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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The presentation will feature the research of the 2017 Fellow, Colin Woodward, Ph.D., concerning Arkansas prison farms and the efforts of state officials to make Arkansas compliant with federal law in the wake of the 1970 Holt v. Sarver decision, which declared Arkansas’s prison system violated prisoners’ constitutional rights by inflicting cruel and unusual punishment.

After Woodward鈥檚 presentation, the 2018 G. Thomas Eisele Research Fellowship recipient will be announced.

The fellowship 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.

The 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; and promoting Arkansas鈥檚 place in the national or global judicial context.

Funds are available for research stipends as well as for materials, books, equipment, or travel necessary for the completion of the project or activity in furtherance of the purpose of this award. The award includes a certificate and cash award of up to $1,000.

The Eisele Research Fellowship recipient presents his or her research during a reception held in April of the year following their award.

This award is sponsored by the G. Thomas Eisele Endowment for the study of the United States Federal Courts in Arkansas. More information about this fellowship can be found at ualr.edu/cahc.

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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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spans nearly 600 cubic feet of materials, including letters, legislative documents, legal papers, campaign materials, and photographs that cover a wide range of political, social, and economic issues of national and international importance. They richly document the life and career of this accomplished progressive southern Democrat who tried to balance the interests of Democrats and Republicans amid a rapidly-changing national political landscape.

“Gov. Tucker’s papers offer researchers and students a one-of-a-kind source for research and insight into the life of a successful Arkansas politician as well as larger questions surrounding a southern governor during times of political change,” said Dr. Deborah Baldwin, director of the center and 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 interim provost.

The papers strengthen 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock’s political research collections and the university’s contribution to scholarship and exploration of the state’s history and importance, added Baldwin.

Tucker’s collection is one of the largest at the center and joins other important collections of former Arkansas governors, including Carl Bailey, Winthrop Rockefeller, Dale Bumpers, and Frank White.

Materials in the Tucker collection document his personal life and political career, during which he served as the state鈥檚 43rd governor from Dec. 12, 1992, to July 15, 1996. His papers include correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, books, and audiovisual material from his time as prosecuting attorney, attorney general, U.S. congressman, chairman of the White House Conference on Families, lieutenant governor, and governor, and from his post-gubernatorial activities.

Additionally, there are materials from the Tucker and White families and items from Jim Guy Tucker, Jr.鈥檚 early life, including letters written by his mother during the Little Rock Central High School integration crisis, Harvard University ephemera, and the manuscript of 鈥淎rkansas Men at War.鈥�

The two-year project included developing a detailed description of the contents of each folder, preservation of the materials in acid-free containers, the creation of an industry-standard online finding aid that allows researchers around the world to view the contents of the collection, as well as a (https://ualrexhibits.org/tucker/).

The virtual exhibit explores the collection and Tucker鈥檚 career. Readers can learn of Tucker鈥檚 family history; however, the bulk of the collection and the exhibit involves Tucker鈥檚 political career and achievements, as well as an entertaining look at the jingle used in his lieutenant governor campaign. An extensive media gallery with more than 200 digitized photographs from his childhood to his governorship will be available. An interactive timeline will use his papers to take readers on a journey through his life, and teachers and students will enjoy the educational materials provided.

The manuscript portions of this collection were processed by John Jones, Colin Woodward, and Garret B. Kremer-Wright, 2014-16. Audio-visual materials and photographs were processed by Shannon Lausch and Bridget Wood, 2014-16. Additional assistance was provided by Sarah Bost, Kaye Lundgren, Jessica Erwin, Michael Fondren, Blake Gilliam, AJ Walker-Carter, and Chad Garrett.

The exhibit is made possible through a $136,851 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), part of the National Archives and Records Administration, making it the largest NHPRC award in the state to date.

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The exhibit, , features essays on topics such as the interplay of the temperance and suffrage movements, the evolution of women鈥檚 fashion at the turn of the 20th century, arguments from anti-suffragists, and an extensive media gallery including historic documents and photographs depicting the women鈥檚 suffrage movement in Arkansas.

