The War at Home: Perspectives on the Arkansas Experience during World War I - Paperback

by Mark K. Christ (Editor)

The War at Home brings together some of the state's leading historians to examine the connections between Arkansas and World War I. These essays explore how historical entities and important events such as Camp Pike, the Little Rock Picric Acid Plant, and the Elaine Race Massacre were related to the conflict as they investigate the issues of gender, race, and public health. This collection sheds new light on the ways that Arkansas participated in the war as well as the ways the war affected Arkansas then and still does today.

Author Biography

Mark K. Christ is a program director at the Central Arkansas Library System who has worked in historic preservation in Arkansas for nearly three decades. He is the editor of Rugged and Sublime: The Civil War in Arkansas and coeditor of I Do Wish This Cruel War Was Over: First-Person Accounts of Civil War Arkansas.