Arkansas History
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Point Remove Creek is a water feature in Conway County, Arkansas, that figured prominently in the history of Cherokee people in Arkansas in the early 19th Century. This four-part series explores the creek's witness to significant events.
A book review of Michael Honey's biography of John Handcox, a union organizer and singer/songwriter for the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union.
An examination of the school-to-prison pipeline through analysis of education and prosecution resources, compared to demographics and literacy rates of public high school students and juvenile defendants in Little Rock, Arkansas. This... more
In September, 1857, one of the worst tragedies in the history of the Westward Expansion took place at Mountain Meadows in southwest Utah Territory. John D. Lee, on the orders of his leaders in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day... more
Latino migration to the US South is not a new phenomenon. Claims of a "Nuevo New South " are thus products of the scholarly and popular imaginations rather than the historical record. Indeed, the claim of a rupture with the past has the... more
Short article on the Arkansas prison scandals of 1968, builds on my work on the prisons that I hope to one day make into a book.
This year, 2020, marks the hundredth anniversary of the establishment of Camp Petit Jean on Petit Jean Mountain, Arkansas, by the Young Men's Christian Association. Though it only lasted 20 years, the camp left an indelible mark on the... more
A narrative of the Bagley-Ridgeway Feud that took place at Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, from 1905 to 1915. Stemming from the death of Ed Bagley at the hands of City Marshal Lee Ridgeway, the eventual tally of seven murders and associated... more
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Point Remove Creek is a water feature in Conway County, Arkansas, that figured prominently in the history of Cherokee people in Arkansas in the early 19th Century. This four-part series explores the creek's witness to significant events.
My book, Country Boy, examines the historical roots of Johnny Cash's music, emphasizing the importance of family, faith, history, and place in the singer's life and career. The book takes a narrative approach to Cash's life, but it is not... more
Ray Cash, depicted as the villain of the 2005 biopic Walk the Line, is the most controversial figure in the Cash family. But what did Johnny think of his father? This paper, which was given as a talk at the Johnny Cash Heritage Festival... more
On January 1, 1860, Arkansas became the first and only state to pass a law (Act 151 of 1859) calling for the removal of all Free Blacks from her borders. This powerpoint looks at that exodus...The Trail of Tears that is seldom discussed...
This report presents the first paleoethnobotanical analysis of flotation samples from any site of the late prehistoric and protohistoric Greenbrier phase of Arkansas’s middle White River. Sample contexts include a burned structure,... more
The history of the Cash family's move from Georgia to Arkansas, including discussion of the Civil War in Cleveland County. In 1935, the family moved to Dyess, where Cash spent most of his young life.
A story of Petit Jean Mountain in central Arkansas, told by Dr. T. W. Hardison, country doctor and founder of the Arkansas state park system.
Looks at the role the New Deal played in the childhood of Johnny Cash, who lived most of his early life in Dyess, Arkansas, in the northeastern part of the state.
Background and early part of the history of the Japanese American incarceration experience from 1941 to mid-1942 through the lens of the photography of Dorothea Lange. Part 1.
Preface, Acknowledgments, and Chapter 1 for book published in November 2016 by Texas A&M University Press. See www.trammelstrace.com for more details.
This chapter addresses Arkansas's notable quartz crystals, discussing geology, locations, history, and use. In addition, a broader history of uses, legends, and superstitions are explained. This chapter was written in connection with... more
The Civil War in Arkansas endures as an example of conflict in the United States where boundaries between Union and Confederate, military and civilian, disappeared. Archaeological investigations of period sites here must reflect the... more
In early America, the notion that settlers ought to receive undeveloped land for free was enormously popular among the rural poor and social reformers. Well into the Jacksonian era, however, Congress considered the demand fiscally and... more
Excavations at two archaeological sites in the Southeast have yielded "snapshots" of the material remains of the Hernando de Soto expedition and the entrada's effects on local populations. In Florida, the Tatham Mound is an... more
A story of Petit Jean Mountain in central Arkansas, told by Dr. T. W. Hardison, country doctor and founder of the Arkansas state park system.
What happened at Elaine? This question has two different, but interrelated, meanings. First, there is the question of the order of events, cause and effect, exactly who did exactly what and why-everything the historian hopes to uncover.... more
During the autumn of 2021, I conducted artifact analysis on three collections that were surface-collected from plowed fields surrounding the Lakeport Plantation (established in Chicot County, Arkansas in 1831) following the restoration of... more