The University of Arkansas Press is now the exclusive distributor for the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies!


Created in 1997 as a department of the Central Arkansas Library System, the Butler Center is dedicated to exploring, preserving, and interpreting the history of Arkansas. In addition to a book publishing program, the Center sponsors the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, a number of programs to assist teachers and students, and a full range of research services.

 

A Pryor Commitment
The Autobiography of David Pryor
David Pryor

Big Hat Law
The Arkansas State Police, 1935–2000
Michael Lindsey

A Life on the Black River in Arkansas
A Pioneering Banker’s Memoir
Ewell R. Coleman

Pfeiffer Country
The Tenant Farms and Business Activities of Paul Pfeiffer in Clay County, Arkansas, 1902-1954
Sherry Laymon

Ready, Booted, and Spurred
Arkansas in the U.S.–Mexican War
Edited by William A. Frazier and Mark K. Christ

The Good Ground of Central High
Little Rock Central High School
and Legendary Coach Wilson Matthews

George M. Cate

 


Race Relations in the Natural State
Grif Stockley


Crisis of Conscience
Arkansas Methodists and the Civil Rights Struggle
Edited by James T. Clemons
and Kelly L. Farr

A Rough Introduction to This Sunny Land
The Civil War Diary of Private Henry A. Strong,
Co. K, Twelfth Kansas Infantry

Edited by Tom Wing

Things Grew Beautifully Worse
The Wartime Experiences of Captain John O'Brien, 30th Arkansas Infantry, C.S.A.
Edited by Brian K. Robertson


“All Cut to Pieces and Gone to Hell”
The Civil War, Race Relations, and the Battle of Poison Spring
Edited by Mark K. Christ


Bandits, Bears, and Backaches
A Collection of Short Stories Based
on Arkansas History

Velma B. Branscum Woody

The Crossroads of Arkansas
A One-Hour Arkansas Perspective
John P. Gill

Big Woods Bird
An Ivory-bill Story
Terri Robert Luneau
Illustrated by Trevor Bennett

Arkansas Indians
Learning and Activity Book
Berna Love
Illustrations by Lynn L. Bell

The Little Rock Sound, 1965-69
The Romans, the Coachmen, the Culls, and More
Liner Notes by Bill Jones

 


 

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