Join the University Libraries Special Collections department for an Archives Month event at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, in the Special Collections Reading Room. University of Arkansas Press author Brian Walter will speak on his forthcoming book, The Guestroom Novelist. …Continue Reading Libraries Celebrate Archives Month With Author Brian Walter
Arley Ward, a doctoral candidate in the History Department, will present “The Religious Right to Oppress? Gay Marriage, Slavery, Miscegenation and the History of Religious Exemptions” at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, in the Special Collections Reading Room, located on the first floor of Mullins Library….Continue Reading Libraries Launch Graduate Student Speaker Series
As part of this year’s Frank Stanford Literary Festival, the University of Arkansas Libraries’ Special Collections department will host a drop-in event from 3-5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, in the Special Collections Reading Room in Mullins Library. …Continue Reading Special Collections Hosts Event for Frank Stanford Literary Festival
Sixty years ago, the state of Arkansas became embroiled in a tense political, social, and legal battle as a result of school integration attempts. …Continue Reading Keeping the Enemies Busy: Act 10 at the University of Arkansas
An exhibit from Special Collections on display on the Main Floor of Mullins commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of Fayetteville poet and founder of Lost Roads Press, Frank Stanford. The exhibit includes all of the Lost Roads Press books published in Fayetteville before the firm moved. …Continue Reading Lost Roads Press: The First Years in Fayetteville
Architecture in the mid-20th Century was a profession dominated by men. The network of wives who worked in every possible capacity to make their husbands’ work successful typically goes under recognized. Maria Stone was no exception. Archives allow a better understanding of these tenacious women and the roles they played in the development of some of the most memorable architecture of the century….Continue Reading Maria Torch: Edward Durell Stone’s Unsung Partner