Would you like to explore more? The resources below are a great place to start.
Archival Holdings: Subiaco Abbey (Catholic heritage archives), Grand Prairie Historical Society (immigrant ancestry archival holdings), Special Collections, University of Arkansas (Colonial Arkansas Post Ancestors Website), Shiloh Museum of Arkansas History (Italian immigrant holdings), Arkansas State Archives, Butler Center for Arkansas History, Arkansas Historic Commission, Quapaw Nation Archives
French/French-Quapaw Resources
Arnold, Morris S. “Barthélémy Dit Charlot, a Colonial Arkansas Métis and Voyageur.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 74, no. 1 (2015): 1-17.
Arnold, Morris S. “Colonial Arkansas Women.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 76, no. 1 (2017): 1-22.
Arnold, Morris S. “François Ménard, a Colonial Arkansas “Marchand” and “Habitant”.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 74, no. 4 (2015): 303-26.
ARNOLD, MORRIS S. “The Métis People of Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Arkansas.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 57, no. 3 (2016): 261-96.
Arnold, Morris S. 2007. The Rumble of a Distant Drum: the Quapaws and the Old World Newcomers, 1673-1804. Univ of Arkansas Pr.
Arnold, Morris S. “The Significance of the Arkansas Colonial Experience.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 51, no. 1 (1992): 69-82.
Arnold, Morris S. 2010. Unequal laws unto a savage race: European legal traditions in Arkansas, 1686-1836. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press.
Arnold, Morris S., and Dorothy Jones Core. 1986. Arkansas Colonials, 1686-1804: a collection of French and Spanish records listing early Europeans in the Arkansas. DeWitt, AR: DeWitt Pub. Co.
Dubuisson, Ann. “François Sarazin: Interpreter at Arkansas Post during the Chickasaw Wars.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 71, no. 3 (2012): 243-63.
DuVal, Kathleen. “Indian Intermarriage and Métissage in Colonial Louisiana.” The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, 65, no. 2 (2008): 267-304.
DuVal, Kathleen. 2006. The Native Ground Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. University of Pennsylvania Press.
Key, Joseph Patrick. “”Outcasts upon the World”: The Louisiana Purchase and the Quapaws.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly62, no. 3 (2003): 272-88.
Toudji, Sonia. 2011. “”The Happiest Consequences”: Sexual Unions and Frontier Survival at Arkansas Post”. The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 70 (1): 45-56.
TOUDJI, SONIA. “Women in Early Frontier Arkansas: “They Did All the Work except Hunting”.” In Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times, edited by Jones-Branch Cherisse and Edwards Gary T., 5-26. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018.
WHAYNE, JEANNIE M., THOMAS A. DEBLACK, GEORGE SABO, and MORRIS S. ARNOLD. Arkansas: A Concise History. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2019.
German Resources
Barnes, Kenneth. “‘Don’t Go to Arkansas:’ How the Prussian Government Tried to Curb Emigration to the Arkansas River Valley in 1881 and 1882.” Faulkner Facts and Fiddlings 44 (Fall, Winter 2001 and Spring 2002): 9-13.
Brister, Louis E. “The Image of Arkansas in the Early German Emigrant Guidebook: Notes on Immigration.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 36 (Autumn 1977): 338-45.
Condray, Kathleen. Das Arkansas Echo: A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2020.
Conzen, Kathleen Neils. “Mainstreams and Side Channels: The Localization of Immigrant Cultures.” Journal of American Ethnic History 11, no. 1 (1991): 5-20.
Conzen, Kathleen Neils, David A. Gerber, Ewa Morawska, George E. Pozzetta, and Rudolph J. Vecoli. “The Invention of Ethnicity: A Perspective from the U.S.A.” Journal of American Ethnic History 12, no. 1 (1992): 3-41.
Durning, Dan. “Attracting the German Immigrant: A German Immigrant Describes Arkansas’ Advantages To His Countrymen.” Pulaski County Historical Review 28 (Spring 1980): 2-8.
Faust, Albert Bernhardt. The German Element in the United States with Special Reference to its Political, Moral, Social, and Educational Influence. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909.
Freeman, Felton D. “Immigration to Arkansas.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 7 (Autumn, 1948): 210-220.
