Elizabeth Jacoway (born June 16, 1944) is a historian and author in the United States who has written about the history of Arkansas. Her grandmother Peggy Jacoway wrote a book about the First Ladies of Arkansas published in 1941.
She grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas. She won the Booker Worthen Literary Prize.
She wrote a book about desegregation in Little Rock.
She appears in the film Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock, a film about Daisy Bates. Historian Brooks Blevins was one of her students.
Books Yankee missionaries in the South: The Penn School experiment (1980) No Straight Path; Becoming Women Historians (2019), editor Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis that Shocked the Nation (2007) Understanding the Little Rock Crisis: An Exercise in Remembrance and Reconciliation, with C. Fred Williams Adaptable South: Essays in Honor of George Brown Tindall, co-editor Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times, entry on Daisy Lee Bates
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