Giving voice to the people and events of the past is one of graduate student Nicolette Talley’s greatest joys.
“With the help of the public history program, I will be able to do this for the rest of my life,” said Talley, who is scheduled to graduate in December from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
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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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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture recently previewed its second virtual exhibit of the summer.
A digital display featuring the restoration work on a World War II-era Japanese-American “relocation center” cemetery joins an exhibit on the influence steamboats had on Arkansas.
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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture soon will host a Latino Americans program that will be free and open to the public.
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An archivist with the UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture in the Arkansas Studies Institute has earned two recent distinctions for his contributions to the field of history.
Dr. Colin E. Woodward has won the Violet B. Gingles Award, which comes with a $500 prize and is sponsored by the Arkansas Historical Association.
The award is given for the best manuscript article on any Arkansas history topic. Woodward earned the award for his article, “There’s a Lot of Things That Need Changin’: Johnny Cash, Winthrop Rockefeller, and Prison Reform in Arkansas.”
He also won the F. Hampton Roy award, given by the Pulaski County Historical Association, for his article “The Days before Dyess: Johnny Cash’s Early Arkansas Roots.” The prize was $300 and awarded at the Little Rock Central High School Museum and Visitor Center.
In April, Woodward will receive the Gingles Award at the annual meeting of the Arkansas Historical Association in West Memphis and also present a paper on Jim Guy Tucker and Vietnam.
Woodward holds a doctorate in history from Louisiana State University, where he studied the Civil War era under the direction of prize-winning historian Charles W. Royster.
He is in the early stages of writing a book about Cash’s days in Arkansas.