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Author : Roger E. Coleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Arkansas
ISBN : MINN:319510029546379
Author : Graham Nown,Mike Keckhaver
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781935106579
Owney Madden lived a seemingly quiet life for decades in the resort town of Hot Springs, Arkansas, while he was actually helping some of America's most notorious gangsters rule a vast criminal empire. In 1987, Graham Nown first told Madden's story in his book The English Godfather, in which he traced Madden's boyhood in England, his immigration to New York City, and his rise to mob boss. Nown also uncovered a love story involving Madden and the daughter of the Hot Springs postmaster. Before his arrival in Hot Springs, Madden was one of the most powerful gangsters in New York City and former owner of the famous Cotton Club in Harlem. The story of his life shows us a world where people can break the law without ever getting caught, and where criminality is so entwined in government and society that one might wonder what is legality and what isn't.
Author : Orville Henry,Jim Bailey
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1557284296
From the humble beginnings in 1894, to the great programs of Frank Broyles, the National Championship in 1964, and Lou Holtz's Orange Bowl victory over Oklahoma in 1978, and then to Arkansas's recent re-entry into the national rankings with bowl invitations--the whole spectrum of Hog football is covered in this lively chronicle.
Author : C. Fred Williams,S. Charles Bolton,Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1610751302
A Documentary History of Arkansas provides a comprehensive look at Arkansas history from the state's earliest events to the present. Here are newspaper articles, government bulletins, legislative acts, broadsides, letters, and speeches that, taken collectively, give a firsthand glimpse at how the twenty-fifth state's history was made. Enhanced by additional documents and brought up to date since its original publication in 1984, this new edition is the standard source for essential primary documents illustrating the state's political, social, economic, educational, and environmental history.
Author : Brock Thompson
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781557289438
This is a study of gay and lesbian life in Arkansas in the twentieth century, a deft weaving together of Arkansas history, dozens of oral histories, and Brock Thompson's own story.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Arkansas River Valley
ISBN : WISC:89064446131
Details the history of Arkansas Valley, Colorado, with a emphasis on county history.
Author : Shay E. Hopper,T. Harri Baker,Jane Browning
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781557288455
Adopted by the State of Arkansas for 2008 Once again, the State of Arkansas has adopted An Arkansas History for Young People as an official textbook for middle-level and/or junior-high-school Arkansas-history classes. This fourth edition incorporates new research done after extensive consultations with middle-level and junior-high teachers from across the state, curriculum coordinators, literacy coaches, university professors, and students themselves. It includes a multitude of new features and is now full color throughout. This edition has been completely redesigned and now features a modern format and new graphics suitable for many levels of student readers. The completely revised fourth edition includes new unit, chapter, and section divisions as well as five brand-new chapters: an introductory chapter with information on the symbols, flag, and songs of Arkansas; chapter 2, which covers the geography of Arkansas; chapter 3, on state and local government; chapter four, on economics and tourism; and a “modern” chapter on the Arkansas of today and the future, which completes the learning adventure. This edition also has two “special features”: one on the Central High School crisis of 1957 and another on the William J. Clinton Presidential Library. It also has new and interesting features for students like the “Guide to Reading” (at the beginning of each chapter, there is a list of important terms, people, places and events for the student to keep in mind as he or she reads [corresponding to blue vocabulary words in the text, which are define in the margin]), “County Quest,” “I Am an Arkansan,” “Did You Know?” “Only in Arkansas,” “A Day in the Life,” “Chapter Reflection” questions and activities, over forty-five new content maps, and a comprehensive new map atlas.
Author : Mara Leveritt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781471131073
Based on a true story, this edition of Devil's Knot will tie-in to a major motion picture starring Academy Award winners Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth. This riveting portrait of a small Arkansas town recounts the all-too-true story of a brutal triple murder and the eighteen-year imprisonment of three innocent teenagers. For weeks in 1993, after the grisly murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas, seemed stumped. Then suddenly, detectives charged three teenagers - alleged members of a satanic cult - with the killings. Despite the witch-hunt atmosphere of the trials and a case that included stunning investigative blunders, the teenagers, who became known as the West Memphis Three, were convicted. Jurors sentenced Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley to life in prison and Damien Echols, the accused ringleader, to death. The guilty verdicts were popular in their home state - even upheld on appeal - and all three remained in prison until their unprecedented release in August 2011. In Devil's Knot, award-winning investigative journalist Mara Leveritt presents the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on this story - one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history. In-depth research, meticulous reconstruction of the investigation and close-up views of its key participants unravel the many tangled knots of this endlessly shocking case.
Author : Jeannie M. Whayne,Thomas A. DeBlack,George Sabo,Morris S. Arnold
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682260920
Distilled from Arkansas: A Narrative History, the definitive work on the subject since its original publication in 2002, Arkansas: A Concise History is a succinct one-volume history of the state from the prehistory period to the present. Featuring four historians, each bringing his or her expertise to a range of topics, this volume introduces readers to the major issues that have confronted the state and traces the evolution of those issues across time. After a brief review of Arkansas’s natural history, readers will learn about the state’s native populations before exploring the colonial and plantation eras, early statehood, Arkansas’s entry into and role in the Civil War, and significant moments in national and global history, including Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, the Elaine race massacre, the Great Depression, both world wars, and the Civil Rights Movement. Linking these events together, Arkansas: A Concise History offers both an understanding of the state’s history and a perspective on that history’s implications for the political, economic, and social realities of today.
Author : William Trotter Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : CHI:088069020
Author : Mara Leveritt
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 151504985X
Two Arkansas teenagers are run over by a train. The state medical examiner rules they smoked themselves into "a marijuana-induced stupor" before lying down, side by side on the tracks. He rules the deaths accidental. Case closed. Except that when the parents of one get the bodies exhumed, new autopsies point to murder. That launches the mom of one of the boys on a journey that will lead her into a dark world of drugs and political corruption. In 2001, after this book's release, a U.S. court of appeals wrote: "The record in this case reads like a John Grisham novel." Shockingly, this story is true.
Author : Fred William Allsopp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : American newspapers
ISBN : UOM:39015025863898
Author : John Hugh Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243701918
Author : T. Harri Baker,Jane Browning
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Jeannie M. Whayne,Thomas A. Deblack,Morris S. Arnold
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1557287244
Four distinguished scholars, each focusing on a particular era, track the tensions, negotiations, and interactions among the different groups of people who have counted Arkansas as home. George Sabo III discusses Native American prehistory and the shocks of climate change and European arrival. He explores how surviving native groups carried forward economic and docial institutions, which in turn proved crucial to early colonists. Morris S. Arnold examines the native communities and the roles of minority groups and women in the development of law, government, and religion; the production of goods; and market economies. Jeannie M. Whayne shows how these multicultural relationships unfolded during hte subsequent era of American settlement. But mutuality ended when white settlers transplanted plantation agriculture and slavery to formerly native lands. Thomas DeBlack shows that the plantation society, while prosperous, also brought the state into the Civil War. He analyzes banking fiascoes, the state's reputation for violence, the mixed blessings of statehood, and the war itself. Whayne returns to discuss different groups' access to the political process; prostwar economic issues, including women's work; and the interrelated problems of industrialization, education, and race relations. The Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s, transformed political and social landscapes, but vestiges of the old attitudes and prejudices remain in place.