A group of historians from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have won the Gingles Award from the Arkansas Historical Association for their exploration of the criminal case of two African American Arkansans who were executed for the alleged rape of a white woman in the 1930s. Continue reading “UA Little Rock Historians Win Gingles Award”
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has chosen Drs. Robert Lytle, Rebecca Glazier, Stephen Grace, Mark Baillie, and John Kirk as the winners of the 2023 Faculty Excellence Awards.
Continue reading “UA Little Rock Honors Lytle, Glazier, Grace, Baillie, Kirk as 2023 Faculty Excellence Winners”
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s online bachelor’s degree program in history has been ranked among the country’s best. Continue reading “UA Little Rock’s Online History Program Ranked Among Top in the Nation”
UA Little Rock Downtown, in collaboration with the UA Little Rock Department of History, will host a career and mentorship panel for history students and prospective students on Thursday, April 13. Continue reading “UA Little Rock Downtown to Host Career Panel for History Students”
The next event in the Evenings with History lecture series will examine the nature of history and social studies education. Continue reading “UA Little Rock Evenings with History Lecture to Discuss Teaching History in Polarized Times”
Dr. Jess Porter, associate professor of geography at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has been named the executive director of the university’s Center for Arkansas History and Culture. Continue reading “Porter Named Executive Director of Center for Arkansas History and Culture”
A graduating UA Little Rock student is thankful to the history department for helping prepare him for a career as an archivist through the extensive research he was required to do for his thesis. Continue reading “UA Little Rock Graduate Completes Thesis on Content in German-Language Newspaper During WWI”
A UA Little Rock student is one of four students selected across the University of Arkansas System who is an inaugural recipient of a grant honoring James L. “Skip” Rutherford III, dean emeritus of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service. Continue reading “Neel Awarded Inaugural Grant from Rutherford Endowment to Create Oral History of Ralph Bunch Community”
Aaron Shuman, a 2021 graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has been recognized as the 2022 Public History Graduate Student of the Year by the Arkansas Museums Association. Continue reading “UA Little Rock Alumnus Named AMA Public History Graduate Student of the Year”
A group of historians from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have won the Lucille Westbrook Award from the Arkansas Historical Association for the best article manuscript on an aspect of local Arkansas history. Continue reading “UA Little Rock Historians Win Lucille Westbrook Award from Arkansas Historical Association “
