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Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Researchers from varied backgrounds compete for the NEARA Award for Exemplary Research

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Scholars. City planners. Architects. Arkansans from a wide variety of backgrounds have won the prestigious NEARA Award for Exemplary Archiva...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020

SARA honors the memory of founder and supporter

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By Melissa Nesbitt, archival manager for the Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives The Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives recently lost a d...

Director's Letter for November

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By David Ware, director and state historian As I write this, November has just begun, and with it, we leave behind one observance associated...
Monday, November 2, 2020

October Accessions

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  By Stephanie Carter, archivist Our recent accessions include a map of Arkansas showing the distribution of forests from 1881 and printed m...

Jack the Shooter terrorizes Little Rock (Part Two)

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  By Brian Irby, archival assistant This is a continuation of last month’s story about Jack the Shooter, a man who terrorized the City of Li...

How a White Rapist Came To Be Regarded as Black: The Lynching of Andrew Springer (Part Three)

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By Fatme Myuhtar-May, archival manager for Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives  In September, NEARA embarked on a journey of discovering wh...
Friday, October 30, 2020

Newspaper accounts chronicle the haunting of Rock Creek

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By Brian Irby, archival assistant Arkansas is a supernaturally rich state, one with many legendary ghosts and mysteries. After the long, hot...