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The UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) is pleased to welcome Danielle Butler as the project archivist for “The Road from Hell is Paved with Little Rocks: Digitizing the History of Segregation and Integration of Arkansas’s Educational System,” made possible by a grant from the Digitizing Hidden Collections Initiative sponsored by the Council on Library … Project archivist selected for digitization grant

University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) students in classes across the university are learning how to interact directly with history through instruction sessions offered by the Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC). Sarah Bost, student success archivist, has all the duties of a typical archivist while also coordinating with faculty and staff to introduce the use … Instruction sessions connect students to historical resources

The UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) has launched a blog to keep patrons informed of progress made on the project “The Road from Hell is Paved with Little Rocks: Digitizing the History of Segregation and Integration of Arkansas’s Educational System.” Thanks to a $106,908.00 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources and … Blog to document digitization project

Latino Americans play major roles in Arkansas’s social, economic, and political success. However, their experiences, history, and struggles still receive little mainstream attention. Over the last year, the UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) has fought against this inequality through strategic education, entertainment, and community engagement. Funded by a $3,000 grant from the … Latino Americans: 500 Years of History

Over 70 years have passed since one of Arkansas’s darkest chapters ended, but its effects are still felt around the country. When the Rohwer Japanese American internment camp in Desha County closed in 1945, the thousands of former inmates, from infants to the elderly, slipped quietly back into society after three years of traumatic exclusion. … Restoring Rohwer: UALR Faculty, Staff, and Students Honor Former Japanese American Internment Camp Residents

With each program, exhibit, and collection it curates, the UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) strives to shine light on nationally significant events, figures, and issues. The Center’s passionate archivists, led by Director Deborah Baldwin, are doing just that with a new program called “The Road from Hell Is Paved with Little Rocks: Digitizing the … Digitizing history, UALR Center receives grant to make Arkansas school desegregation papers digital

The UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) has received a $10,424 grant award from the Arkansas Humanities Council for a project focused on the political history of Arkansas titled, No Laughing Matter: Political Cartoons and the Arkansas Historical Perspective.  The project includes the creation of a virtual exhibit to examine the interaction of … Grant to help launch political cartoon history exhibit

Members of the Public will have a chance to meet historian and sociologist Gilberto Cárdenas, Ph.D., during an upcoming visit to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Cárdenas will give a presentation, “Visualizing Mexican Migration: Historical Context and Contemporary Flows,” starting at 6:30 p.m., April 25, 2016, at UALR’s Stella Boyle Smith Auditorium. Cárdenas received … UALR to host presentation examining Mexican migration

The Arkansas Museums Association has named a public history graduate student at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock its “Graduate Student of the Year.” Jessica Erwin, a graduate assistant in the UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) since fall 2014, has been involved with a variety of projects at the Center. Erwin … Association names Erwin “Graduate Student of the Year”

by Jaztone Brewer  During the fall of 2015, I enrolled in a course that required a service learning assignment. The search was on to pick an option provided by my professor. I chose to fulfill my ten hours in the research room of the Arkansas Studies Institute building looking through a collection held by the UALR Center for … My semester with Bernie Babcock