Arkansas History
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 82
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 82
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This textbook employs the innovative original scholarship produced in the past 50 years about the Natural State and includes a sophisticated narrative analysis of Arkansas history that conforms to the rigors of a top-tier upper-division history course yet is also accessible to undergraduates who are not History majors. The primary goal of this textbook is improve the teaching of Arkansas History, both in the traditional classroom setting as well as in the increasingly popular online format.
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Place of Arkansas
A. Key Terms
B. Location
C. Topography
D. Natural Regions
E. Aquatic Arkansas
F. Reflections
Essential Question: How does Arkansas’s geography affect the state’s history?
CHAPTER 1: The First People of Arkansas
A. Key Terms
B. Origins: Who Are These People?
C. Paleo Indian Period, circa 9500–8000 B.C.E.
D. Archaic Period, circa 8000–500 B.C.E.
E. Woodland Era, circa 500 B.C.E.–900 C.E.
F. Mississippian Era, 900–1541 C.E.
D. Arkansas’s Dark Age, 1541–1673 C.E.
G. Reflections
Essential Question: How did the people that are today known as American Indians come to and live in the place now known as Arkansas?
CHAPTER 2: Arkansas Crossroads: The Colonial Era
A. Key Terms
B. Arkansas’s Conquistador: De Soto And The Spanish Conquest, 1539–1542
C. New France Louisiana (With Spanish Interlude), 1673–1801.
D. The Louisiana Purchase, 1801–1803
E. The Eastern Indians’ Arkansas Respite
F. Trails Of Tears
G. Reflections
Essential Question: How did the Europeans arrival to Arkansas affect both themselves and Arkansas Indians?
CHAPTER 3: Arkansas Territory, 1819–1836
A. Key Terms
B. The Missouri Crisis (1819–1821)
C. Internal Subsistence Economy Versus The Atlantic Market
D. Arkansas In The Age Of Jackson
E. 1836 Statehood
F. Reflections
Essential Question: How was the transformation of Arkansas from territorial frontier to southern statehood part of the larger American experience?
CHAPTER 4: Arkansas Statehood, 1836–1861
A. Key Terms
B. Banking Fiasco
C. The Political Economy Of Slavery
D. Arkansas’s War In Mexico, 1846–1848
E. Antebellum Prosperity In The Age Of Sectionalism, 1848–1860
F. Reflections
Essential Question: Why did Arkansas become a part of the Old South?
CHAPTER 5: Arkansas Civil War, 1860–1865
A. Key Terms
B. Seccession
C. A Divided State Goes To War
D. Pea Ridge: March 7–8, 1862
E. Prairie Grove: December 7, 1862
F. Helena: July 4, 1863
G. Little Rock: September 10, 1863
H. The Camden Expedition
I. The Real War
J. Reflections
Essential Question: What was the experience of Arkansas during the Civil War compared to other southern states?
CHAPTER 6: Reconstruction, 1863–1874
A. Key Terms
B. Varieties Of Reconstruction
C. Presidential Reconstruction
D. Congressional (Or Radical) Reconstruction
E. The Militia War, 1868–1869
F. Radical Reconstruction, Arkansas Style
G. The Brooks Baxter War, 1872–1874
H. Redemption
I. Reflections
Essential Question: Was Reconstruction in Arkansas Successful? Why or Why Not?
Bibliography
John Kyle Day, Ph.D. is Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM). Day is a native of Fayetteville, AR, attending public schools. He received a B.A. in History and Political Science and a Master of Arts in History from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville; after which he earned a Doctorate of Philosophy in American History from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Day teaches classes in Arkansas History, Modern American History, Latin American History, and Modern Mexico. He is a Past President of the Arkansas Association of Arkansas History Teachers, a former trustee of the Arkansas Historical Association, past Chairman of the Arkansas Humanities Council, and past national councilor of Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society. He is the author of The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014) and, with Trey Berry, editor of Arkansas History: A Collegiate Reader, 2d Edition (Southlake: Fountainhead Press, 2019). His articles have appeared in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, The Historian, The Missouri Historical Review, The Journal of School Choice, The Delaware Review of Latin American Studies; and in anthologies such as Louisiana Beyond Black and White: New Interpretations of Twentieth Century Race and Race Relations (University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2011) and Freemasonry on the Frontier (UK: Lewis Masonic, 2020).