Hermann, Karl Friedrich. “Memoirs, Letters, and Diary Entries of German Settlers in Northwest Arkansas, 1853-1863.” Translated by Clarence Evans. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 6 (Autumn 1947): 225-249.
Hoerder, Dirk and Jörg Nagler, eds. German Migrations in Comparative Perspective, 1820-1930, People in Transit, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
LeMaster, Carolyn Gray. A Corner of the Tapestry: A History of the Jewish Experience in Arkansas, 1820’s-1990’s. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1994.
Lucey, John M. “History of Immigration to Arkansas.” Publications of the Arkansas Historical Association 3 (1911): 201-219.
Moneyhon, Carl H. Arkansas and the New South: 1874-1929. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1997.
Schede, Simone. “‘Gone, but not forgotten’ – But Almost: The German Heritage of Arkansas.” Amerikastudien / American Studies 44.4 (1999): 477-496.
Strickland, Jeffery. “How the Germans Became White Southerners: German Immigrants and African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, 1860-1880.” Journal of American Ethnic History 28, no. 1 (Fall 2008): 52-69.
Strub, Joseph. Leitstern zur St. Joseph’s Colonie (unter Leitung der Väter vom hl. Geist) im Westen des Staates Arkansas. Morrilton: n.p., 1880. Republished and translated by Kenneth Barnes as The Guiding Star For the St. Joseph Colony: A Guide Book for Catholic Emigrants to the Arkansas River Valley. Conway: Faulkner County Historical Society, 1997.
Watkins, Beverly. “Efforts to Encourage Immigration to Arkansas, 1865-1874.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 38 (Spring 1979): 32-62.
Whayne, Jeannie, Thomas A. DeBlack, George Sabo, and Morris Arnold. Arkansas: A Narrative History. 2nd edition. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2013.
Wolfe, Jonathan James. “Background of German Immigration.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 25 (Summer 1966): 151-182.
Italian Resources
Barbata, Jackson, Jessica. Dixie’s Italians: Sicilians, Race, and Citizenship in the Jim Grow Gulf
South. LSU P, 2020.
Borgognoni, Libby. Italians of Sunnyside 1895-1995: A People of Faith, of Hope, and of Love. Centennial Celebration September 1, 2, 3, 1995. Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church. Lake Village, AR: Libby Borgognoni, 1995.
Braun, Lauren Hillary. “Italians, the Labor Problem, and the Project of Agricultural Colonization in the New South, 1884–1934.” PhD diss., University of Illinois at Chicago, 2010.
Bush, Mary Bucci. Sweet Hope. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2011.
Connell, William J. and Stanislao G. Pugliese. The Routledge History of Italian Americans. New
York: Routledge, 2017.
Dorer, Chris. Images of America: Little Italy. Arcadia Publishing, 2015.
Guglielmo, Jennifer and Salvatore Salerno. Are Italian White? How Race is Made in America.
New York: Routledge, 2003.
Hadley, A. W. “The Tontitown Settlement: History of a Successful Italian Colony in Arkansas.” Maxwell’s Talisman, October 1905, 14–16.
Mangione, Jerre and Ben Morreale. La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American
Experience. New York: Harper Perennial, 1993.
Roselli, Bruno. “An Arkansas Epic.” Century Magazine, January 1920, 377–386.
Scarpaci, Vincenza and Jean Ann Scarpaci. Italian Immigrants in Louisiana Sugar Parishes
Recruit Labor Conditions and Community Relations, 1880-1910. Ayer Co Pub, 1981.
Scarpaci, Vincenza. The Journey of the Italians in America. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing
Company, Inc., 2008.
Stone, Alfred H. Italian Cotton-Growers in Arkansas. New York: Review of Reviews Company, 1907.
Whayne, Jeannie M. Shadows over Sunnyside: An Arkansas Plantation in Transition, 1830-
1945. Fayetteville, AR: U of Arkansas P., 1993.
Young, Susan. Memories I Can’t Let Go Of: Life Stories from Tontitown, Arkansas. Farther
Along Books, 2012.
Young, Susan. “So Big, This Little Place.” The Founding of Tontitown, Arkansas, 1989-1917.
Tontitown Historical Museum, 2009.
Woods, James M. Mission and Memory: A History of the Catholic Church in Arkansas. Little Rock: August House, 1993.