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Herron Center Cookbook $11.00

The Herron Center cookbook features over 120 great recipes, including many traditional ones such as Fried Rabbit and Cracking Cornbread.

Also available: Cookbook Stand (see below)

Cookbook Stand $4.50

Metal stand holds your cookbook open and upright for easy reading while you're cooking. Also works with hard-backed books.

Arkansas Historical Dance Series $12.00
(Book and Video Set)
by Dr. David R. Peterson and Dr. Charlie Sandage

	Video	The Arkansas Historical Dance Series is a unique collection of 8 short documentaries (5-11 minutes each) on traditional dance, music, and culture stretching from territorial times to the present; each segment is supported by a text and rare, historical photographs. The text (68 pages) includes a program summary, an historical perspective of the period and activity, a glossary of special dance and music terms, as well as dance descriptions, and suggestions for follow-up activities. Student work sheet packets are available for classroom use. This project started in 1987 when the Arkansas Country Dance Society (ACDS) received a grant from the Arkansas Endowment for the Humanities to produce two audio tapes of string-band dance music together with a text that could be used to support the preservation and teaching of traditional dance in the schools and communities of Arkansas. The tapes were soon completed and are available from ACDS. Over the years the text grew into a full length book which is the basis for the enclosed text and the 8 documentaries which were produced in cooperation with the Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN). The videos were written and directed by Dr. David R. Peterson and Dr. Charlie Sandage. Dr. Peterson wrote the text, the student work sheets, and collected the historical pictures.

Dr. Peterson is a mathematician by academic training but a dance caller, musician, musical instrument builder, stone mason, log house builder, etc. by avocation. He helped found the ACDS in 1978 and has been president since. He is well known for his dance leadership and calling. Dr. Peterson has a joint appointment as Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Ozark Heritage Institute at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. Dr. Sandage is and has been many interesting things: college teacher, academic administrator, performer/songwriter, music director at the Ozark Folk Center, music show producer, and television producer. He currently produces educational programming for the AETN.

Documentaries included on the Arkansas Historical Dance Series Video:
(photo of the author to the right)

1. A “Frolic” in Territorial Times

2. Jigging & Clogging

3. Old Time Square Dancing

4. Play Party Games

5. Victorian Ball

6. Riverboat Days

7. Modern Western Square Dancing

8. Black Dancing Traditions

Narrative of Sojourner Truth $3.75

80 pages
Remarkable narrative of one of the most famous and admired African-American women in U.S. history, first published in 1850, offers a rare glimpse into the little-documented world of Northern slavery.

The Life of Olaudah Equiano $3.75

192 pages
Compelling work traces the formidable journey of an Igbo prince from captivity to freedom and literacy and recounts his enslavement in the New World, service in the Seven Years War, voyages to the Arctic, 6 months among the Miskito Indians in Central America, and more.

African-American Poetry $3.00

96 pages
Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from the religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. Other contributors include James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, many others. Indispensable for students of the black experience in America and any lover of fine poetry.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass $1.50

96 pages
Douglass' graphic depictions of slavery, harrowing escape to freedom, and life as a newspaper editor, eloquent orator, and impassioned abolitionist.

Twelve Years A Slave $13.50

336 pages
Kidnapped into slavery in 1841, Northup spent 12 years in captivity. This autobiographical memoir represents an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. "A moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousand gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation..." — Saturday Review. 7 illustrations. 336 pages. Index.

Abraham Lincoln - Great Speeches $3.00

128 pages
Representative collection of 16 masterly orations, correspondence, including "House Divided" speech at the Republican State Convention (1858), the First Inaugural Address (1861), the Gettysburg Address (1863), the Letter to Mrs. Bixby (1864), expressing regret over the wartime deaths of her 5 sons, and the Second Inaugural Address (1865).

Up From Slavery $3.00

Booker T. Washington - 160 pages
Autobiography of influential spokesman and former slave who became a major figure in the struggle for equal rights.

The Souls of Black Folks $3.00

 W.E.B. DuBois - 176 pages
In this founding work in the literature of black protest, Du Bois eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently to all mankind. He also charges that the strategy of accommodation to white supremacy would only serve to perpetuate black oppression.

My Bondage and My Freedom $16.50

 Frederick Douglass - 464 pages
Born a slave, Douglass became an outspoken force in the antislavery movement. The best of Douglass's autobiographies. Graphic description of slave life.

Famous African-American Women Paper Dolls $5.95

 16 well-researched, accurately detailed dolls, each with one additional costume, represent such inspiring figures as Sojourner Truth, Mary McLeod Bethune, Zora Neale Hurston, Althea Gibson, Rosa Parks, Leontyne Price, Maya Angelou, Shirley Chisholm, Toni Morrison, and 7 others in an informative and inspiring collection. 32 color illustrations.

Great African Americans Coloring Book $3.95

Carefully researched, finely rendered collection of ready-to-color illustrations pays tribute to 45 remarkable African Americans — among them Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall, Marian Anderson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Hale, Althea Gibson, Duke Ellington, Ralph Ellison, Katherine Dunham, and many others. Captions describe accomplishments.

The Amistad Coloring Book $3.95

Features 28 meticulously rendered, ready-to-color illustrations, among them the capture of Africans in their homeland, their revolt aboard ship in Havana, imprisonment in a New Haven jail, and their successful defense before the Supreme Court by former U.S. President John Quincy Adams. Captions.

The Story of the Underground Railroad Coloring Book $3.95

Forty-four dramatically illustrated scenes tell the story of the secret network that took runaway slaves from southern states to the North and Canada between 1830 and 1860. Shocking views of slave pens, "below decks" aboard a slave ship, methods of punishing runaway slaves, refugees arriving at a "safe house," and more. Fact-filled captions.

Famous African-American Women Coloring Book $3.95

The contributions of African-American women to education, civil rights, literature, the performing arts, athletics, and other areas are documented in this carefully rendered coloring book. Forty-five illustrations highlight achievements of such notable women as Coretta Scott King, Maya Angelou, Hattie McDaniel, Toni Morrison, Ella Fitzgerald, Leontyne Price, and Shirley Chisholm. Captions.

Herron Center Postcards $5.00

Receive a pack containing eight different Herron Center Postcards.

Brain Quest: Black History $11.25
"It's O.K. to Be Smart!"
850 questions and answers challenging your knowledge of African-American Heritage. Ages 9 and up.
Curriculum-based, teacher approved by a panel of American educators.

Martin Luther King At Lincoln Memorial Poster $7.95
24 x 34 inches.

Martin Luther King/I Have A Dream Poster $7.95
17 x 22 inches.