Arkansas

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) today announced the opening of the James Guy Tucker Jr. Papers. Tucker’s collection spans nearly 600 cubic feet of materials, including letters, legislative documents, legal papers, campaign materials, and photographs that cover a wide range of political, social, and economic issues of … Tucker papers open to public, document political career of 43rd governor

The UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) is leading a team effort to commemorate a pivotal moment in women’s plight to secure the vote. Part of that effort is a new virtual exhibit titled “Arkansas Women’s Suffrage Centennial,” which opened on February 7, 2017. The exhibit, ualrexhibits.org/suffrage, features essays on topics such … Virtual exhibit honors history of women’s suffrage in Arkansas

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

The UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture announced today the inaugural call for applications for the G. Thomas Eisele Research Fellowship. The 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, … Eisele Research Fellowship now available

This spring the UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture has partnered with the UALR Department of International and Second Language Studies, UALR Department of English, UALR Office of Campus Life, and the Clinton School of Public Service to introduce a new series of events in the public program Latino Americans: 500 Years of History. Each illustrating the history of … New events announced for “Latino Americans: 500 Years of History”

The UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) is pleased to welcome Garret Kremer-Wright as the new Research and Scholarly Communications Archivist. A certified archivist, Kremer-Wright, whose background is in Historic Preservation and Public History, joined CAHC in mid-November 2015. “I enjoy the Civil War and researching genealogy.  I have cursory interest in environmental and … Center welcomes new archivist

The UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) has received a $106,908 grant award to digitize materials related to the history of segregation and integration of Arkansas’s educational system. The award is part of the Digitizing Hidden Collections and Archives initiative sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon … Center receives grant to digitize history of segregation, integration of Arkansas schools

On this 70th anniversary of the closing of the Rohwer Japanese American Relocation Camp in Desha County, Arkansas, the UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture has launched Rohwer Restored, a virtual exhibit that documents a project to stabilize and restore the memorial cemetery located at the former internment site. Opened in September 1942, Rohwer Relocation Center spanned 400 … Virtual exhibit documents memorial cemetery, internment

Former U.S. Congressman Vic Snyder was among several featured panelists exploring the steamboat’s influence on Arkansas in a day-long educational symposium at the Arkansas Studies Institute building. The Nov. 5 symposium sought to not only educate about the influence of steamboats, but to also address the steamboat’s impact on the economic, cultural, and historical development … UALR’s Center for Arkansas History and Culture hosts congressman, other panelists

For early 20th-century artist Frederick Tanqueray (“F.T.”) Anderson, it is hard to know what came first–his love of watercolors or his love of steamboats. Anderson found inspiration through memories of boyhood travels down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. In fact, many regarded him as the leading river scenes painter of all time, according to … Arts Center exhibit partners with steamboat symposium early November