One of our former M.A. students, Blake Perkins (’10), is in high cotton. Last week he signed a contract with the University of Illinois Press; his revised dissertation., BACKCOUNTRY DEFIANCE: A HIDDEN HISTORY OF RURAL RESISTANCE TO FEDERAL POWER IN THE OZARKS, will be published in 2017 as part of the press’s Working Class in American History Series. Also, Blake is this week’s feature on the OHA’s PROCESS blog: http://www.processhistory.org/perkins-ozarks/.