Arkansas boasts a rich history, from its early Native American inhabitants and European exploration to the Civil War and the civil rights movement.
Dooley's Ferry: The Archaeology of a Civilian Community in Wartime. This dissertation addresses one of these shortcomings by focusing on the home front by studying Dooley's Ferry, a hamlet that once lay on the banks of the Red River, in southwest Arkansas. Before the American Civil War, it...
In the 1700s, African people were brought to the U.S. to serve as a slave labor source. Arkansas was no different. After the Civil War, Black people made great strides in improving their lives through education and religion by organizing Black colleges, seminaries, and denominational churches...
Mountain Home has its roots in education. In the 1850s, it was the location for a male and female academy that attracted many students to the region, and the school ran until the Civil War. Education returned after the war with the founding of Mountain Home Baptist College, which offered ...
Paragould War Memorial With a history stretching back to well before the Civil War, the citizens of Osceola and Paragould have sacrificed much over the years. The Paragould War Memorial is an eight-foot-tall Statue of Liberty replica that’s dedicated to the local men killed in World War I....
Before there was O.J. there were Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, a pair of privileged, rich, successful young men who murdered a 14-year-old boy named Bobby Franks merely for the thrill and to see if they could pull it off. Dubbed the "crime of the century" in media outlets across...
Called Whitey, the monster began being reported more than a century ago, though some claim it is responsible for capsized boats in the area during the Civil War, even before the first sightings of the monster. The first reported sighting was in 1912, where local timber workers saw something ...
day battle. While the armies departed and theCivil Warended in 1865, the wooded ridge overlooking the Illinois River was changed forever. After the war, people moved into the area and established the town of Prairie Grove in 1888, and old soldiers held reunions near the town for several ...
Our first stop took us to Parker’s Crossroads, halfway between Nashville and Memphis, and the site of a celebrated Civil War skirmish in West Tennessee. It was the final battle for Confederate Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who managed to outfox the Union brigades of Col. Cyrus L. ...
Schuyler Rumsey Auctions in San Francisco will sell the highlights of my 50 year accumulation of Arkansas Postal History. This will be part of his "Civil War Sale" February 12-13, 2025. Among other items the sale will include the following ...