Department of History

A black World War I veteran and victim of the 1919 Elaine Massacre will posthumously be honored with the Purple Heart and other World War I honors that he was denied a century ago. 

When Dr. Carl Moneyhon first taught Tod Kersten in the early 1980s, he knew his student was headed for an Ivy League education. 

After the 1957 desegregation of Central High School, a coalition of blacks and whites banned together to elect school board members who would comply with federal court orders and work to completely desegregate schools in Arkansas’ capital. To fulfill these requests, the school board hired a team of researchers from the University of Oregon to … History professor to discuss 1967 Little Rock School Board crisis

When the Great Depression struck in the 1930s, hunger, unemployment, and misery swept the nation. President Franklin Roosevelt responded to the terror by establishing the New Deal, a plan that included the passing of banking reforms, emergency relief, work relief, and agricultural programs.

Ed Anson, professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, is doing double duty this weekend by participating in the Little Rock Marathon 5k and half marathon races. 

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture has received a nearly $20,000 grant to digitize historical materials related to Arkansas for use in K-12 social studies education. 

In 1919, one of the deadliest racial conflicts in the country occurred in Elaine, Arkansas. Historians still do not know how many people died during the Elaine Massacre, a conflict with an estimated death toll ranging from 20 to more than 800.

The next Evenings with History series will explore King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette’s daring attempt to escape from France in the midst of the French Revolution.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will host the Central Arkansas Regional National History Day competition on Saturday, March 3. Local middle and high school students will present their original research on topics related to the theme of “Conflict and Compromise in History.” 

A University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor is one of 10 authors who contributed to a new book called “Bullets and Fire: Lying and Authority in Arkansas, 1840-1950.” The book explores the history of a century of lynchings in Arkansas.