John Kyle Day

Biographic Data

ID3876230
NAMEJohn Kyle Day
GIVEN NAMESJohn Kyle
FAMILY NAMEDay
SIGNATUREDAY J K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Arkansas at Monticello
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Getting America Wrong

    John Day, John Kyle DayARTICLEAcademic Questions2024

    John Day maintains that Kevin Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer promote “a bitterly cynical view towards our nation’s past and her people’s capacity for goodness” in Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About our Past

  • Educating the Enemy

    Open AccessJohn Day, John Kyle DayARTICLEJournal of American History2024

  • J ames O. H eath . To Face Down Dixie

    Open AccessJohn Day, John Kyle DayARTICLEThe American Historical Review2019

  • Race and Education in New Orleans

    Open AccessJohn Day, John Kyle DayARTICLEJournal of American History2019Cited by: 3

    Race and Education in New Orleans: Creating the Segregated City, 1764–1960 Race and Education in New Orleans: Creating the Segregated City, 1764–1960. By Walter C. Stern. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018. xx, 354 pp. $49.95.) John Kyle Day John Kyle Day University of Arkansas at Monticello, Monticello, Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 106, Iss…

  • Senator James Eastland

    Open AccessJohn Day, John Kyle DayARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2017

    Maarten Zwiers has written the definitive biography of Democratic U.S. senator James Oliver Eastland of Mississippi. Written partially under the direction of the great British historian Adam Fairclough, Zwiers’s book offers a compelling account of the life and times of arguably the most despicable yet greatly influential U.S. senator of the twentieth century. Surely, Zwiers’s work will serve as the standard account of Eastland for the foreseeable…

  • Angie Maxwell. The Indicted South

    John Day, John Kyle DayARTICLEThe American Historical Review2016

    In this book, the prolific Angie Maxwell explores the post–Civil War white South’s relationship with the rest of the U.S. The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness won the Southern Political Science Association’s 2016 V. O. Key Award. Maxwell argues that white southerners developed a sophisticated yet reactionary inferiority complex that manifested itself each time the larger world focused upon the …

  • Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas

    John Kyle DayARTICLEJournal of American History2016

    Journal Article Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas: New Perspectives Get access Ed. by John A. Kirk. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2014. xvii, 215 pp. Paper, $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1229–1230, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav683 Published: 01 March 2016

  • The Southern Manifesto

    John Day, John Kyle DayBOOKSouthern Manifesto2014

    The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation is the first complete study of the Declaration of Constitutional Principles, popularly known as the Southern Manifesto. On March 13, 1956, ninety-nine members of the Eighty-Fourth United States Congress promulgated the Southern Manifesto, formally stating opposition to Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the emerging Civil Rights Movement. This book explores a cru…

  • The Fall of a Southern Moderate

    John Day, John Kyle DayARTICLEThe Arkansas Historical Quarterly2000

    THAT A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE, DR. DALE ALFORD of Little Rock, could have defeated eight-term Arkansas congressman Brooks Hays after only an eight-day campaign in 1958 was not only remarkable politically but had important ramifications outside as well as inside Arkansas. By 1958, Hays was at the height of his career, being one of the most widely respected politicians in both the state and the Congress. Hays's stature derived from nearly forty years o…