Events for September 9 - Now
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- Department of History
Conversation with Author Dan Berger
Ottenheimer Library 2801 South University Ave, Little Rock, AR, United StatesDan Berger, author of Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family’s Journey (Basic Books, 2023), will be on campus on Monday, September 9, at 10:30 a.m. in LIB 100A. Michael Simmons will join him in person, while Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons may participate via Zoom. (Their family is highlighted in […]
Evenings with History: Dr. Roy Ritchie, “Medieval America”
Historic Arkansas Museum 200 E. Third Street, Little Rock, AR, United StatesSpecial Guest speaker Roy Ritchie (W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research Emeritus, The Huntington Library) will give a lecture titled Medieval America. Long before Europeans invaded, a number of remarkable cultures flourished in America. Chaco Canyon, Cahokia and the many groups of Mound Builders created remarkable sites. This talk will explore the world they invented. The […]
Evenings with History: Dr. Johanna Miller Lewis, “The Federal Government Must Prevail”
Historic Arkansas Museum 200 E. Third Street, Little Rock, AR, United StatesDr. Johanna Miller Lewis will give a lecture titled The Federal Government Must Prevail: Eisenhower, the 101st Airborne, and the 1957 Central High Crisis. In the fall of 1957 Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus decided to ignore the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. The Topeka Board of Education and sent in the Arkansas […]