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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Presented by Blue Cross Blue Shield, the event raised $19,550 to oversee the archival costs of Snyder鈥檚 political papers, which will call the archives at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) home.

Snyder鈥檚 connection to 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock is twofold, having graduated from 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 William H. Bowen School of Law, as well as having served 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock during his time in congress as it falls in the Second Congressional District.

The collection is quite large and includes over 700 boxes full of items Snyder amassed during his political career, spanning his time in the Arkansas Senate, from 1991-96, as well as his seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 1997-2011. Archivists have only just begun work on the collection.

So far, they鈥檝e found invitations, letters, photos, scrapbooks, news clippings, photos of school groups that visited him at the Capitol, as well as a plethora of papers that detail his work drafting legislation.

The entire collection is expected to take two years to process. Items will be sorted, organized into folders, and stored in acid-free archival boxes. The collection will then be permanently housed in the archives at the CAHC. The goal is to make the information contained in the collection available to the public.

Dr. Deborah Baldwin, Associate Provost for Collections and Archives at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, is overseeing the project.

鈥淎rchives are not meant to be housed in dark places,鈥� says Baldwin. 鈥淭hey are meant for the general public to use 鈥� for students, teachers, scholars, for anyone.鈥�

The end result will include a web exhibit, a searchable 鈥渇inding aid鈥� with detailed information about the collection鈥檚 holdings, as well as teacher curriculum guides and more.

This article was written by Becca Bona and originally appeared in . 

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Bost joined the Center’s archival staff in 2014 after graduating from the University of North Carolina with a Master鈥檚 of Science in Library Science (MSLS) with a concentration in Archives and Records Management.

鈥淧rimary sources help students realize that history isn’t written by some magical, omnipotent power. Instead, our understanding of history comes from letters, emails, diaries, photographs, or meeting minutes created by someone like your or me,鈥� states Bost. 鈥淥ur knowledge of the past is only as good as the sources that survive to tell us about it.鈥�

Having always had an interest in preserving sources of information since she was a child, Bost was drawn to archives because they allow the user to look at history on a more personal or individual level.

鈥淚 love seeing [students] have that ‘aha moment’ and gain new insight into the past,鈥� says Bost. 鈥淚t鈥檚 exciting to see what they come up with after deeply engaging with the archival material.鈥�

To date, Bost has worked with faculty in the Departments of History, Sociology and Anthropology, and Theatre to arrange instruction sessions on accessing and using primary sources in undergraduate coursework. For more information, contact the Center at cahc@ualr.edu.

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