The Arkansas Character series, published by the University of Arkansas Press, is jointly sponsored by the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies (CARS) in the University of Arkansas’s Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History.

“We seek in-depth portrayals of insufficiently celebrated accomplishment (and insufficiently rebuked foul behavior) in all arenas of human endeavor. Equally welcome are accounts of big-screen events and famous players (office holders, rock stars, movers and shakers) and adventures of local legends, unheralded artisans, stars of unlit stages… Every form of excellence (and outrageousness) rooted in this place.” – Robert Cochran, series editor, professor and chair of American Studies at the University of Arkansas, and director of CARS

Reporting for Arkansas: The Documentary Films of Jack Hill
Dale Carpenter and Bob Cochran
2022

Remote Access: Small Public Libraries in Arkansas
Sabine Schmidt and Don House
2021

An Arkansas Florilegium: The Atlas of Botanist Edwin Smith Illustrated by Naturalist Kent Bonar
2017

True Faith, True Light: The Devotional Art of Ed Stilley
Kelly Mulhollan
2015