February 2017 marks 100 years since Arkansas gave women the right to vote with the passage of primary suffrage, three years before the US passed the 19th Amendment. Official events for the centennial project, which will be celebrated from 2017-2020 will also be included in the exhibit.

鈥淐reating this virtual exhibit will give the world access to important resources and scholarly perspective on this critical leap in Arkansas鈥檚 long history of civil rights struggles,鈥� said Chad Garrett, director of technology and digital initiatives for 糖心Vlog传媒LR Collections and Archives Division. 鈥淭he fact that it鈥檚 online means that anyone can access valuable information on the struggle Arkansas鈥檚 women endured to access their right to vote and be full participants in our democracy.鈥�

The virtual exhibit is supported in part by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Department of Arkansas Heritage. 

The virtual exhibit is part of the Arkansas Women鈥檚 Suffrage Centennial Project (AWSCP). This project commemorates the 100th anniversary of the right to vote for women in Arkansas by promoting events, encouraging research and education programs related to women鈥檚 suffrage, and helping to preserve the history of women鈥檚 suffrage within the state. The project steering committee includes representatives from the Arkansas Secretary of State’s office, the Arkansas State Archives, the Arkansas Women’s History Institute, the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture, the Old State House Museum, and the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History.

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The project includes the creation of a virtual exhibit to examine the interaction of politics and history in Arkansas and will feature a selection of original works by local political cartoonists Jon Kennedy (Arkansas Democrat, 1941-1988) and Bill Graham (Arkansas Gazette, 1948-1985). Accompanying materials from related collections in CAHC鈥檚 holdings, such as the Winthrop Rockefeller Collection and Dale Bumpers Gubernatorial Papers, will be used to provide contextual information for the project.

Topics featured will include, but are not limited to, voting (local and national elections); education funding and desegregation of schools; urbanization and economic development; prison reform; and local gambling legislation. Additionally, lesson plans and educational materials for teachers will be designed and made accessible within the exhibit.

The project will culminate with an educational symposium dedicated to the discussion of pictorial cartoons and political opinion in Arkansas.  Scholars representing various humanities disciplines will present background material and facilitate discussion during this free event in the fall of 2016.

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C谩rdenas will give a presentation, “Visualizing Mexican Migration: Historical Context and Contemporary Flows,” starting at 6:30 p.m., April 25, 2016, at 糖心Vlog传媒LR’s Stella Boyle Smith Auditorium.

C谩rdenas received his B.A. from the California State University at Los Angeles, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. His principal research interests are immigration, race and ethnic relations, and visual sociology.

He was the founding director of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He also served as the executive director for the Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR) until July 2013. He held the Julian Samora Chair in Latino Studies (1999-2012) and teaches in the Department of Sociology.

糖心Vlog传媒LR and the  are hosting C谩rdenas’ appearance.

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Jessica Erwin, a graduate assistant in the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) since fall 2014, has been involved with a variety of projects at the Center.

Erwin took the lead on digitizing and creating metadata for the recently discovered Lucious Christopher (L.C.) Bates oral history tapes, which document his years as owner of the .

She also collaborated with CAHC staff to create the virtual web exhibit , a complex, multifaceted web design project containing several dropdown pages and photographic images.

Additionally, Erwin has spent hours in the CAHC Digital Services Lab familiarizing herself with a variety of digitization equipment including: flatbed scanners, overhead scanners, reel-to-reel tape, audio cassettes, vinyl, 16 mm film, VHS, and DVD systems.

She has archived 15 linear feet of material and processed 13 since beginning her assistantship.

In addition to her assistantship, Erwin co-led the fall 2015 糖心Vlog传媒LR graduate school seminar in Public History, a capstone course led by Dr. Deborah J. Baldwin, associate provost of the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Collections and Archives Division. The course requires students to research and create a history of a noted Little Rock institution, in this case the .

Each year the Arkansas Museums Association presents awards to celebrate and encourage excellence within Arkansas museums and cultural institutions.

