers.
History of the Wheel and Alliance and the Impending Revolution
Author: W. Scott MorganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Official history of the Farmers' Alliance, an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers.
Sentinels of History
Author: Mark K. ChristPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781557286055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Sentinels of History was conceived of as a way to mark the turn of the millennium by the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program. This generously illustrated book contains thirty-nine essays, each of which showcases an important Arkansas site and is written by a noted authority. Also included is a location map for these sites and a full appendix providing location information, county by county, for the more than two thousand surviving properties in Arkansas (as of June 1999) that appear on the National Register. The essays are as wide-ranging as Roger Kennedy's placement of the Toltec Mounds at the time of Charlemagne, Donald Harington's sensitive look at the "bigeminal" architecture of the Wolf dogtrot cabin, and Neil Compton's egalitarian tribute to the Boxley Valley Historic District on the Buffalo National River. At least one current color photo of the site and one historic image are included with each essay. In addition, illustrations of the locations or structures listed in the appendix are scattered throughout sections. In all, Sentinels of History serves as a lavish inventory of historic properties in Arkansas at the end of the twentieth century.
Special Report
Author: Bibliographical Resources to the Literature of Agriculture and Rural Life in Arkansas, 1820-1945
Author: Racial Cleansing in Arkansas, 1883–1924
Author: Guy LancasterPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739195484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Even before the end of Reconstruction in Arkansas, the state already possessed a long-standing reputation for violence, including lynchings, duels, and feuds. However, the years following Reconstruction witnessed the creation of new forms of mob violence. All across the state, gangs of whites sought to drive African Americans from their homes, their jobs, and their positions of authority, creating communities shamelessly advertised as “100% white.” This happened not only in the highland regions, the Ozarks and the Ouachitas, where the expulsion of African Americans created so-called “sundown towns,” but it also occurred in the low-lying Delta lands of eastern Arkansas, where cotton was king and where masked mobs of landless “whitecappers” and “nightriders” regularly dealt terror and murder to black sharecroppers. Racial Cleansing in Arkansas, 1883–1924: Politics, Land, Labor, and Criminality by Guy Lancaster is the first book to examine the phenomenon of racial cleansing within the context of one particular state, illustrating how violence relates to geography and economic development. Lancaster analyzes the wholesale expulsion of African Americans and the emergence of “sundown towns” together with a survey of more limited deportations, including those with blatant political goals as well as vigilante violence. The book has broader implications not only for the study of Southern and American history but also for a deeper understanding of ethnic and racial conflict, local politics, and labor history
The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Arkansas’s Gilded Age
Author: Matthew HildPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826274188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This book is the first devoted entirely to an examination of working-class activism, broadly defined as that of farmers’ organizations, labor unions, and (often biracial) political movements, in Arkansas during the Gilded Age. On one level, Hild argues for the significance of this activism in its own time: had the Arkansas Democratic Party not resorted to undemocratic, unscrupulous, and violent means of repression, the Arkansas Union Labor Party would have taken control of the state government in the election of 1888. He also argues that the significance of these movements lasted beyond their own time, their influence extending into the biracial Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union of the 1930s, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and even today’s Farmers’ Union and the United Mine Workers of America. The story of farmer and labor protest in Arkansas during the late nineteenth century offers lessons relevant to contemporary working-class Americans in what some observers have called the “new Gilded Age.”
Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
The WPA Guide to Arkansas
Author: Federal Writers' ProjectPublisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595342036
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. Published in 1941, the WPA Guide to Arkansas splendidly exhibits the varied environment of the Natural State. From the densely forested land in the Ozark Mountains and Arkansas Timberlands to the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta, the guide to the Land of Opportunity provides several photographs of, history on, and driving tours through the state’s grand geography.
Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description