Tag: Arkansas

Me and Papa and Aldo Leopold

Me and Papa and Aldo Leopold

Anna Zeide, illustrations by Becca Stadtlander

Anna Zeide grew up as the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants in the woods of southern Arkansas. Her father Boris was an eccentric professor of forestry, whose research touched on Aldo Leopold, a leading thinker in the history of ecology and wilderness conservation. When Anna’s academic path unexpectedly led her to graduate study in the history of science and the environment at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she rediscovered Leopold, who had been a professor there in the 1930s and ’40s. Tragically, Boris died in the middle of Anna’s time in graduate school, which led her to return to his past work on Leopold in an effort to recover her and her father’s intellectual connections amid her grief. As she unearthed the controversial reactions to his work, which was critical of Leopold’s ideas of ecosystem thinking, she came to reckon with ideas of authorial identity, family history, and environmental thought.

Where Everything New Is Old Again: Southern Gospel Singing Schools

Where Everything New Is Old Again: Southern Gospel Singing Schools

Brooks Blevins
“Lord, Have Mercy on My Soul”: Sin, Salvation, and Southern Rock

“Lord, Have Mercy on My Soul”: Sin, Salvation, and Southern Rock

J. Michael Butler

In 1971 the five-member rock-and-roll group Black Oak Arkansas released their debut album. The songs on the record illuminated themes addressed by Black Oak and the larger "southern rock movement." Most southern rock lyrics glorified such stereotypically male values as fighting, gambling, and sexual conquests.

Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image by Brooks Blevins (Review)

Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image by Brooks Blevins (Review)

John C. Inscoe
Texas Death Row and the Cummins Prison Farm in Arkansas

Texas Death Row and the Cummins Prison Farm in Arkansas

Bruce Jackson
Hot Springs, Arkansas

Hot Springs, Arkansas

Keith Maillard
“What Sells Me”: Bill Clinton, 1974

“What Sells Me”: Bill Clinton, 1974

Seth Kotch
Caste and Class: The Black Experience in Arkansas, 1880-1920 by Fon Louise Gordon (Review)

Caste and Class: The Black Experience in Arkansas, 1880-1920 by Fon Louise Gordon (Review)

Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman
A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas by Jeannie M. Whayne (Review)

A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas by Jeannie M. Whayne (Review)

Gilbert C. Fite