/news-archive/tag/national-endowment-for-the-humanities/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:27:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2018/04/09/urban-renewal-mapping/ Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:27:00 +0000 /news/?p=70108 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock receives $50,000 grant to digitize Central Arkansas urban renewal archives]]> Center for Arkansas History and Culture has received a $50,000 grant to digitize archival maps, documents, architectural drawings, and photographs related to urban renewal in Little Rock. The (NEH) today announced 听$18.6 million in grants for across the country.听糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock’s project is an 18-month pilot that will bring together humanities scholars and technical specialists to select, digitize, describe, and create a website that will make the resources available to the public. 鈥淭hese new NEH-supported projects deepen our understanding and appreciation of the traditions, values, and historical figures who have shaped our country,鈥� said NEH Senior Deputy Chairman Jon Parrish Peede. “CAHC鈥檚 project will empower scholars and the general public alike to explore questions such as what are the political, social, and economic effects of the growth of cities; why cities change over time; and how the built environment and geography shape the history of a place.” In the 1960s, urban renewal in central Little Rock comprised one of the largest demolition and clearance programs in the country. As a result of renewal efforts, Little Rock鈥檚 Central High district shifted from being a majority-white to a predominantly African-American neighborhood. The Ninth Street Corridor, the city鈥檚 African-American business district, was cleared of its inhabitants and businesses to make way for freeway construction. The Mapping Renewal project will not only digitize important historic materials from this period and make them freely available online, it also will develop methods that can be used nationally for describing place-based materials in ways that others can easily find. Because this project includes many maps and architectural drawings, the team will attach geospatial data to the digital files so that computers and Geographic Information Systems can be used for analysis. In addition to scholars and educators, the project aims to engage the general public in exploring the questions central to the grant. By holding focus groups in the communities affected by the project, staff at the Center for Arkansas History and Culture will gather input from members of the public on ways to describe and present these resources that are meaningful to them. 鈥淭his grant will not only allow the Center for Arkansas History and Culture to put important historical resources on the web for scholars, educators, and the general public to use, but it will provide a forum for us to work with the public to develop best practices for describing and cataloging resources dealing with the built environment,鈥� said Deborah Baldwin, associate provost for 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Collections and Archives and director of the Center for Arkansas History and Culture. 鈥淥ur ultimate goal is to empower anyone to explore and question history to better understand the present.鈥� A complete list of projects can be found on the NEH . The image above right is from the Earl Saunders Photograph Collection and depicts a view of Little Rock’s Main Street in May 1957.]]> /news-archive/2018/01/26/center-arkansas-history-culture-wins-grant-process-digitize-arkansas-railroad-city-maps/ Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:48:53 +0000 /news/?p=69080 ... Center for Arkansas History and Culture Wins Grant to Process and Digitize Arkansas Railroad and City Maps]]> The University of Arkansas for Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture has received nearly $6,000 from the Arkansas Humanities Council to assess, digitalize, and catalog early railway line and city maps created from 1917 to 1918.听 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. “Understanding the development of the railroad provides a deeper understanding of how people lived and interacted through the structures they built,” 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. ]]> /news-archive/2016/09/09/ualr-arts-and-letters-2016-17-season/ Fri, 09 Sep 2016 21:19:58 +0000 /news/?p=65135 ... Arts & Letters 2016-17 season kicks off with 鈥淪undays with TJ鈥�]]> In this episode, listeners take an unforgettable journey through the life of 107-year-old Garland County resident, Thomas James 鈥淭J鈥� Kearney, as told by his daughter, Janis Kearney. Kearney鈥檚 book, 鈥淪undays With TJ,鈥� examines TJ’s fascination with steamboats, his life as a wanderer, and his work as a sharecropper. This episode attempts to answer the one question most asked of TJ: What was the magical recipe to his longevity, his continued health, and his passion for life? His daughter attempts to answer the question in the only way she knows how, by telling his life story. “It depicts a deep bond between a father and daughter 鈥� the love and deep ties between parents and children solidly forged and never forgotten. T.J. Kearney’s life should be a monument to us all; a celebratory tale about keeping our priorities in order and not forgetting to nourish our dreams,鈥� Arts & Letters Host J. Bradley Minnick said. Janis Kearney is a native of Gould, Arkansas. She is founder and publisher of Writing our World Publishing, an Arkansas-based micropublishing company, and author of five books, including 鈥淐otton Field of Dreams: A Memoir,鈥� an historical perspective of Gould, and a narrative on hers and her family鈥檚 extraordinary lives as cotton sharecroppers. The author and publisher purchased the Arkansas State Press Newspaper from Daisy Gatson Bates in 1988. She also served as personal diarist to President Bill Clinton from 1995 to 2001. This year, Public Radio News Directors, Inc. selected 173 awards to 72 public radio stations throughout the country. The organization hosts the annual competition amongst public radio station to acknowledge the very best of public radio. Produced by Minnick and sound engineer Christopher Hickey at K糖心Vlog传媒R at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Arts & Letters is an educational radio show that strives to enlighten its audience and is dedicated to showcasing aspects of the humanities and literary arts in Arkansas and beyond. The episode was funded with a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Arts & Letters audio podcasts can be accessed 听on听K糖心Vlog传媒R.org, iTunes, or via . For more information, visit K糖心Vlog传媒R.org, call the station at 501.569.8485, or email arts&letters@ualr.edu.]]>