features a curated set of digitized primary sources from the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC). The sources are organized in ten thematic virtual mini-collections, each of which contains exercises that can be used in the face-to-face, virtual, or hybrid classroom. Every exercise highlights a historical issue that is investigated through the analysis of a primary source or a small set of primary sources. The exercises are complete activities aligned with Arkansas Social Studies Standards and include short introductory sections, links to additional resources, and a set of downloadable handouts for use in the classroom.

Additionally, CAHC Archivists have compiled a . The lists are easily searchable and downloadable and provide helpful information for identifying the materials, such as Title, Description, subjects/topics, and links to the catalog records. Most significantly, each primary source has been matched to the Arkansas Social Studies Standards to make it easier for K-12 teachers to identify relevant teaching materials.

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This award recognizes and acknowledges the role of the federal courts and judiciary in the state of Arkansas and promotes a better understanding of that role through scholarly study at the professional, graduate, or undergraduate level. Interdisciplinary projects will be considered.
This award supports:

• Researching the federal judiciary in Arkansas and its role in Arkansas history, politics, or culture.
• Identifying collateral cultural and governmental impacts from actions by the federal judiciary in Arkansas.
• Promoting Arkansas鈥檚 place in the national or global judicial context.

Criteria for selection

Recipients will be selected based on the submission of a complete application, the strength of the letter of recommendation, and the clarity and substance of the project design.

Eligibility

Awards may be granted at the professional, graduate, or undergraduate level. Funds are available for research stipends as well as for materials, books, equipment, or travel necessary for the completion of a project or activity in furtherance of the purpose of this award.

Funding

Sponsored by the G. Thomas Eisele Endowment for the study of the United States Federal Courts in Arkansas held at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Research materials related to Judge Eisele can be found at the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture and the Central Arkansas Library System鈥檚 Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.

Award

A certificate and cash award of up to $1,000. Up to two awards may be given during an award cycle. Deadline and requirements All applications should be submitted to cahc@ualr.edu by Monday, March 1, 2021. Applications must include the following documents:

• Resume/cv
• At least one letter of recommendation.
• Essay of no more than 500 words discussing: research question, anticipated resources to be used, and expected products (presentations, publications, etc.).
• Proposed budget.

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This award recognizes and acknowledges the role of the federal courts and judiciary in the state of Arkansas and promotes a better understanding of that role through scholarly study at the professional, graduate, or undergraduate level. Interdisciplinary projects will be considered.
This award supports:

• Researching the federal judiciary in Arkansas and its role in Arkansas history, politics, or culture.
• Identifying collateral cultural and governmental impacts from actions by the federal judiciary in Arkansas.
• Promoting Arkansas鈥檚 place in the national or global judicial context.

Criteria for selection

Recipients will be selected based on the submission of a complete application, the strength of the letter of recommendation, and the clarity and substance of the project design.

Eligibility

Awards may be granted at the professional, graduate, or undergraduate level. Funds are available for research stipends as well as for materials, books, equipment, or travel necessary for the completion of a project or activity in furtherance of the purpose of this award.

Funding

Sponsored by the G. Thomas Eisele Endowment for the study of the United States Federal Courts in Arkansas held at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Research materials related to Judge Eisele can be found at the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture and the Central Arkansas Library System鈥檚 Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.

Award

A certificate and cash award of up to $1,000. Up to two awards may be given during an award cycle.

Deadline and requirements

All applications should be submitted to cahc@ualr.edu by Monday, March 2, 2020. Applications must include the following documents:

• Resume/cv
• At least one letter of recommendation.
• Essay of no more than 500 words discussing: research question, anticipated resources to be used, and expected products (presentations, publications, etc.).
• Proposed budget.

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The Winthrop Rockefeller Charitable Trust (WRCT) has gifted $2.25 million to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture to preserve and educate the public about the history of Arkansas, including the notable contributions of Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller.

The gift, announced Sept. 10 at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Downtown, will create the Winthrop Rockefeller Archival Fund, a quasi-endowment. It is the sixth-largest cash gift in 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 history. Funds will be used to preserve, house, and catalog historical items of their collections and to support activities related to the Center鈥檚 mission.

The Winthrop Rockefeller Charitable Trust donated the Rockefeller Collection to the center in 1980, which was instrumental in establishing 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 archives program. Marion Burton, executive trustee of the WRCT stated, 鈥淭he Charitable Trust and the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock [CAHC] have been good partners in bringing the Arkansas story to the community. The Charitable Trust recognizes the strengths and reputation of the Center for Arkansas History and Culture and is pleased to make this further commitment to their work.鈥�

Dr. Deborah Baldwin, director of the CAHC and associate provost for collections and archives, said plans for the Center include increasing its archives to include collections of underrepresented groups that will complement its collection of records related to state leaders. The Center will also increase efforts to digitize collections housed in the archive, making this historic information more accessible to the public.

鈥淥ur archival collections can become a more complete reflection of the state鈥檚 people and organizations,鈥� Baldwin said. 鈥淪cholars can better explore the 鈥榳hy鈥� questions of history with more complete information. This gift will make a difference. Positive change is a hallmark of Winthrop Rockefeller鈥檚 work. Behind all of these initiatives is our goal to inspire people to engage with Arkansas history and the future it maps for us.鈥�

Additionally, the Center will offer more educational opportunities for students by granting awards to conduct research and providing experiential learning opportunities. The gift will allow the center to create educational activities, research initiatives, and events associated with the Rockefeller Collection and other collections housed in the Center.

