Books
Finney, Gladys Turner. Joseph Carter Corbin: Educator Extraordinaire and Founder of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Little Rock: Butler Center Books, 2017.
Simmons, William J. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1887.
Articles
Kass, Jesse Leo. "Joseph Carter Corbin: Arkansas's 'Profound Mathematician'." Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 70 (2023), no. 2, 293–300
Rothrock, Thomas. “Joseph Carter Corbin and Negro Education in the University of Arkansas.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 30 (Winter 1971): 277–314.
Wheeler, Elizabeth L. “Isaac Fisher: The Frustrations of a Negro Educator at Branch Normal College, 1902-1911.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 41, no. 1 (1982): 3–50.
Williams, C. Fred. “Frustration Amidst Hope: The Land Grant Mission of Arkansas AM&N College, 1873-1972.” Agricultural History 65, no. 2 (1991): 115–30.