Special Collections intern Tyler Dyer recounts her experience learning about the Arkansas Fouke Monster in this blog post. …Continue Reading Boggy Creek Blog: The Legend of the Fouke Monster
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A Different Summer Internship: Special Collections Work During COVID-19
Emily Snyder, the summer 2020 Special Collections intern, describes her experience working with the Division remotely. In addition to her research and archival work projects, Emily also took part in the distance meetings with Special Collections staff even as she had to engage in her independent work without access to the physical collections. …Continue Reading A Different Summer Internship: Special Collections Work During COVID-19
Graduate Student Speaker Series Continues With Katie Powell
Powell will present “The Fight for Home and Fatherland: a look inside the women of the James H. Berry chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy” and discuss the Confederate statue formerly located on the Bentonville square….Continue Reading Graduate Student Speaker Series Continues With Katie Powell
Recognizing Suffrage: An Imperfect Struggle
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, architectural records archivist Cat Wallack shares some of our holdings in Special Collections related to women’s suffrage. …Continue Reading Recognizing Suffrage: An Imperfect Struggle
A New Voice Taken Away: The African American Political Experience in Post-Reconstruction Arkansas Politics
This second blog from Special Collections intern Craig Huddleston examines the end of Reconstruction in Arkansas, the rise of explicitly racist government and the last African American legislators to hold elected office prior to the modern Civil Rights Era. …Continue Reading A New Voice Taken Away: The African American Political Experience in Post-Reconstruction Arkansas Politics
Coming Soon: ArchivesSpace at the University of Arkansas
Long-time users of Special Collections may be very familiar with our “A-Z List,” an alphabetical listing of all the archival finding aids and other collection descriptions we have available online. It’s been growing by leaps and bounds over the years, and now includes more than 1,800 collections! This fall semester, however, we’ll be retiring the…Continue Reading Coming Soon: ArchivesSpace at the University of Arkansas