Draft:Mark K. Christ

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Mark K. Christ is a historian and author who has written about Arkansas in the American Civil War

In 1982 he graduated from the University of Arkansas in Little Rock. He worked as a hournalist for 8 years. head of adult programming for the Central Arkansas Library System. He was community outreach director for the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program. He is head of adult programming for the Central Arkansas Library System. He is the host and producer of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas Minute on KUAR.

In 2013 the Civil War Trust awarded him a Preservation Leadership Award. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Arkansas Historical Association in 2015. He received an M.A. from the University of Oklahoma in 2000. He led the Arkansas Historical Association. He served on the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission and the Arkansas World War I Centennial Commemoration Committee. He chaired of the board of directors of the Arkansas Humanities Council.

In 2012 he was interviewed on C-Span about his book Civil War Arkansas 1863; The Battle for a State. He has led bus tours of civil war battlefield in Arkansas. He edited a book of essays on the Reconstruction era in Arkansas.

Writings

• Sentinels of History: Reflections on Arkansas Properties Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
• Rugged and Sublime: The Civil War in Arkansas editor
• I Do Wish This Cruel War Was Over: First-Person Accounts of Civil War Arkansas co-editor
• The War at Home: Perspectives on the Arkansas Experience during World War I University of Arkansas Press (2020)
• Getting Used To Being Shot At: The Spence Family Civil War Letters editor
• All Cut to Pieces and Gone to Hell: The Civil War, Race Relations and the Battle of Poison Spring
• The Earth Shook and Trees Trembled: Civil War Arkansas 1863-1864
• Ready, Booted, and Spurred: Arkansas and the U.S.-Mexican War
• The Die is Cast: Arkansas Goes to War, 1861
• Civil War Arkansas, 1863: The Battle for a State University of Oklahoma Press
• This Day We Marched Again: A Union Soldier’s Account of War in Arkansas and the Trans-Mississippi Region
• I Do Wish This Cruel War Was Over: First Person Accounts of Civil War Arkansas from the Arkansas Historical Quarterly
• Competing Memories: The Legacy of Arkansas’s Civil War editor
• A Confused and Confusing Affair: Arkansas and Reconstruction editor

Articles

• "’An Abolition Hole’: Life in Union Little Rock, 1863-1865"