Arkansas Women

Arkansas Women is the most recent addition and represents the eleventh state featured in the remarkable University of Georgia Press series Southern Women: Their Lives and Times. It is extensive in scope, featuring fourteen chapters that include Native American and European women in frontier Arkansas, slave and slaveholding women, Civil War survivors, a Socialist activist, a U.S. senator, multiple civic leaders and artists, and civil rights activists. Among the chapter authors are Michael B. Dougan, Gary T. Edwards, Dianna Owens Fraley, Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, Rebecca A. Howard, Elizabeth Jacoway, Kelly Houston Jones, John A. Kirk, Marianne Leung, Loretta N. McGregor, Michael Pierce, Debra A. Reid, Rachel Reynolds, Yulonda Eadie Sano, and Sonia Toudji. Cherisse Jones-Branch and Edwards, as editors, provide the introduction. Arkansas frontier history cannot be complete without women's narratives. The history of Caddo, Quapaw, and Osage women may be found in Spanish and French settlers' accounts. Native women's

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