The Graduate Student of the Year Award is given to a graduate student in the area of museum, public history, archival management or related field who has shown academic excellence with a minimum GPA of 3.0 and has a minimum of 12 hours completed in the program.

The successful nominee demonstrates initiative and leadership skills, has shown a willingness to collaborate with faculty, staff, and other graduate students and is committed to working in the museum, public history, archival management, or related field.

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During the fall of 2015, I enrolled in a course that required a service learning assignment. The search was on to pick an option provided by my professor. I chose to fulfill my ten hours in the research room of the Arkansas Studies Institute building looking through a collection held by the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Center for Arkansas History and Culture. The project I worked on was a review of the diaries of , an influential Arkansas woman of the early 1900s.

Babcock鈥檚 1936 and 1937 diaries are full of hope and well wishes for her loved ones and friends. The 1936 diary begins with Babcock saying she has to hurry and finish her book, Little Boy in Two Worlds. One thing I found interesting was that though Babcock was sixty-eight years old, she still managed to blaze a trail within and across state lines. In one instance, Babcock traveled from Hot Springs, Arkansas, all the way to New Orleans, Louisiana.  

Bernie Babcock even went to the movies. One movie in particular that she mentioned in her diary was Kentucky starring Will Rogers.  Babcock also meets President Roosevelt鈥檚 wife Eleanor at a breakfast meet and greet. 

Later, in her 1937 diary she meets the big man himself, President Roosevelt, at a dinner at the Marion Hotel in Little Rock with other invited guests.

In her 1940 and 1941 diaries, she writes a New Year resolution that would bring anyone to tears. During these entries in her diaries, she meets her first grandchild named Carol Judith by daughter Barbara.

During this time Babcock runs into some copyright trouble with her new book, For Men Only. Babcock’s schedule becomes filled with attending Author Society events, Pen Women Meetings, and movies. This time Babcock goes to the movies to see Gone with the Wind, which at the time tickets were hard to come by. All during this time Bernie is an employee of the Federal Writer鈥檚 Project, working on numerous projects, one being the Arkansas Guide Book.

One thing that remains a mystery in Babcock鈥檚 diary entries is the symbol she uses when she goes to the countryside. The symbol that she draws is a triangle with a dot in the middle. I have tried to find out what the symbol indicates, but Babcock鈥檚 hieroglyphics seem too advanced for my twentieth-century brain.

I felt so lucky to have been given the privilege to peep through the thoughts of one of Arkansas鈥檚 great women.

Jaztone Brewer will graduate spring 2016 with a BA in English and a History minor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She plans to pursue a career in public service. 

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Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian and best-selling author  will hold a lecture on presidential politics and a book signing during a visit to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock April 5.

鈥淭he university is fortunate to be able to bring Jon Meacham to Little Rock as the country faces the election of its next president,鈥� said Dr. Deborah Baldwin, associate provost for 糖心Vlog传媒LR Collections and Archives Division.

Meacham鈥檚 presentation, 鈥淭he Art of Leadership: Lessons from the American Presidency,鈥� will begin at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 5, at the 糖心Vlog传媒LR , with an introduction by Congressman French Hill.  A reception and book signing will follow at 6 p.m. at the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Art Galleries.

Meacham鈥檚 presentation will cover topics ranging from Thomas Jefferson鈥檚 pragmatism and John F. Kennedy鈥檚 capacity to recover from his own mistakes, to the management of conflicting egos as shown by Ronald Reagan and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and how George H.W. Bush dealt with the end of his presidency.

鈥淢eacham鈥檚 work offers the university community insights on leadership lessons from past presidents, and our students will get to learn valuable lessons in history and politics,鈥� Baldwin said.

Meacham is the executive vice president and executive editor at Random House and is a contributing editor for TIME magazine. His presidential history books include works on Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt, and George Herbert Walker Bush. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for 鈥溾��.

糖心Vlog传媒LR and the  are hosting Meacham鈥檚 appearance, which is part of the Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture Series.

To reserve a seat for Meacham鈥檚 lecture, contact Magan Meyer at mlmeyer@ualr.edu or 501.569.8803 by Friday, March 25.

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