Arkansas boasts a rich history, from its early Native American inhabitants and European exploration to the Civil War and the civil rights movement.
A black teenager pointed a BB gun that looked like a handgun at police before he was fatally shot by officers outside an emergency youth center in eastern Arkansas, a prosecutor said in announcing no charges would be filed against the officers. ...
the guerrilla conflict that became the "real war" west of the Mississippi; the "hard war" waged against civilians long before William Tecumseh Sherman set foot in Georgia; the work of women in maintaining households in the absence of men; and the complexities of emancipation, which saw African...
Prior to the American Civil War (1861–65), the state’s residents came largely from Kentucky and Tennessee; this influx was part of the westward movement of people of Scottish, Scotch-Irish, and English ancestry who, since early colonial times, had been migrating from Virginia, North Carolina...
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...
on the Trail of Tears began passing through, Fayetteville grew into a prosperous small city by the time of the Civil War. From 1861-1865, however, the town was the scene of much violence and hardship. Advancing across the Ozarks during the ...
The Civil War Roots of MacArthur Park ByBertha Horton OnJune 10, 2020 InDefault MacArthur Park had undergone many transitions before it came to be known as a historical center. The land was first used as a horse racetrack by a local jockey club during the early 1830s. Six years later, ...
Even before Congress officially transformed their legal status, however, many African Americans sought change by their own hands. As the Civil War progressed and the Union army pressed farther into the South, thousands of slaves flocked to the advancing tide of freedom. As elsewhere, African ...
Arkansas was readmitted to the union in 1868, but the state was still racked with internal strife. As was the case in most of the other former Confederate states, defeat in the Civil War triggered the establishment of a sharecropping system of tenant farming, the emergence of a race problem...
The Arkansas River begins high in the Rocky Mountains near Leadville, Colorado, then carves its way through Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas before merging with the Mississippi River. While the waters flow south/southeast, its name traveled north/northwest thanks to trappers and traders who ...