HIST 3310: Social Science Concepts in Arkansas History: 1(f) Recommended Works

A great short overview of Osage history.

Another great book from the Indians of North America series. Perfect starting place for learning more about the Quapaw.

Like the other books of the Indians of America series, this is written for young readers. But it is still a fantastic overview of Cherokee history by one of the great experts in the field.

Carter, Cultural Representative of the Caddo tribe of Oklahoma, creates vivid pictures of daily life in the three branches of the Caddo nation, and introduces past and present Caddo leaders. Drawing on archaeological data, oral histories, and descriptions by European and American explorers, missiona

A useful overview of Native American women's daily life, leadership, and historical role as diplomats during moments of cross cultural exchange.

This book is about the southern frontier (the western edge of the South, including Arkansas) rather than about Arkansas specifically. Chapter 3 and 4 are useful in understanding the experiences of white women pioneers.

Encompassing both the panoramic story of Black women in America and the intimate, evocative details of the lives of individual women, Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson bring readers a new perspective on a long-neglected area of our history. This inspiring, sometimes heartbreaking narrative offers fresh scholarship and historical presentation as it goes beyond descriptions of codified oppression to present the strength, courage, and resourcefulness of African-American women as individuals and as a collective force for positive change. A Shining Thread of Hope moves Black women from the fringes of history, disclosing their impact on American life from colonial America to the years of antebellum slavery to the arts renaissance of the 1970s and '80s. Gripping stories of Civil War spies, a new look at the Civil Rights movement, and an examination of the triumphs of recent years reveal what Black women have to teach all Americans about courage and survival.

This dissertation covers a lot of information about daily life for women in the Ozarks.

The arrival of the first railroads, honkytonks, popular music, revivals, religion, circuses. You probably cannot read this whole book, but if you start by looking at the table of contents, then look for topics that interest you in the index, you can get some *great* material for your paper, especially related to entertainment and culture.

A history of the U.S. as a whole, but Sutherland is a Civil War historian and very knowledgeable about the South.

A fascinating book on a topic that completely obsessed 19th century Arkansans: their health. *Lots* of examples from Arkansas.

Widely used reference for human geography, physical geography, and culture of the Ozarks.

This is really a primary source, but the stories collected by S. C. Turbo give a good sense of daily life, especially for men, in the 19th century Arkansas Ozarks. Tons of bear stories :)

This is the most important book for students of Arkansas Ozark history. The first three chapters would help anyone assigned an Ozark county. Chapter 1 is geography heavy (which could be a good thing for some of you) and chapter 3 has some great info on women's lives.

Overview of childhood in the United States. Start with the table of contents so that you can skip to relevant chapters. Keep an eye out for information relative to childhood in the 19th century South.

The book's title makes it seem that this would only be relevant to the lives of slave children, but it actually has really good information about interactions between slave and free children. Valuable for almost every project.

Informative interviews about Arkansas childhood organized around themes of family, school, community, and religion. MANY of these interviews are about the 1930s and 1940s, but the first two or three interviews in each chapter go back to the 1890s. Very helpful for games, chores, etc.

Warning: this book is about the early 20th century. However, if used carefully, the first few chapters could be useful for writing about the very end of the 1800s.

This book focuses on North Carolina, but chapter one would make a great introduction to early public schools in Arkansas.

Civil rights historian Adam Fairclough chronicles the odyssey of black teachers in the South from emancipation in 1865 to integration 100 years later. The text offers a bold vision of black teachers, built from the stories of real men and women, from teachers in one-room shacks to professors in red brick universities.

We own six (6!) copies of this book. And that's a good thing, because even one single chapter from this book would give almost any student stories and details that would enrich their paper. I particularly recommend chapter 4 (Native Americans) chapter 5 (Arkansas society & daily life) and chapter 7 (slavery). This book is especially good on the subject of poorer white Arkansans who would not have owned slaves.

This is THE textbook on Arkansas history. The chapters on the 19th century are well-written and informative.

Whether or not you intend to write about an enslaved character, this is an important resource. It contains over 300 interviews with former slaves in Arkansas conducted in the 1930s. The interviews are arranged alphabetically **by county.**

Black and White on Slavery's Frontier is the best single essay on slavery in Arkansas, and you can find it in Chapter 1 of the book Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas.

Historian Fon Louise Gordon traces the unique experience of African Americans in Arkansas from 1880 through World War I.

This book looks at Reconstruction and the rise of Segregation from black Arkansans' perspectives. Chapter 8 gives a good narrative of how African Americans fought the rise of segregation laws in Arkansas.

This history of Arkansas plantations and planters would help any student writing on a Mississippi or Arkansas River Valley county.

Good source for insight into the lives and experiences of slave-holding women. Introduction and chapter 1 highly recommended.