Panelists Valencia Johnson, Cherisse Jones-Branch, Stace Treat and Joshua Youngblood will offer discussion about the impact of inherent bias on the use of library collections and archives….Continue Reading Panel: Confronting Our Inherent Biases: Their Impact on Collections, Research and Scholarship
Doctoral history candidates Airic Hughes, Will Teague and Marie Totten will discuss the Arkansas state flag’s history within the context of the Lost Cause myth, the Klan, nativism, and racism from 4-5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, on Zoom….Continue Reading Panel Discussion: ‘A Confederate Star: Arkansas’ Flag and the Lost Cause’
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
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
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
We’re excited to announce that a new researcher registration and request system is now available in Special Collections! As those of you who have previously visited and conducted research in Special Collections know, we relied on several paper registration forms and call slips to help our researchers access collections. The paper forms are now enjoying…Continue Reading Introducing Your Special Collections Account