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Author: Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780842029254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 808
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes entries for maps and atlases.
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 808
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carolyn Earle Billingsley
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780820325101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBillingsley reminds us that, contrary to the accepted notion of rugged individuals heeding the proverbial call of the open spaces, kindred groups accounted for most of the migration to the South's interior and boundary lands. In addition, she discusses how, for antebellum southerners, the religious affiliation of one's parents was the most powerful predictor of one's own spiritual leanings, with marriage being the strongest motivation to change them. Billingsley also looks at the connections between kinship and economic and political power, offering examples of how Keesee family members facilitated and consolidated their influence and wealth through kin ties.
Author: United States. Census Office. 7th census, 1850
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 1172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kimberly Harper
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1610754565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on court records, newspaper accounts, penitentiary records, letters, and diaries, White Man’s Heaven is a thorough investigation into the lynching and expulsion of African Americans in the Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kimberly Harper explores events in the towns of Monett, Pierce City, Joplin, and Springfield, Missouri, and Harrison, Arkansas, to show how post–Civil War vigilantism, an established tradition of extralegal violence, and the rapid political, economic, and social change of the New South era happened independently but were also part of a larger, interconnected regional experience. Even though some whites, especially in Joplin and Springfield, tried to stop the violence and bring the lynchers to justice, many African Americans fled the Ozarks, leaving only a resilient few behind and forever changing the racial composition of the region.
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Published: 1973
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Swannee Bennett
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2021-02-11
Total Pages: 817
ISBN-13: 168226131X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume I. Quilts and textiles, Ceramics, Silver, Weaponry, Furniture, Vernacular architecture, Native American art -- volume II. Photography, Fine art.
Author: Kelly Houston Jones
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2021-03-31
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0820368210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first book-length study of Arkansas slavery in more than sixty years, A Weary Land offers a glimpse of enslaved life on the South’s western margins, focusing on the intersections of land use and agriculture within the daily life and work of bonded Black Arkansans. As they cleared trees, cultivated crops, and tended livestock on the southern frontier, Arkansas’s enslaved farmers connected culture and nature, creating their own meanings of space, place, and freedom. Kelly Houston Jones analyzes how the arrival of enslaved men and women as an imprisoned workforce changed the meaning of Arkansas’s acreage, while their labor transformed its landscape. They made the most of their surroundings despite the brutality and increasing labor demands of the “second slavery”—the increasingly harsh phase of American chattel bondage fueled by cotton cultivation in the Old Southwest. Jones contends that enslaved Arkansans were able to repurpose their experiences with agricultural labor, rural life, and the natural world to craft a sense of freedom rooted in the ability to own land, the power to control their own movement, and the right to use the landscape as they saw fit.
Author: Milton D. Rafferty
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1557287147
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Ozark Mountains reach into Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, forming a region with great natural beauty and a distinctive cultural and historical landscape. This comprehensive volume, a fully updated edition of a beloved classic, reaches into history, anthropology, economics, and geography to explore the complex relationships between the Ozarks' people and land through times of profound change. Drawing on more than thirty years of research, field observations, and interviews, Rafferty examines this subject matter through a range of topics: the settlement patterns and material cultures of Native Americans, French, Scotch-Irish, Germans, Italians, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians in the region; population growth; the guerrilla warfare and battles of the Civil War; the cultural transformations wrought by railroads, roads, mass media, and modern communication systems; the discovery, development, and decline of the great mining districts; the various forms of agriculture and the felling of the region's vast forests; and the built landscape, from log cabins to Victorian mansions to strip malls. This new edition also explores the new and potent forces which have reshaped the region over the last twenty years: tourism and the growing service industry, suburbanization, rapid population growth and retirement living, and agribusiness. Lavishly illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs, maps, and charts."--Publisher's description.
