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Elise Tanner joined the CAHC in October 2018 as the new Director of Digital Projects and Initiatives. She was recently featured in an article published by the Society of American Archivists Electronic Records Section. The article is part of the Conversations Series, which provides an emerging professional in the field of Archives the opportunity to … An Interview with Elise Tanner, the CAHC’s new Director of Digital Projects and Initiatives

  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

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

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

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 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