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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The $5,874 grant, entitled 鈥淭ie-ing Arkansas Together,鈥� will process and digitize 133 oversized railway maps associated with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railroad and the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The rail line associated with this project traveled from MoArk, Arkansas, to Texarkana, Arkansas.

These maps show a unique history of Arkansas towns and businesses in the early 20th century, since they document the location of buildings and other constructed elements as well as railway lines.

This project is associated with a larger endeavor to preserve and showcase material on the railroads鈥� influence on Arkansas settlement patterns and their influence on culture and society. The center鈥檚 goal is to provide resources to educate the public on the importance of political decisions related to city development.

鈥淯nderstanding the development of the railroad provides a deeper understanding of how people lived and interacted through the structures they built,鈥� the grant states.

Once completed, the digitized maps will be available on the center鈥檚 online catalog for the general public to view.

This project is supported in part by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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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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