[PDF] Arkansas In Modern America Since 1930 eBook

Author : Ben F. Johnson, III
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 38,79 MB
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1610755510

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This elegantly written narrative traces Arkansas's evolution from a primarily rural society in the early 1900s to its expanding manufacturing economy and its growing prosperity and parity with the rest of the nation. Ben Johnson explores the influence of federal-state relations, beginning with the New Deal programs of President Franklin Roosevelt and continuing through the administrations of native son Bill Clinton. With particular sensitivity, he examines organized labor in the timber industry and in row crop agriculture; school desegregation, "white flight," and the private academy movement in the delta region; the growth of Wal-Mart and the poultry industry in the northwest section of the state; and the expansion of outdoor recreation and tourism as lakes were constructed and game populations rejuvenated. This book is particularly impressive for the breadth of its scope. Johnson offers detailed information on women, music and literature, organized religion, environmental trends, and other important cultural influences. Third in the popular Histories of Arkansas series, Arkansas in Modern America extends the narrative into the contemporary era with a format aimed at students and general readers. This important book will set the standard, for years to come, for analysis and interpretation of Arkansas's place in the twentieth century.

Author : Ben F. Johnson
Publisher : Histories of Arkansas
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 14,24 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1682261026

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"Arkansas in Modern America since 1930 represents a significant rewriting of and elaboration on the earlier Arkansas in Modern America, published in 2000. This book offers an overview of the factors that moved Arkansas from a primarily rural society to one more in step with the modern economy and perspectives of the nation as a whole. The narrative covers the roles of Bill Clinton, Daisy Bates, Sam Walton, Don Tyson, and other influential figures in the state's history, placing them in the context of women's movements, music and literature, religious influences, environmental trends, and other important cultural phenomena"--

Author : Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Arkansas
ISBN : 9781610750288

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In Arkansas and the New South, 1874-1929 Carl Moneyhon examines the struggle of Arkansas's people to enter the economic and social mainstreams of the nation in the years from the end of Reconstruction to the beginning of the Great Depression. Economic changes brought about by development of the timber industry, exploitation of the rich coal fields in the western part of the state, discovery of petroleum, and building of manufacturing industries transformed social institutions and fostered a demographic shift from rural to urban settings.

Author : Wayne Boyce
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,48 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557286802

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The westward expansion of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was a truly exciting time in American history. Few stories of what is now middle America are more intriguing than those of these adventurers and the towns they founded. In this well-researched developmental history of his home town in Arkansas, author Wayne Boyce successfully documents the early beginnings of Tuckerman and accurately depicts how middle America was established. Told through the lives of the first generations of the town's founders and the infrastructure they built, Best Little Town explores the origins of one community and exemplifies small-town life. From a harrowing portrayal of the journey of its settlers to a vivid description of down town Tuckerman in the 1930s and 40s, this book captures the struggles and triumphs of the people who helped shape life in modern America. Book jacket.

Author : Michael Pasquier
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253008085

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From the colonial period to the present, the Mississippi River has impacted religious communities from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Exploring the religious landscape along the 2,530 miles of the largest river system in North America, the essays in Gods of the Mississippi make a compelling case for American religion in motion—not just from east to west, but also from north to south. With discussion of topics such as the religions of the Black Atlantic, religion and empire, antebellum religious movements, the Mormons at Nauvoo, black religion in the delta, Catholicism in the Deep South, and Johnny Cash and religion, this volume contributes to a richer understanding of this diverse, dynamic, and fluid religious world.

Author : Bruce A. Glasrud
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1603449469

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Throughout the South, black women were crucial to the Civil Rights Movement, serving as grassroots and organizational leaders. They protested, participated, sat in, mobilized, created, energized, led particular efforts, and served as bridge builders to the rest of the community. Ignored at the time by white politicians and the media alike, with few exceptions they worked behind the scenes to effect the changes all in the movement sought. Until relatively recently, historians, too, have largely ignored their efforts. Although African American women mobili.