The UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) has been awarded $9,415.20 by the Arkansas Community Foundation’s Bridge Fund Endowment to design and lead a new interactive workshop, “Teaching a Web of Arkansas History.”
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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.
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The invention of Robert Fulton’s steamboat in 1807 is one of the defining moments in American history, a development that held ramifications for many states, Arkansas included.
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Little Rock-area residents have the opportunity to hear from one of the founders of an organization working to stop migrant suffering and death on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Latino history will be in the spotlight as part of free public events organized by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Center for Arkansas History and Culture and partner organizations.
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Staff members of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Collections and Archives division plan to create a service to improve students’ research capabilities.
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As the nation celebrates the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, many take time to recall Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s leadership during the civil rights movement including the protest that inspired hundreds of thousands of people to descend on the nation’s capital in 1963.
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The UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture revealed its newest collection, donated by educator, scholar, and legislator Calvin R. Ledbetter Jr., at a reception held at the Arkansas Studies Institute Tuesday evening, April 30. Continue reading “Ledbetter collection opens at history center”
The UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture is releasing a series of video interviews on Japanese American internment in Arkansas during World War II. The first video features an interview with an individual who was forced to move to the camp when he was 13 years old. Continue reading “Videos Recount Japanese American Internment”
An article by UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture archivist Dr. Colin Woodward helped inspire an upcoming BBC radio program about the lesser-known prison concerts of Arkansas native Johnny Cash. Continue reading “UALR Trio Interviewed for BBC Program on Johnny Cash”