UALR History Department

Dr. Carl Moneyhon, a University of Arkansas at Little Rock history professor and Civil War expert, will give a lecture on the Reconstruction Era in Arkansas Monday, July 18, in Magnolia.

The Institute on Race and Ethnicity at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock was honored with three awards from the Arkansas Historical Association.

Susanah Shaw Romney, assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, received a $50,400 fellowship award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct research on the Dutch empire. Romney was awarded the maximum amount under the Fellowships for University Teachers category to pursue her project titled “Personal Interactions and … History professor lands $50,000 NEH grant

It’s a long road from Pullman, Washington, to Arkansas. Dr. Clea Hupp’s journey to the position of History Department chair for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock was somewhat shorter.

The new director of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Institute on Race and Ethnicity is a native of Great Britain who garnered international acclaim for his research and writings on race and the civil rights movement — with a particular focus on Little Rock.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock history major Brian Rodgers had an article published in the summer edition of the “Pulaski County Historical Review,” one of the oldest county historical organizations and publications in the state.

If life is like a great sculpture in progress, recent graduate Jim Stallings credits UALR and several key professors for “chiseling” him and his career. “I know that might sound cliche’ and trite, but it’s true,” he said. Stallings is programs assistant and project manager for the Colorado-based PeaceJam Foundation, whose mission is to connect … UALR alumnus works with Nobel Peace Laureates at nonprofit