Autor: Robert Cochran

This book explores for the first time the broad range of ways in which Christian thought intersects with American legal theory. Eminent legal scholars—including Stephen Carter, Thomas Shaffer, E …

Louise Pound (1872-1958) was a distinguished literary scholar, renowned athlete, accomplished musician, and devoted women’s sports advocate. She is perhaps best remembered for her groundbreaking work …

A traveling salesman with little formal education, Max Hunter gravitated to song catching and ballad hunting while on business trips in the Ozarks. Hunter recorded nearly 1600 traditional songs by mo …

A rich portrait of the community that is Arkansas manifested in song, Our Own Sweet Sounds celebrates the diversity of musical forms and music makers that have graced the state since territorial time …

This book is a lyrical, scholarly exploration of the connection between one family’s musical traditions and its rural community of Zion, Arkansas. In 1959, three Gilbert sisters-Alma, Helen, and Phyd …

Lights! Camera! Arkansas! traces the roles played by Arkansans in the first century of Hollywood s film industry, from the first cowboy star, Broncho Billy Anderson, to Mary Steenburgen, Billy Bob Th …

In 1979, Ed Stilley was leading a simple life as a farmer and singer of religious hymns in Hogscald Hollow, a tiny Ozark community south of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Life was filled with hard work an …

Vance Randolph was perfectly constituted for his role as the chronicler of Ozark folkways. As a self-described "hack writer, " he was as much a figure of the margins as his chosen subjects, …

An Arkansas Florilegium is a late-flowering extension of the work initiated sixty years ago with University of Arkansas botanist Edwin B. Smith’s first entries in his pioneering Atlas and Annotated L …

Jack Hill was a pioneering Arkansas documentary filmmaker dedicated to sharing his state s history with a wider public. Following a decade as an award-winning investigative journalist and news anchor …

Robert Cochran’s Haunted Man’s Report is a pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis (1933-2020), best known for the novel True Grit and its film adaptations. Haile …