PLAY PODCASTS
Summer Series 2025: Mob Rule in the Ozarks - Kenneth C. Barnes (All Aboard, Part 3)
Episode 97

Summer Series 2025: Mob Rule in the Ozarks - Kenneth C. Barnes (All Aboard, Part 3)

Our Missouri

July 14, 202525m 10s

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (mcdn.podbean.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Show Notes

Next up in the 2025 Summer Series, host Sean Rost talks with Kenneth C. Barnes about his new book, Mob Rule in the Ozarks: The Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Strike, 1921-1923.

Episode Image: Scene on the “Devil’s Eye Brow” near Seligman, Missouri, date unknown. [John F. Bradbury, Jr. Postcard Collection (R1551), SHSMO]

About the Guest: Kenneth C. Barnes earned a PhD from Duke University and is professor emeritus of history at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of several books, including Nazism, Liberalism, and Christianity: Protestant Social Thought in Germany and Great Britain, 1925-1937; Journey of Hope: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s; Who Killed John Clayton?: Political Violence and the Emergence of the New South, 1861-1893; Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas: How Politicians, the Press, the Klan, and Religious Leaders Imagined an Enemy, 1910–1960; The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas: How Protestant White Nationalism Came to Rule a State; and Mob Rule in the Ozarks: The Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Strike, 1921-1923.