From the Vault

By Brian Irby, archival assistant Music is a form of communication. Human beings living in caves used flutes to convey something ab...

The Baring Cross town council ledger contains notes relating to the founding of the town. Image courtesy of the Arkansas State Archives...

The Nashville News, Dec. 20, 1913 By Brian Irby, archival assistant In the 19th and early 20 th   centuries, a fever for Spirituali...

Dr. David Ware, state historian and director of the Arkansas State Archives As I write this, the Juneteenth observance - June 19 - has...

This shows a hand-written transcript of a narrative from an enslaved person in about 1937. By Brian Irby At the height of the Great ...

Jeanette Darris of Black Rock is using NEARA tools to identify unmarked graves.  By Fatme Myuhtar-May At least 50 graves in the Oak ...

Freedmen's Bureau record, 1868. Image courtesy of Arkansas State Archives. One of the most commonly overlooked records in family r...