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  The Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) and the UALR Department of History have collaborated for years through the Graduate Assistantship program, which provides current graduate students in the Public History program the opportunity to gain real-world experience working in an archive. The CAHC aims to support the education of the Graduate Assistants … Former CAHC Graduate Assistant, Crystal Shurley, Recognized for Her Work

Purpose This award recognizes and acknowledges the role of the federal courts and judiciary in the state of Arkansas and promotes a better understanding of that role through scholarly study at the professional, graduate, or undergraduate level. Interdisciplinary projects will be considered. This award supports: Criteria for selection Recipients will be selected based on the … G. Thomas Eisele Research Fellowship: 2019 Call for applications

Two UA Little Rock faculty members have been awarded G. Eisele Research Fellowships for this year. Marc D. Glidden, an adjunct instructor in criminal justice, and John Kirk, the George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History and director of the UA Little Rock Joel E. Anderson Institute on Race and Ethnicity, each received a fellowship. The … Eisele fellowships recipients announced for 2018

The G. Thomas Eisele Research Fellowship presentation will be on Tuesday, April 17, beginning at 5 p.m. in the Bailey Alumni and Friends Center on the main campus of UA Little Rock. The presentation will feature the research of the 2017 Fellow, Colin Woodward, Ph.D., concerning Arkansas prison farms and the efforts of state officials … G. Thomas Eisele Research Fellowship to be announced April 17

The Center for Arkansas History and Culture has been awarded a $50,000 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). CAHC’s Mapping Renewal project is an 18-month pilot that will bring together humanities scholars and technical specialists to select, digitize, describe, and create a website to share archival maps, … Center Receives Grant to Digitize Archives from Central Arkansas’s Urban Renewal

The UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) has received a grant to create sets of digitized historical materials related to Arkansas and tied to Arkansas State Social Studies Frameworks and the Arkansas Disciplinary Literacy Frameworks for use in elementary, middle, and high schools. The $19,997 grant is sponsored in part by … CAHC Receives Grant to Create Educational Resources for Classrooms

The UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture announced today the 2018 cycle for the G. Thomas Eisele Research Fellowship is now open for applications. This award recognizes and acknowledges the role of the federal courts and judiciary in the state of Arkansas and promotes a better understanding of that role through scholarly … Call for Applications: G. Thomas Eisele Research Fellowship

The University of Arkansas for Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture has received nearly $6,000 from the Arkansas Humanities Council to assess, digitalize, and catalog early railway line and city maps created from 1917 to 1918. The $5,874 grant, entitled “Tie-ing Arkansas Together,” will process and digitize 133 oversized railway maps associated with the St. … Center wins grant to process and digitize Arkansas railroad and city maps

On Monday, Nov. 13, patrons gathered at the Argenta Community Theatre to celebrate former U.S. Congressman Vic Snyder and his legacy of work. Presented by Blue Cross Blue Shield, the event raised $19,550 to oversee the archival costs of Snyder’s political papers, which will call the archives at UA Little Rock’s Center for Arkansas History … CAHC receives former Congressman Snyder’s papers

Bridget Wood was the graduate assistant for the James Guy Tucker, Jr., Papers Project. During the two-year project Wood was assigned to the audiovisual materials found within the approximately 600 cubic feet of manuscript material. As the content specialist for the audiovisual materials and born digital items, Wood was responsible for inventorying, describing, and making them … Managing a/v materials in the Jim Guy Tucker Papers