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February 2020
John Kirk: “What is the Civil Rights Movement?”
To mark the publication of his ninth book, The Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary Reader (New York and London: Wiley, 2019), Kirk reflects on the ways…
March 2020
David Baylis: “Where the Sidewalk Never Begins: Race, Class, Accessibility, and Wellness in Little Rock, AR”
In some circles, questions of accessibility hardly come up. If they do, they tend to be discussed with respect to leisure or convenience (e.g.…
National History Day – Breaking Barriers in History
Free
The Department of History hosts the History Day competition annually for students in Pulaski (south of the Arkansas River), Saline, Garland, Hot Spring, Grant,…
April 2020
Nathan Marvin: “Rethinking the Legend of Petit Jean: History and Memory of French Colonization in Arkansas”
Free
The legend of “Petit Jean,” an 18th-century French woman who disguised herself as a soldier to accompany her lover on an expedition to North…
