War at Home

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.

This book is full of interesting essays on the impact of World War I on Arkansas. Editor Mark Christ has assembled a cadre of first-rate historians who address a whole range of topics - from the roles of black Arkansans, to the great flu epidemic, to the roles played by women in the Great War." - Tom Dillard, Arkansas history columnist and former president of the Arkansas Historical Association

• Shawn Fisher - Arkansas and the Great War: Southern Soldiers Fight for a National VictoryElizabeth Griffin Hill - Arkansas's Women and the Great WarCarl G. Drexler - Gearing Up Over Here for 'Over There:' Manufacturing in Arkansas during World War ICherisse Jones-Branch - 'Fighting, Protesting, and Organizing:' African Americans in World War I ArkansasRaymond D. Screws - 'To Carry Forward the Training Program:' Camp Pike in the Great War and the Legacy of the PostBrian K. Mitchell - Soldiers and Veterans at the Elaine Race MassacreThomas A. DeBlack - Epidemic!: The Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918 and Its Legacy for ArkansasJeannie M. Whayne - World War I and Woman's Suffrage in ArkansasRoger Pauly - Paris to Pearl in Print: Arkansas's Experience of the March from the Armistice to the Second World War through the Newspaper Media