鈥淚 want to thank Will Rockefeller and his family for their support for the Center for Arkansas History and Culture and the state,鈥� said Baldwin. 鈥淲e hope that the family will continue to see the center as the place to secure the Arkansas Rockefeller legacy. We are pleased that the Winthrop Rockefeller Charitable Trust has confidence in our vision and execution of the work.鈥�

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The Winthrop Rockefeller Charitable Trust was created by Gov. Rockefeller in 1972 to support charitable organizations. Rockefeller moved to Arkansas in 1953 where he established Winrock Enterprises and Winrock Farms, chaired the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, and initiated many philanthropic projects. Rockefeller’s progressive and philanthropic vision is reflected in the papers he left behind and remains alive through the work of organizations he founded and inspired.

This post is a modified version of the official 糖心Vlog传媒LR Press Release by Angita Faller.

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Congratulations, Cody! Everyone at the CAHC is proud of you and can’t wait to see you flourish in your professional career!

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Elise Tanner joined the CAHC in October 2018 as the new Director of Digital Projects and Initiatives. She was recently featured in an article published by the . The article is part of the Conversations Series, which provides an emerging professional in the field of Archives the opportunity to interview an active archivist working with digital archival materials.

To read the full article and learn more about digital archivists:

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This semester, Acadia Roher transitioned into a Graduate Assistantship at the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture. She previously worked with us as an archival assistant on the Mapping Renewal project funded by the NEH. Her role with the project has continued, but instead of long days of digitizing photographs Acadia is now developing spreadsheets full of metadata for each of the digital files that will end up on the interactive map. She also composes blog posts that highlight the digitized maps, photographs, reports, and architectural plans. She hopes to draw scholars’ attention to major themes and possible research topics that can be explored using the future Mapping Renewal platform.

Acadia came to public history via a winding path that has included environmental studies and sustainability, community organizing, urban farming, nonprofit capacity building, genealogy, and popular education. The Mapping Renewal project taps into many of her overlapping interests, allowing her to delve into the history of the ways power has played out on the landscape and the people of Little Rock.

Acadia grew up in Little Rock and New Orleans, Louisiana and has degrees from Barnard College and the Clinton School of Public Service.

Her current community work includes public school advocacy, network building among Southern grassroots organizations, documentation of local women’s history through the Arkansas People’s History Project, and support for a variety of social justice efforts.

Outside of school, work, and organizing, you can usually find Acadia helping out at community gardens in the 12th Street area, swimming in a creek, or journalling while snuggling with her cats Julius and Olive.

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Summers first started at CAHC her junior year where she worked as an undergraduate intern to create a (a small web exhibit) on Florence Cotnam.  As a senior, she was hired to help with the Council on Library and Information Resources鈥� , where she digitized thousands of manuscripts, edited oral history videos and photographed memorabilia pertaining to desegregation in the central Arkansas school districts.

Through these experiences, Summers discovered her affinity for the archives and decided to enroll in the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Public History program.

Now as a graduate assistant at CAHC, Summers is gaining more archival experience by processing the Boys, Girls, Adults Community Development Center (BGACDC) collection.  This collection chronicles the work of the BGACDC, a grassroots community center that provides affordable housing, recreational activities, and education services to families of Marvell, Arkansas.

Through business correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and realia, the collection illustrates the BGACDC鈥檚 efforts to empower the Marvell community.  Of particular interest are its grant proposals to both local and national foundations such as the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  Its extensive photograph collection also captures a variety of community-building events from Playground Day in 1986 to newsletter-writing instruction at Heifer International in 2000.

Summers anticipates that she will finish processing the BGACDC collection in the fall of 2020.  Through this hands-on experience, she hopes to learn more about best archival practices and about how culture changes over time.  Thanks to this opportunity as a graduate assistant at CAHC, Summers can continue to pursue the interests sparked by her internship.

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During the 2017 legislative session, he worked as a proofreader for the Bureau of Legislative Research. After the session, he started working at the Arkansas State Archives, where he discovered a love for archival work and decided to pursue his master鈥檚 in Public History at 糖心Vlog传媒LR in Spring 2018.

McClain is an occasional contributor of entertainment features to the Arkansas Times and The Idle Class and continues work at the State Archives, where he has been busy processing map collections from the Arkansas Department of Labor and the Assessment Coordination Department.

He started work at CAHC in Fall 2018 (with fellow GA Acadia Roher) as part of an NEH grant on the , which is focused on documenting urban renewal in Little Rock and how it changed the shape and social fabric of the city. McClain started by scanning photos from the , and in Spring 2019 became a graduate assistant.

Since becoming a graduate assistant at the CAHC, McClain鈥檚 work has focused on processing a collection of valuation maps of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad from 1918, digitizing as well as the digitization of a number of architectural drawings for the Mapping Renewal project.

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Created in 1917 and 1918, the maps document the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railroad (SLIMS) and the Missouri Pacific Railroad (MoPac) in Arkansas. They trace the railroad from MoArk, Arkansas to Texarkana, Arkansas.

The maps not only depict train tracks mile by mile, but also note any land, bridges, or buildings owned by the railroad companies. These maps arrived at the Center as a gift from Union Pacific in 2017, which inherited the drawings from its predecessor, the Missouri Pacific Railroad.

Thanks to funding from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Department of Arkansas Heritage, the Center sent the maps to a vendor equipped with large format scanners. The digitization project, now complete, allows researchers to access the maps anytime.  Researchers can even zoom-in to view fine details that are not easily seen on the physical maps.

These railroad maps enhance other 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock research collections on the built environment and form the basis of a valuable resource documenting the state鈥檚 development. Understanding the evolution of railroad investment and location provides a deeper understanding of how people lived and interacted through the structures they built.

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