Events for October 1 - November 14
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- Department of History
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 […]