Arkansas history

There was a time when getting Bill Clinton and Jerry Jones into the same room would not have been that difficult. Born just four years apart, each to modest means, the two men grew up in the Natural State and …

Her name may not ring as many bells any more, but Martha Mitchell was as famous an Arkansan as there was in the Western world for a few years in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Martha Beall Mitchell was …

Feature image above: A postcard of Morris Hall. Photos and images courtesy of DOLR and CALS Many central Arkansas residents likely know that the University of Arkansas at Little Rock existed as Little Rock University prior to it joining the …

In 1955, after years of lobbying, planning and praying by local officials, the Little Rock Air Force Base became operational, the opening stanza of a slice of Arkansas history that continues to play out over the skies of the Natural …

History House — Lakeport Plantation provides a glimpse into the past The Lakeport Plantation on the Mississippi River just outside of Lake Village in Chicot County is surrounded by fields of white cotton on all sides. Cotton that was, of …