Law and History Review reviews There When We Needed Him

"Kilpatrick's book touches on historiographic themes of interest to African-American legal, political, and social historians . . . contributes to a growing literature on the overlooked but pivotal role less-prominent leaders played in the civil rights movement."
--Law and History Review, Summer 2009

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"remarkable... an important addition to our literary record"

"Don't Leave Hungry is by no means just a regional magazine .... here are the country's best poets with some of their best work."
Raleigh News & Observer, 5/10/09

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"Black Magic" Film Wins Peabody

ESPN Films was honored with one of the oldest and most prestigious awards for electronic media, the Peabody Award, for its documentary “Black Magic,” a look at the lives of African American basketball players and their coaches at historically black colleges and universities during the civil rights era. The movie prominently features Milton Katz, author of Breaking Through: John B. McClendon, Basketball Legend and Civil Rights Pioneer, being interviewed about John McClendon.

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"versatile and provocative"

"Badger's observations are characterized by intellectual honesty, an imaginative mind, stylistic clarity, realism and sound judgment. Versatile and provocative, his research merges originality of with synthesis. A probing, sophisticated intellect that asks large questions and deals with them thoughtfully is evident throughout. Scholars and students of recent southern history will profit from reading New Deal / New South: An Anthony J. Badger Reader."
-- Journal of Southern History, May 20

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Today's Times Picayune includes a story about Orissa Arend, author of Showdown in Desire: The Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans, and her work with Robert King, a member of the Angola 3 who was imprisoned for 29 years.

The two will appear together at two community forums in the coming weeks, along with others who either participated in the events -- such as priests William Barnwell and Jerome LeDoux; and Bob Tucker, who worked for Mayor Moon Landrieu; and Malik Rahim, one of the founding Panthers.

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Updates on "a fine-textured recounting"

Thank you University of Arkansas Libraries special collections and the Walter J. Lemke department of journalism for the wonderful signing you recently hosted for Roy Reed!


If you missed this signing, Roy Reed will be reading, discussing, and signing Looking Back at the Arkansas Gazette at Nightbird Books this weekend, Saturday, May 16 at 6:00 (at their new location on Dickson) and he will be at the Fort Smith Public Library June 19 at noon.

And, good words from the esteemed Columbia Journalism Review:

"Looking Back offers a fine-textured recounting of the Gazette and its journalists, of a kind beyond the reach of conventional histories."
--Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 2009

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"appeal for general readers and scholars alike"

Confederate Guerrilla was reviewed by Blue & Gray Magazine:

"will have appeal for general readers and scholars alike, both for its superior presentation and a glimpse into the rarely examined world of unconventional war in the 1860s."

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"an excellent collection of essays"

"This is an excellent collection of essays, and any student of southern history since the New Deal should find something of value in it."
--Southern Historian, 2009

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GUEST BLOGGER: Kathleen Rooney's Tour Discoveries

The bulk of my touring behind Live Nude Girl is over and done with, but the value of having done it keeps going on and on.

Said value isn’t just in terms of the higher profile the book hopefully got as a result of spending the better part of two months on the road, but also in terms of the influences and ideas that being on tour exposes the tourer to. I’ve done an exhaustive round-up of these influences over on the book tour diary blog (see the entry on April 14) I share with my tour partner Kyle Minor. But here on the University of Arkansas Press blog, I thought I’d take the chance to a) refer you to the other blog post, and b) explain what I was thinking when I put the list together.

I mention this concept briefly in my other University of Arkansas Press book, Reading with Oprah, but in his novel High Fidelity, Nick Hornby puts forth the suggestion that a person’s personality and identity are less defined by what that person is like, and more defined by what that person likes, e.g. the books they read, the food they eat, the films they watch, the music they listen to, etc. Is that right? Is that wrong? I don’t know for sure, but one thing I do know is that I love lists and I love checking things off them, and this tour has given me a lot of satisfaction on both counts. If you happen to be reading this, and you happen to be from one of the cities I visited on the tour, but maybe didn’t get a chance to give me any of your recommendations, then please be sure to leave a comment either here or on the book tour diary of something you like that you think I (or some of the other people who read things on the internet) might like too.

--Kathleen Rooney