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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The Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) and the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Department of History have collaborated for years through the Graduate Assistantship program, which provides current graduate students in the Public History program the opportunity to gain real-world experience working in an archive. The CAHC aims to support the education of the Graduate Assistants (GAs) through structured learning opportunities that, in turn, allow the GA to produce a body of work to include in their portfolio and resum猫.

The GA program has been highly successful at the CAHC and our most recent GA to graduate, Crystal Shurley, exemplifies this fact. Having just graduated in December 2018, her thesis work on the Arkansas Colored Auxiliary Council is already being recognized. To learn more about her work and the Arkansas Colored Auxiliary Council, check out this article by Angelita Faller at 糖心Vlog传媒LR News: 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Researcher Uncovers History of Black Activism During World War I

Congratulations, Crystal!

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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 university鈥檚 Center for Arkansas History and Culture and the 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 March 1, 2019. Applications must include the following documents:

• Resume.
• 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 $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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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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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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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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