Late Senator’s Interview on Arkansas Internment Camps Digitized

An extensive interview with Sen. Daniel Inouye on the Japanese-American internment camps will be released 2013, the Center for Arkansas History and Culture recently announced. Continue reading “Late Senator’s Interview on Arkansas Internment Camps Digitized”

Tucker Donates Papers to UALR

Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker has donated his papers to the UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture. His papers add to UALR’s archive collection of papers from six Arkansas governors.

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UALR Center Debuts Virtual Rockefeller Exhibit

UALR’s Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) debuted its virtual exhibit of the life of Winthrop Rockefeller, the former governor of Arkansas, on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

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C-SPAN Spotlights Arkansas Studies Institute

UALR’s Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) was the subject of an episode of C-SPAN’s series “BookTV/American History TV” which aired on Saturday and Sunday, March 31 and April 1.

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Bumpers Papers Open at UALR Center for Arkansas History

He was the personification of the emerging politics of progressive moderation in the South in the 1960s following the bitter end of Jim Crow segregation, and his legislative successes ushered in a wave of modernity unknown in Arkansas legislative history.

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