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Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Accessions for August

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Our recent accessions include sheet music from the 1940s, a postcard collection, a portrait of former Little Rock Mayor George Wimberly and ...

Letter from the Director for September 2020

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By David Ware, director and state historian Last fall saw the release of an important new work of historical scholarship and interpre...
Monday, August 31, 2020

Curtis H Sykes Memorial Grant Program funds African American history preservation projects

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Image shows record from the Norwood Family Cemetery project. By DeAnn Thomas, public information officer High school students travele...
Thursday, August 6, 2020

New digital collection recounts criminal history of frontier Arkansas's Western District

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A jury wrote this letter to "hanging judge" Isaac Parker, Nov. 14, 1879. Courtesy of the Arkansas State Arch...

SARA receives out-of-state donation that tells Hempstead County story

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By Melissa Nesbitt, archival manager for the Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives “Who would want these old papers?”   While cleaning ...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Genealogists look forward to release of 1950s census data

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By Jane Wilkerson, archival assistant Image taken from the 1940s census records. Lately, the question many genealogists have been as...

Letter from the director

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By David Ware, director and state historian Part of archival work consists of systematic collection of records, usually public ones: t...